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This River in Switzerland Is So Clean That Locals Use It To Swim Home The Aare in Switzerland, is no lazy river. It is the largest river entirely contained within the country. It flows through the heart of Switzerland’s de facto capital, Bern, and its 12th-century medieval old town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism that allows plants to carefully coordinate the formation and growth of new leaf parts. The study shows that the hormone auxin regulates different phases in organ formation by oppositely affecting the activity of another hormone, gibberellin, to trigger the formation of new leaf structures before reversing course and boosting gibberellin to drive their expansion. The findings offer new insight into how plants build complex organs and could eventually help scientists develop crops with improved growth and architecture.
Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the spacewalk on Thursday, Aug. 6. NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August to continue upgrading solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and connect power and data cables
These Avant-Garde Lamps Are Made Using Issey Miyake’s Innovative Shape-Shifting Fabrics Fashion designer Issey Miyake is known for innovative garments that have helped transform avant-garde clothing. But that’s not all that the designer and his studio are doing. While its wearables are noteworthy, the Issey Miyake brand has entered a collaboration that sees its design ethos reflected in industrial design, including lighting.
From China’s Anhui Province comes a story that reminds us it’s never too late to learn. 71-year-old Liu Defang remembers chatting with her friends while out one day near a bridge in her hometown in Suixi County. She suddenly heard someone shout that a man had fallen into the water. Social media footage showed that
The way to make a plant grow more may be to take something away. Trimming a section off a plant gene raised rice harvests by up to 25% in new tests by University of Chicago scientists. The plants also showed a better tolerance for drought and heat.
Animals are constantly moving to find food, water, suitable habitats, mates and safe places to rest. Because moving requires substantial energy, animals often rely on various biological and behavioral strategies to reduce unnecessary costs while seeking available resources.
Replacing real leopard skins with synthetic furs has helped leopards recover in western Zambia, researchers say Conservationists say a switch from real leopard skins to synthetic furs in traditional ceremonies has helped reduce poaching and boost leopard numbers in western Zambia.
For the 4th year in a row, Indian grey hornbills have successfully bred in Gujarat state where they’d been absent for more than 50 years. Despite being listed as a species of “Least Concern” by the IUCN, the animal has habitat requirements that can see it quickly succumb to displacement. Indeed even Gir National Park,
With gas prices soaring, my electric car was the cheapest mode of transportation for a trip to Wisconsin.
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Happy Eco News Ocean Protection Milestone Reached as 10% of the World’s Ocean is Designated as Conserved Area The world reached a major ocean protection milestone in April 2026 when more than 109 million square kilometers of ocean became officially protected, surpassing the 10% threshold for the first time.
Only knee-deep in parts yet relatively wide, the Bièvre gently flows with transparent waters that shimmer in the afternoon sun. A shoal of fish lazily linger beside a large stone in one section. Further along, birds and butterflies weave between the long grasses lining the banks. From here, the waterway.
86 years ago today, Bugs Bunny, the wisecracking Warner Bros cartoon character, first debuted in an animated short entitled A Wild Hare. Supervised by Fred ‘Tex’ Avery, it featured a hunter named Elmer Fudd pursuing a wily rabbit voiced by Mel Blanc. The pair became beloved, and their debut received an Oscar nomination for Best
Happy Eco News Coral Reef Restoration in Mauritius and Seychelles Puts Local People at the Heart of Ocean Recovery Coral reef restoration in Mauritius and Seychelles is combining community participation, heat-tolerant coral science, and regional knowledge sharing to rebuild ocean ecosystems damaged by climate change.
Before setting out from Los Angeles in a “giant purple van” emblazoned with the words Curiosity Mobile, Scott Shigeoka was feeling unusually pessimistic about the state of the country. Like most of us, his newsfeed had been dominated by negativity, and despite his sunny disposition, he wasn’t exactly brimming with hope. That would soon change.
Off the coast of Catalina Island for 15 years, the fishing vessel Midnight Hour has sat on the ocean floor—its sunken wreckage becoming a tangle of abandoned fishing nets, the kind that drift in the current while trapping debris—and marine life. Good News Network joined divers on the water for a mission to collect the
Air quality continues to improve across Europe, with emissions from most of the major pollutants declining by significant amounts. “The overall picture remains positive,” according to the annual Assessment Report on European Air Quality 2025, released by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), an EU program that has monitored changing air pollution levels for over
A lazy retirement was bestowed upon the last circus elephant in Portugal who just became a resident of the country’s first sanctuary dedicated to working pachyderms. After 40 years of performing, Julie was transported on June 30 from her old circus home to the Pangea Elephant Sanctuary in Alentejo. Julie was captured as a calf
, a “bioutopia” that invites visitors to live among nature.
Casa Batlló Reveals Gaudí’s Hidden Residential Interior After a Three-Year Restoration View this post on Instagram A post shared by Culturiety (@culturiety_) For more than a century, one part of Barcelona’s iconic Casa Batlló remained hidden from public view. While millions of visitors explored Antoni Gaudí’s flowing interiors and sculptural rooftop, the building’s famed Third Floor continued serving its original purpose: a private home.
Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. m. , aboard the
134 years ago today, Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. A merchant, scholar, writer, and political leader who served as a founding member of the Indian National Congress, Naoroji is particularly known for formulating the “drain theory,” which argued that economic exploitation under British rule led to the
What do Elvis, cherry blossom trees, and German shepherds have in common? S. Postal Service stamps from the past 15 years. Every year, the service debuts new designs, each one serving as an “entryway into a larger story that connects people, places, and moments in history,”