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Bolivia's tilcayo tiger cat becomes first new wildcat species in 100 years

After 100 years, scientists finally discover a brand-new wildcat species in Bolivia.

Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed

Researchers show grass and clover can replace soy feed and make carbon-capturing fuel.

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round in Norway's fully automated farm

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round at Norway's first fully automated farm.

Berlin’s REWE supermarket: the grocery store with a working rooftop farm

A Berlin grocery store grows its lettuce on the roof, using the store's own waste heat and

Circular economy pilot projects show hotels can reduce waste and costs

German hotels cut 423 kg of single-use plastic and 4.6 tons of waste in pilot tests.

A finely tuned mess—how disorder can make networks more stable

Differences between parts can make power grids and ecosystems more stable, not weaker.

Laser shocks turn plastic into ultra-small, high-purity nanodiamonds

Laser blasts squeeze plain plastic into ultra-small, high-purity diamonds — cleaner than explosions.

A new rulebook for designing stable dilute alloy catalysts

A tiny 1% of one metal in another could make fuel and plastic greener — scientists just cracked how

Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor

A clean crystal, not extra electrons, is what makes iron selenide superconduct — a surprising

Small portfolio shifts could deliver major food sustainability gains, UK analysis finds

Changing just 10% of food products could make UK diets much healthier and greener.

Sunnier Days Ahead? Solar Panels Are Now So Cheap It's Upending the Business World | PCMag

African countries could bring online over 17GW of solar power in 2026 alone.

What Wendell Berry meant to Christian farmers going green

Seventh-generation farmers are ditching industrial methods to heal their soil — inspired by Wendell

European ash pangenome could help researchers breed a generation of trees resistant to ash dieback

Scientists found 211 genes that may protect ash trees from the deadly fungus killing millions

Deep-sea crustaceans caught hitching rides on giant sea spiders

Tiny shrimps hitchhike on giant sea spiders thousands of meters underwater.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Robots now run optics tests that used to take scientists months of careful manual work.

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Fifty years of doubt overturned: local communities protect nature better than top-down rules.

Beaver reintroduction improves peatland water storage and drought resilience

Beavers may be the secret to keeping UK peatlands wet and safe from drought.

Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon

A frog hiding in the Amazon looked identical to its cousins — only DNA and its call gave it away.

We could soon be able to track changes in Australia's forests in near‑real time—using satellites

Australia's remote forests will soon send sensor data via satellites in near real time.

Juneau can’t stop the floods, but it’s learning to see them coming

Juneau can't stop glacier floods, so it built a way to see them coming.