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Idaho airdropped 76 beavers into wilderness, losing just one
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Lake Peigneur drained into a salt mine, swallowing 11 barges and reversing a canal
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Scientists turned kitchen waste into a battery that survived 10,000 charges
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Twenty-year campaign to eradicate nutria descendants from a 1943 escape ends with detector dog
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Abandoned freight line became a wild garden, then a revolutionary park
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A research centre in the Netherlands pipes human urine from office toilets into bacteria-filled cells that turn the waste into electricity…
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A power station in Kenya runs almost entirely on steam drawn from beneath the East African Rift, where volcanic heat turns the ground…
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Carl Sagan's decade-long fight got Voyager 1 to photograph Earth as a pale blue pixel
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