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UN: Global Hunger Falls to 7.8%, the Third Year in a Row
A new FAO report shows the share of people facing hunger dropped from 8.6% in 2022 to 7.8% in 2025, with Asia and the Americas leading a three-year run of improvement.
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Amazon Deforestation Falls 38% to a 10-Year Low in 2026
Brazil's national space agency confirms just 500 sq miles of Amazon was cleared in H1 2026 — down 38% from 2025 and the lowest in a decade.
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New Zealand Creates 5 Marine Reserves for Dolphins and Kelp
308 square miles of protected ocean near Otago will safeguard Hector's dolphins, yellow-eyed penguins, and ancient kelp forests — New Zealand's biggest marine protection step in a decade.
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El Salvador Eliminates Trachoma, WHO Confirms
El Salvador has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the WHO confirms — part of a remarkable 94% global decline in cases since 2002.
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Scientists Find Faintest Exoplanet Ever Seen From Earth
Two independent teams — one using JWST, one the Very Large Telescope — confirmed Beta Pictoris d, a gas giant that had hidden in telescope images for over a decade.
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Oxford's Malaria Vaccine Wins Top European Inventor Prize
Sir Adrian Hill's R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine — up to 80% effective and under €3 per dose — earned him the 2026 European Inventor Award.
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Australia's Numbat Upgraded From Endangered After 40 Years
Australia's iconic numbat has been officially downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened, with numbers rebounding from just 300 in the 1970s to around 3,000 today.
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Free-Flight Training Helps Confiscated Parrots Thrive in the Wild
A Texas A&M study in Bird Conservation International shows confiscated yellow-crowned Amazon parrots trained to fly free before release stayed close to their Colombian release site with strong survival.
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West African Leopards Are Rebounding in Benin's Pendjari Park
Camera-trap data show leopard density climbing from 2017 to 2023 inside Benin's Pendjari National Park — a rare bright spot for one of the world's most endangered leopard populations.
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Egypt Sets Guinness Record With 15,000 Blood Donors in a Single Day
A nationwide campaign in Egypt registered more than 15,000 blood donors in just 12 hours, earning a Guinness World Record and boosting the country's strategic blood reserves.
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Make That 451: New Baby Boosts World's Rarest Wombat Population
Trail cameras have spotted a new joey riding in its mother's pouch at an Australian nature refuge, giving one of the world's rarest mammals a small but meaningful bump in numbers.
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U.S. Launches DNA Vault for Every Endangered Species in America
A new partnership between Colossal Biosciences and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will biobank cells, tissues and DNA from all 2,300+ Endangered Species Act-listed plants and animals.
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Eastern Barred Bandicoots Return to Mainland Australia After 35 Years
Up to 100 once-extinct-in-the-wild bandicoots were released on Phillip Island — the largest reintroduction of the species in Australia's history, and a 35-year comeback.
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Lord Howe Island's Insects Bounce Back After Rats Gone
Researchers found total invertebrate abundance soared on Lord Howe Island after the 2019 rodent eradication — a textbook win for one of Australia's boldest conservation projects.
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Madagascar and Zanzibar Just Gave Sharks and Rays Sweeping New Protection
At the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Madagascar and Zanzibar announced national protections covering dozens of shark and ray species, including the rare Zanzibar guitarfish.
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Mule Deer Become First to Cross California's New Wildlife Overpass
A wildlife camera caught three mule deer using a $20 million overpass on State Route 97 — before construction had even finished, marking a milestone for California's wildlife corridors.
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149 New Marine Species Discovered Off Christmas and Cocos Islands
Scientists aboard the RV Investigator catalogued sea stars, worms, sea cucumbers and one fish at nearly 5,000 metres deep — all new to science.
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Rare Duke of Burgundy Butterfly Soars 9,000% in Kent in 20 Years
One of Britain's scarcest butterflies has roared back across Kent's downland thanks to a quiet partnership between farmers, volunteers, and conservation scientists.
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Platypuses Are Breeding Again in Australia's Oldest National Park
Three years after their historic reintroduction, the platypus population in Sydney's Royal National Park has grown to 20 — and the next generation is being born in the wild.
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New Zealand Creates 5 Marine Reserves Across 191 Square Miles
The country's first new marine protected areas in a decade will safeguard yellow-eyed penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and kelp forests off the South Island.
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The Ocean Cleanup Is Pulling Tons of Trash from LA Rivers Before the 2028 Olympics
The Dutch nonprofit that scoops plastic out of the Pacific is now deploying its river Interceptors in Ballona Creek and the LA River — aiming to clean both waterways in time for the LA 2028 Games.
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Papua New Guinea Just Protected an Ocean Area the Size of the UK
The new Bismarck and Solomon Seas reserves cover more than 77,000 square miles, instantly making PNG one of the world's biggest ocean protectors and shielding a stretch of the Coral Triangle.
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23 Right Whale Calves Born in 2026 — Most in a Single Season Since 2009
NOAA documented 23 mom-calf pairs along the U.S. Southeast coast this season, with 20 returning mothers and birth intervals trending back toward the healthy 3–4 year range.