A European court's landmark ruling exposed how illegal irrigation wells drained one of the continent's most biodiverse wetlands to feed a booming berry industry, forcing Spain to finally reckon with the cost of looking the other way.
In October 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna became the first all-female team to share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, honored for turning a bacterial defense against viruses into CRISPR-Cas9 — programmable molecular scissors that can cut the DNA of any organism on Earth.
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When conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from small offshore islands off New Zealand, ground-nesting birds thought to be functionally extinct began breeding within a few seasons — because the pressure keeping them out simply stopped.
Costa Rica's forest cover collapsed to 21 percent by 1987, then rebounded to about 59 percent by the early 2020s. A 1996 forestry law and a 1997 payment program funded largely by a fuel-tax slice — administered by FONAFIFO — paid landowners to keep trees standing.
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