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How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth to doubling its forest cover in a single generation, and what did it pay landowners to make it happen?
People who keep every birthday card, ticket stub, and handwritten note aren't sentimental hoarders — they're often trying to prove to themselves that the years actually happened and weren't just something they survived on autopilot
A single gram of tritium costs roughly 30,000 US dollars and glows faintly blue in the dark, and fusion reactors like ITER will need to breed their own supply from lithium blankets because the entire global stockpile sits at about 25 kilograms
In 1974, Indian scientists detonated a plutonium device in the Rajasthan desert under the code name Smiling Buddha, using material bred in a Canadian-supplied research reactor called CIRUS that had been sold on the written condition it be used only for peaceful purposes
