Putting an end to a 400-year breeding absence, the crane has made a strong comeback in the United Kingdom as the country accounts for a record-breaking number of breeding pairs of the tall bird.
Fuel – and potentially plastic – has found its match in microorganisms collected in Antarctica that feed on it, a breakthrough discovery that could solve a wide variety of environmental issues the planet is currently facing.
The number of monarch butterflies overwintering in California, the United States, increased a whopping hundredfold and more as efforts are deployed to preserve the migrating insect population.
