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A University of Sydney review of more than 70 conservation success stories found three conditions they share, from coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to albatross in Tasmania. Here is what the review shows, and what it does not yet prove about repeating those successes.

Recorded reef sounds played underwater drew four to 14 times more fish larvae and raised coral settlement near the speaker in Hawai'i's Kāne'ohe Bay. Here is what two Scripps field studies show, and what they leave unproven about rebuilding reefs.

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how reactions can favor one mirror image of a molecule. Here is what that work means for drug making, and what it leaves unsolved about why life uses one handedness.

Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube, a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice wired with 5,160 sensors. Here is how a 1988 sketch became a working neutrino telescope, and what it has yet to explain.

Biscayne Bay, the shallow urban water beside Miami, has been named an Important Shark and Ray Area after 10 years of University of Miami research. The designation covers nine shark and two ray species and creates no legal protections.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes three scientists behind optogenetics, which lets researchers switch specific nerve cells on and off with light. Here is what it made possible for brain research and patients, and where its limits lie.

A UCLA and Ewha Womans University study converted mixed, unsorted plastic into hydrogen of more than 90% purity, with over 75% of the carbon kept in carbonates or liquid residues. The work is still at laboratory scale.

Ninh Binh Province has created a 3,182-hectare reserve for the Delacour's langur, a Critically Endangered monkey found only in Vietnam. A 2022 to 2025 survey counted 562 to 570 of them, though quarrying and hunting remain documented threats.

HALO Trust has concluded 27 years of humanitarian landmine clearance in Kosovo. The cleared land now underpins a $14 billion economy, and the deminers who did the work are training the next generation in Syria and Ukraine.

New research shows the Arctic seafloor safely buries most of the carbon released by thawing permafrost, giving climate models firmer ground to stand on.