An all-volunteer search and rescue team spent 15 hours reaching climber Rob Martin, stranded on a six-inch ledge 10,000 feet up California's Laurel Mountain, and brought him down safely overnight.
Three fox cubs pulled from a narrow gap between two Leicester houses by firefighters have been released into the countryside after four months of rehabilitation, following a rescue that initially left one cub's survival in doubt.
Ho Chi Minh City forest rangers released 84 rescued animals from 13 species into the Dong Nai Nature and Culture Reserve, part of an ongoing program that has returned over 1,400 animals to protected habitats since 2022.
Threatened Hood Canal summer-run chum salmon are making a remarkable comeback in Washington, with average annual returns nearly tripling in recent years as major river restoration work gives the population an even stronger chance to recover.
More than 22,000 baby sea turtles have been recorded from protected nesting areas in Playa del Carmen this season, as conservation teams monitor thousands of nests along the Mexican Caribbean coast.
The Jade Apartments, 40 affordable homes in Portland's Jade District, are the seventh and final project this year funded by a regional housing bond that has delivered well over 5,300 homes, beating its original target of 3,900.
Fueled by AI-driven demand for memory chips, South Korea posted its 15th consecutive month of export growth in August, with shipments up 68.7% to a record $98.25 billion.
Bhutan has commissioned the Sephu Solar Power Project, the country's first utility-scale solar plant designed and built entirely by Bhutanese engineers, with the government already approving an expansion to 22.38 megawatts.
Laos has designated a 217,400-hectare national park in the Annamite Mountains, protecting habitat for the critically endangered saola and several other species found almost nowhere else on Earth.
Polish scientists have published the first complete lab protocol for mass-producing Groenlandia densa, a critically endangered aquatic plant, turning a handful of tissue fragments into thousands of new plants for river restoration.
Harvard and Stanford scientists engineered marine bacteria that speed up natural rock weathering, a process that traps atmospheric carbon dioxide in seawater, achieving a 2.6-fold increase in mineral dissolution in early pilot tests.
A large Danish study found that people who started statins within a year of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis had a 15 percent lower relative risk of dementia over the next decade than those who never started treatment.
A German trial found that a minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair cut the risk of death or heart failure hospitalization by roughly 60 percent over three years in high-risk patients, resolving a question that had lingered since earlier trials.
A nurse-coordinated care model tested in 1,507 patients across 22 Indian hospitals cut heart failure deaths by 22 percent over two years, addressing one of cardiology's most persistent gaps: patients not receiving medications proven to save lives.
A world-first clinical trial has found that CAR T-cell therapy sharply reduced disease activity in all six patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, with three remaining in remission without arthritis medication.
An all-volunteer search and rescue team spent 15 hours reaching climber Rob Martin, stranded on a six-inch ledge 10,000 feet up California's Laurel Mountain, and brought him down safely overnight.
Sixty FedEx employees partnered with Rise Against Hunger Philippines to pack 10,000 fortified meal kits, enough to support 166 schoolchildren for four months, as the country faces its first rise in child stunting in a decade.
Six children and seven women held captive after a deadly gang attack on Kenscoff, Haiti, have been released. UNICEF called it "a rare moment of hope" while renewing calls to free everyone still being held.
More than 100 restaurants across 13 countries joined a global Pay What You Can Day, serving their regular menus while allowing diners to decide what they could afford to pay.
A University at Buffalo team led by Amit Goyal has built a sensor that measures recycled plastic content directly, without relying on paperwork, earning two 2026 R&D 100 Awards and a patent application.
MIT researchers have built 3D-printed "bifur-circuit" blocks that reconfigure into a huge range of stable shapes while keeping their electrical connections fully intact, a step toward furniture and gadgets that can physically transform.
