A 13-year experiment at the El Ruedo wind farm in Cádiz, Spain, found that painting one of three blades black reduced bird deaths at those turbines by 74% compared with unpainted turbines.
A white-crowned mangabey, a West African monkey that signals with its white eyelids, has been born at BIOPARC Valencia, the 10th birth there for the European breeding program.
In a first-in-human trial in Murcia, Spain, 10 women with advanced osteoporosis received their own stem cells with a sugar tag that steers them to bone marrow. No serious side effects occurred and fractures fell sharply, but the study had no control group.
Fifteen young northern bald ibises were guided to Spain behind ultralight aircraft flown by their human foster parents, part of a project to re-establish a migratory population of a species extinct in Europe since the 17th century.
