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A gray tabby walks along the side of a bridge wall with a waterway and boats in the background

Amsterdam builds cat-friendly staircases along its canals to protect feline residents

The staircases won’t just save cats, but hedgehogs, frogs, and birds as well.
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A beaver building a dam

A team of 'human beavers' is creating 29 dams across this national park

The park rangers borrowed inspiration from beavers throughout Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Countryside in Romania: Rolling fields of green with a sky full of clouds behind them.

Rare moose sighting in Romania gives conservationists hope for biodiversity returning to region

In North America, the land mammal is second only in size to the bison.
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A small bird holds a white feather in its beak as it rests on a branch.

Scientists gave endangered birds 'insecticide-sprayed' feathers to help them build new nests. It saved them from a deadly parasite

The forty-spotted pardalote is only found in Australia — and it's in dire need of help.
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A photo collage of a building with flags in front of it, a pizza joint, a portrait of Jesse Kortuem smiling, a person inside a CT scan machine with 2 monitors in the foreground, and an aerial view of a church

Good News This Week: January 17, 2026 - Churches, Pizzas, & Teachers

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...
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Two long-tailed long-tailed macaques sit side-by-side in a green forest

Can animals be gay? New study finds that many apes and monkeys are — and it may be a survival advantage

A growing body of research suggests same-sex behavior in nonhuman primates is important to social connections.
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A black mason brick with holes in it, with green and golden bell frogs poking their heads out of various holes

A biologist successfully saved these endangered frogs from a deadly disease by building them tiny 'frog saunas'

Green and golden bell frogs used to be everywhere in Australia, until a deadly virus reduced their range by 90%. Then Anthony Waddle stepped in.
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A bear is seen staring into the camera

The 'BearID Project' is using facial recognition to monitor and conserve bear species. Here's how it works

These tools can reshape how scientists and the general public understand animals by getting to know formerly anonymous creatures as individuals.
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A dark blue ocean surface

Newly-discovered jellyfish looks like a creature from the 'Avatar' universe

A team of students at Tohoku University in northeastern Japan discovered a new species purely by happenstance.
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Photograph of an orange monkey looking mammal, an "Olinguito," taken in the wild at Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Ecuador

New study reveals that 1,300 new species have been added to the global mammal count

Since 2005, the global count of living mammal species has risen by 25%.
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A hand holds a vial of medicine, an electric car with its doors open in the front, a portrait photo of Renee Nicole Good, a chicken with its head out of its pen, and an overview of a city's road full of cars

Good News This Week: January 10, 2026 - Cars, Hugs, & Backyards

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A wide image of a green, mist covered forest in the Philippines

This creature transforms to 'look and smell' like bird poop to evade predators. It's a new species

It may look, and smell, foul — but this spider marks the latest exciting discovery in a string of new species found in the past year.
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