What’s Going Right Today

Environment

Scientists Borrowed the Beavers’ Blueprint. The Salmon Responded.

Simple structures helped restore wetland habitat in California’s Klamath Basin. The results show why the route water takes can matter as much as the amount that arrives.

Animals

653 Tiny Reasons to Cheer: Endangered Frogs Return to Mountain Streams

A new nursery helped prepare rare mountain frogs for life outside. Their release is a chance to look at what it takes to turn careful care into lasting recovery.

Humanity

Bring Something Broken. Find Someone Who Can Help.

From one Amsterdam gathering in 2009 to more than 4,000 registered Repair Cafés, a growing movement gives practical skills—and the people who hold them—a place to meet.

Technology

Sunlight, Seawater, and a Better Place for the Salt to Go

A solar desalination experiment tackles the residue that can stop fresh-water production—and opens a practical question about turning a promising surface into a dependable water supply.

Editorial illustration of a wolf between an Ice Age landscape and a living forest at dawn, with passenger pigeons, a black-footed ferret and DNA strands connecting past and present.

Animals

The Dire Wolf Got the Headlines. The Bigger Story May Be Saving Species Before They Disappear.

The technology being developed to reach backward toward extinct species is increasingly being pointed in the other direction: toward animals that are still here, but may not remain here without help.

A Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the Roman Space Telescope rises across the bright disk of the Sun.

Technology

A New Eye on the Universe Is Now on Its Way

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun a million-mile journey to reveal more of the universe at once—and its first critical milestones are already complete.

An older man and a boy tend plants together in a garden. Representative image.

Humanity

At This Summer Camp, Childhood and Old Age Meet in the Middle

At Methuen Village, children and senior residents spent one day each week baking, painting, planting and building friendships across generations.

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Sirocco, a green kākāpō, rests among broad leaves and flowers on Maud Island. Archival photograph from 2012.

A Record 90 Chicks Lift the Kākāpō Above 300 Again

New Zealand’s critically endangered flightless parrot has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds after an extraordinary breeding season.

Aerial view of narrow waterways winding through brown-green tidal-marsh vegetation. Representative image.

After Nearly a Century, an Oregon Marsh Is Reconnecting With the Tide

A nine-acre restoration project will reopen McCoy Marsh to the Nehalem River, rebuilding tidal channels and a nursery for young salmon.

Good News Isn’t Rare. It’s Underreported.

A new publication devoted to real, verifiable progress—and the stories too often overlooked.