When conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from small offshore islands off New Zealand, ground-nesting birds thought to be functionally extinct began breeding within a few seasons — because the pressure keeping them out simply stopped.
Costa Rica's forest cover collapsed to 21 percent by 1987, then rebounded to about 59 percent by the early 2020s. A 1996 forestry law and a 1997 payment program funded largely by a fuel-tax slice — administered by FONAFIFO — paid landowners to keep trees standing.
The drawer full of birthday cards and ticket stubs isn't clutter. Research on memory and nostalgia suggests it's a deliberate act of self-preservation against a mind that edits the past without permission.
Tritium — the rare hydrogen isotope fusion reactors need — costs about $30,000 per gram, glows faintly blue as it decays, and exists globally in quantities of just 25 kilograms. Fusion machines like ITER will have to breed their own from lithium blankets to make the numbers work.
Iceland lost nearly all its birch forest within three centuries of Norse settlement. A century of soil conservation, imported Alaskan conifers acting as nurse trees, and a warming climate is now rebuilding woodland on volcanic sand that agronomists once wrote off as dead.
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