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    Night view from orbit: Mediterranean coasts aglow

    Footage from the space station shows city lights tracing the dark expanse of the sea. Sofia Marchetti

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    Fishing nations agree a three-year pause on cod catches at Skerra Bank

    Seven countries have agreed to stop targeting cod on the offshore fishing ground to let stocks recover, with compensation for crews and a scientific review each year. Grace Mwangi

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    Earth’s night side spins into view as city lights outline the continents

    An animation built from satellite data gathers the planet’s artificial lights into a single turning globe. Daniel Osei

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    Moonlight on the ocean, city lights on land

    4K footage from the space station follows a night-time pass from moon glint over the Pacific to the lights inland. Amara Nwosu

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    International team measures how fast the Cerro Blanco glacier is shrinking

    Scientists from five countries spent three weeks on the ice in the Andes, using radar and drones to measure its thickness, and found it has lost a fifth of its area in 20 years. Jonah Becker

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    Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the world

    From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves. Rafael Ortega

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    Ancient theatres: centuries on the stone steps

    The seating, stages and surroundings of theatres from the Greek and Roman world. Yasmin Haddad

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    Coral gardeners regrow 12 hectares of reef off a Pacific atoll

    Divers from the Tavua Reef Institute have planted more than 90,000 coral fragments over six years, and fish numbers on the restored sections are approaching those of healthy reefs nearby. Chloé Martin

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    City lights at night: the world's cities after dark

    From Hong Kong to Toronto, Frankfurt to Bangkok, a light map of cities that come alive at night. Mateo Silva

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    Mediterranean old towns of Calvara and San Telmo close their historic centres to cars

    The two hill towns are restricting access to residents, deliveries and emergency vehicles, and visitors will park outside the walls and walk or take an electric shuttle. Chloé Martin

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    North Sea grid link to share offshore wind power between five coastlines

    A new consortium of grid operators plans a meshed network of subsea cables linking offshore wind farms across the North Sea, so surplus power from one coast can flow to another when the wind drops. Amara Nwosu

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    Bird migration and wetlands: the season of wings

    From flocks of geese filling the sky to flamingos feeding in shallow lakes, scenes from along the flyways. Leo Novak

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    Shipping lines agree voluntary slow zones on North Atlantic whale routes

    Member states of an international maritime body have backed seasonal slow-speed areas along whale migration corridors in the North Atlantic, asking ships to cut speed to 10 knots where humpbacks gather. Lucas Moreau

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    Wrenhaven bird-ringing station joins flyway census from West Africa to the Arctic

    Volunteers at Fenwick Point are among more than 200 sites counting and ringing migrating birds this autumn, building a picture of the journeys made by waders and songbirds. Marcus Feld

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    Wrenhaven scientists join survey tracking giant iceberg off West Antarctica

    Researchers from the Wrenhaven Marine Institute are part of an international team following a newly calved iceberg roughly twice the size of the city as it drifts away from a West Antarctic glacier. Ingrid Halvorsen

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    Wrenhaven twin town Velde now runs entirely on community-owned solar power

    Velde, the small inland town twinned with Wrenhaven, now produces as much electricity as it uses over a year from a solar park owned by its own residents through an energy cooperative. Rafael Ortega

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    European bison return to the Kallmar forest reserve after 200 years

    Eight bison have been released into a fenced area of the reserve, where scientists will study how their grazing and wallowing reshape the woodland. Yasmin Haddad

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