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A loggerhead sea turtle crawling on a sandy beach for an article about loggerhead sea turtle nests in Greece, for article on loggerhead sea turtle nests

2024 C.E. September 28

Greece records more than 10,000 loggerhead sea turtle nests in a single year

Loggerhead sea turtle nests in Greece have surpassed 10,000 in a single year for the first time in recorded history, nearly doubling the previous annual average of 5,000 to 7,000. The milestone reflects decades of sustained conservation work by organizations like Archelon and Medasset, whose efforts to protect nesting beaches, regulate tourism, and deploy monitoring technology are now yielding measurable results. Greece hosts roughly 60% of all Mediterranean loggerhead nests, making this recovery regionally...

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2024 C.E. September 27

Chinese researchers reverse type 1 diabetes using a patient’s own stem cells

Type 1 diabetes reversal using a patient's own stem cells marks a historic milestone in medicine. A 25-year-old woman in China received a transplant of insulin-producing cells reprogrammed from her own body, and within three months was generating insulin naturally — eventually eliminating her need for external injections entirely. Published in Cell in 2024, the research is significant because it bypasses donor tissue and immunosuppressant drugs entirely, dramatically reducing rejection risk. For the roughly...

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2024 C.E. September 25

‘Extinct’ Guam kingfisher takes flight again after nearly 40 years

Six Guam kingfishers — known as sihek — took their first wild flight in nearly 40 years when they were released on Palmyra Atoll, a predator-free Pacific refuge, in September 2024. The species was declared extinct in the wild in 1988, and every sihek alive today descends from just 29 birds rescued in the 1980s. Their return is the result of a global rescue effort spanning continents, with zookeepers from Kansas to London hand-rearing...

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2024 C.E. September 25

Thailand becomes first Southeast Asian country to legalize marriage equality

Marriage equality arrived in Thailand on January 22, 2025, when the first same-sex weddings became legal — including a mass ceremony in Bangkok for more than a thousand couples. The new law gives same-sex partners the same rights heterosexual couples have always had: adopting children together, inheriting estates, and making medical decisions for each other. It also rewrites Thailand's civil code in gender-neutral language, swapping "husband" and "wife" for "partner" throughout. For activists like...

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2024 C.E. September 24

California tears down levee in ‘largest tidal habitat restoration in state history’

Tidal waters rushed across 3,400 acres of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta this month after crews cut a 600-foot gap through a century-old levee at Lookout Slough — the first of nine planned breaches in what's being called the largest tidal habitat restoration in state history. The reborn marsh will offer shallow, sediment-rich water for the endangered Delta smelt, a tiny fish whose health signals the wellbeing of the entire food web, while also giving...

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