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With over 500 nests, sea turtles just made a comeback and broke a 42-year record in Florida
With its sandy beaches and subtropical waters, Florida is home to one of the largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting populations in the world.
Despite living up to 70 years, loggerheads have been on the decline due to ocean pollution, human interference, and the gradual destruction of their nesting habitats. They're protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
But on the Gulf coast of Florida, Anna Maria Island just celebrated a huge milestone for sea turtle conservation when volunteers counted 546 nests on the island, breaking a 42-year record for the island.
And it's thanks to conservation efforts that happened 25 years ago.
In a breakthrough for HIV treatment, a new drug trial showed a twice-annual injection is 100% effective against infection
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.
There were 1.3 million new HIV infections globally in the past year. While that's fewer than the 2 million infections seen in 2010, it's still above the HIV new infection target that UNAIDS set for 2025 (which is fewer than 500,000 globally).
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Thought to be extinct in 1992, 60 new baby Siamese crocodiles have hatched in Cambodia
In 1992, Siamese crocodiles were listed as 'virtually extinct,' as wild populations dwindled from decades of poaching. In addition to habitat degradation, the crocs were hunted for their soft, reptilian hides used in the fashion industry.
But now, in "a real sign of hope," the largest population of the endangered species has hatched this century, with 60 babies born in Cambodia's Cardamom National Park.
Most recently, locals discovered three nests in an area where captive-bred crocodiles had never been released before. And miraculously, just a few days later, two other nests were discovered in the national park.
Look for the helpers:The crocodiles' comeback has been decades in the making. After their declared extinction, a tiny group was rediscovered in the remote Cardamom Mountains in 2000 — where the Indigenous population of the Chorng people had been protecting them for years.
Now, a court just issued a "historic" ruling that pollution has violated the rights of that river, which runs through the country's capital, Quito. The government must now develop a plan to clean up the river.
The city of 2.6 million dumps varying contaminants into the river, and with a lack of wastewater treatment, has a devastating impact on people, wildlife, and the surrounding environment.
Providing an entirely different experience from a traditional diesel ferry, the Sea Change is quiet and emits only heat and water vapor — because it's fueled by hydrogen.
The Sea Change can travel up to 300 nautical miles at speeds of up to 15 knots. It can hold 75 passengers and is no more expensive to ride than its counterparts. It's also the only vessel where you can literally drink the exhaust — the water vapor supplies a drinking fountain onboard.
What's the nuance? Most hydrogen is still made from fossil fuels, so it's not fully "clean" — yet. The Sea Change ferry will use hydrogen fuel that is available locally, but eventually, designers hope it could use green hydrogen, which is made from water and renewable electricity.
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