The sets seat 317 passengers each, meet the strictest US locomotive emissions standard and start running in autumn 2026 on the corridor between Eugene, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia.
A camera trap on Ishigaki caught land hermit crabs and Australian cockroaches eating the fruits of Balanophora fungosa at night, the first evidence that the crabs move seeds both on their claws and through their guts, Kobe University botanist Suetsugu Kenji reports in Ecology.
Researchers led by the University of California, Santa Cruz sequenced 115 ancient and 45 modern bison for a study in Science that also found cattle ancestry in only about a third of today's animals.
Fieldworkers in Aceh confirmed the tenth birth in the Jantho release area on 22 May 2026, fifteen years after conservationists began moving rescued Sumatran orangutans into a forest that held none.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced 507,000 installations in Sydney on 14 August 2026, crediting the 30 percent subsidy with a 47 percent fall in wholesale electricity prices.
Specialists set the Amur tigress Umit loose in the unfenced Ile-Balkhash reserve on 31 July, ten years after the country began rebuilding the forest and the prey animals a tiger needs.
Six community-managed marine protected areas now cover about 40,000 hectares between Gökova Bay and Cape Gelidonya, built up since 2019 with a three-million-dollar grant from the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme.
Camera traps in Alta Floresta, Brazil, logged six primate species over 15 months, among them the critically endangered Alta Floresta titi monkey; the transport agency has made the design its highway standard.
Bloomberg's analysts date the third terawatt to March 2026, and SolarPower Europe counts a record 664 gigawatts added in 2025 alone, with China supplying more than half.
Researchers returned to a forgotten 1987 experiment at Tanjil Bren in Victoria and found that trees left standing after heavy thinning grew 20 percent thicker than trees in untouched plots, with Leadbeater's possums present in every harvested plot.
The $1.7 billion Big Rooter project near Bremond in Robertson County will add 1.2 gigawatts of solar and 1.6 gigawatt-hours of batteries beside a coal plant that keeps running, with the first phase due to generate power in August 2028.
More than half of England is in drought; University of Exeter data show the wetlands of four beaver territories together hold over 24 million litres of water.
Locally extinct for decades, the yurumí is back in the Iberá wetlands with around 200 living wild — and animals have now crossed into Brazil, where the species was last seen in 1890.
US shipments of heat pumps outpaced fossil-fuel furnaces by 32 percent in early 2026, and gas heating in new homes has fallen to its lowest share since 1985.
A six-year study offers the first measurable link between replacing ceremonial skins with high-quality fakes and a wild population that has begun to grow again.
A new survey finds North America's dam-builders thriving in tidal estuaries, packing channels with dams twice as densely as inland rivers.