Outer Planets
September 2026
Every article published in September 2026. 24 articles · Back to full archive
Earth Observation
In 2014 the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement set oyster restoration in 10 Bay tributaries by 2025; late 2025 partners had planted about 7.3 billion oysters across 1,905 restored acres
Flora And Fauna
Between 1985 and 1987, 77 Père David's deer returned from England to Beijing and Dafeng after China's last herd vanished at Nanhaizi in 1900; by 2020 about 9,062 lived at 83 sites
Flora And Fauna
Between 1991 and 2006, 40 Apennine chamois — 22 females and 18 males — were released into Italy's Majella National Park; about two decades on the herd exceeds 1,300 and is still growing
Energy News
In April 2025 the first of 23 concrete caissons, each about 22,000 tonnes, was floated out for Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Island 45 km offshore; cost estimates have since climbed towards €7 billion
Flora And Fauna
In 1994, a bushwalker abseiling into a sandstone gorge 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark and fern-like leaves that turned out to be Wollemi pines, a species known from fossils dating back about 90 million years and presumed extinct for roughly two million years
Space Travel
The Tunguska object vaporised almost entirely in the airburst, so Leonid Kulik's 1920s and 1930s expeditions mapped the event not from a crater but from the radial pattern of felled and scorched trees stretching hundreds of square kilometres from the epicentre
Technology News