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What happened when a South Asian delta nation, battered by a 1991 cyclone that killed roughly 138,000 people, planted a living green wall of salt-tolerant trees along its coast?
How did a Chinese plateau bigger than France, shedding 1.6 billion tonnes of silt a year into a river it stained yellow, cut that load to roughly a fifth within a single generation?
How did a sealed limestone cave in eastern Europe stay cut off from the surface for 5.5 million years and grow a food web fed by chemistry instead of sunlight?
The Apollo 12 crew brought back Surveyor 3’s camera after 31 months on the Moon, and NASA reported finding live Streptococcus bacteria inside it, but later evidence pointed to contamination in Houston
