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Salmon in East Vancouver? Miraculous Reappearance After 80 Years

Chum salmon are spawning again at an urban creek in the heart of East Vancouver. The salmon returned this week to Still Creek, which sits in a ravine surrounded by warehouses and was once thoroughly polluted by urban garbage, sewage and toxic chemicals. Much of the credit goes to people who have painstakingly restored their habitat.

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World's Smallest Frog Discovered in Papua

A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team. Finding the frog was not an easy assignment. Sitting on a dime with much room to spare, Paedophryne amauensis, lives in leaf litter on the forest floor

Richard Branson Plans to Save Lemurs

Using an undeveloped island he owns in the Caribbean, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to create the first wild colony of lemurs outside of Africa, saying Monday it's a 'radical idea' to save an endangered primate that is disappearing.

The World's Most Polluted Cities Can Recover, Just Like London Did

Renowned for its infamous smog and severe pollution for centuries, London today has the cleanest air that it has had since the Middle Ages. Some of the most polluted places are the megacities of the developing world -- Shanghai, New Delhi, and Mexico City -- but in the 1930s and 1940s, London was more polluted than any of these cities are today.