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Kiran Journals

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Kiran Journals is a writer at Space Daily with a degree in multimedia journalism. She covers psychology, identity, and the inner life — the questions of how people change, what holds them back, and what helps them grow. Her writing for Space Daily sits in the Mind & Meaning pillar, where she focuses on practical psychology and the human side of ambition.

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Flora And Fauna

Dengue cases have fallen by about 70 percent in the parts of Singapore where the government releases mosquitoes on purpose. It breeds 5 million males a week, none of which bite, and the females they mate with lay eggs that never hatch.

A radical gamble to fight dengue—releasing millions of sterile male mosquitoes—has upended everything scientists thought they knew about disease control.

Sep 16, 2026

Africa News

A farmer in Burkina Faso revived an abandoned technique of digging shallow pits, filling them with manure and letting termites tunnel underneath to open the hardpan. Land that had been written off as dead came back into production, and the method spread across the Sahel by word of mouth.

A forgotten trick with termites and manure transformed drought-ravaged soil across West Africa, proving that revival sometimes comes from the ground up.

Sep 16, 2026

Flora And Fauna

Bhutan’s constitution requires that at least 60 percent of the country stay under forest, and the actual figure sits above 70. It absorbs more carbon than it emits, which makes it one of very few countries that is carbon negative rather than aiming to be.

While the world promises to go carbon neutral by 2050, this Himalayan kingdom has already done it—and for decades.

Sep 16, 2026

Disater Management

The Italian village of Curon was deliberately flooded in 1950 to build a reservoir, drowning the old town under the water, and to this day the bell tower of its submerged 14th-century church still rises alone out of the lake, the only part of a village that otherwise exists only underwater.

When Italy flooded an entire village to build a dam, they couldn't quite submerge the past—a medieval bell tower still stands sentinel in the middle of the lake, a haunting monument to what lies beneath.

Sep 10, 2026

Psychology

The famous brass line at Greenwich where millions of tourists stand with one foot in each hemisphere is in the wrong place, because when the world switched to satellite positioning, true zero longitude quietly shifted about 100 metres east, leaving the historic Prime Meridian marker no longer at zero at all.

The world's most photographed meridian line has become a victim of its own success—and of modern satellite technology that has rendered it obsolete.

Sep 10, 2026

Early Earth

The stalactites in some of the world’s most visited show caves are being slowly killed by the breath of the tourists who come to see them, because the carbon dioxide and moisture from millions of exhalations changes the air chemistry enough to corrode the very formations people paid to admire.

The very act of witnessing Earth's most delicate underground sculptures is imperceptibly destroying them.

Sep 10, 2026

Distribution

In Stockholm, the heat pouring off the city’s data centres is no longer wasted but piped into the district heating network, enough to warm around 30,000 apartments a year, which means the warmth thrown off by people streaming films and storing photos now quietly heats thousands of homes across the city.

Stockholm found a way to stop wasting the enormous heat generated by data centres—and turned a climate problem into a solution for thousands of cold apartments.

Sep 10, 2026

Flora And Fauna

Between 1989 and 1997 the United States shipped more than 50 million pet turtles abroad, and enough of the red-eared sliders were later dumped in ponds and rivers when they grew too big that the species now outcompetes native turtles on every continent but Antarctica, listed among the 100 worst invaders on Earth.

A children's cartoon sparked a global trade in baby turtles that became one of nature's most destructive invasions.

Sep 10, 2026

Materials

More than 2,500 retired New York subway cars were dropped into the Atlantic between 2001 and 2010, not as illegal dumping but as a planned reef programme, and marine biologists who kept watch found the sunken trains quickly turned into some of the richest artificial habitats along the eastern seaboard.

What the MTA saw as expensive garbage, ocean life transformed into thriving underwater cities.

Sep 9, 2026

Flora And Fauna

In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent.

A cartographer's paradox: the one tree so alone it warranted a spot on continental maps, until a drunk driver erased three centuries of solitude in a single night.

Sep 9, 2026

Manufacturing

The rivalry between Adidas and Puma began as a family quarrel so bitter that the two brothers behind it were eventually buried at opposite ends of the same cemetery, in the same small Bavarian town their falling-out had split in half for the rest of the century.

A feud between two brothers didn't just create two rival shoe empires—it divided their entire town into warring halves for fifty years.

Sep 9, 2026

Flora And Fauna

A handful of huskies imported from Labrador in the 1940s and topped up with dogs from Greenland became the ancestors of a sledge dog population that hauled supplies across the ice for nearly half a century, until a treaty banning all non-native animals forced the last of them to be removed from the continent entirely in February 1994.

A frozen workforce that hauled supplies across Antarctica for nearly fifty years faced sudden obsolescence when environmental treaties declared their presence incompatible with the continent's protection.

Sep 5, 2026

Flora And Fauna

In the 1990s a few Burmese pythons, once pet snakes let loose or escaped in Florida, found the Everglades so perfectly suited to them that they have since bred into a population thought to run into the tens of thousands, and in the worst-hit areas the raccoons, opossums and rabbits have almost entirely vanished from the night.

A pet trade's discards have turned one of America's wildest places into a hunting ground where native mammals are vanishing almost completely.

Sep 4, 2026

Oil And Gas

A London water utility found that the fat and grease clogging its sewers, the notorious “fatbergs,” could be skimmed, processed and turned into biodiesel, so the same congealed cooking oil that once blocked the pipes beneath the city now helps fuel vehicles driving above them

A London water utility discovered an unlikely solution to its biggest sewage problem: turn the grease clogging its pipes into fuel for the city's buses.

Sep 4, 2026

Human Behaviour

In the 1980s a small number of hippos were kept on a Colombian drug lord’s private estate, and decades after his death their unmanaged descendants have grown into a herd of well over a hundred, the largest population of hippos anywhere outside Africa, now roaming the country’s main river.

An African megafauna invasion born from one man's vanity threatens to destabilize one of South America's most delicate river ecosystems.

Sep 4, 2026

Human Behaviour

When a Berlin airport that had handled millions of passengers finally closed, the city chose not to build on the runways at all, and today the old tarmac where jets once landed is one of Europe’s largest urban parks, with cyclists and kite-buggies rolling down a mile of unbroken airstrip.

A shuttered Berlin airport became a radical act of restraint: instead of redevelopment, the city reclaimed its runways as open space, proving that sometimes the best urban renewal means leaving things alone.

Sep 4, 2026