A Dutch teenager named after General James Gavin met the general’s daughter at a community remembrance gathering.

Local providers and a visiting medical team brought several kinds of care to three communities in Darién.

A January 2026 update reported all nine released sihek surviving beyond a year in the wild.

Six test flights in one week marked another step toward researching quieter supersonic flight.

A tanker crew and Coast Guard aircrew brought three sailors to safety far offshore.

A Nebraska helicopter crew delivered ten bales of hay to cattle cut off by flooding at a family ranch near Richland.

U.S. and Angolan medical professionals stabilized a critically burned patient and arranged a transfer for specialist care.

Eugene Halishlius joined the Pacific supply mission that had brought help to his own island community as a child.

Seven new bridges and more than a thousand stone steps restore the route to a treasured turquoise lake.

An engineered passage along Buffalo’s seawall gives emerald shiners a way upstream—and supports the fish and birds that feed on them.

Engineers and conservation partners are testing the timing of reservoir releases to help migrating fish and improve river conditions.

Roof repairs, fresh paint and renewed facilities give students at SD Negeri 12 Martapura a more comfortable place to learn.

Crews are replacing sand lost to Lake Erie, helping care for beaches used by people and wildlife at Presque Isle State Park.

Help arrived from above when an injured rafter needed a way out of Oregon’s remote Rogue River canyon. On October 1, a Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station North Bend evacuated a 68-year-old man with a leg injury from a riverbank that local responders could not reach by road.

Four space travelers are home after more than seven months living and working aboard the International Space Station. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission splashed down safely in the Pacific off Los Angeles on October 8, completing 237 days aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Space-station trash offers a clever opportunity to test heat shields. In an October 9 update, NASA described KREPE-3, a University of Kentucky collaboration using student-built capsules carried inside a retiring cargo spacecraft to study protective materials during the larger vehicle’s planned atmospheric re-entry.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken another step toward its science mission. In a September 30, 2026 update, NASA reported successful guidance-system checks and the first observations with Roman’s Coronagraph Instrument.

A 270-pound loggerhead named Timmy made her way back into the Atlantic Ocean in Key West on August 14, 2026. The release at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park followed several weeks of treatment at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida.

In eight days this spring, crews planted 71,000 seedlings in California’s Mendocino National Forest. The work took place above Clear Lake, east of Nice and Lucerne, on hillsides burned by the 2018 Ranch Fire.

At Maryland’s Deal Island Wildlife Management Area, material removed from a navigation channel helped rebuild roughly 70 acres of eroding marsh. Photographs and footage recorded in July 2026 show native grasses established in the restored wetland.

For ten days in June 2026, Tropic Care brought no-cost health services to communities across Hawaii Island. Medical teams and local partners offered medical, dental, vision, behavioral-health and pharmacy services during the event.

After flooding on Oahu’s North Shore in March 2026, Hawaii National Guard teams helped the Waialua community clear debris and obtain potable water. Original photographs from March and footage recorded in April document the recovery effort.

Historic log cabins in Paradise, Montana, received hands-on care during Operation Forest Sentinel in July 2026. Original Marine Corps footage shows crews working on the buildings with tools and coordinated effort.

Dust brought back from asteroid Bennu offered scientists a fresh look at ancient solar-system chemistry. In findings announced January 29, 2025, researchers reported amino acids and the chemical building blocks used in DNA and RNA, along with evidence of a salty, watery environment on Bennu’s parent body.

A man and his dog were brought to safety together after their sailboat became disabled and began taking on water during Hurricane Helene. The Coast Guard recorded the rescue September 26, 2024, about 25 miles off Sanibel Island, Florida.

Claytor Lake’s recovery after Hurricane Helene included an unusual arrival: tugboats and modular barges built for the work of collecting storm debris. Original October 2024 records show crews bringing equipment to the Virginia lake and preparing it for use.

Land once used for golf became part of a renewed fish and wildlife habitat at Ballinger Park in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. USACE and city officials celebrated completion of the restoration project July 30, 2024.

On April 19, 2021, a small helicopter completed a very large first. NASA’s Ingenuity rose from the surface of Mars, hovered and landed, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

The yacht could not be saved, but its two occupants could. On April 30, 2020, Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews responded after the 92-foot Going Coastal began flooding off California.

After months of rehabilitation, a loggerhead turtle called Hope returned to the Atlantic Ocean in the Florida Keys.

Malaysian and visiting engineers improved a primary school and built a covered waiting area for clinic patients in Sabah.

In Key West, a September tribute brought Jimmy Buffett’s friends and fans together—and supported local causes.

Pacific pocket mice have a new foothold at Camp Pendleton after two decades of recovery work.