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The Endangered Species Act at 50

Historian Douglas Brinkley celebrates the success of the 1973 law that finally gave legal protection to America's iconic flora and fauna facing extinction. In the half-century since the law's introduction, an astonishing 99% of the threatened species originally listed have survived.

Good news you may have missed in 2023

Bad news can break suddenly, but good news can be found everywhere, all the time—if you know where to look. From technology and medicine to the environment, correspondent David Pogue brings us some of the recent headlines that remind us 2023 was in many ways a pretty good year!

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