Today’s Solutions: August 21, 2026

We keep reading about species getting extinct because of pollution and ongoing urbanization. So it’s heartening to hear that the Pristine Seas expedition by National Geographic has found at least 80 previously undiscovered species of fish near the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Territory in the South Pacific.

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