New life, old routes and a hefty bear: this week's nature news

This week shows that nature is being given space to recover, grow and be celebrated in many places around the world. From an orphaned rhinoceros in Kenya to a solar train in the Andes, and from a new snow leopard cub to a bear that won everyone's hearts: the good news is coming from every corner of the globe. In Alaska, the bear Backpack won the Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park and Reserve [4] on September 30. He garnered just over 100,000 votes and narrowly beat Bear 910. The roughly twenty-year-old bear got his name because as a...