U.S. Navy Limits Sonar Use, First Withdrawal from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and more!

U.K.A clinical trial investigating a treatment for blindness is under way this winter to evaluate the safety and efficacy of replacing diseased eye cells with stem cells.
efficacy: 効能(のあること)、効き目

U.S.Following a federal court hearing, the U.S. Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar in specified areas around the Hawaiian Islands and southern California.

Sonar activity has been shown to harm marine animals.

NETHERLANDSDelta Flume, a facility that produces the world's largest man-made waves to study and improve coastal protection systems, opened in Delft.

Waves reach as high as 4.5 meters.

NORWAYAfter a local seed bank in Syria was damaged in the country's civil war, researchers have made the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
first-ever: 空前の；初の

The master vault holds more than 860,000 seed samples collected from around the world in an effort to ensure against their loss in the wild.
vault: アーチ形天井、アーチ形天井のようなおおい、(食料品・酒類などの)地下貯蔵室、(地下)金庫室、(銀行などの)貴重品保管室、(教会・墓所の)地下納骨所

The replacement seeds will be stored in Lebanon and Morocco.

SOLOMON ISLANDSBiologists captured underwater footage of a glow-in-the-dark sea turtle, the first reptile known to exhibit biofluorescence.
footage: フィート単位の尺度、(映画フィルム・材木などの)フィート数、長さ

AUSTRALIAThe government approved a new curriculum for elementary school students, who will now learn computer coding and programming.