This week's Fix the News has so much encouraging news in it, things I usually don't see elsewhere. Yes, there is much to be angry and anxious about. But there is so much good going on around the world that it is worth it, imo, to pay attention to the positive: fixthenews.com/p/338-ten-th...

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A fairytale comes true?

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338. Ten thousand shades of green. M̶e̶a̶s̶l̶e̶s̶. Koala. Glioblastoma 🪄✨. Water from air.

A fairytale comes true?

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“It’s like an investment in your retirement fund. Over time the benefits emerge and they are more than the sum of their parts." Florida’s 25-year $27B Everglades restoration is paying off. New research shows the recovering wetlands absorb about 14M tonnes of CO₂ a year. news.fixthenews.com/uOlivXt

For a snapshot of how the solar revolution is changing daily lives in Africa, check out this recent piece on Agbon, Benin. In a nutshell: solar panels are everywhere, getting cheaper and spreading faster than anyone predicted. Next challenge: scaling solar to the grid. news.fixthenews.com/MQ8KvvD

20 years ago China became the top global emitter, and prioritised economic growth for another decade before pivoting towards proactive "green growth" leadership. Now the dismantling of its coal infrastructure is accelerating with 147 plants slated for closure. news.fixthenews.com/OMZiFaj

Most nations would still say 'impossible', but Uruguay did it: built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Its architect says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules. archive.md/OtHh2

All across the world humans are busy at work, solving problems. For a team of scientists on Hawaii that means figuring out what 60 very endangered species of native land snail actually eat, so their captive breeding program can bring the molluscs back from the brink. news.fixthenews.com/K3LeXDT

Physics papers, impenetrable for most, but crucial for many real world applications. Discovery of a flaw in a major physics paper by a new computer verification model is thus both alarming and exciting. How many other papers are flawed? What new insights will this bring? news.fixthenews.com/gl4daHZ

A tricky day, overdue deadlines, worries of the world. Having your lunch stolen by seagulls could be the thing that pushes you over the edge. Fortunately, scientists have discovered a deterrent. Arming your lunch with googly eyes significantly reduces seagull attack. news.fixthenews.com/Z1lobzP

This car part represents a historic closing of the loop in the automotive recycling chain. Its new alloy, turning contaminated scrap into strong structural parts, solves the longstanding issue that recycled aluminium from auto scrap has been too weak for structural uses. news.fixthenews.com/f4FRi0Y

Healing properties of psychedelics are now given plenty of press, but over-harvesting of the organisms that produce them? Not so much. A recent gene-hack may alleviate this situation: scientists engineered tobacco leaves to produce 5 major psychedelic compounds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humanity's zoological inventory now includes 24 new crustacean species. The discovery came as part of a project to learn more about the ecology of an area of the deep Pacific that may soon be mined for the valuable green tech minerals recently detected on its seafloor. news.fixthenews.com/9lIobPw

The global electrification megatrend is making waves in the shipping industry. With China targetting shipping emissions, CATL - the world’s largest battery producer - has jumped on subsidies to expand rapidly into the marine sector, with 900 batteries deployed to date. archive.md/GDYMy

The land that once saw the sun as Helios traversing the sky in his chariot, is now capturing an olympian share of its rays, with the construction of Europe’s largest solar hub on the site of former coal mines in northern Greece. news.fixthenews.com/WchqvoC

The 100+ million kms travelled each year by Copenhagen's buses will henceforth be powered by electricity with the city's green fleet hitting 100%. And its not just a win for CO₂ reduction, better air quality will also be a huge health benefit for the city's residents. news.fixthenews.com/U8vDWl5

As savings go, €110 million a day is pretty impressive. That's how much solar power has been saving EU countries since the outbreak of war in the Middle East, according to analysis from trade body SolarPower Europe. Nice. news.fixthenews.com/Rj5A6yE

In 2024 Arctic seals lost one of their most important legal protections. Last month they got it back. The US federal court reinstated nearly 160 million acres off Alaska’s Arctic coast as 'critical habitat', recognising seals' need to roam far and wide for resources. news.fixthenews.com/AyIYGrj

Wetland restoration might sound 'nice-to-have', but its benefits ripple out way beyond the ecological. Viet Nam's Climate Resilient by Nature project is a great example. Its Mekong Delta restoration is improving agriculture and tourism whilst providing flood protection. news.fixthenews.com/LMxTrAm

Fossil fuel dependence has become the burden that no country wants to bear. France's response to the recent price spike has been to fast-track a national electrification plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from 60% to 40% by 2030, funded partly by fuel tax revenues. news.fixthenews.com/9aTZWJX

Krilling in the name of. Extracted as a potent source of omega-3 fatty acids, krill's depletion in our oceans is threatening planetary health. The Antarctic Krill Pledge is now turning this trend, with British supplement maker Time Health the first manufacturer to sign. news.fixthenews.com/ptLh6EI

Can a seabed stripped by bottom trawling ever recover? Yes. Five years on from a ban across more than 300 km² of seabed off southern England, mussel beds are re-establishing, fish populations are increasing, and kelp forests that had declined by 96% are now reviving. news.fixthenews.com/Hf67umj

A new area of safety has been locked in across the continent of Africa. The African Road Safety Charter creates a formal obligation for signatories to strengthen road laws and invest in safer roads and emergency care, in line with international road safety frameworks. news.fixthenews.com/y2FapXb

Nutrition has a clearer path to young tummies in Norway. In 2021 an Oslo study found that 8 in 10 food and drink adverts aimed at children promoted unhealthy options. Insight spurred action: the nation now has a ban on marketing unhealthy food and drink to under 18s. news.fixthenews.com/WGubTPY

"Paraguay's poverty rate cut from 19.6% to 16% in a year". Great, but what does that actually mean? It means that around 213,000 Paraguayans have been lifted out of poverty as rising incomes among lower-income households outpace living-cost increases. Yay. news.fixthenews.com/AtdMzcM

The Phillippines have put their money where their mouths most need it: $1 billion to sustainably transform agriculture across the nation. The new initiative is designed to boost agricultural productivity, promote diversification, and enhance the climate-resilience. news.fixthenews.com/0PvuKDC

The lives 100s of millions of people across the planet are diminished by the parasitic presence of hookworm. But help is at hand. A new vaccine is demonstrating strong protection against the parasite, heralding a healthier life-path for incoming generations. news.fixthenews.com/nQxLQJS

What happens when you stop charging 14 million people for bus travel? Ho Chi Minh city is about to find out, having initiated a $280 million annual plan to make all intra-city bus travel free. Their hope: reduce traffic and emissions, and a 30% uptick in ridership. news.fixthenews.com/3JqnHTV

10% of the world's oceans now protected, Everglades restoration sequestering carbon, Sussex seabed bouncing back from bottom-trawling. Three satisfying swells in a sea of uplifting stories in the this week's Fix the News. fixthenews.com/p/334-mother...

It's one thing to know, another to prove it. In Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous ecologists are drawing on data and tech to lock in proof of their local knowledge. The result: court-grade evidence capable of defending forests from mining companies. news.fixthenews.com/5GAzpW4

Remember that cloud of IMF debt hanging over the African continent for all eternity? Well, Mozambique recently joined Nigeria and Namibia on a growing list of countries that are seeing the sky again, having cleared their $701 million IMF liability in late March. news.fixthenews.com/d49uU1U