Restored Flow Country bogs contribute to 10,000ha of 're-wetted' peatlands (www.northern-times.co.uk)
Work to restore thousands of hectares of damaged peatland on publicly owned forestry land including in the Flow Country has reached a milestone.
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded $1 Million in Defamation Lawsuit - EcoWatch (www.ecowatch.com)
Climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a defamation lawsuit against two conservative bloggers.
‘Massive win’: Barclays will stop funding new oil and gas fields (www.euronews.com)
The move sends an ‘important signal’ about the bank’s appetite for fossil fuel financing, but campaigners say there’s still a way to go.
‘Places of the living’: bishop of Norwich calls for churchyards to be rewilded (www.theguardian.com)
Graham Usher urges Church of England to look into this ‘often very ancient land’, as it prepares to vote on increasing biodiversity
Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with new electrocatalysis method (www.rochester.edu)
A novel approach for removing PFAS chemicals from water could lay the foundation for globally scalable remediation techniques.
Wolli Creek national park gains additional 4.7 hectares of land to complete ‘green ribbon’ (www.theguardian.com)
Minns government fulfils $13m election commitment following long-running community campaign to protect the area
Michigan Lawmaker Introduces Bill Requiring State Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatments (www.propublica.org)
After ProPublica reported on a Michigan insurer that wouldn’t cover a cancer patient’s last-chance treatment, a state lawmaker introduced a measure compelling health plans to cover a new generation of advanced cancer therapies.
Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers (news.mongabay.com)
Twenty-one critically endangered black rhinos have been safely delivered to Loisaba Conservancy in northern Kenya from other parts of the country, part of a wider mission to secure the long-term future of the species in Kenya. “It’s been a massive operation,” says Tom Silvester, CEO of Loisaba Conservancy, who oversaw the...
Baltimore takes on homelessness with an $18 million initiative (www.optimistdaily.com)
Navigating hurdles, Baltimore's multifaceted approach to combating homelessness begins with the purchase of downtown hotels.
World's Largest Psych Association Passes Policy Supporting Trans Youth Care By Massive Margin (www.erininthemorning.com)
The American Psychological Association, representing 157,000 members, has issued a resolution calling for an end to trans care bans and misinformation around care.
FDA Announces PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging (www.fda.gov)
Today, the FDA announced that grease-proofing substances containing PFAS are no longer being sold by manufacturers for food contact use in the U.S. market.
India's poverty drops below 5%, urban-rural gap narrowing: NITI Aa… (www.ptcnews.tv)
Nation News: Following the release of the latest consumer expenditure survey by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam issued the statement.
EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 (www.theguardian.com)
Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early
EU nature law passes to restore 20% of Europe's degraded land and sea (www.brusselstimes.com)
EU introduces 10 year prison sentences for environmental crimes (www.euronews.com)
Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law.
The cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants (www.bbc.com)
From Australia to Ontario, cities are taking up unnecessary stretches of concrete and asphalt, allowing nature to take hold in their place.
Bangladesh's critically endangered Asian elephants get court protection (bbc.com)
Animal rights groups declared the move a "landmark order" that would protect against exploitation.
Biden brokers $1 billion deal with Oregon, Washington, 4 Columbia River tribes to revive Northwest salmon population (fortune.com)
The Columbia River Basin, an area roughly the size of Texas, was once the world’s greatest salmon-producing river system.
UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero
New Zealand opens first 'kiwi hospital' for injured birds (phys.org)
New Zealand on Friday opened its first hospital exclusively treating kiwi birds, and vets have already nursed the first patient back to health—a chick nicknamed "Splash" that tumbled into a swimming pool.
In a Win for Endangered Salmon, Court Orders Puyallup River Dam Removal (earthjustice.org)
Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. With part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century.
Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers (news.mongabay.com)
JAKARTA — Indonesia and Spain have signed an agreement on accrediting Indonesian migrant deckhands, as part of efforts to beef up protection against modern slavery aboard fishing vessels. Under the mutual recognition agreement, Spain will validate competency documents issued by Indonesian authorities for Indonesians seeking to...
Germany joins legal cannabis club (www.reuters.com)
Germany on Friday joined the small group of countries and jurisdictions that have legalised cannabis when the Bundestag passed a law allowing individuals and voluntary associations to grow and hold limited quantities of the drug.
The EU wants to criminalize AI-generated porn images and deepfakes (www.engadget.com)
The proposed rules will criminalize the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including deepfakes made by AI tools, which could help deter revenge porn.