Environment
🐒 Economic growth does not need to hurt wildlife
A study compared bird and mammal populations in 33 countries and found consistently positive relationships between economic growth, gender-parity in governments, and abundance of wildlife
🐠 A community of women in Kenya has restored a dying coral reef
A group of women on Wasini Island in Kenya, have banded together to restore the coral reef along their coastline. Their successful efforts have played a key role in restoring large swaths of coral reefs, on which 80% of their community rely upon for an income.
♻️ By 2030, IKEA wants to remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it produces
Last week, IKEA announced their intent to invest $220 million into becoming 'climate positive'. Key areas where these funds will be focused are to be in green energy and reforestation.
🏭 European coal power output in steep decline
The European Union has seen an unprecedented 19% year-on-year decline in coal-fired power generation in the first half of 2019.
🐺 Mexican wolf removed from extinct species list
Thanks to conservation and breeding efforts in Mexico and the United States the Mexican wolf is no longer at risk of being extinct.
⚡ Japan has a monumental plan to reinvent Fukushima as a renewable energy hub
Japan has plans in place to convert the devastated areas of Fukushima into a hub for renewable energy, replacing the former nuclear plant with solar and wind farms.
🚢 Ocean Cleanup launches a floating garbage truck that will clean rivers from plastics
Around 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans each year — the equivalent of a truckload of garbage every minute. Over time, this trash can accumulate in offshore garbage patches andlinger there for decades [https://www.businessinsider.com/ocean-cleanup-plastic-pacific-garbage-patch-2019-9] . For the last six years, a nonprofit called
🐠 3D-printed coral offer new hope for endangered reefs
Struggling reef life could soon get a boost from prefab homes. 3-D printed condos for fish on the reef! In their ongoing work [https://www.cnet.com/news/3d-printed-coral-reef-condos-get-2-fins-up-from-fish/] , researchers are now analyzing field data from Fiji, where they have deployed the 3D-printed coral made from biodegradable cornstarch filaments after
Humpback whales have returned from the brink of extinction
🐳 Humpback whales in the Southwest Atlantic almost became extinct, but the numbers are now almost back to where they started a hundred years ago. 🐋 It was estimated that some 27,000 humpbacks frequented the southwest Atlantic at the start of the 20th century, but due to intensive commercial whaling, those