📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🤿 Scuba divers recover 25 000 pounds of trash from Lake Tahoe
The non-profit Clean Up the Lake in California recently organized a team of volunteer scuba divers to remove trash from Lake Tahoe’s 72-mile shoreline. The team removed 25 00 pounds of debris.
🎪 Wildlife sanctuaries save animals from circuses
Wildlife sanctuaries welcome four lions and four Bengal tigers, rescued from circuses. Some of the animals had spent four years in a metal train carriage.
🌳 Forests on Indigenous land capture twice the carbon
A new study from World Resources and Climate Focus found that forests on Indigenous land capture double the amount of carbon as the ones owned by private parties or the state.
🐋 Kiwi bird and humpback whale no longer endangered animals
Finally the Australian humpback whale has recovered enough to be taken off the endangered species list. Last Friday, the North Island brown kiwi was also classified as “no longer threatened”.
🌳 Kenyan community regrew its forest - and stopped flooding
A community in Kenya called Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) regrew its forest and by doing so reduced their flooding problem.
🌳 Experimental “super forest” shows how to plant trees the right way
This experimental “super forest” in England aims to show us how to plant trees the right way.
📸 6D explains what happens to a product that is digitized
A physical product that becomes digital end up so cheap and accessible in its final stages that it becomes democratized.
🐺 For the first time in years - red wolf pups born in the wild
There is still hope for the wild red wolf after the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina, welcomed a litter of pups.
🕊 Formerly “extinct” woodpecker still alive
A year ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the ivory-billed woodpecker was extinct. According to a team of researchers, the woodpecker is now reported alive and pecking in Louisiana's forests.