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A study using turkey tail mushrooms as a natural filtration system has successfully removed E. coli from a polluted river in Devon, England, and the approach is already being put into practice.
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Reasons to be Cheerful highlighted a washing-machine filter designed to catch clothing fibres before they reach waterways and oceans.
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RHINOSHIELD’s Circular Blue platform uses drones and solar-powered collection vessels to target ocean-bound plastic near Taiwan.
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A major new report from Breathe Cities and C40 identifies 19 cities — including Beijing, London, Warsaw, and San Francisco — that slashed both PM…
March 21, 2026 · air pollution · clean air
On March 6, 2026, Brazil established the Albardão Marine Park off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul — a protected area of over 1 million hectares sa…
March 20, 2026 · marine park · Brazil
In the Sundarbans delta — home to one of Earth's last wild Bengal tiger populations — women-led community groups have planted over 100,000 mangro…
March 20, 2026 · mangroves · tigersA veteran diver and her daughter, working as citizen scientists, have found what researchers believe is the largest documented coral colony on Ea…
February 28, 2026In one of the most ambitious ecosystem recovery projects ever attempted, 158 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Gal…
February 27, 2026A government-backed deal will transform east London's Barking Eurohub into an international logistics hub, unlocking £15 million in investment an…
February 25, 2026China added 315 gigawatts of solar and 119 gigawatts of wind power in 2025 alone — more renewable energy in a single year than any nation has ach…
February 16, 2026Northwestern University researchers have developed a direct air capture system using manganese oxide that efficiently removes CO₂ from the atmosp…
February 13, 2026The community of Kuruwitu on Kenya's coast transformed a devastated reef into a thriving marine sanctuary through grassroots conservation — attra…
February 24, 2026
In what conservationists are calling one of the most dramatic rewilding successes in American history, Chinook salmon have restored their ancient…
March 9, 2026
A landmark USC study published in The Lancet Planetary Health found that for every 200 electric vehicles added to a California neighbourhood, nit…
March 20, 2026 · electric vehicles · air quality
New South Wales is forming the Great Koala National Park — 476,000 hectares of protected forest stretching from Kempsey to Grafton — with logging…
March 21, 2026 · koala · national parkIn the small coastal village of Chelem, Mexico, a group of fourteen Maya women called 'Las Chelemeras' spent fifteen years restoring a dead mangr…
March 21, 2026 · mangroves · flamingosDeath Valley National Park is experiencing its most spectacular wildflower superbloom since 2016, triggered by over a year's worth of rainfall be…
March 22, 2026 · Death Valley · superbloomA new report by the Breathe Cities initiative found that 19 major global cities — including London, Beijing, and San Francisco — have cut fine pa…
March 22, 2026 · air pollution · clean airUniversity of Utah geoscientists have found a massive, ancient freshwater system buried thousands of feet beneath the Great Salt Lake — stretchin…
March 22, 2026 · Great Salt Lake · freshwaterSeville, Spain — one of Europe's most heat-stricken cities — is testing an ancient Persian technology called qanats: underground water channels t…
March 22, 2026 · Seville · climate changeNew research published in early 2026 reveals that China's 10-year fishing moratorium on the Yangtze River — which began in 2021 — has produced ex…
March 22, 2026 · Yangtze River · ChinaFEEL BETTER DAILY
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