Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo
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Progress is happening every day, just not always with fireworks 🎉 or trending hashtags #️⃣. It's like the slow-cooker version: steady, quiet, but cooking up something good. So if the world looks like eww 🤮, it’s really more like whoa 🤯, but in slow-mo.
US #LifeExpectancy reached a record 79 years in 2024 🇺🇸, as total deaths fell by about 18,000 compared to 2023. Deaths from unintentional injuries, including #overdoses, dropped more than 14% 💊⬇️, #heart-disease deaths declined again ❤️, and COVID-19 is no longer in the top 10 causes of death 🦠.
US Life Expectancy Broke Records in 2024, And Could Still Be Climbing
NEW YORK (AP) – US life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 – the highest mark in American history.
www.sciencealert.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
US #LifeExpectancy reached a record 79 years in 2024 🇺🇸, as total deaths fell by about 18,000 compared to 2023. Deaths from unintentional injuries, including #overdoses, dropped more than 14% 💊⬇️, #heart-disease deaths declined again ❤️, and COVID-19 is no longer in the top 10 causes of death 🦠.
#Gavi, the #VaccineAlliance, delivered a record 300M vaccine doses in 2025 💉🌍, reached more than 86M girls with the #HPV vaccine and helped roll out #malaria vaccines in 24 countries 🦟. It also revamped how it operates. All during a year of major aid cuts, conflict and climate shocks.
After a year of challenges, Gavi can look forward with optimism
When the history of global health is written, it is likely that 2025 will be seen as a turning point.
www.gavi.org
February 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
#Gavi, the #VaccineAlliance, delivered a record 300M vaccine doses in 2025 💉🌍, reached more than 86M girls with the #HPV vaccine and helped roll out #malaria vaccines in 24 countries 🦟. It also revamped how it operates. All during a year of major aid cuts, conflict and climate shocks.
🇨🇦 Toronto’s #DonRiver was once called “biologically dead”, but now fish are coming back 🐟🌊. Monitoring in 2025 found more than 20 species, including #AtlanticSalmon and native predators like #walleye and #NorthernPike 🎣🐠. The turnaround follows a C$1 billion restoration that rebuilt wetlands 🌱💧💚.
Fish are flooding back into Toronto’s Don River
This month, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority shared its findings from the Don River in 2025, which included documenting over 20 fish species. For the first time since 2012, an Atlantic Salmon...
www.nationalobserver.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
🇨🇦 Toronto’s #DonRiver was once called “biologically dead”, but now fish are coming back 🐟🌊. Monitoring in 2025 found more than 20 species, including #AtlanticSalmon and native predators like #walleye and #NorthernPike 🎣🐠. The turnaround follows a C$1 billion restoration that rebuilt wetlands 🌱💧💚.
The critically endangered #FlapperSkate is making a comeback in and around the #LochSunart and Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area 🌊🐟 after commercial fishing of the species was banned in 2009 🎣. About half of fishers across Scotland 🏴 say they are now seeing flapper skates almost every day 👀.
Flapper skates make a recovery in Scottish waters
Research by Heriot-Watt University suggests that flapper skate numbers are on the increase.
www.bbc.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The critically endangered #FlapperSkate is making a comeback in and around the #LochSunart and Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area 🌊🐟 after commercial fishing of the species was banned in 2009 🎣. About half of fishers across Scotland 🏴 say they are now seeing flapper skates almost every day 👀.
China’s #CO2-emissions have stayed flat or even dropped for about 21 months straight through late 2025, instead of rising like they used to 🇨🇳. This is thanks in part to more #CleanEnergy in power, transport, and industry, but it’s still early to say if this trend will last long-term 🌱⚡
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.
www.carbonbrief.org
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
China’s #CO2-emissions have stayed flat or even dropped for about 21 months straight through late 2025, instead of rising like they used to 🇨🇳. This is thanks in part to more #CleanEnergy in power, transport, and industry, but it’s still early to say if this trend will last long-term 🌱⚡
The first #EV with a #sodium-ion battery has just been unveiled, and it beats traditional lithium batteries at handling freezing cold weather, keeping over 90% of its power even way below zero 🥶⚡. It still gets a decent driving range like regular EVs, with better performance in the cold.🔋
The world's first sodium-ion EV is here to end winter range anxiety – it retains 90% of its capacity even in Arctic temperatures
The world’s first production sodium-ion EV battery emerges unscathed from extreme winter testing, delivering consistent power without the range loss
www.techradar.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
The first #EV with a #sodium-ion battery has just been unveiled, and it beats traditional lithium batteries at handling freezing cold weather, keeping over 90% of its power even way below zero 🥶⚡. It still gets a decent driving range like regular EVs, with better performance in the cold.🔋
Scientists have reintroduced green and golden bell #frogs to the Australian 🇦🇺 Capital Territory for the first time since the species vanished locally in the early '80s. Using captive breeding, disease immunisation and engineered “frog saunas” researchers plan 15 releases totalling about 375 frogs.
Good luck Dua Leaper: scientists return frogs wiped out by fungal disease to wild
Researchers dig ‘spas’ and install ‘saunas’ in ACT wetlands to give green and golden bell frogs the best chance of survival
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Scientists have reintroduced green and golden bell #frogs to the Australian 🇦🇺 Capital Territory for the first time since the species vanished locally in the early '80s. Using captive breeding, disease immunisation and engineered “frog saunas” researchers plan 15 releases totalling about 375 frogs.
🇮🇳 India has expanded rural tap #water access from 16.7% of the population in 2019 to 81% in 2026, connecting 125 million rural households to clean, running water. In sheer numbers, this is the biggest, fastest, and most important #sanitation drive in human history.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:23 AM
🇮🇳 India has expanded rural tap #water access from 16.7% of the population in 2019 to 81% in 2026, connecting 125 million rural households to clean, running water. In sheer numbers, this is the biggest, fastest, and most important #sanitation drive in human history.
New research shows that #lead pollution in the US is about 100× lower now than it was around 100 years ago. A huge drop mostly because we phased out leaded gasoline and tightened environmental rules 🛢️🚗. That means kids today are way less exposed to this #toxic metal than past generations were👍
Lead Pollution Has Dropped 100-Fold in the U.S. Over the Last Century
Lead pollution compared to 100 years ago in the US has dramatically declined by 100-fold. BLL levels of 15 plummeted to just 0.6 in 2020.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
February 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
The world just hit a big milestone: it’s been over 8 years without any country doing a #NuclearWeaponsTest. The longest stretch since nukes were first used in 1945 💣. But experts warn that this “ #no-testing streak” could change soon, especially after calls from some leaders to restart testing.
Good news: World records longest ever lull in nuclear tests. Bad news: It’s on shaky ground | CNN
The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The world just hit a big milestone: it’s been over 8 years without any country doing a #NuclearWeaponsTest. The longest stretch since nukes were first used in 1945 💣. But experts warn that this “ #no-testing streak” could change soon, especially after calls from some leaders to restart testing.
Even though Trump has pushed policies that favor #FossilFuels and make it harder for some #clean-energy projects to get built, wind and solar power keep growing fast around the world and in the US ⚡️. In 2025, #solar and #wind added a ton of new energy capacity and beat coal in global growth💡.
Despite Trump, renewable energy keeps surging » Yale Climate Connections
In 2025, solar and wind surpassed coal as a global energy source.
yaleclimateconnections.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Even though Trump has pushed policies that favor #FossilFuels and make it harder for some #clean-energy projects to get built, wind and solar power keep growing fast around the world and in the US ⚡️. In 2025, #solar and #wind added a ton of new energy capacity and beat coal in global growth💡.
#SanFrancisco is rolling out a new plan to make #childcare free for families making up to about $230,000 a year, and give big cost breaks (about 50% off) for families making up to around $310,000 🎉. It’s part of a push to help with the crazy high cost of living in the city.
San Francisco to make childcare free for families earning up to $230,000
Officials to offer 50% subsidy up to $310,000 in effort to make one of world’s most expensive cities more affordable
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 AM
#SanFrancisco is rolling out a new plan to make #childcare free for families making up to about $230,000 a year, and give big cost breaks (about 50% off) for families making up to around $310,000 🎉. It’s part of a push to help with the crazy high cost of living in the city.
A Dutch court has told the government it must make a real plan to protect people living on the Caribbean island of Bonaire from #ClimateChange, especially rising seas and flooding 🌊🌴. This decision could push the 🇳🇱Netherlands to do more about climate risks and might inspire similar cases elsewhere.
Dutch government ordered to protect sinking island from climate change
In a sweeping victory for Bonaire residents, The Hague District Court has ruled that Dutch authorities had discriminated against the island's inhabitants.
www.euronews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
A Dutch court has told the government it must make a real plan to protect people living on the Caribbean island of Bonaire from #ClimateChange, especially rising seas and flooding 🌊🌴. This decision could push the 🇳🇱Netherlands to do more about climate risks and might inspire similar cases elsewhere.
#Homicides in 🏴 England and 🏴 Wales have dropped to the lowest level on record, with 499 killings in the year to Sep 2025. That’s about 7% fewer than the year before . There were also big drops in killings involving knives, marking a significant fall in serious violent #crime over the past year 🧠
Homicides in England and Wales fall to lowest level since records began
Killings involving knives or sharp implements dropped by 23% year on year, ONS figures show
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
#Homicides in 🏴 England and 🏴 Wales have dropped to the lowest level on record, with 499 killings in the year to Sep 2025. That’s about 7% fewer than the year before . There were also big drops in killings involving knives, marking a significant fall in serious violent #crime over the past year 🧠
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We are making it easier for Canadian drivers to charge their EVs by building a national charging network.
No matter where you are in Canada, charging your car should be as simple as filling your gas tank.
No matter where you are in Canada, charging your car should be as simple as filling your gas tank.
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
We are making it easier for Canadian drivers to charge their EVs by building a national charging network.
No matter where you are in Canada, charging your car should be as simple as filling your gas tank.
No matter where you are in Canada, charging your car should be as simple as filling your gas tank.
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We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to keep #GlobalWarming below 1.5°!
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Keeping it cool
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to keep #GlobalWarming below 1.5°!
more📖 www.wwf.org.uk/our-reports/...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Keeping it cool
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to keep #GlobalWarming below 1.5°!
more📖 www.wwf.org.uk/our-reports/...
more📖 www.un.org/en/climatech...
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#climate #ClimateChange #environment #hope #cleanenergy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateActionNow #renewables
Keeping it cool
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to keep #GlobalWarming below 1.5°!
more📖 www.wwf.org.uk/our-reports/...
more📖 www.un.org/en/climatech...
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🇩🇪 Germany just built a new kind of #solar array where the panels float upright on a lake instead of lying flat on the ground, the first one of its kind in the world. ☀️ The vertical setup catches light in the morning and evening better and makes #CleanPower right where it’s needed. 🌊⚡
Germany: The world's first vertical solar plant on water
Solar panels rising vertically from Bavarian quarry lakes. Floating PV saves space, cuts costs, and powers gravel plants right where energy is needed. A pioneering idea with global potential.
www.dw.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
🇩🇪 Germany just built a new kind of #solar array where the panels float upright on a lake instead of lying flat on the ground, the first one of its kind in the world. ☀️ The vertical setup catches light in the morning and evening better and makes #CleanPower right where it’s needed. 🌊⚡
#Solar panels don’t just stop working after their 25-year warranty ends. 🛠️ A new real-world study by University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland 🇨🇭 found that many #panels still produce most of their power even after 30+ years in use. ☀️ ⚡
Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades
Solar panels are usually sold with 25 to 30 years of performance promises. But what happens after that, when the warranty language is long gone and you are
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February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
#Massachusetts is giving out free #two-way EV chargers so electric cars and buses can send power back to the grid when it’s needed most ⚡🚗. The idea is to test if #EVs can help lower peak electricity demand and even act like mobile batteries for homes, schools and power systems . 🏠🔋
Free V2X chargers will let Massachusetts EVs power the grid
Massachusetts is rolling out free bi-directional EV chargers to test how cars can send power back to the grid and cut peak demand.
electrek.co
February 9, 2026 at 5:58 AM
#Massachusetts is giving out free #two-way EV chargers so electric cars and buses can send power back to the grid when it’s needed most ⚡🚗. The idea is to test if #EVs can help lower peak electricity demand and even act like mobile batteries for homes, schools and power systems . 🏠🔋
Africa saw its fastest #solar boom ever in 2025, with new solar power installations jumping about 54% compared with the year before ☀️. Governments accounted for the growth with big solar projects and also new rooftop and small systems. It shows how #CleanEnergy is spreading across the continent ⚡️.
Africa records fastest-ever solar growth in 2025
Africa's solar power installations increased in 2025 marking the fastest annual growth on record
www.climatechangenews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Africa saw its fastest #solar boom ever in 2025, with new solar power installations jumping about 54% compared with the year before ☀️. Governments accounted for the growth with big solar projects and also new rooftop and small systems. It shows how #CleanEnergy is spreading across the continent ⚡️.
Spain 🇪🇸 just announced it will ban kids under 16 from using #SocialMedia 📵👦👧, following Australia’s lead. The government says this is to protect young people from harmful content and wants big platforms like #TikTok and #Instagram to verify age properly 🔍📱.
Spain becomes first country in Europe to ban social media for under-16s
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urges the protection of children from a "digital wild west."
www.cnbc.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Spain 🇪🇸 just announced it will ban kids under 16 from using #SocialMedia 📵👦👧, following Australia’s lead. The government says this is to protect young people from harmful content and wants big platforms like #TikTok and #Instagram to verify age properly 🔍📱.
In the last quarter of 2025, renewables 🌱⚡️ supplied a record 51% of the #Australia’s 🇦🇺 electricity, with #wind 💨, #solar ☀️ and #batteries🔋hitting all-time highs 📈.
The share of fossil gas and coal power are at their lowest. #Emissions are down and wholesale electricity prices have plunged by 44% 💸📉.
The share of fossil gas and coal power are at their lowest. #Emissions are down and wholesale electricity prices have plunged by 44% 💸📉.
Grid hits major milestone as coal, gas shrink amid 'tripling' battery discharge
Amid fits and starts, Australia's energy transition turned a big corner in 2025, as renewables shot past fossil fuels despite demand records.
www.abc.net.au
February 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
In the last quarter of 2025, renewables 🌱⚡️ supplied a record 51% of the #Australia’s 🇦🇺 electricity, with #wind 💨, #solar ☀️ and #batteries🔋hitting all-time highs 📈.
The share of fossil gas and coal power are at their lowest. #Emissions are down and wholesale electricity prices have plunged by 44% 💸📉.
The share of fossil gas and coal power are at their lowest. #Emissions are down and wholesale electricity prices have plunged by 44% 💸📉.
In 2025, #wind 💨 and #solar ☀️ generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU 🇪🇺, while #nuclear ⚛️ provided an additional 23%. Gas, coal, and oil 🛢️🔥 only generated 29%, with coal becoming increasingly marginal at just 9.2%.
European Electricity Review 2026 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition reached a new milestone in 2025 with wind and solar generating more power than fossil fuels.
ember-energy.org
February 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
🇮🇳 India is going green faster than 🇨🇳 China did at the same income level. Cheap #solar ☀️, #wind 🌬️, and #batteries 🔋 are allowing the world’s largest country to bypass a fossil-heavy growth phase ⛏️. As Bill McKibben notes, costs have flipped so dramatically that renewables now undercut coal itself 📉🔥.
India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun | Ember
Cheap electrotech is enabling India to industrialise without the long fossil detour taken by China and the West.
ember-energy.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:12 AM
🇮🇳 India is going green faster than 🇨🇳 China did at the same income level. Cheap #solar ☀️, #wind 🌬️, and #batteries 🔋 are allowing the world’s largest country to bypass a fossil-heavy growth phase ⛏️. As Bill McKibben notes, costs have flipped so dramatically that renewables now undercut coal itself 📉🔥.