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Sharing stories of human progress, environmental restoration, clean energy, and scientific discovery.
This collection of humans represent the 25 states of the US Climate Alliance. They're probably smiling so much because together they have cut emissions 24% while growing GDP 34%. Collectively they also represent over half of America’s population and 60% of its economy.

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November 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
An annual travel spike triggered by China's Golden Week national holiday is offering snapshots of the EV revolution: a 9% drop in gasoline sales during that period year-on-year (with ever-increasing numbers of EV's powered by a network of 18 million public chargers).

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November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“We don’t have to do everything. The river knows. We just have to be down there together.” Observation of life returning to the Santa Cruz River, once bone-dry, after treated wastewater was redirected into its channel, reviving wetlands and native life.

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November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"It represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked." Ojibwe land returned to by the Catholic Sisters in historic atonement for the Church’s boarding-school past.
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
For 100 years no salmon swam in the Klamath River, strangled as it was by dams. Now they swim again. A blip in species time. A huge hole in human time. Now repaired.  

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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Death-ball", the carnivorous sponge. Just one of the 30 new wonders recently discovery in the very deep depths of the Southern Ocean. Creatures with hooks, armour and glow-in-the-dark flair. A carnival of pure deep-sea anarchy.

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November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Queen Victoria ruled over the deepening colonisation of the country that was named Australia in the year of her death. Now the state named after her has become the first in Australia to enshrine a treaty with First Peoples into law. 

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November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Yellow Crazy Ant kills Red Crab with evil toxic spray. Zap! Malaysian Micro-wasp lays waste to Yellow Crazy Ant. Kapow! Red Crab returns to force. Boom! Sounds like Marvel? It is: nature's marvel (with an assisting hand from human conservationists).

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November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How do you get over the problem of overfishing? Find a way to align profits and protection. At least, that's how it has been almost entirely stopped in the territorial waters of the United States thanks to an unlikely alliance of fishermen and environmentalists.

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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Have you ever seen an elk? Well you're now much more likely to one if you visit the 17,000 acres of ancestral land that were recently returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe. Several elk were released to repopulate the land as part of the tribal celebrations.

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November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Look at this graph. See how that second peak edges up and then falls away again. The line shows the rate of deforestation in the Amazon, which has just fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade. Perhaps our hunger for these forests will continue to wane this time?

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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The ultimate way to stop poachers is to cut their profits. China’s 2018 ivory trade ban has proven to do just that. A new peer-reviewed study in Biological Conservation reports that the ban led to a roughly 50% fall in elephant poaching across 43 countries.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Ambitious but possible" - an exciting phrase to hear. In this case let's hope the 'possible' part wins through. Tropical Forest Forever Facility is a proposed permanent fund to reward tropical forest countries for keeping forests standing. Initial goal: $10 billion.

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November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Cape York. Two words uttered by Captain Cook in 1770. They settled on a vast area of land, claiming it for the Crown. 255 years on, that spell is undone. One million hectares of the Cape now formally belong to the Guugu Yimidhirr, Yiithuwarra and Wuthathi peoples.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In our modern era it can feel like there's an underlying moral imperative to own one's residence. Renters be damned! A new law passed in England a offers a refreshing counterpoint, ending “no-fault” evictions, replacing fixed-term contracts with rolling tenancies. 

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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A sting of humiliation and pain in front of the whole class - stuff of our draconian past, surely? Not everywhere. On January 1st, 2026 the Czech Republic will be the 69th country that past behind them with a law fully prohibiting the corporal punishment of children. 

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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How did Brazil cut teenage births by more than 60% since 2000? Expanded contraception access? Community health outreach? Online peer to peer education? Yes, yes, and yes... but experts in this excellent Telegraph piece say the biggest driver has been poverty reduction.

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November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Threatened wildlife has new teeth in Sri Lanka, where elephant trafficker Ali Roshan received a record 15-year sentence and US$70,000 fine for illegally possessing a wild-caught calf. Another example of growing judicial resolve against global wildlife trafficking.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We're worrying less, and we're on our way to enjoying life as much as we did in 2006. Sometimes stats can provide a profound visual poignancy. Look at how the nadir of COVID is represented in this graph, and the gradual release from peak worry we've been experiencing.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Imagine the combined surface area of our planet that on any given day is covered in parked cars. Why aren't we covering those spaces with energy-generating, shade-providing solar panels? Well, South Korea have gone beyond merely asking that question and made it law.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The migration paths followed by countless generations of whales and dolphins, year in, year out,  through the Atlantic waters of the Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde soon look set to be protected with the creation of the Macaronesia Marine Sanctuary.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How many products in your daily life were shipped to you across the oceans? New tech is making leaps in decreasing the environmental cost of that shipping. For example the first complete marine solar energy system recently installed on the cargo vessel MV Vertom Tula.

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November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In 2015 diesel powers more than half of all new cars in Europe. In 2025? That figure is 6%. Meanwhile in September, 67% of all new European cars sold were electrified. No turning back from this trend now.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Slow but fast. The gradual progress of clean energy over the past decades - scaling of efficiency, plummeting cost, buy-in, deployment... - is beginning to reveal an inexorable global transformation. In India that's looking like a doubling of capacity by 2030.

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November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The pangolin, what a unique wonder. Sadly, the magnificent scales that set it apart are highly prized on the black market. However, there is now a greater chance of them remaining on their living hosts with Nigeria passing West Africa's strongest wildlife law to date.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM