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Several European countries are making strides towards a coal-free future, a new app allows stores to manage their flow of customers digitally and Sudan is banning female genital mutilation. More good news below
Scientists have discovered a microbe they say can prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria and for the second year in a row, Iceland’s whaling companies will be skipping the annual...
The French Government will give people €50 to repair their old bike in an attempt to boost cycling and a suburb of the Costa Rican capital San José is...
Finland pledges to cut carbon emissions completely by 2035, setting one of the world’s earliest timelines for reaching that mark; German circus ‘Roncalli’ replaces real animals with life-size holograms;...
Atlanta plans to transform 7 acres of vacant forested land into a public food forest; the illegal killing of elephants in Africa has decreased by 6 percent since 2011;...
The south Indian state of Kerala has used 9,700 tonnes of non-recyclable, shredded plastic waste to pave 246 km of roads; more than 500 Palestinian and Israeli students put...
A new Filipino law requires every student to plant 10 trees each before graduating; Ken Wyatt is Australia’s first indigenous cabinet minister; a Filipino startup produces pencils that can...
In the northeast Indian state of Assam, the Akshar School is accepting plastic waste as payment for school; according to the WHO, Argentina and Algeria have officially defeated Malaria.
Paris is creating the city’s largest garden near Eiffel Tower; the UK government will fund the planting of 130,000 trees in English cities and towns; a new desalination system...
Washington legalizes ‘natural organic reduction’, a process turns a body into soil; according to new research, the British tradition of feeding garden birds helps maintain and reshape urban bird...
South Korea will switch government computers from Windows to Linux in order to lower costs and reduce the dependency on a single operating system; the Amsterdam-based co-op ‘Fairbnb’ plans...
Tanzania bans plastic bag ban in an effort to tackle plastic pollution; Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriages in historic first for Asia; San Francisco is the first city in the...
Amsterdam plans to ban all gas and diesel vehicles by 2030; Mexico City decided to ban businesses from selling or giving customers single-use plastic items; the first ever ‘cocktail’...
186 countries agreed to amend the Basel Convention by adding thousands of types of plastic as hazardous waste; a team of researchers at Columbia University created a new desalination...
In India, a Tinder initiative and a Facebook group are revolutionizing pet adoption; Germany has opened the world’s first “eHighway” on the autobahn near Frankfurt; a new study shows...
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