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Walking prioritized in Britain’s new Highway Code, device enables people in wheelchairs to walk their babies
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A new mix of materials makes solar cells a thousand times more efficient, Britain’s first Muslim Olympic flagbearer
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EU countries approve law to make emissions targets legally binding, Malawi’s first Pride parade
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UK to ban daytime junk food ads, study shows graying hair is reversible, zero-energy device harvests water from air
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Animals recognized as sentient beings in landmark UK law, BCI lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
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The UK’s biggest seagrass restoration project, scientists find key to scar-free skin healing
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UK-wide network of ‘bee motorways’, New Zealand approves paid leave after miscarriage
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Uber drivers in UK entitled to worker rights, Norway’s drug-free psychosis treatment, electronics-free robot
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Australia anthem changes to honor Indigenous past, UK tampon tax abolished, law to protect Yangtze River
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UK to ban online junk food ads, NGO turns palm oil plantation into wildlife corridor
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Putting Nature First Could Create 400 Million New Jobs, US Startup Is Using Yeast to Clean up Wastewater
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Paris to Create City’s Largest Park, Urban Tree Challenge Fund, Solar-Powered Desalination
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 uses solar power to turn ocean water into drinking water.
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Washington Legalizes Human Composting, Garden Feeders Boost Bird Populations, Iterative Evolution
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 populations; due to iterative evolution, an extinct bird from an island near Madagascar evolved a second time.