Historian @emilypawley.bsky.social shows how social movements have already transformed our world—often more than we realize. That's the good news! The not-so-good news is that progress is often messy, imperfect, and fragile.
We can’t do this alone, but history proves that we CAN do it together.
Wednesday's ✨ GOOD CLIMATE NEWS ✨
🚮 Capturing waste carbon
🚽 A clean(ish) pesticide
👗 How clothing rentals can conquer the market
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Today's good climate news:
💰 The US states demanding oil companies pay up
🍏 Turning cities into orchards
🏙️ Building skyscrapers from solar panels
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The biggest ever youth climate case was just denied the chance to be heard in court.
So, is it the end of the road?
Nope!!! ⬇️⬇️
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🦠 Why microbes matter
🦬 Bringing back bison
⚖️ Churches gearing up for court
And more good climate news‼️
#climatechange #climate #environment #goodclimatenews
Some positive climate stories to start the week off:
🏫 Giving old buildings a second chance
💧 Letting rivers have more room
🛢️ Making fuel from sludge
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Today's good climate news!
🧟♀️ The zombie plants that come back to life
♻️ Turning the tides
🧱 From CO2 to building block
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Today's good climate news:
⚖️ The case that could redefine climate justice
🏡 Our neighbours’ support for climate action is higher than we think
💨 A way to make use of CO2
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Today's good climate news!
🦪 Oysters' climate superpowers
🐘 Progress on global biodiversity
🏡 How green roofs make for better cities
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Today's positive climate and environment news:
🤖 The robot cleaning Venice’s canals
🍃 Hacking photosynthesis
🐻❄️ The scientists tracking polar bears
#climatechange #goodclimatenews
Today's good climate news:
🍚 Experimenting with sustainable rice
💉 Vaccinating cows for the planet
🌧️ Natural solutions to combat flooding
#climate #agriculture #goodclimatenews
The EU is gearing up to ban PFAS in consumer products: www.reuters.com/business/env...
Waterwheels are making a comeback www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚗 Road transport emissions could peak this year thanks to the falling price of EVs:
Today's good climate news!
🍃 The innovations inspired by nature
✈️ A quick fix for aviation emissions
🍄 The fungi-fuelled battery
Find the full stories here:
'A transition to electric appliances ... could prevent 3,400 fewer premature deaths per year, 1,300 fewer hospital visits and 220,000 fewer asthma attacks' www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/c...
In today's newsletter:
💎 The diamond battery that lasts millennia
🪸 Coral reefs might be OK after all
🚽 Home-grown toilet paper
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In today's newsletter!
🌿 The quest to save seagrass
💨 Making use of methane
🥔 Engineering heat-resistant potatoes
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Feeding grazing cattle seaweed supplements reduces their methane emissions by almost 40% 🐄
'"I certainly feel guilty," he says. “It’s guilt for having participated in the destruction of life. But maybe that is the engine that makes me an activist now."'
Which climate finance ideas are actually fair, realistic, and impactful?
Global climate action will continue despite Trump. 'If countries stick together and, as they should, deepen their commitments aligning with the Paris agreement’s 1.5C limit, the damage will be significant but not severe’:
Reducing livestock production by 13% in some pastures could remove an amount of carbon equivalent to global fossil fuel emissions over the last three years:
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Today's good news:
🚲 Individual climate action matters more than you might think
🌳 An area of degraded tropical forest bigger than Mexico is ready to naturally regrow
🚰 A new emission-free way of watering young trees
Read all the stories here:
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Today's good climate & environment news:
🧪 The chonky algae that chows down on carbon
🐀 How rats can sniff out the illegal wildlife trade
🛣️ Why helping chickens cross the road matters
Read the full stories here:
Today's good climate news:
🇨🇳 China's emissions may have peaked
🥩 Researchers have developed a better way of making a key ingredient in cultivated meat
🐅 Slowly but surely, progress is being made towards protecting the world's biodiversity
Read more here:
Today's good climate news:
🇨🇳 China's emissions may have peaked
🥩 Researchers have developed a better way of making a key ingredient in cultivated meat
🐅 Slowly but surely, progress is being made towards protecting the world's biodiversity
Read more here:
Today's good climate news!
1. Commonwealth leaders reached an agreement around ocean protection.
2. New insights into how crushed rocks can be used to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
3. Pressure is mounting to put a luxury tax on the biggest carbon emitters: billionaires.
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