What went right this week: the good news you should know about
Deforestation charges plummeted in Brazil Following years of wanton destruction underneath former president Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation within the Brazilian Amazon has plummeted by 34 per cent, knowledge suggests. The figures cowl the six months since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s took workplace in January, suggesting he’s delivering on his pledge to safeguard the ‘lungs of […]
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How a group of Peruvian coffee farmers are thriving despite the odds
House to cloud forests, vertiginous waterfalls and vibrant macaws, the Amazonas area can be a frontrunner in sustainable espresso manufacturing, regardless of land-use modifications and a altering local weather. Right here’s how one espresso co-op there may be turning into extra resilient For many people, espresso is one thing of a person ritual. We all […]
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Pumping hot: inside Britain’s first heat pump village – FFA
How did a rural Cambridgeshire village change en masse to renewable vitality? Thanks to at least one fateful pizza evening, 100 large boreholes and heroic navigation of the planning system, they’ve trailblazed their very own zero-carbon warmth community That eureka second can strike at any time. For Emma Fletcher it got here as she chatted […]
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10 things we learned making the new issue of FFA magazine
6. In Zimbabwe, melancholy is named ‘kufungisia’, or ‘pondering an excessive amount of’ You received’t discover it within the Nationwide Well being Service’s record of signs for melancholy, however for any of us who’ve skilled it, pondering an excessive amount of is usually a hallmark of the situation. The phrases Zimbabwe’s granny therapists – who […]
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The new approach to ending FGM that’s showing promise in Kenya
All over the world, 200m girls alive at present have undergone feminine genital mutilation. Now a grassroots Kenyan undertaking is piloting a brand new method aiming to heal the psychological scars that imply the observe is handed down by means of generations Zeitun Abas remains to be haunted by the reminiscence of her circumcision by […]
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Life after: County lines drug dealing – FFA
For 5 years, Danielle Marin was a county strains drug mule delivering crack cocaine and heroin from London to rural English cities. Now she works with the police to assist ladies like her to exit the gangs that exploit them Answering a knock at her entrance door one night in 2011, Danielle Marin discovered herself […]
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What went right this week: the good news you should know about
Don’t dig for local weather victory, mentioned researchers Embracing regenerative agriculture may hold international warming to inside 1.5C. That’s in response to new analysis, which touts soil as an missed tremendous ally within the race to slash emissions. Like forests, soil locks carbon away. However intensive agriculture can flip this carbon sink right into a […]
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Five ideas to help you be more ‘net zero’ – FFA
So as to attain web zero emissions by 2050, all the things – from diets to move and vogue – might want to change. And people will play a extra important position than you could suppose. Listed below are some good concepts about carry the thought dwelling Net zero week is upon us, the UK’s […]
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What to expect in the new issue of FFA magazine
The brand new problem of Constructive Information journal is out now. Performing editor Daisy Greenwell shares her highlights, together with Zimbabwe’s friendship benches, the armed robber who grew to become a triathlete, and the facility of imagining a greater future It was on the ‘Massive One’, an Extinction Rise up march in April, that […]
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‘We are prepared for anything’: onboard Ukraine’s hospital train
En path to Uzhhorod bus station on Ukraine’s Slovakian border to purchase a one-way ticket to Prague, Dr Albina Zharkova (major picture) was in a quandary: did she actually need to flee her homeland and settle for an invite to show overseas, or was there a way she might keep and assist? A name from […]
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