What went right: ideas to change the world, plus more positive news
Winners of James Dyson Awards were announced Innovations that save lives, prevent blindness, and increase plastic recycling have won the hearts of people around the world. James Dyson Award 2021, netting the inventors £30,000 each to scale up their technologies. The annual competition seeks solutions for global problems and saw record numbers of entries. The […]
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Researchers used a game to cut car use in London. Here’s what happened
Lecturers have provide you with a sport to encourage folks to ditch their automobiles and embrace energetic journey. Right here, they focus on their findings following a trial in Hounslow, London In England, solely 37 per cent of adults aged 16 or over journey actively (stroll, cycle or scoot to get from place to position) […]
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Good COP, bad COP? What to make of the Glasgow climate summit
The COP26 circus is now out of Glasgow. Was it all just a load of ‘blah, blah, blah’, or were there genuine signs of progress? Martin Wright unpicks events So, now the circus has departed, was it a good COP or a bad COP – or somewhere in between? To state the obvious first: it […]
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Thinking outside the box: unusual uses for the UK’s old phone boxes
Mini medical centres that save lives More than 1,000 red phone boxes from Cornwall to Shetland were repurposed as house defibrillators. These devices provide lifesaving electric shocks to people who have suffered a heart attack. The Community HeartBeat TrustCharity came up with the idea, and BT partnered with it to help communities get over. BT charges […]
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The best countries for social progress, according to researchers
The latest Social Progress Index was released. It shows the best countries in terms of health, safety and education. Humanity faces many challenges – some, like the climate crisis, of its own making – but overall life is improving in most countries around the world. That’s according to the latest Social Progress Index(SPI), which again attempts to […]
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What went right: sharks in the River Thames, plus more positive news
The Thames was home to sharks, seals, and seahorses. More than half a century after it was declared “biologically dead”, the River Thames in London has seals, seahorses and even sharks living in it, a study revealed this week. The State of the Thames report – compiled by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) – noted a […]
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The podcast that lets you tune in to the British landscape
Not all rural sounds offer aural bliss. “We’ve covered approximately 400 miles on foot in search of places to record,” said Sugden, “not the usual chocolate box places, but ones with interesting sound, such as [Birmingham’s]Spaghetti Junction and industrial areas. For us, it is about finding and sharing beauty from everyday places.” Added Huddy: “It’s […]
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The climate solutions making life better for people and the planet
These grassroots groups are ready to go with climate solutions and can help build a better world, despite politicians making promises at COP26 “Next to our home”, says Ugandan development worker Noah Ssempijja, “we had a forest. It was a beautiful place to be as a child. The forest was then cut. It was the […]
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Sharks and whales will soon have their own ‘superhighway’ in the Pacific
Plans to create a South Pacific marine reserve of 500,000 km could help endangered species like turtles and whale sharks recover. A vast marine reserve is to be created in the Pacific Ocean, providing a protected ‘superhighway’ for whale sharks, leatherback turtles and other endangered marine life. The Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor is a […]
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These portraits reveal what people have been grateful for during the pandemic
From the loved ones who have helped us through and soul-soothing time in nature, to the rituals that have grounded us on dark days, there has been much to be grateful for amid the pandemic’s disorientating haze. Illustration by JustynaGreen has captured some of them in her 100 Days of Gratitude series. This was featured […]
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