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2025
How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025) - Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
- Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 17, 2025) — City-supported farms are making St. Louis more absorbent, and have kept nearly 100 million gallons of wastewater out of the Mississippi River
- Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025)
- The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025)
- Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025)
- Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2025)
- Meet the women who turned beach cleanups into a global movement – and what was forgotten along the way, theconversation.com (Sep 15, 2025)
- ‘Plastic Cup’ Competitions Are Cleaning Up Rivers in Hungary, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 25, 2025) — Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries
- The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 24, 2025)
- Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025)
- A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2025)
- Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish, bbc.co.uk/future (Aug 19, 2025)
- These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025)
- The Indigenous rangers protecting Katsa Su in Colombia, globalvoices.org (Jul 22, 2025)
- Urban swimming: six European cities that revived river bathing, positive.news (Jul 17, 2025)
- It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025)
- Paris reopens Seine River to public swimming after century-long ban, theguardian.com (Jul 06, 2025)
- ‘This bill protects our precious waters’: how a Florida environmental group scored a win against big oil, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2025)
- In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 22, 2025)
- A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here’s how advocates are defending peace and quiet [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jun 07, 2025)
- Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025)
- In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air, theprogressplaybook.com (May 12, 2025)
- Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world, theguardian.com (May 07, 2025)
- Labor’s home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here’s how, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2025)
- From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers, theguardian.com (Mar 17, 2025)
- Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025)
- Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste.
- The Curative Power of Quieter Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 09, 2025)
- Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025)
- New York first US city to have congestion charge, BBC News (Jan 05, 2025)
2024
- A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 24, 2024)
- The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
- “Attorney General Bonta is leading the way to corporate accountability and a cleaner and healthier world", news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2024) — "This lawsuit will set an invaluable precedent for others to follow,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics
- ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024)
- Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
- California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 01, 2024)
- I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth, Rebecca Solnit, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2024)
- How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024)
- Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 11, 2024)
- ‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week, theguardian.com (May 30, 2024)
- A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modelling shows, theconversation.com (May 03, 2024)
- Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
- International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
- The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024)
- Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- California proposes fracking phaseout, making good on Newsom’s pledge, thehill.com (Feb 19, 2024)
- I was a kitchen snob who would only cook on gas. Now an induction hob is my new flame, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2024)
- Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)
- Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024)
- ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2024)
- Assumptions and omissions challenged, response to: “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” book by Hannah Ritchie, news.mongabay.com (Jan 16, 2024)
- ‘Ours could be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than we found it’, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)
2023
- ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)
- Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution, theguardian.com (Dec 08, 2023)
- ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
- ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
- Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business, news.mongabay.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City., insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2023)
- Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops, newscientist.com (Jul 12, 2023)
- Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’, ground.news (Jul 11, 2023)
- Surviving the smoke-pocalypse 101: Californians offer advice to New Yorkers, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2023)
- A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment, The Conversation (May 18, 2023)
- Environmental investigative journalism makes headway in Côte d'Ivoire: An interview with Ismael Angoh, Global Voices (Apr 05, 2023) — The work of environmental investigative journalists is essential, by Jean Sovon
- ‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023)
2022
- Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022)
- Portugal: Accelerate rights-based climate and environmental action, says UN expert, ohchr.org (Sep 27, 2022) — Portuguese youth are among the most concerned and outspoken in the world about the climate crisis. “To fulfil their rights, the government must give them a seat at the table, listen to their concerns and act upon their recommendations.”
- Green Deal: pioneering proposals to restore Europe's nature by 2050 and halve pesticide use by 2030, ec.europa.eu (Jun 22, 2022)
- The village that stood up to big oil – and won, The Guardian (Jun 01, 2022)
- Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics, The Conversation (May 23, 2022)
- Nigeria's Spider-Man fighting for a cleaner society, BBC News (Apr 18, 2022)
- Groundwater: depleting reserves must be protected around the world, The Conversation (Mar 21, 2022)
- There's a powerful global plastics treaty being readied for finalisation. Here's four reasons to be hopeful about it, The Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2022)
- Plastic pollution: Green light for 'historic' treaty, BBC News (Mar 02, 2022)
- Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists, Jan 18...theguardian.com
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