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• Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025, Kenya; Earth)
• 100 US cities have now abolished parking mandates, freeing up space for housing, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 19, 2025, US; Earth)
• ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025, Italy; UK; Bucks; Earth)
• The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025, Cambodia; Earth)
• Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• How City Leaders in New York Plan to Help Co-Op Buildings Reduce Emissions, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risk, Study Says, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025, New Jersey; Earth)
• Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025, New Jersey; Earth)
• Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025, US; Earth)
• Lessons from Denmark – the world leader in climate action, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 18, 2025, Denmark; Earth)
• COP30 host Brazil creates 10 new Indigenous territories, BBC News (Nov 18, 2025, Brazil; Earth)
• A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 18, 2025, US; Earth) — The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.
• Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 17, 2025, Ecuador; Earth)
• ‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025, Spain; Earth) — From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
• ‘The water came up to my waist but I carried on walking’. This is climate breakdown. This is Ruchira’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025, Mumbai; Earth)
• How bison ‘reawakened’ the world’s oldest national park, positive.news (Nov 14, 2025, US; Earth)
• Mexico announces ambitious decarbonisation target, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 13, 2025, Mexico; Earth) — Mexico aims to more than halve emissions over the next 10 years before reaching net zero by 2050
• Why solarpunk is already happening in Africa [Climate Drift], Daily Alternative (Nov 13, 2025, Africa; Earth)
• Notes from a Gambian citizens’ assembly, demnext.substack.com (Nov 13, 2025, Gambia; Earth) — Find out what happens when citizens take the lead on climate and community
• How to empower teachers and help students prepare for a sustainable future, theconversation.com (Nov 10, 2025, Brazil; UK; Earth)
• ‘I would give all my life for my brother to come back for one second’ This is climate breakdown. This is Bilal’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 10, 2025, Iraq; West Asia; Earth)
• ‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025, Sweden; Earth)
• ‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025, Sierra Leone; Italy; Melbourne; Arizona; Argentina; Brazil; Africa; Earth)
• The surprisingly divisive world of California wildlife policy, latimes.com (Nov 06, 2025, California; Earth)
• How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025, Japan; UK; Earth)
• As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall, e360.yale.edu (Nov 05, 2025, Brazil; Earth)
• Ukraine’s massive nature project is helping veterans and land recover, theconversation.com (Nov 05, 2025, Ukraine; Earth)
• Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation, lemonde.fr/en (Nov 04, 2025, Brazil; Earth) — The gross emissions of Latin America's biggest country fell by 16.7% year-on-year, according to Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of environmental NGOs
• Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025, Haringey; Spain; Hull; Manchester; Sheffield; Earth)
• Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 03, 2025, Philippines; Pakistan; UK; Germany; Earth)
• Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2025, Australia; Earth) — Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
• Sharing soil, sweat and tears, ffcc.co.uk (Oct 30, 2025, UK; Europe; Earth) — Are farm partnerships the future? We talk to the team behind Abunda to find out
• America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025, US; Earth) — Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
• One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025, California; Oregon; Earth) — The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
• Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2025, Europe; UK; Earth) — Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors
• Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising sea levels – life on the climate-change frontline, theconversation.com (Oct 23, 2025, Thailand; Earth)
• Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis, theconversation.com (Oct 17, 2025, Ireland; Earth)
• Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 17, 2025, Missouri; Earth) — City-supported farms are making St. Louis more absorbent, and have kept nearly 100 million gallons of wastewater out of the Mississippi River
• Kech cultural festival celebrates Balochistan’s resilient spirit in Turbat, Pakistan, globalvoices.org (Oct 16, 2025, Pakistan; Earth)
• Nearly two dozen states sue to stop US president ending $7bn solar grant program, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2025, US; Earth)
• For Australia to get moving on electric vehicles, we must ban petrol and diesel cars by 2035, Hussein Dia for the Conversation, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• Hamburg to set 2040 net-zero target after residents vote for stronger climate action, theprogressplaybook.com (Oct 13, 2025, Hamburg; Germany; Earth)
• Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025, Western Australia; Australia; Earth)
• The bold model stopping deforestation in its tracks, positive.news (Oct 13, 2025, Indonesia; Earth) — Rainforests are powerful carbon sinks and crucial to climate stability. A pioneering effort to protect them involves providing cash to forest communities so they don’t need to accept offers from loggers
• A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025, Nova Scotia; Canada; Washington; Virginia; Earth) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
• Protecting the island farms traditionally inherited by men, women in Mexico step up, news.mongabay.com (Oct 08, 2025, Mexico; Mexico City; Earth)
• How land restoration could address malnutrition among India’s Indigenous families, theconversation.com (Oct 07, 2025, India; Earth)
• The Right Livelihood Award - also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” - goes to Audrey Tang and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 04, 2025, Oceania; Taiwan; Sudan; Earth)
• New South Wales government unveils plans for Great Koala National Park to safeguard 12,000 koalas and dozens of other threatened species, news.mongabay.com (Oct 03, 2025, New South Wales; Earth)
• Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 03, 2025, Boston; Earth) — A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan. Ryan Krugman
• In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets, theprogressplaybook.com (Oct 02, 2025, Spain)
• Green to Grey, How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left, greentogrey.eu (Oct 01, 2025, Europe; UK)
• In a new era of climate disaster, a tiny, resilient mountain village in New Mexico is teaching the world how to adapt, edition.cnn.com (Oct 01, 2025, New Mexico; US; Earth)
• ‘Draw the Line’ in Asia: Community organizers call for climate justice and accountability, globalvoices.org (Sep 30, 2025, Philippines; Indonesia; Japan; South Korea; Bangladesh; Earth)
• Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon, news.mongabay.com (Sep 29, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• ‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2025, Copenhagen; Earth) — Traffic lights synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
• Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• Science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands led by Indigenous fishers, news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2025, Colombia; Earth)
• How one community in Trinidad & Tobago pushed the culinary boundaries of pigeon peas, globalvoices.org (Sep 24, 2025, Trinidad; Earth)
• China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions, BBC News (Sep 24, 2025, China; Earth) — China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across the economy by 7-10% by 2035, while "striving to do better".
• The Ganges River is drying faster than ever – here’s what it means for the region and the world, theconversation.com (Sep 24, 2025, India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Earth)
• The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025, Pennsylvania; US; Earth)
• Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2025, Chicago; Earth)
• This Town Was One of the First in the Nation to Install a Geothermal Network. Now Others Are Warming Up to the Idea, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 20, 2025, Iowa; Earth)
• How farmers are finding greener ways to produce food, from East Anglia to Andhra Pradesh in India, theconversation.com (Sep 19, 2025, Andhra Pradesh; East of England; Earth)
• Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025, New Jersey; Earth)
• Australia’s new goal for 2035 is for emissions to be 62% to 70% lower than in 2005. It’s less ambitious than the UK’s target but higher than in Japan, Canada and NZ, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025, US; Earth)
• In the Philippines, a New Protected Seascape Safeguards ‘Super Reefs’, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025, Philippines; Earth)
• Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2025, Europe; Earth) — Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
• California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 15, 2025, California; Earth)
• The Prairie Farmers Preserving the World’s Most Threatened Ecosystem – Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 15, 2025, Colorado; Earth)
• Fish mint, Himalayan chives and berry pickle: how wild ingredients are transforming school lunches in India, theguardian.com (Sep 15, 2025, Meghalaya; India; Earth)
• The Pacific won a stunning climate victory at the International Court of Justice. What's next?, abc.net.au (Sep 13, 2025, Oceania; Earth)
• ‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025, UK; Oceania; Fiji; Brazil; Nigeria; Earth) — As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences
• Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025, Ethiopia; Earth)
• Comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile, Indigenous elders involved in the push, photos, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2025, Philippines; Earth)
• Designing Inclusive Engagement: How Toronto Is Rethinking Public Participation, newamerica.org (Sep 11, 2025, Toronto; Earth)
• Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters, theguardian.com (Sep 11, 2025, Spain; Earth) — Children to have lessons on wildfires and flooding
• Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 11, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest? Hannah Ritchie, sustainabilitybynumbers.com (Sep 09, 2025, China; Europe; Finland; Sweden; Netherlands; Denmark; Earth)
• The Citizens' Assembly for Climate Held Its First Session in Izmir, raillynews.com (Sep 08, 2025, Turkey; Earth)
• Poland's first youth citizens’ assembly: Designing a Safer Digital Future, peoplepowered.org (Sep 08, 2025, Poland; Earth)
• The Community Gardens Where Refugees Are Putting Down Roots, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 08, 2025, Austria; Earth) — A popular form of community building in Europe, intercultural gardens are now flourishing across the U.S.
• A California Network of Black Churches Is Embracing Solar Energy, EV Charging, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 07, 2025, California; Earth)
• Chicago eases parking mandates to spur affordable housing development, smartcitiesdive.com (Sep 05, 2025, Chicago; Earth)
• Rhode Island and Connecticut sue over Trump administration’s wind farm halt, theguardian.com (Sep 04, 2025, US; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Earth)
• China’s extreme weather AI tools can help countries adapt, dialogue.earth (Sep 03, 2025, China; Earth)
• No Teachers and No Curriculum: Is This the School of the Future?, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 02, 2025, San Francisco; Earth) — Students at Brightworks in San Francisco shape their own education, guided by “collaborators” and an ethos of trust.
• Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 01, 2025, Spain; Earth) — Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action. The final two measures of the 10 point plan are to promote a “civic culture of prevention and reaction”
• What Denmark’s Folkemødet can teach us about rebuilding trust in democracy, electoral-reform.org.uk (Sep 01, 2025, Denmark; Scotland; Earth)
• Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expanding across the Amazon, Aimee Gabay, news.mongabay.com (Sep 01, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• ‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2025, Arizona; Earth)
• How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail, theconversation.com (Aug 29, 2025, Sweden; Earth)
• Rooting Together, Grassroots Economics and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 29, 2025, Kenya; Earth) — Life, Culture, and Commitment in Our Village
• Restoring resilience to fire-prone Spain via Rewilding, Jeremy Hance, news.mongabay.com (Aug 28, 2025, Spain; Earth) — A project to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy
• ‘Plastic Cup’ Competitions Are Cleaning Up Rivers in Hungary, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 25, 2025, Hungary; Earth) — Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries
• What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not, theguardian.com (Aug 25, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 24, 2025, China; Zambia; Earth)
• Protecting artisanal fisheries, Ghana passes landmark legislation, Victoria Schneider, news.mongabay.com (Aug 22, 2025, Ghana; Earth)
• Young climate activists in Wisconsin sue state over pro-fossil fuel policies, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025, Wisconsin; Earth) — Lawsuit brought by two non-profit law firms have had previous wins in Montana and Wisconsin
• Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025, US; Earth)
• In numbers: Solar and batteries are rapidly displacing gas in California, theprogressplaybook.com (Aug 20, 2025, California; Earth)
• A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2025, Chicago; Earth)
• In numbers: Solar and batteries are rapidly displacing gas in California, theprogressplaybook.com (Aug 20, 2025, California; Earth)
• Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish, bbc.co.uk/future (Aug 19, 2025, India; Chhattisgarh; Earth)
• Calls to declare the Amazon a global fossil fuel exclusion zone, elespectador.com (Aug 18, 2025, Latin America; Earth) — More than 50 Indigenous and civil society organizations demand that the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization declare this biome fossil fuel-free
• Filipino government wants co-ops to help meet electrification target, thenews.coop (Aug 18, 2025, Philippines; Earth)
• Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat, theguardian.com (Aug 18, 2025, Spain; Portugal; Europe; Earth)
• Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2025, Alaska; Earth)
• Spanish people know deadly heatwaves are now an annual event. So why are our politicians in denial? María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025, Spain; Earth)
• Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025, Spain; Greece; Earth)
• More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county, theguardian.com (Aug 13, 2025, Arizona; Earth)
• Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• Community grows in Sooke's new garden, sookenewsmirror.com (Aug 12, 2025, British Columbia; Earth)
• From Kenya to Colombia, Field notes from Mnyumbuni exchange program, Grassroots Economics, Juan Lucio, and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 11, 2025, Kenya; Colombia; Earth)
• Fresh water and wildlife brought back to degraded páramos in Ecuador, Ana Cristina Alvarado, news.mongabay.com (Aug 07, 2025, Ecuador; Earth)
• How Fresh Fish From Monterey Bay Reaches School Lunch Trays, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 07, 2025, California; Earth)
• Getting young and old people to dance together boosts health and reduces age discrimination – new research, theconversation.com (Aug 06, 2025, Ireland; Earth)
• These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2025, US; Earth)
• This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures, theguardian.com (Aug 04, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2025, Norway; Sweden; Finland; UK; Switzerland; Earth) — weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle records temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July
• Honolulu's lawsuit against fossil fuel companies leads climate change legal fight, independent.co.uk (Jul 29, 2025, Hawaii; US; Earth)
• How flood-ravaged Boston took on the climate deniers – and won, theguardian.com (Jul 24, 2025, Boston; Massachusetts; Earth)
• ‘Significant legal breakthrough’ as NSW court blocks state’s largest coal expansion over emissions, theguardian.com (Jul 24, 2025, New South Wales; Earth) — “Today’s decision has broad-ranging implications for all new and expanded fossil fuel projects in NSW. No longer can the NSW government say that climate impacts felt by local communities in NSW are divorced from the continued production of coal and gas in the state,” Elaine Johnson
• A South Bronx Park is a Hive of Activity—for Bees and for New Yorkers Training for Green Jobs, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 23, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• The Indigenous rangers protecting Katsa Su in Colombia, globalvoices.org (Jul 22, 2025, Colombia; Earth)
• 'It's a lifesaver': Making solar power affordable in South Africa, BBC News (Jul 22, 2025, South Africa; Earth)
• ‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town, theguardian.com (Jul 17, 2025, Sweden; Earth)
• From coal to crops: Dayak women lead a just transition through backyard farming, theconversation.com (Jul 17, 2025, Indonesia; Earth)
• Urban swimming: six European cities that revived river bathing, positive.news (Jul 17, 2025, Europe; Paris; Copenhagen; Norway; Netherlands; Amsterdam; Switzerland; Earth)
• ‘I couldn’t watch the forests vanish’: the man restoring Solomon Islands’ vital mangroves, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2025, Oceania; Earth)
• It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025, Germany; Earth)
• Albuquerque’s Route 66 Motels Are Turning Into Affordable Housing, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 10, 2025, New Mexico; Earth)
• In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 10, 2025, Colorado; Earth)
• Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds, theguardian.com (Jul 09, 2025, Europe; Earth)
• China's emissions may be falling - here's what you should know, BBC News (Jul 08, 2025, China; Earth)
• Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they’re now struggling to thrive, theconversation.com (Jul 08, 2025, Ireland; Earth)
• Oysters Are Breathing Life Into the Chesapeake Bay, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 07, 2025, Maryland; Earth) — As the world’s most ambitious oyster reef restoration nears completion, many millions of tiny mollusks are revitalizing America’s largest estuary

• Ukrainian government approved the Program for just transition of coal regions – why this is good and which problems remain, en.ecoaction.org.ua (Jul 07, 2025, Ukraine; Earth)
• The Vienna cemetery where endangered species and biodiversity thrive, BBC News (Jul 07, 2025, Austria; Vienna; Earth)
• Paris reopens Seine River to public swimming after century-long ban, theguardian.com (Jul 06, 2025, Paris; Earth)
• ‘This bill protects our precious waters’: how a Florida environmental group scored a win against big oil, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2025, Florida; Earth)
• Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control, climatechangenews.com (Jul 04, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• Europe's citizen-led “Solar Revolution” is pioneering. But there are warning signs of corporate capture [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2025, Europe; Spain; Portugal; Earth)
• Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants, theguardian.com (Jul 01, 2025, Kerala; Earth)
• A Food-Growing Tradition Finds New Roots in the Mississippi Delta, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 01, 2025, Mississippi; Earth)
• Solar project reimagines railway network as clean energy lifelines, positive.news (Jul 01, 2025, Switzerland; Earth)
• Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 30, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025, France; Kenya; Spain; Barbados; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Earth)
• Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025, Europe; Earth) — Authorities in Spain, Portugal, Greece and France issue extreme heat, wildfire and health warnings
• Pakistan slams climate ‘injustice’ as deadly floods hit country again, aljazeera.com (Jun 28, 2025, Pakistan; Earth) — The Climate Rate Index report in 2025 put Pakistan top of the list of the most affected countries based on 2022 data. Then, extensive flooding submerged approximately a third of the country, affecting 33 million people – including killing more than 1,700
• Deliberation in The Gambia – our view from Kerewan, DemocracyNext, demnext.substack.com (Jun 26, 2025, Gambia; Earth)
• Australia’s native bees struggled after the Black Summer fires – but a world-first solution brought them buzzing back, theconversation.com (Jun 25, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 24, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• Civic Assemblies in Action: Lessons on Civic Engagement from Fort Collins [New America], Daily Alternative (Jun 23, 2025, Colorado; US; Earth)
• Client Advocates Are Quietly Reshaping Criminal Defense, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 23, 2025, US; Portland; Earth)
• In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 22, 2025, California; Earth)

• One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2025, Guatemala; Earth)
• ‘Own less, have more’: French app rents out underused household items, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2025, Paris; Earth)
• Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back, theconversation.com (Jun 17, 2025, New South Wales; Earth)
• Health amid collapse: How one woman’s efforts brought hope to Sudanese displacement camps, globalvoices.org (Jun 15, 2025, Sudan; Earth)
• A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2025, Ecuador; Earth)
• An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025, British Columbia; Earth)
• Medellín’s sublime return to nature – in pictures, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2025, Colombia; Earth)
• The Older Adults Conquering Loneliness Through Storytelling, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 09, 2025, New York City; Ohio; Earth)
• A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here’s how advocates are defending peace and quiet [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jun 07, 2025, US; Earth)
• How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 05, 2025, Los Angeles; Boston; Earth)
• The regen farmers challenging food system foundations, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 05, 2025, Europe; Earth) — large-scale regenerative farming study renews hope for nature-friendly food producers
• From barren land to thriving forest: The story of photographer Sebastião Salgado’s Instituto Terra in Brazil, globalvoices.org (Jun 05, 2025, Brazil; Earth) — ‘It is a model, a pilot for Brazil, and I would say it might even be a pilot for the world. ..’ Written by Ana Cavalcanti
• Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?, carbonbrief.org (Jun 03, 2025, China; Earth)
• 'This is classic climate change': Sask. faces worst wildfire season in decades, cbc.ca (Jun 01, 2025, Saskatchewan; Earth)
• Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (May 30, 2025, Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Alberta; Canada; US; Chicago; Detroit; DC; Earth)
• One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change, theconversation.com (May 30, 2025, Peru; Earth)
• The Economic Consequences of Ignoring Climate Change, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025, US; Earth)
• Trump Executive Orders Violate Young People’s Rights to a Stable Climate, a Lawsuit Alleges, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025, US; Earth)
• How Farmers in Oregon Are Preserving Their Land for the Next Generation, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 29, 2025, Oregon; Earth)
• Growing Community Wealth with Sarafu.Network: My Story, grassecon.substack.com (May 25, 2025, Kenya; Earth)
• ‘We Are the People of the River’, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 23, 2025, California; Arizona; Earth) — The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe is working to heal the ailing Colorado River ecosystem by planting one native seed at a time
• Kenya’s third-largest city reimagines urban living, theprogressplaybook.com (May 18, 2025, Kenya; Earth)
• Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025, Belgium; UK; Earth)
• La Sembra: Values-led communication agency in Catalonia, thenews.coop (May 15, 2025, Spain; Earth)
• How a media co-op forged its own path in Argentina, thenews.coop (May 15, 2025, Argentina; Earth)
• Leading the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates, indigenous conservationists, news.mongabay.co (May 15, 2025, Indonesia; Earth)
• In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change, apnews.com (May 15, 2025, Odisha; India; Earth)
• Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time, carbonbrief.org (May 15, 2025, China; Earth)
• How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025, Rio de Janeiro; Earth)
• How Hungary became the world’s solar energy leader, theprogressplaybook.com (May 13, 2025, Hungary; Earth)
• In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air, theprogressplaybook.com (May 12, 2025, Beijing; China; Earth)
• Kenya outlawed the sharing of Indigenous seeds. A village choir is fighting back, globalvoices.org (May 10, 2025, Kenya; Earth)
• ‘A future on our terms’: how community energy is lighting up Latin America, theguardian.com (May 08, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill raises tourist taxes to fund climate relief, theguardian.com (May 05, 2025, Hawaii; Earth)
• Inside Florida’s unlikely transformation into a solar superpower, theprogressplaybook.com (May 04, 2025, Florida; Earth)
• Inside Washington’s groundbreaking parking reforms, theprogressplaybook.com (May 05, 2025, Washington; US; Earth)
• How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world, edition.cnn.com (May 01, 2025, Pakistan; Earth)
• Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025, Karnataka; India; Earth)
• Women Plumbers in Jordan Are Breaking Taboos, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 28, 2025, Jordan; Earth)
• Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze, BBC Future (Apr 27, 2025, Pennsylvania; Earth)
• Co-ops and resistance in Rojava, thenews.coop (Apr 26, 2025, Syria; Earth)
• The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves, ‘It has been worth it’, news.mongabay.com (Apr 25, 2025, Mexico; Earth)
• How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities, theconversation.com (Apr 24, 2025, New York City; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Perth and Kinross; Earth)
• Democracy, Paris-style… How assemblies are changing laws, demnext.substack.com (Apr 24, 2025, Paris; Canada; Earth)
• How Italy got its citizens — and me — to adopt a rigorous recycling scheme, grist.org (Apr 23, 2025, Italy; Earth)
• The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation, theguardian.com (Apr 23, 2025, Denmark; Earth)
• Distributed energy is driving Latin America’s energy transition, dialogue.earth (Apr 22, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• Meet the seed collector restoring California’s landscapes - one tiny plant at a time, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025, California; Earth)
• Indonesian government plans network of village co-ops to tackle poverty, thenews.coop (Apr 19, 2025, Indonesia; Earth) — Ministers plan up to 80,000 rural co-ops offering financial services, medical facilities, and farm logistics, storage and distribution
• ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025, Haringey; Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Singapore; California; Earth)
• Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 19, 2025, Greenland; Europe; Earth)
• Cooperation and community saving saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, news.mongabay.com (Apr 15, 2025, Kazakhstan; Earth)
• In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity, globalvoices.org (Apr 15, 2025, France; Latin America; Earth)
• The unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots, news.mongabay.com (Apr 14, 2025, Brazil; Earth)
• Kathmandu, Nepal's liquid landscape: Hiti Pranali water heritage, globalvoices.org (Apr 13, 2025, Nepal; Earth)
• French shipping co-op orders pioneering sail-powered boxship, thenews.coop (Apr 11, 2025, France; Madagascar; Earth) — “This citizen-led initiative empowers all stakeholders to take part in building a low-carbon, human- and environment-centred maritime transport system.”
• Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land, theguardian.com (Apr 10, 2025, Kansas; Colorado; US; Earth)
• The Plot To Save America, as laid out by Daniel Pinchbeck, Daily Alternative (Apr 09, 2025, US; Earth)
• It’s up to each of us to help save life on Earth – I love this challenge, Bob Brown, theguardian.com (Apr 08, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• Labor’s home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here’s how, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 07, 2025, Yemen; Earth)
• New Documentary Explores the Natural Wonders of NYC’s Jamaica Bay Through One of Its Most-Beloved Characters, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 05, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• Paris’s rewilded railway line: the disused track turned into a green space for wildlife and walkers, theguardian.com/ (Apr 03, 2025, Paris; Earth)
• In a Mumbai district, families’ lives are transformed when their rooftops become solar generators [Earth5R], Daily Alternative (Mar 31, 2025, Mumbai; Earth)
• Young beekeeper’s initiative brings hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2025, Sierra Leone; Africa; Earth)
• ‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2025, Stockholm; Sweden; Earth)
• The European Politician Bringing Nature Into the Halls of Power, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 25, 2025, Europe; Earth)
• Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free, bloomberg.com (Mar 24, 2025, Paris; Earth)
• Greenpeace’s $660m damages ruling a ‘wake-up call’ to climate movement, climatechangenews.com (Mar 21, 2025, US; Earth)
• Finland named as happiest country for eighth year, BBC News (Mar 20, 2025, Finland; Costa Rica; Mexico; Earth) — Costa Rica and Mexico enter top 10 for the first time
• How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?, peoplespolicyproject.org (Mar 19, 2025, US; Earth)
• Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025, Colombia; Earth)
• Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa, theguardian.com (Mar 18, 2025, South Africa; Earth)
• From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers, theguardian.com (Mar 17, 2025, Switzerland; Earth)
• All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation, theguardian.com (Mar 14, 2025, China; Earth)
• As the Colorado River Shrinks, Southern California Is Embracing Water Recycling, reasonstobecheerful.world (Mar 14, 2025, California; Earth)
• Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025, Ecuador; Latin America; Earth)
• The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025, Mexico; Earth)
• Riding the rail revival: how holidays by train are drawing the discerning traveller, positive.news (Mar 07, 2025, Europe; Earth)
• To help save a species Mountain bongo antelope fly from Florida to Kenya, news.mongabay.com (Feb 27, 2025, Kenya; Earth)
• Strengthening The Connective Tissue Of Democracy, noemamag.com (Feb 27, 2025, California; Earth)
• Want a side of CO₂ with that? Better food labels help us choose more climate-friendly foods, theconversation.com (Feb 25, 2025, Australia; Earth)
• California to launch first-in-the-nation digital democracy effort to improve public engagement, gov.ca.gov (Feb 23, 2025, California; Earth)
• In Great Falls, students are on the front lines of mental health support, montanafreepress.org (Feb 20, 2025, Montana; Earth)
• A Holistic Approach to Health Care Is Helping to Keep Rural North Carolinians Housed, reasonstobecheerful.world (Feb 20, 2025, North Carolina; Earth)
• The rewilded golf courses teeming with life, BBC Future (Feb 16, 2025, Highland; Scotland; California; Earth)
• Citizens' ideas on sustainable consumption, buergerrat.de/en (Feb 16, 2025, Norway; Earth)
• The dream to restore a special forest taking root in the high Andes, news.mongabay.com (Feb 14, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• Japan's boom in randomly-selected mini-publics, demnext.substack.com (Feb 14, 2025, Japan; Earth)
• How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see, theconversation.com (Feb 14, 2025, US)
• Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025, Latin America; Earth)
• Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025, Indonesia; Earth)
• Do US states with more renewable energy have more expensive electricity? Hannah Ritchie, sustainabilitybynumbers.com (Feb 11, 2025, US; Earth) — Despite California being the poster child of high prices, the data suggests no
• Study shows large social disparities in neighborhood flooding within Latin American cities, nature.com (Feb 10, 2025, Latin America; Earth) — Policymakers must prioritize flood adaptation and recovery efforts in neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status
• More Solar and Battery Storage Were Added to Texas’ Grid Than Any Other Power Source Last Year, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 10, 2025, Texas; US; Earth)
• Falling costs drive US toward green energy — even as political tides shift, thehill.com (Feb 10, 2025, US; Earth)
• Alternative Editorial: Another World, Daily Alternative (Feb 09, 2025, Cuba; Earth)
• ‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city, theguardian.com (Feb 06, 2025, Burkina Faso; Earth)
• Mondragon as the new City-State—this cooperative could be its own country [The Elysian], Daily Alternative (Feb 04, 2025, Spain; Earth)
• What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution, theprogressplaybook.com (Jan 31, 2025, Copenhagen; Earth)
• The Ostbelgien Model: five years on, publicdeliberation.net (Jan 31, 2025, Belgium)
• ‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2025, Denmark; Earth)
• US states aleading the climate fight – despite rollbacks, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2025, California; New York State; Rhode Island; Earth)
• Climate finance and care services: why public investment is necessary, theconversation.com (Jan 29, 2025, Philippines; Chile; Barcelona; Earth) — Quezon City in Manila, the Philippines, Renca in Santiago, Chile and Barcelona are cities that are beginning to consider how care systems can be incorporated in their climate adaptation response.
• ‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma, theguardian.com (Jan 27, 2025, Italy; Earth)
• South Africa's patchwork climate plans risk widening inequality, Kim Harrisberg, context.news (Jan 24, 2025, South Africa; Earth) — "...placing communities at the heart of these plans through bringing the policies to them in local forums is key", Chantal Naidoo, Rabia Transitions, South African transitions finance research and advisory non-profit
• Women-led reforestation initiative in Uganda fights flooding, erosion, Innocent Kiiza, news.mongabay.com (Jan 23, 2025, Uganda; Earth)
• ‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2025, Colombia; Earth)
• When golf courses go wild, rewildingmag.com (Jan 21, 2025, British Columbia; Earth) — non-profits, trusts and cities converting manicured greens into places where wildlife, plants and people can flourish
• Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025, Philippines; Earth)
• The challenge now is deciding how to rebuild safely in areas destroyed by fire, Editorial, Los Angeles Times (Jan 19, 2025, Los Angeles; US; Earth)
• Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025, South Korea; Earth)
• A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 17, 2025, Ecuador; Earth)
• Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 17, 2025, California; US; Earth)
• ‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar, theguardian.com (Jan 15, 2025, Tanzania; Earth)
• Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 14, 2025, San Francisco; US; Earth)
• Wheels Are Turning to Make Albuquerque Streets Less Threatening to Bicycle Commuters, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 14, 2025, New Mexico; US; Earth)
• The ‘convoy of incredible people’ saving animals from California’s infernal fires, theguardian.com (Jan 14, 2025, California; Earth)
• It’s time for Africa to join the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Boniface Mwangi, africanarguments.org (Jan 14, 2025, Africa; Earth)
• Norway on track to be first to go all-electric, BBC News (Jan 13, 2025, Norway; Earth)
• The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2025, Los Angeles; US; Earth)
• Siberian crane recovering from 'near-extinct' thanks to habitat protection, news.mongabay.com (Jan 09, 2025, China; Earth)
• Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025, Thailand; Earth)
• From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025, Brazil; Earth)
• What Ghana’s small businesses can teach the world about becoming more sustainable, theconversation.com (Jan 06, 2025, Ghana; Earth)
• New York first US city to have congestion charge, BBC News (Jan 05, 2025, New York City; Earth)
• Homes built with clay, grass, plastic and glass: How a Caribbean island is shying away from concrete, bbc.co.uk/future (Jan 04, 2025, Trinidad; Earth)
• State of South Australia bans fishing of several endangered or critically endangered sharks and rays in its waters, news.mongabay.com (Jan 02, 2025, South Australia)
• To Combat Phoenix’s Extreme Heat, a New Program Provides Sustainable Shade, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 02, 2025, Arizona; US; Earth)
• ‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attached, theconversation.com (Jan 02, 2025, Bangladesh; India; UK; Earth)