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2022 C.E.
April 11 Scotland's reforestation story just keeps growing: tree cover has tripled over the past century, climbing from under 6 percent of the country's land to roughly 18 percent today. That's close to forest levels not seen since medieval times. Behind the numbers are decades of work by government agencies, private landowners, and rewilding groups like Trees for Life, who've been steadily replacing fast-growing conifer plantations with native species like Scots pine, birch, and oak. Public...
2022 C.E.
April 11 Pastaza province is showing what it looks like when Indigenous nations help write the rules — not just sit at the table. Seven Amazonian nationalities and the provincial government have built a $52 million plan around chakras, ancestral forest gardens, instead of the oil extraction that damaged neighboring provinces. The plan formally weaves all seven nations' community development blueprints into official provincial policy, a first for Ecuador. If it works, Pastaza's leaders hope it...
2022 C.E.
April 10 The project has helped lift the Tamazula municipality, where the four communities are located, off the state’s poverty list, raise their income above the minimum wage and contain narcotrafficking.
2022 C.E.
April 9 The new study led by researchers from Imperial College London found that people also reported a reduction in their depression symptoms alongside these brain changes.
2022 C.E.
April 8 Cardiovascular risk has always been hard to read beneath the surface — and a new protein-based blood test is changing that in a meaningful way. By scanning 5,000 proteins in plasma samples from over 22,000 people, researchers identified a 27-protein signature that predicts heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure with roughly twice the accuracy of standard tools. It's especially valuable for patients already on medication, where existing scores tend to break down. The test...
2022 C.E.
April 8 Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court caps a career built across nearly every corner of the legal system — public defender, district court judge, appeals court judge, and now the 116th Associate Justice. It is a milestone shaped by a childhood watching her father study law beside her, even after a high school counselor urged her to lower her ambitions. Black women remain a small fraction of federal judges, a quiet reminder...
2022 C.E.
April 7 Portugal's floating solar auction just made history with a negative price: one winning bidder agreed to pay the grid 4.13 euros per megawatt hour for the right to generate clean electricity over 15 years. EDP Renováveis pulled this off by bundling 70 megawatts of floating panels on Western Europe's largest artificial lake with wind power and battery storage, letting the profitable pieces carry the solar contract. The environment ministry estimates the auction will deliver...
2022 C.E.
April 6 Brown bears are quietly reclaiming the Pyrenees after coming within a whisker of disappearing entirely from the range within living memory. Starting from just three Slovenian bears introduced in 1996, the population has grown to 70 individuals — spread across roughly 2,510 square miles of French and Spanish mountains — suggesting it has crossed into self-sustaining growth. That recovery depends on real cross-border cooperation, with France and Spain sharing data and methods through a...
2022 C.E.
April 6 The outcome represents a landmark win for organized labor, which has for years tried to organize Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.
2022 C.E.
April 6 Hertz is making electric vehicles genuinely accessible at scale, adding up to 65,000 Polestar 2s to its rental and rideshare fleets across three continents over five years. That rideshare component matters especially — drivers in that network log far more miles than leisure renters, so electrifying their vehicles delivers an outsized emissions benefit. For Polestar, landing tens of thousands of vehicles in Hertz lots worldwide accelerates brand recognition in markets where a first rental...
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