Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years
The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 percent a century ago to around 18 percent today.
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Ecuador’s Pastaza province and Indigenous groups collaborate on $52 million sustainable development plan
The plan relies on curtailing dependence on oil and mining projects for economic development and implementing ancestral agroforestry systems and conservation projects.
Opium production down as one thousand families in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to agroforestry
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.
Psilocybin therapy changes brain wiring in depressed people, new study finds
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.
New blood test predicts risk of heart attack and stroke with twice previous accuracy
Scientists from SomaLogic in Boulder, CO have developed a blood test that can predict whether someone is at high risk of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure within the next four years.
Ketanji Brown Jackson to become first Black woman to serve on U.S. Supreme Court
Jackson made history as the U.S. Senate confirmed her by a vote of 53-47. President Biden nominated Jackson to take over the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Portugal’s floating solar energy auction sets world record negative price
EDPR’s winning bid was a negative price, meaning it will pay the Portuguese electric system 4.13 euros for each megawatt hour it generates over 15 years.
Brown bear population in Pyrenees Mountains highest for a century
Monitors have identified 70 individuals in 2021, with 114 newborns since launch of repopulation scheme in 1996.
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for company’s first unionized warehouse in U.S.
The outcome represents a landmark win for organized labor, which has for years tried to organize Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.
Hertz partners with Polestar to build “the largest EV rental fleet in North America”
Over the next five years, Hertz will buy up to 65,000 Polestar electric sedans with the first models rolling into Europe shortly followed by North America and Australia.