In just five days, Uganda vaccinated 8.3 million children against measles and rubella. The nationwide drive, which ended on 5 October, covered every child aged nine months to five years, whatever their vaccine history. This is part of the global catchup effort we’ve reported in here before: about three million Ugandan children missed their second dose during and after Covid, and the country had 66 measles outbreaks last year. The Cooperator https://thecooperator.news/uganda-vaccinates-over-8-2mln-children-against-measles-rubella/
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In California, solar panels on farms generates 25 times more revenue than crops. Solar panels on California's Central Valley farms generate an average of $124,000 per hectare annually, a lucrative practice that already powers 500,000 households while saving enough water for 27 million people a year. Some farmers are doubling up, growing shade-loving crops beneath panels or grazing livestock, creating wildlife habitat while maintaining food production.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/farmers-are-making-bank-harvesting-a-new-crop-solar-energy/?ref=fixthenews.com
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Sudan and South Sudan have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus, a major milestone for maternal and child health in two countries mired in conflict. In Sudan, vaccination campaigns between 2016 and 2019 reached more than 3.5 million women in high-risk districts. Midwife training, prenatal care and community outreach did the rest of the work to get to elimination thresholds nationwide. UNICEF https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/maternal-and-neonatal-tetanus-eliminated-south-sudan-and-sudan #ShareGoodNewsToo
Peru has permanently protected the Tijae-Río Nieva forest, upgrading around 300 km² in the Amazonas region to full national protected status on 26 July. The country’s 78th protected area shelters the Andean bear and the critically endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey, which lives nowhere else on Earth. Andes Amazon Fund https://www.andesamazonfund.org/news-blog/national-level-tijae-rio-nieva-protection-forest-established-in-peruvian-amazon/
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France has opened up €1 university meals to every student.
The subsidised three course meals, previously limited to low-income or financially vulnerable students, are now available regardless of income after a student union survey found almost half of French students had skipped meals for financial reasons. The policy cuts the standard €3.30 meal price by more than two-thirds. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/france-serves-up-1-euro-meals-to-all-university-students-in-bid-to-cut-hardship
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Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Near-extinct scimitar-horned oryx now number over 600, and farmers have nurtured 200 million trees back onto once-bare fields. Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/sahel-groundwater-climate-monsoon
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Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. A cougar eats about 48 deer a year, nowhere near enough to account for it, so researchers have concluded that the deer are avoiding the places cats hunt. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/cougars-cut-deadly-vehicle-deer-collisions-in-the-u-s-by-up-to-76-study-shows/
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Viet Nam’s largest city is about to make buses free. Ho Chi Minh City, home to 14 million people, is preparing a $280 million annual plan to make all intra-city bus travel free, aiming to increase ridership by about 30% and reduce traffic and emissions. The policy builds on existing subsidies and a growing electric bus fleet. VN Express https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/traffic/ho-chi-minh-city-to-spend-280m-a-year-to-make-bus-travel-free-for-all-5058105.html
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La ciudad más grande de Vietnam está a punto de ofrecer autobuses gratuitos. Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, con 14 millones de habitantes, está preparando un plan anual de 280 millones de dólares para que todos los viajes en autobús dentro de la ciudad sean gratuitos, con el objetivo de aumentar el número de pasajeros en un 30 % y reducir el tráfico y las emisiones. Esta política se basa en los subsidios existentes y en una creciente flota de autobuses eléctricos. VN Express
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El lecho marino de Sussex muestra signos de recuperación cinco años después de la prohibición de la pesca de arrastre. Cinco años después de que se prohibiera la pesca de arrastre de fondo en más de 300 km² del lecho marino frente a la costa sur de Inglaterra, comienzan a surgir los primeros indicios de recuperación del ecosistema. Los bancos de mejillones se están restableciendo, las poblaciones de peces están aumentando y las condiciones están mejorando para los bosques de algas marinas, que habían disminuido un 96 %. Oceanographic
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Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build…cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves a longstanding problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural uses, closing a big loop in the automotive recycling chain. The tech could slash energy use and unlock huge supplies of domestic aluminium. Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260309225217.htm
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Winona Minnesota's police department caved and won't be reinstalling their 8 Flock cameras after they were all mysteriously cut down.
Note that Flock would have replaced the cameras for free, so this is a pretty good "you can't even give it away" burn. 😂 😂 😂
The population of Winona is 26k.
In their surrender statement, WPD says they are prioritizing community trust.
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-65437-0
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A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives almost entirely in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work that just won an ecological restoration award in Geneva. China Daily https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/WS6a88407ea3106bc57421cd17.html
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Some of America’s biggest coal plants are becoming solar farms. Minnesota’s Sherburne County station, once the state’s largest coal burner, is now home to 1.7 million solar panels, reusing the old coal plant’s substation to cut a five-year grid-connection process to about one year; 1,500 sheep now graze between the rows. It’s not just Minnesota. In Texas, a 1.2 GW solar-and-battery project is now under construction on a former coal mine site. Vozpópuli https://www.vozpopuli.com/indux/en/minnesotas-largest-coal-plant-once-burned-30000-tons-of-coal-a-day-its-old-wires-now-carry-710-megawatts-from-1-7-million-solar-panels/8596/
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Scientists have mapped a 7,000-year-old landscape of rivers, lakes and beaches buried beneath the southern Great Barrier Reef. A University of Queensland-led team spent 24 days aboard the research vessel Investigator, pulling more than 20 sediment cores to reconstruct the coastal plain that existed before rising seas drowned it, working alongside Darumbal and Woppaburra Traditional Owners whose knowledge of the submerged country predates the science. https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/researchers-map-ancient-world-beneath-southern-barrier-reef/
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A Galápagos wildflower down to six plants in 2007 now has 28 growing in the wild, the product of 17 years of hand-propagation by the Charles Darwin Foundation. Researchers reintroduced 94 nursery-grown plants with a 100% survival rate and recorded the species’ first wild seedling in over a decade in 2021. Obviously the recovery is still fragile, and water scarcity remains the main threat. Nature Conservation https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1141314
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Beavers are now on the payroll in Colorado. 10 years ago, Brian Sullivan, head of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s Wetlands for Wildlife grants program, saw one or two grant applications for beaver-related projects every year. Now, he says, about half the projects he processes involve them. The fact that people want beavers means officials can prioritise relocating them, supporting water retention, wetland creation & flood control across the dry American West https://reasonstobecheerful.world/beavers-big-moment/
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Se ha identificado una nueva especie de felino salvaje por primera vez en más de un siglo.
En 2017, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, bióloga boliviana, recibió una llamada sobre un gato peculiar que un hombre de la zona había adoptado. El hombre lo había criado como mascota durante un año antes de darse cuenta de que no se trataba de un gato doméstico. Nueve años, un estudio genómico y muchas guías brasileñas confusas después, ese gato por fin tiene nombre: Leopardus tilcayo, la primera nueva especie felina del mundo desde 1923.
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“Between 2011 and 2025, Ghana has seen a 98% drop in malaria fatalities, and Dr Nana Yaw Peprah, Deputy Head of the National Malaria Eradication Programme, says elimination is ‘within reach’.” 52 Malaria deaths in 2025.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/ghana-path-eliminating-malaria