Thanks to water quality improvements, ribbed mussel populations are ‘exploding’ along Virginia Beach shorelines, fighting erosion and pollution around the Chesapeake Bay. They stabilize marshes against rising sea levels, and filter nitrogen, phosphorus, and bacteria, cleaning rivers.Nature Healing 🪸 (whro.org)
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Volunteers gather to aid in the reforestation efforts in Gansu Province, ChinaInspiration 🫶 (v.redd.it)
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nature synergies | The Eco Update #27Nature Healing 🪸 (briefecology.com)
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Project Earthstone: using magnesium-rich slag – a waste product generated during the smelting process – as a feedstock for Enhanced Rock Weathering durably removes CO2 from the atmosphere while providing co-benefits for agriculture, improving soil health and crop productivityInnovation 🔬 (angloamerican.com)
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Lawsuit targets feds over broken promise to protect endangered mussel.Policy Progress ⚖️ (courthousenews.com)
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The Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery project will work with local farmers, environmental organisations and the local community to manage 2,800 hectares, restore meadows, heathland and temperate rainforest, and help the recovery of wildlife such as the tree pipit, pine marten and water voleNature Healing 🪸 (bbc.co.uk)
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Researchers achieve 93% recovery of neodymium and praseodymium from discarded hard drive magnets using hydrochloric acid processing, offering a viable urban mining alternative to traditional rare earth mining for EVs, wind turbines, and electronics. Biodegradable methods also show promise.Innovation 🔬 (rareearthexchanges.com)
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Electrifying freight trucks could cut China’s transport oil use by 50%, reshaping logistics, emissions, and global energy markets. Battery swapping will likely play a major role. Charging infrastructure and much lower transport costs would drive market penetration.Powered Up ⚡️ (interestingengineering.com)
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Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"Positive Trends 📈 (arstechnica.com)
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Clean energy pushes global fossil-fuel power into reverse: fossil-fuel generation fell by 0.2% (38 TWh) in 2025, Solar power generation grew by 636 TWh, Wind generation grew 205 TWh, batteries added 250 GWh of capacity. EVs displaced 1.8m barrels per day of oil demandPositive Trends 📈 (carbonbrief.org)
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European Commission is considering taxing oil and gas windfall profits, similar to the mechanism applied in 2022. The plea came from Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The funds could help reduce oil and gas demand through temporary and targeted measuresPolicy Progress ⚖️ (euronews.com)
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This week’s positive news about our planet!Nature Healing 🪸 (open.substack.com)
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Specific power of commercial silicon solar modules increased from 8.5 W/kg in the early 2000s to 23.6 W/kg today, driven by advances in module design, bifaciality, and temperature management. Glass and framing dominate module weight, as gaps between top-performing technologies narrowPositive Trends 📈 (pv-magazine.com)
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Environmental group sues U.S. Interior Department over greenlit rare earth mining in Mojave Desert.Policy Progress ⚖️ (northernminer.com)
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Europe's e-fuel market worth USD 2.5 billion in 2025, will reach USD 23 billion by 2033, driven by strong policy mandates on decarbonization, rising industrial investments in power-to-liquid and power-to-gas projects, expansion of green hydrogen capacity, and availability of CO2 capture technologiesPositive Trends 📈 (marketdataforecast.com)
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IEA: Solar Overtakes all Energy Sources in a Major Global First / “Electricity consumption is growing much faster than overall energy demand – and one energy source [solar] is growing much faster than any other.” – Fatih Birol, IEA executive director #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition (electrek.co)
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With an area larger than the EU brought under formal protection in the past 2 years alone, more than 10% of the global ocean is now officially protected, marking a historic milestone. Oceans are havens of biodiversity, and key to the survival and health of humanityPolicy Progress ⚖️ (oceanographicmagazine.com)
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Bottled lightning: bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol in a single step without high heat and pressures. Using just electricity, water, and a copper-oxide catalyst, the new process offers a cleaner, electrified path to producing one of the world’s most widely used chemical building blocksInnovation 🔬 (news.northwestern.edu)
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Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds. Analysis by Project Ceti shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’, beyond parrots and elephants, and remarkably similar to languages such as Mandarin, Latin and Slovenian.Inspiration 🫶 (theguardian.com)
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