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As the week wraps up, we’re covering the massive economic potential of climate protection, Texas’ solar energy milestone, and a programme giving homeless students $500 monthly to help them stay in school.
A new GEO-7 report concludes that major economic reforms and a fast transition to clean energy could generate trillions in global value while substantially reducing deaths worldwide.
Source: ESG Times
Even a few grains of fentanyl can halt breathing, and its infamous lack of taste, smell, and visibility means many users never know they’ve taken it. ARMR Sciences has developed a fentanyl vaccine and is now launching its first human trial, hoping to change the existing reactionary approach to overdoses.
Source: Wired
For the first time, Texas’ primary power grid is on track to produce more electricity from solar than coal over a full year in 2025. Even as solar generation declines in the final weeks of 2025 due to reduced daylight, coal output is unlikely to overtake solar production for the full year.
Source: Reuters
Preliminary figures from BDEW and ZSW show renewable energies supplying over half of Germany’s electricity in 2025. Growth in installed solar capacity offset a sluggish wind season and lower hydropower output, nudging the renewable share slightly higher than last year.
Source: Clean Energy Wire
Five fur farms in the country’s south are ceasing operations, leaving only one farm still active in Mosfellsdalur. The closures follow decades of steady decline as the business has become economically untenable.
Source: RUV
By offering small loans to landlords who lack access to traditional financing, the Rehab-2-Rental programme helps get vacant homes repaired and back on the market.
Source: Reasons To Be Cheerful
After piloting its Guaranteed Payment for Attendance scheme in Cuba, the New Mexico Public Education Department is expanding it to 330 students across 12 school districts and one charter school. To qualify, students must hold a 92% attendance rate, complete assignments, attend tutoring, and meet with a counselor.
Source: KOB
The Democrat’s victory shows a notable step away from the leadership style of her predecessor, Republican Francis Suarez, who frequently invoked masculinity politics while in office.
Source: 19th News
Currumbin Ecovillage was conceived as a wildlife sanctuary and corridor for native Australian animals – certified service pets permitted. A cat or dog may be another member of the family but they are also hungry carnivores, lethal predators and territorial animals that have significant environmental and climate impact.
Source: The Guardian
With cheetah populations declining – fewer than 7,000 left in the wild – reproductive technologies may be essential to preserving the species. Zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use them.
Source: Euronews
