In today’s edition of Squirrel News, friends escape renting by co-buying houses, Green Cab provides transportation for people with disabilities and Gaza’s first boxing club for women opens.
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A ‘ring of blossom’ around Birmingham, boost in 988 Lifeline use, “smart” tampons to screen for cervical cancer
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, Birmingham improves city life with hundreds of trees, the new US crisis line 988 sees a boost in usage, and innovative tampon technology detects cervical cancer.
Green jobs boom, name-your-price produce, reviving dead languages
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, the boom in green jobs benefits people and villages in the US who need it most; inventive UK farms let customers pay what they can for fruits and vegetables; and a Jewish professor revives Australia’s dead languages.
Zero traffic deaths in Jersey City, legal protection for formerly incarcerated people, literary treasure hunts
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, a town outside of NYC records zero traffic deaths on its streets, Atlanta fights impacts of incarceration with new ordinance, and an initiative takes kids on hidden book quest to encourage reading.
New York injection sites save lives, tobacco companies forced to clean up cigarette butts, batteries from trees
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, injection sites in New York have saved lives, Spain forces tobacco companies to pay for cigarette clean-up, and scientists develop batteries that use a material from trees.
Zambia ends death penalty, zero-interest loans for Black homebuyers, cellular glue healing wounds
In today’s edition of Squirrel News we have stories on the end of the death penalty in Zambia, no interest on loans for Black homebuyers, and a glue that adheres cells together to heal wounds.
