In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we have a new method of funding disaster relief, the city of Kingston launches a mobile mental health programme and grandmothers in Zimbabwe help rethink mental health.
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Fighting fire with fire, turning office spaces into urban farms, Australia approves psychedelics as medicines
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, Indigenous women fight fire with fire, Abandoned office buildings are being reused as urban farms and Australia legalises psychedelics for medicinal use.
Cheetahs relocate to India, ‘bubble barriers’ stop plastic pollution, free beer for sober teens
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, Cheetahs are being relocated to India, “bubble barriers” stop plastic from entering the sea, and a Belgian town fights teen drunkenness with beer.
Saving prairies by selling them, three leverage points for climate protection, Hawaii starts free preschools
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we have conservationists selling US grasslands to save them, three leverage points governments can use to fast-track decarbonisation and Hawaii’s plan to make preschool free for all 3-4-year-olds.
US cancer death rate falls 33%, Saudi Arabia’s first international women’s football tournament
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, US cancer deaths are down over 30% since 1991, Saudi women’s football league hosts its first international tournament and a new blood test can replace brain imaging to detect Alzheimer’s.
Jobs ending homelessness, US Postal Service going all-electric, imagination library
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, a Kansas City programme helps the unhoused, the US Postal Service begins its transition to a fully electric fleet and a library in Pennsylvania has mailed more than a million books to children.
