Today at Squirrel News, we’re talking about how a world-first gene therapy is restoring hearing in deaf children, the DRC’s significant step towards improved maternal healthcare, and a surprise announcement from the Kenyan government marking November 13th as a national tree-planting public holiday.
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Norway’s biggest ever rewilding project, 45% drop in polluting vehicles in London, groundbreaking liver transplant
Today at Squirrel News, we’re talking about how Norway has successfully managed to transform a former mining town into a polar bear paradise, the removal of almost 80,000 polluting vehicles from London’s streets, and a revolutionary clinical trial giving a second chance to those diagnosed with terminal liver disease.
Colombia and Mali lead efforts to improve air quality, Romania’s forest reserve, guerrilla rewilders
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re exploring how low and middle income countries are spearheading the fight against air pollution, a project to create a “Yellowstone for Europe” in Romania, and rogue rewilders taking the reintroduction of lost and endangered UK species into their own hands.
Saving endangered river dolphins, golden age of medicine, Prison-to-Hollywood pipeline
Photo: Joachim S. Müller/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed) In today’s […]
Tackling social isolation, world’s unstoppable shift to clean energy, real estate agency for the unhoused
Today at Squirrel News, we’re talking about how Northern Europe is stepping up to address the challenge of social isolation, the global energy watchdog’s announcement that the world’s move towards green power sources is “unstoppable”, and the creative ways in which a nonprofit organisation is helping to speed up sustainable solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles.
Tackling youth gun violence with CBT, zero-waste cities, record number of Roma elected to Slovakian parliament
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about a unique approach to addressing gun violence in Baltimore, the lessons the German city of Kiel can teach us in terms of sustainability, and six Roma elected to Slovakia’s parliament in recent elections – the highest number ever.
