In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about Madagascar’s plans to reverse deforestation, how Egypt is building forests on desert land, and the initiative making internet accessible to rural regions in Virginia.
Madagascar, which lost 23% of its forests in the last two decades is acquiring 10 drones. The drones should help with wide scale reforestation efforts by dropping 400,000 tree seeds daily.
This man is tackling punitive justice starting in school hallways
Through restorative justice, Eric Butler uses each intervention with both students and teachers as a lesson. The benefits from such systems include higher graduate rates as well as reduced suspensions.
The artists, from Gabon, Nigeria, Namibia, Kenya and Mozambique, are united by a desire to challenge traditional ideas and narrow interpretations of Africa, African art, and African society.
The Flaming Lips and their fans pulled off a concert encased in plastic bubbles
The musicians from Oklahoma city made sure safety came first by incorporating inflatable human-sized bubbles at a concert for their supporters and themselves.
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Movement to clean up the world’s most toxic sites, turning oil platforms into reefs, nature on prescription
German Catholics bless LGBT couples, UK strengthens animal rights, $12 billion for California’s homeless
Whooping cranes make a comeback, high school student develops low-cost seismometer, food forests
