We’re kicking off the week at Squirrel News talking about the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in 1,400 years, the opening of the world’s first two solar furnaces that will produce fully recycled steel, and the “text-a-therapist” line supporting high school students across Atlanta.
Mullally, a former cancer nurse who worked as England’s Chief Nursing Officer in the early 2000s, was ordained as a priest in 2002, will be the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the role’s 1,400 year history.
Each year, Switzerland imports approximately 140,000 tonnes of stainless steel, including 15,800 tonnes for the watchmaking industry and 6,500 tonnes for the medical sector. By 2028, the centre should be producing 1,000 tonnes of solar steel per year.
EU researchers are taking advantage of fungi-based materials to create greener construction components that are able to adapt and react to their environment, as well as repair themselves.
The system, which is similar to many already operating across Europe, involves customers paying a small deposit as part of the price when purchasing drinks bottles or cans. The deposit is returned to them when they bring the packaging back to a store collection point.
Motivated by rising pollution concerns, a growing number of Latinos across the US have installed air quality sensors outside their homes, businesses and churches to better understand the air they are breathing and advocate for change in their communities.
After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people.
Talk It Out is a free and confidential text line for students in Atlanta’s public schools. Licensed mental health practitioners are available 24/7, and in order to use the service, all students have to do is text a specific school code to a phone number to be connected to a real person in minutes.
At the University of Miami, corals from Honduras, the Cayman Islands and beyond are being tested to see which can best survive the increasingly warmer ocean temperatures driven by climate change.
Two small islets in the Marshall Islands Republic are seeing a huge ecological revival thanks to the help of Island Conservation: a global NGO whose goal is to restore islands for nature and people. In the year since the organisation eradicated invasive black rats, the native forests and seabird population on Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet are set to recover.
To make their backyards more hedgehog-friendly, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society launched a new scheme: Hedgehog Streets. The project involves people across England linking their gardens by cutting 13x13cm holes in their fences to help the spiny mammals move safely.
