India plants 250 million trees, goats fighting wildfires, Maine shifts recycling responsibility
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In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about a mass tree planting campaign in Uttar Pradesh, a programme to connect ranchers with land stewards in order to reduce the impact of wildfires, and Maine becoming the first state in the US to shift recycling costs from taxpayers to manufacturers.
India plants 250 million saplings as part of green campaign
The state of Uttar Pradesh has carried out a mass tree planting initiative aimed at increasing forest area, and comes as India pledges to keep at least a third of its land mass as tree cover.
Connecting ranchers with land stewards might be the answer to less intense wildfires
Across drought-ridden regions in the Western US, a number of new programmes are encouraging goats, sheep, and cattle to eat the plants which might otherwise become fuel for wildfires.
Landfills are discovering a new purpose as solar farms
Using a capped landfill system that places a cover or barrier between the land and the waste, the ground becomes stable enough to be reused in a much greener way.
UK student designs device that stops blood loss from stab wounds
Joseph Bentley’s product uses internal pressure to stem bleeding, and targets areas that are normally hard to treat, such as the armpit, groin and abdomen.
A pilot project in the Netherlands is matching refugees and locals
Samen Hier teams up new and old residents, with developers hoping that people who live near each other get to know one another and encourage successful integration.
New York employs goats to fend off invasive plant species
The hope is for the goats to eventually denude the root systems enough to eliminate invasive species in local parks, so toxic herbicides won’t be needed to remove them.
