Pablo Escobar’s hippo legacy, beauty parlour for female heroin users, the school of Minecraft
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In this issue of Squirrel News, descendants of imported hippos to Colombia are mimicking lost traits from extinct giant mammals, a beauty parlour in Kenya helps female HIV users access rehabilitation and uplifting services, and Minecraft grants free access to its educational worlds for children learning from home.
Pablo Escobar’s hippos restore lost ecological traits in South America
As the world’s larges tinvasive animal, descendants of imported hippos mimic behaviour of extinct giant herbivores.
Source: The Guardian
Beauty parlour in Keyna offers refuge and advice for female heroin users
Offering manicures, pedicures, and advice on methadone treatment and HIV testing – this beauty parlour shuns the stigma surrounding its patients.
Source: The Guardian
Educational worlds in Minecraft made free to help children learn from home
12 digital lessons are now available for the half a billion students studying from home.
Source: BBC News
In Punjab, Sikhs, Mulsims, and Hindus protest an unite under a banner of fraternity
Pledges of solidarity for Muslims are shouted as demonstrators pour into a Punjab town to take a stand against Modi’s CAA..
Source: Al Jazeera
Over 500,000 people sign-up to voluteer for the NHS
A scheme launched to support the UK’s health service as it reaches tipping point was met with unprecedented public support.
Source: BBC News
Why the Tokyo Games fall-out is not so bad
This year’s summer olympics have been pushed back to 2021, but in the current situation and learning from past years, the decision seems to be the right one.
Source: The Conversation
Tips on how to develop positive mental health habits that help curb anxiety
Self-isolation is not the ideal sanctuary for a one’s mental health, but these 6 activities aim at turning anxiety on its head.
Source: The Conversation
Indonesia is ramping up seaweed production as its plethora of uses become more mainstream
As bioplastic, edible cups, as a thickener in foods and cosmetics, the farming that harvests their common ingredient is on the rise in Bali.
Source: Mongabay
How the citizens of Sudan overthrew a brutal dictatorship without violence
After a tough decade in North Africa, Sudan’s repressive military rule of over 30 years suffered defeat at the hands of a peaceful pro-democracy movement.
Source: The Conversation
Growing numbers of Paddington bears evidenced by their avocado feasting
Andean bears are rare and reclusive, but come together a few weeks a year for high-hanging fruit in the cloud forest of Ecuador.