Pledges to quit coal and reduce methane, vaccine against cervical cancer, school without grades
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In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about COP26 outcomes to reduce methane emissions, coal consumption and deforestation, a vaccine cutting cervical cancer by 90% and a Californian school throwing out grades.
Promise of Samoan plant to treat cancer, diabetes and other diseases
A new study has shown the leaves from matalafi, a Samoan garden plant, have promising anti-inflammatory properties, and may be used as a anti-cancer agent in the future.
The Social Justice Humanitas Academy took the pandemic as a chance to remodel their education system, ditching grades for a skills-based competency program.
Finnish villages rewild peatlands and biodiversity explodes
Snowchange, a network of Finnish villages, is rewilding peatlands to wetlands, which has increased the number of bird species from 4 to 200 at one site.
Female judges in Egypt, death metal eco-baron, rehabilitation through dogs
In our new podcast episode, we’re talking about the first female judges in Egypt’s State Council, an Irish baron who rewilds his estate, and a dog rehabilitation program in California providing prisoners with hope, love and reduced sentences.
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