Rescuing Dinosaur Trees, helping older renters and free sanitary products for students

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In Australia, a Secret Mission has helped to rescue the endangered Dinosaur Trees from Bushfires, a company has helped older renters meet landlords of a similar age and students across the UK have received free sanitary products.

Specialist firefighters rescue ‘Dinosaur trees’ from Australia’s bushfires in a secret mission

The Wollemi Pines – a pre-historic species more commonly known as ‘dinosaur trees’ – have been saved from Australia’s bushfires in a secret operation led by expert firefighters.

Source: ABC News

‘Silver Sharers’ matches older renters with landlords

A new website allows perspective older tenants to find landlords of a similar age.

Source: The Guardian

This week, students across England will receive free sanitary products in schools

The government’s campaign to tackle period poverty launches this week across all schools and colleges across England.

Source: The Independent

Experts suggest that cervical cancer could be eradicated in England

NHS England has said that the combination of vaccinations and HPV screenings, which will now test every woman for HPV, could potentially eliminate the disease.

Source: The Guardian

China clamps down on single-use plastic with major campaign

Single-use plastic is one of China’s biggest environmental problems, and these landmark changes will seek to tackle this by increasing restrictions on producing, selling and using these products.

Source: Mother Jones

A unique home in Tokyo has been constructed from environmentally friendly volcanic ash

Architects from the Japanese firm Atelier Tekuto have invented a 100 percent renewable concrete material using volcanic ash, of which there is an abundance in a southern island.

Source: Metropolis Mag

A colony of ‘Near Threatened’ Penguins has been discovered on a remote Argentinian island

The discovery by WCS researchers comes as very good news as the total population of the Magellanic penguin has seen a steep decline in previous years.

Source: Tree Hugger

The Spanish company with the four-day working week

The new timetable implemented by Software Delsol, in the southern city of Jaén, maintains previous salaries and aims to boost productivity

Source: El Pais

The companies counteracting the plastic problem with compostable and edible packaging

Plastic packaging can be hard to cut back on, but scientists and manufacturers are evolving methods to tackle the crisis from the root of the problem.

Source: The Guardian

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