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How a South African town cleaned up its polluted river using stones, wood and sand, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2026) — Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate Young activists in the Maldives confront climate threats to their island nation, seattletimes.com (Aug 06, 2026) Cities need EU and national support to deliver lower urban speeds, eurocities.eu (Jul 28, 2026) Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2026) — Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution Young inventor plans to stop 90% of floating sea plastic by 2040, positive.news (May 07, 2026) How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026) Santa Marta Process Begins: Tuvalu and Ireland to Host Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in 2027 in the Pacific, fossilfueltreaty.org (Apr 29, 2026) — The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, concluded today marking a historic breakthrough in building international cooperation for the phase out of coal, oil and gas extraction and production. This step fundamentally shifts power toward a growing coalition of courageous nations engaged in a new international process to manage an equitable phase out of fossil fuels How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets, theguardian.com (Apr 05, 2026) Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life, theguardian.com (Mar 15, 2026) London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2026) — Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% Unequal Access to Nature Fuels America’s Health Crisis, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 23, 2026) ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2026) Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study, theconversation.com (Feb 17, 2026) Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 12, 2026) How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 04, 2026) — Finding hope and resilience in a city burdened with environmental pollution and generational trauma. Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads, desmog.com (Jan 23, 2026) I developed an app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches, theconversation.com (Jan 21, 2026) World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Jan 10, 2026) To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 07, 2026) A Year After the LA Fires, Recovery Is Lagging, But Bright Spots Emerge, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 06, 2026) ‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals, theguardian.com (Jan 05, 2026) Why New York City Is Spending Millions on ‘Bluebelts’, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 02, 2026) ‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’, theguardian.com (Dec 09, 2025) — UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’ The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 07, 2025) Australian environment laws set for biggest overhaul in decades, BBC News (Nov 27, 2025) — The changes include more protections for native forests, stricter rules for land clearing and a limit on fast-tracking of coal and gas projects but critics say more is needed. How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025) Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 17, 2025) — City-supported farms are making St. Louis more absorbent, and have kept nearly 100 million gallons of wastewater out of the Mississippi River Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025) The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025) Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025) The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025) Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2025) Meet the women who turned beach cleanups into a global movement – and what was forgotten along the way, theconversation.com (Sep 15, 2025) ‘Plastic Cup’ Competitions Are Cleaning Up Rivers in Hungary, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 25, 2025) — Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 24, 2025) Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025) A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2025) Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish, bbc.co.uk/future (Aug 19, 2025) These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025) The Indigenous rangers protecting Katsa Su in Colombia, globalvoices.org (Jul 22, 2025) Urban swimming: six European cities that revived river bathing, positive.news (Jul 17, 2025) It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025) Paris reopens Seine River to public swimming after century-long ban, theguardian.com (Jul 06, 2025) ‘This bill protects our precious waters’: how a Florida environmental group scored a win against big oil, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2025) In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 22, 2025) A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here’s how advocates are defending peace and quiet [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jun 07, 2025) Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025) In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air, theprogressplaybook.com (May 12, 2025) Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world, theguardian.com (May 07, 2025) Labor’s home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here’s how, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2025) From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers, theguardian.com (Mar 17, 2025) Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025) Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste. The Curative Power of Quieter Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 09, 2025) Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025) New York first US city to have congestion charge, BBC News (Jan 05, 2025) A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 24, 2024) The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024) The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too “Attorney General Bonta is leading the way to corporate accountability and a cleaner and healthier world", news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2024) — "This lawsuit will set an invaluable precedent for others to follow,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024) Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024) There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024) California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 01, 2024) I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth, Rebecca Solnit, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2024) How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024) Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 11, 2024) ‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week, theguardian.com (May 30, 2024) A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modelling shows, theconversation.com (May 03, 2024) Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024) Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024) International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024) The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024) Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024) California proposes fracking phaseout, making good on Newsom’s pledge, thehill.com (Feb 19, 2024) I was a kitchen snob who would only cook on gas. Now an induction hob is my new flame, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2024) Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024) Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024) ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2024) ‘Ours could be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than we found it’, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024) Assumptions and omissions challenged, response to: “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” book by Hannah Ritchie, news.mongabay.com (Jan 16, 2024) ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023) Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution, theguardian.com (Dec 08, 2023) ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023) ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023) Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023) Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023) Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business, news.mongabay.com (Aug 21, 2023) Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023) Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City., insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2023) Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops, newscientist.com (Jul 12, 2023) Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’, ground.news (Jul 11, 2023) Surviving the smoke-pocalypse 101: Californians offer advice to New Yorkers, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2023) A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment, The Conversation (May 18, 2023) Environmental investigative journalism makes headway in Côte d'Ivoire: An interview with Ismael Angoh, Global Voices (Apr 05, 2023) — The work of environmental investigative journalists is essential, by Jean Sovon ‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023) Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022) Portugal: Accelerate rights-based climate and environmental action, says UN expert, ohchr.org (Sep 27, 2022) — Portuguese youth are among the most concerned and outspoken in the world about the climate crisis. “To fulfil their rights, the government must give them a seat at the table, listen to their concerns and act upon their recommendations.” Green Deal: pioneering proposals to restore Europe's nature by 2050 and halve pesticide use by 2030, ec.europa.eu (Jun 22, 2022) The village that stood up to big oil – and won, The Guardian (Jun 01, 2022) Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics, The Conversation (May 23, 2022) Nigeria's Spider-Man fighting for a cleaner society, BBC News (Apr 18, 2022) Groundwater: depleting reserves must be protected around the world, The Conversation (Mar 21, 2022) There's a powerful global plastics treaty being readied for finalisation. Here's four reasons to be hopeful about it, The Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2022) Plastic pollution: Green light for 'historic' treaty, BBC News (Mar 02, 2022) local information and news can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
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