Good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to turn back the clock. Five hundred years ago, this land was part of the Mata Atlantica, a dense, diverse rain forest that covered 15% of Brazil.
03/01/2023 Time Magazine
Electrical stimulation applied to the spinal cord temporarily restored arm and hand movement in two patients.
20/02/2023 Wired
About 2,300 ft. above Beirut in the Matn District mountains, Roger Mazloum and his brother Elias greet me on an unusually balmy winter day as they chop wood to help keep their early 20th century home warm before the cold returns.
02/03/2023 Time Magazine
Floating photovoltaic systems, or “floatovoltaics,” provide electricity and reduce evaporation. Plus, you don’t need to clear land for a solar farm.
13/03/2023 Wired
Steve Allnutt shivers and zips up his coat as he checks on the water tanks holding thousands of specimens. He confirms the temperature, adjusts the lighting and fishes out a tiny piece of kelp to inspect under his microscope.
13/03/2023 The Guardian
What happens when you let children design their school? For clues look to Madrid, where this fantastical property has opened
12/04/2023 Positive News
Chilean legislators have overwhelmingly passed a bill reducing the country’s work week from 45 to 40 hours in a bid to improve the quality of life and rights of workers in the South American nation.
12/04/2023 Al Jazeera
The streets of Dhaka are filled with constant clamor. Among the chorus of honking horns and ringing bells, roaring cars and rattling rickshaws, you can hear the electric hum of the city's three-wheeled open taxis, called tuk-tuks, as they weave…
11/04/2023 CNN
The 27 European Union countries have formally endorsed a law that should help the bloc reduce its contribution to global deforestation by regulating the trade in a series of goods
16/05/2023 The Independent
Architect Jorn Utzon included plans for a state-of-the art heating and cooling system using seawater, which became crucial to the building earning the highest possible environmental certification.
17/05/2023 Sydney Morning Herald
For Teddy Kossoko, “video games allow people to enter into an environment and leave with the sense of having lived through things, which is hard to do, for example, with a book or even a movie.” That’s why the young entrepreneur chose them as the…
12/05/2023 El País
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Bioprinting pioneer and surgeon, Anthony Atala visits Spain to talk about medical research into reconstructing vital organs from their own cells
05/06/2023 El País
Berlin-based Open Funk is tackling throwaway culture with a blender that's as easy to fix as to replace.
04/07/2023 Wired
When Chao Tayiana was growing up in Ngong town, west of Nairobi, she heard many stories about the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that “terrorised” and killed African and Indian railway workers during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway…
03/07/2023 The Guardian
Joe Biden will designate a “nearly one million acres” expanse around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument, protecting the region from future uranium mining.
08/08/2023 The Guardian
Efforts to save one species can provide scientific knowledge that enables us to save other creatures in need.
13/08/2023 The Conversation
The environmental impact of construction waste is diverse and abundant. Ecosystem destruction, natural resource consumption, pollution creation – it has all the hallmarks of a bonafide ecological menace. In fact, the construction industry accounts…
30/08/2023 Reset.org
Big companies and car manufacturers like Samsung and Toyota are betting big on solid-state batteries. The next step in battery development. Here's how they work and why we need them.
04/09/2023 Deutsche Welle
Animal-to-human transplants attempts have failed for decades — the human immune system immediately destroyed foreign animal tissue. What’s new: trying pigs genetically modified so their organs are more humanlike
14/09/2023 El País
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
26/10/2023 The Conversation
The Gila River Indian Community will be the first in the US to construct a solar-panel-lined water canal.
10/12/2023 The Independent
Developed by Finnish doctors in the 1980s, 'open dialogue' dramatically improves outcomes for those in crisis
11/12/2023 Positive News
A new aviation company has developed a type of jet fuel made entirely from human sewage. Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene. Dr Sergio Lima, research director at Firefly Green Fuels, said: "What we are producing…
27/12/2023 BBC
