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.
The world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa. The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near…
22/01/2024 BBC
After choking on polluted air for many years, the Polish spa town of Ladek-Zdroj turned to renewables to clean up its act and improve its air quality. It managed to slash electricity costs in the process.
11/02/2024 Deutsche Welle
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A dozen genetic-editing projects for crops in Africa are achieving incredible results. For more than 20 years, European countries have been repressing this technology, due to pressure from certain environmental groups
03/02/2024 El País
The tall grey buildings covering an industrial complex at Nysa, in south-west Poland, look like a modern car factory has been teleported into the surrounding farmland. The plant, though, does not make cars, but it is a new and vital part of the…
28/02/2024 Economist
In the 1800s, British colonists in India set about trying to reduce the cobra population, which was making life and trade very difficult in Delhi. They began to pay a bounty for dead cobras. The strategy very quickly resulted in the widespread…
06/03/2024 The Conversation
California has hit a new renewables record after exceeding 100 per cent of grid demand with clean energy sources for 30 of the past 38 days. New data from California Independent System Operator (CAISO) shows that supply from geothermal, hydro, solar…
15/04/2024 The Independent
Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in medical history. Lung cancer is the world’s leading cause of cancer death, accounting for about 1.8m deaths…
31/05/2024 The Guardian
It was once a gross industrial sewer. But decades of work has turned Merri Creek into a green ribbon in Melbourne’s north.
06/05/2024 The Conversation
A Belgian initiative with the motto “happiness overcomes old age” has found a novel way to counter feelings of loneliness among nursing home residents: unleashing them on to the dancefloor of Brussels’ largest nightclub.
02/05/2024 The Guardian
Since the 1985 discovery of a hole in the ozone layer countries have agreed and amended treaties to aid its recovery. The most notable of these is the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, which is widely regarded as the most…
11/06/2024 The Conversation
An £8m prize for a breakthrough in the fight against superbugs has been awarded, after a decade-long search for a winner, to a test that can identify how to treat a urinary tract infection in 45 minutes.
12/06/2024 The Guardian
The world’s largest energy storage facility ising next-generation sodium-ion batteries has begun operations in China. The 100,000 kWh project in the Hubei province is capable of storing enough electricity to power 12,000 homes on a single charge.
03/07/2024 The Independent
Bacteria and fungi are evolving to eat plastic but their impact will likely be limited to specific applications, researchers say
09/08/2024 The Independent
Access to safe drinking water — and its equitable distribution — underpins public health. But for the estimated 250,000 people in Kibera, who live without any government infrastructure, clean water is often a luxury. A system that uses aerial pipes…
13/08/2024 Undark Magazine
Most antibiotics are natural products of bacteria and other microorganisms from the environment. They are part of a silent chemical warfare among microorganisms in soils, rivers and seas right now.
02/08/2024 The Conversation
Chinese scientists have developed new technology that could cut energy bills in half by cooling people directly instead of entire rooms. The “personalised thermal management device” cools people through mid-infrared radiation without the need to…
03/09/2024 The Independent
NPR's coverage of their effort to invent an mRNA vaccine that would be free for all countries to manufacture brought them an award for altruism in health. We checked in on their progress.
09/09/2024 NPR
In the fall of 1993, a ship sailed into the Pacific Ocean carrying nearly 1,000 pounds of iron crystals packed into barrels, then dumped it all into the waves. The next morning, the water was tinged a subtle green from newly sprouted phytoplankton.
20/09/2024 The Atlantic
Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.
24/10/2024 The Guardian
Australia’s energy system now offers vehicle-to-grid charging, which will make the concept of traditional baseload power redundant.
11/11/2024 Sydney Morning Herald
Bullying in schools is widespread, and it has consequences that can last through childhood and into adulthood. Research has found that children who are frequently bullied are more likely to self-harm, and being bullied in childhood has been linked…
26/11/2024 The Conversation
In South Africa, where the general unemployment rate is over 32%, deaf people face even steeper hurdles
08/12/2024 The Independent
Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations
29/12/2024 The Independent
It is easy to get mired in a sense of hopelessness about the biodiversity crisis, but amid the doom and gloom, there are more than a few reasons to remain upbeat. For one thing, research this year underlined that conservation action works.
15/12/2024 The Guardian
