Climate change Archives - Positive News Good journalism about good things Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:31:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.positive.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-P.N_Icon_Navy-150x150.png Climate change Archives - Positive News 32 32 What went right this week: avoiding a sixth mass extinction, plus more https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-26-of-2024/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 05:00:53 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=485212 Scientists showed how to avoid a sixth mass extinction, humanity became ‘less negative’, and Sierra Leone banned child marriage, plus more

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]]> How to supercharge climate action? Get schools involved https://www.positive.news/society/how-to-supercharge-climate-action-get-schools-involved/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:50:28 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=482023 Schools are an untapped resource for slashing the UK’s emissions, reckon those behind a fun new climate event

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]]> The climate cafe helping eco-anxious Africans find hope amid the heat https://www.positive.news/society/climate-cafe-ecoanxiety-nigeria-africa/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:39:59 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=472887 Youth activist Jennifer Uchendu is on a mission to help fellow Nigerians give voice to their climate fears

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]]> Even as the heat has been on in Dubai, the renewables juggernaut has gathered pace https://www.positive.news/environment/cop28-renewables-commitment-optimism/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:34:09 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=461651 The Cop28 agreement is imperfect yet significant – and one of a host of causes for optimism

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]]> ‘It reaches deep inside people’: the climate choirs singing for the planet https://www.positive.news/environment/climate-choirs-sing-for-the-planet/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:31:19 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=460387 More than 500 members of UK climate choirs are taking part in peaceful protest performances on the climate and nature emergency

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]]> What went right this week: millionaires mooted a wealth tax, plus more https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-47-of-2023/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:44:53 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=458746 Millionaires mooted a wealth tax, class entered the climate debate, and blue whales returned to the Seychelles, plus more

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]]> Positive tipping points could save the climate – this man is showing us how https://www.positive.news/environment/tim-lenton-positive-tipping-points-climate/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:18:32 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=436099 Instead of focusing on what doom might lie ahead, scientists are identifying positive tipping points that could save us

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]]> How the climate crisis is forcing us to change our cities for the better https://www.positive.news/society/cities-are-adapting-to-the-climate-crisis-bringing-many-other-benefits/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:01:09 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=365795 From Sweden to Sierra Leone, cities are turning the climate crisis into an opportunity for happier, healthier living

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]]> While politicians dither, indigenous groups are taking climate action https://www.positive.news/environment/these-indigenous-groups-are-taking-bold-climate-action/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:07:37 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=383185 Indigenous attendees at COP26 may have come away disappointed, but they’re not sitting around waiting for help

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]]> To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter https://www.positive.news/environment/climate-crisis-to-save-forests-researchers-are-hooking-trees-up-to-twitter/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:08:43 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=371582 Can a network of tweeting trees help us cut carbon emissions and increase empathy for ecosystems? Scientists think so

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