08/06/2026
🤞Climate & Nature Happy News 🌍 Hope Through Action
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☀️⚡️ African countries are increasingly looking to renewable energy to meet growing power demand. Increasingly, renewables are displacing fossil fuels. Of the 322 energy projects announced across the African continent last year, 253 were renewable energy projects, including 173 solar installations, according to research firm Electron Intelligence.
🧪 📉 A new peer-reviewed study found that levels of some of the most dangerous “forever chemicals” in Canadian seabird eggs have dropped dramatically over the past 55 years, a hopeful sign that environmental regulations are working. Researchers studying northern gannet eggs in the St. Lawrence Seaway found that levels of PFOS fell by 74%, while other harmful PFAS chemicals also saw major declines.
🇳🇿 🌊 Aotearoa New Zealand has announced the establishment of five new marine reserves along the Otago coast today, marking the country’s first new marine sanctuaries in over a decade. The newly designated network, encompassing 308 square-kilometres, increases mainland Aotearoa New Zealand’s total marine reserve coverage by nearly 50 percent.
🛌 🚆 The Netherlands and Italy will be connected by a new sleeper train later this year, it was announced this week, in a major boost for Europe’s night train network. The route is an extension of the Brussels-Milan service that it will launch in September, offering stops in Antwerp, Breda and Eindhoven.
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