Environment
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Environment Costa RicaLandowners of This Tiny Place Are Helping Save Biodiversity – Here’s How
A tiny peninsula on the west coast of Costa Rica is making a huge impact on the restoration and protection of its landscape by offering financial incentives to landowners, creating jobs, and supporting rural economies by the same token.
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Environment United KingdomRestoration Win: Buried Rivers Are Returning to the Surface
A charity is dedicating its efforts to the restoration of some 40 rivers around London, England’s capital, with projects destined to revitalize, clean, and return to the light some buried rivers, benefiting the environment and the population.
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Environment AustraliaNo Time to Waste… and No Plastic Either
By the end of June, an Australian chain of supermarkets will no longer use soft-plastic shopping bags in its stores, providing its clients with eco-friendlier bags and making its part to reduce the quantity of harmful plastic from ending up in landfills.
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Environment FranceOh, to Be Swimming in the Seine Once Again!
Part of its winning bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris, the capital of France, promised to make the once heavily polluted Seine fit for swimming for the first time in a century, and it looks like that promise will be delivered on time.
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Environment JapanScience Prove Fishers Right: Happy Forest Means Happy Sea
For more than 30 years, fishers in Kesennuma, Japan, started planting trees along the coastal watersheds, and today, science has confirmed the hunch these men of the sea had regarding the intimate link between a healthy forest and a thriving marine life.