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12. October 2019

Cleanup System Seems to Work, Gets Plastic Out of Ocean

The Ocean Cleanup launched a 2,000-foot-long self-contained system last year, and the team behind it are now praising the system’s major success in picking up plastic, including microplastics as small as 1mm in diameter, in the world’s oceans’ largest plastic accumulation zone: the Great Pacific Garbage…

Heroes

10. October 2019

Melinda Gates Spends One Billion Dollars on the Power of Women

Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, fears that United States politics will stop caring about the issues of inequality - and will spend a billion dollars to do something against it.

Society

Society

8. October 2019

California Lawmakers Phase Out Profit-Hungry Prison Companies

Lawmakers have passed a bill to upend the private prison industry in California, as well as four major Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, wiping out profit motive from incarceration.

Society

3. October 2019

Native Americans Get Waiver to Remove Plants from National Park for Ancient Dish

The federal government of the U.S.A. has acknowledged the rights of Cherokee Indians to harvest traditional plant foods on their ancestral homeland, lifting the ban of foraging sochan, a unique green plant, in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.

Animals

3. October 2019

Whales Love New York After Clean-Up Worked for Harbor Water

New environmental laws over the past eight years have improved water quality in New York Harbor and led the whale population around New York City to shoot up by the hundreds.

Animals

30. September 2019

No More Circus Acts for Wild Animals in California

The California government has passed a bill to ban wild animal circuses, thanks to lawmakers favoring the Circus Cruelty Prevention Act.

Environment

29. September 2019

Homeless Get Paid to Keep the City Clean

A six-month program in Little Rock, a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas, helps people out of homelessness while keeping litter away from the streets and from affecting the environment.

Did you know?

Did you know?

13. September 2019

99% reduction of lead emission in the air in the USA since 1990.

Society

9. September 2019

“No Guns, no Bullets”, Walmart Tells its Customers After Mass Shootings

In a remarkable reaction to the recent mass shootings in the country Walmart, the leading super market chain in the United States, has taken ammunition off its shelfs, reducing their profits from sales.

Society

11. July 2019

New Day Care Model Helps Three Generations at Once

It’s just one small place in Georgia, USA, but this idea could be a future model for many other places: Elderly neighbors take care of children during the day, so their parents can earn a living.