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Tuesday's Positive News

  • Editor OGN Daily
  • Jun 3
  • 3 min read

Some tasty bite-sized chunks of positive news to perk up the day.


Clouds reflecting in the Salton Sea, California
Salton Sea, California
Habitat Protection

California has approved $59.5 million in funding to preserve some of the state’s most ecologically significant habitats. In the face of federal funding cuts for some of the country’s critical habitats for rare plants and animals, California’s Wildlife Conservation Board just approved the funds to ensure they’re protected, and will preserve nearly 23,000 acres of some of the state’s most ecologically important habitats, including the Salton Sea. While it's wonderful news for Californians, the reality is that protecting critical ecosystems is good for the entire country (and the world).


An aisle in the V&A East Storehouse
Credit: Hufton+Crow
New V & A Outpost

Millions of visitors head to British museums each year, but the items on display often represent only a small fraction of what institutions hold in their collections. V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new outpost in east London at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offers an innovative solution: its groundbreaking £65m facility provides full immersion into the behind-the-scenes world of museum conservation. Unlike traditional museum stores, visitors can walk freely and “breathe the same air” as its 250,000 artefacts. They can wander the aisles and watch curators at work - unloading porcelain, polishing a priceless spoon collection, or carefully packing poison darts.


a lighthouse stencilled on a drab, beige wall, along with the words: "I want to be what you saw in me."
Credit: Banksy | Instagram
The Latest Banksy

Banksy's latest piece of graffiti art, revealed to the world late last week, has now been traced to a street in Marseille, France. Images posted on the elusive artist's Instagram depict a lighthouse stencilled on a drab, beige wall, along with the words: "I want to be what you saw in me." A false shadow appears to have been drawn on the pavement from a nearby bollard, giving the illusion that the lighthouse is itself a silhouette of the mundane street furniture.


Criminalising Ecocide

Scotland is poised to become the first UK nation to criminalise ecocide - severe and reckless harm to nature - under a new bill published in the Scottish parliament. The bill would make it a criminal offence to cause widespread, long-term or irreversible environmental damage, with potential penalties including up to 20 years in prison for individuals and unlimited fines for companies.


Four gorillas being released into the wild in Virunga National Park
Credit: GRACE
Second Chance

Gorillas are making headlines again - this time, not for sparking a viral debate over who would win a fight between 100 men and one gorilla, but for a historic conservation success story. Four female eastern lowland gorillas are roaming free in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, marking the largest reintroduction of the subspecies in history, the conservation organization Re:wild has announced. As babies, they were rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and, following years of rehab, they were deemed ready for the wild.


Energy Milestone

CleanTechnica reports that South America just achieved a remarkable energy milestone, quietly setting a global benchmark: for the first time in history, the entire continent now has zero new coal-fired power plants planned. To grasp how remarkable this is, we need only glance back a decade. When the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, South America had eighteen coal-fired plants on the drawing board, reflecting global uncertainty about the role coal would play in powering emerging economies. Today, that uncertainty has vanished. Coal, once perceived as a staple of industrialization and economic stability, has essentially vanished from the continent’s energy future.


Curbside charge point built unto the edge of a pavement
Credit: Rheinmetall
Sleek Curb Charger

There are several types of curbside chargers dotted around cities, but this one from German company Rheinmetall is probably the least obtrusive. The street-level charger replaces concrete curbs with a Level 2 charge point. The steel and aluminium module includes a 4G modem and Ethernet, RFID technology and a display. It can be activated via a mobile app or by scanning a QR code, and is capable of delivering up 22 kW of juice to a parked vehicle's battery. Unlike public charging stations, drivers will need to use their own charging cables, but many European EV owners carry such things around anyway.


"One man can make a difference and every man should try." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


On This Day

Ed White emerging from the orbital spacecraft Gemini 4

3 June 1965: Ed White emerged from the orbital spacecraft Gemini 4 and became the first American astronaut to walk in space.



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