Good News Notes: “Dat Bike, a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures. Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point is its ability to compete with gas motorbikes in terms of pricing…
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Fix You: Coldplay Sponsors Watercraft To Clean Up Malaysia’s Rivers
Good News Notes: “Coldplay, a band that has long supported environmental sustainability, has announced a sponsorship of a RM3.2 million The Ocean Cleanup-designed watercraft to remove plastic trash from Malaysia’s rivers. “We’re proud to announce the first step in our partnership with The Ocean Cleanup: a new river Interceptor called Neon Moon 1,” the members…
Bird species re-discovered after almost 200 years of absence
Good News Notes: “The bird in question is the black-browed babbler, and we’ve only ever had sparse information on it. The western world was first treated to specimens and a description of this bird around 1848. Attempts to find the birds since have all failed, leaving us with very little data about the species’ traits…
Rainforest Trust 2020: A Year in Review – Rainforest Trust Saves Rainforest
Good News Notes: “2020 was a year of disruption and change for every person and organization, Rainforest Trust included. The need to protect our planet and nature has never been more urgent. Thanks to the commitment of our supporters and the extraordinary efforts of our partners, our vital conservation work around the world continued and…
Eden deploys drone technology to help plant one tree at a time
Good News Notes: “Helping people to help the environment is the core mission at Eden Reforestation Projects, a non-profit that began its work in Ethiopia in 2004, according to the organisation’s director of forest monitoring and evaluation Ezra Neale. ‘A lot of trees are being cut down without any alternatives and local communities are turning…
Fighting Poverty Can Also Fight Deforestation, New Study Finds
Good News Notes: “It may be surprising that a universal basic income would also help the environment, but that is exactly what a new study found. A government program to help poor, rural Indonesians through direct cash payments had the unexpected effect of reducing deforestation by 30 percent in participating villages, according to a new study, as Newsweek reported.”…
Zac Efron Special to Lead Discovery’s Earth Day Programming
Good News Notes: “Discovery has announced its lineup of programming to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, and it’s lead by an hourlong environmental special featuring Zac Efron and hosted by Vine and Tik Tok star Zach King, TheWrap has learned exclusively. Titled ‘The Great Global Clean Up,’ Efron and King will be joined by…
Scientists have discovered five new species of songbird in Indonesia
Good News Notes: “Five species of songbird and five more subspecies have been discovered by scientists for the first time in mountainous areas of Indonesia. The newly described bird species, named after the islands where they were discovered, are the Peleng fantail, the Peleng leaf warbler, the Taliabu grasshopper warbler, the Taliabu myzomela and the…
Climate change and deforestation: These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse
Good News Notes: “The Brazil nut tree makes, well, tasty nuts. But its real superpower is channeling an extraordinary amount of water from the soil to the sky, making the rainforest rain.” “Our current climate crisis is a result of humans putting too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Luckily, trees (and other natural systems)…
Technology Being Used to Combat Freshwater Shortages, Deforestation
Good News Notes: “As it stands globally freshwater is a scarcity and it’s only expected to get worse as the population grows. One of the biggest users of freshwater are larger thermoelectric power plants, making up 39% of the freshwater withdrawn in the U.S. alone, said Karim Khalil, co-founder, and CTO of Infinite Cooling during…