Jacob Simon

This week's good news includes the first all-women city council in a big US city, saiga recovering from near extinction, and South Korea banning the dog meat trade.

We're back and it's a new year. This week's good news includes chocolate made directly in the Amazon, white seahorses being re-released, and London's ULEZ has been very effective.

We (just about) made it to the end of 2023. Congrats! It was a year filled with a lot of

This week's good news includes the wrap-up of the UN Climate talks/COP28, lots of awesome activism, some innovation around field research, and much more.

This week's good news centers a lot around COP28 which has some good and some not-so-good outcomes thus far. Plus new protection for wolverines, the first commercial solar-powered boat, and much more!

The badass all-female anti-poaching Black Mambas, new mining regulations are on the way, Australia's largest civil disobedience action, and so much more!

This week's good news includes a goal of 800,000 acres of redwood forests, the EU criminalizing environmental damage, an Airbnb was turned into a seal sanctuary, and so much more.

150 countries are currently negotiating a Global Plastic Treaty in Nairobi, plus $1.7 trillion invested in clean energy, Colombian deforestation is down 70%, and so much more.

Rainforest nations came together to work on conservation efforts for two-thirds of the world's land-based biodiversity, plus pressure builds for a global plastic treaty, NYC is expanding tree canopy coverage from 22% to 30%, and so much more.

Three members of US congress introduced a plan to hold plastic producers more responsible, plus the EU is drastically reducing pesticide use, golf courses are being rewilded, and so much more.