• 7 miles of habitat for bees will be planted in london
• the biggest coal plant in north america has been converted to solar panels
• roads in edinburgh will close once a month to help pollution
• maine has banned styrofoam
• new york city and los angeles have both made “green new deals”
• The london marathon replaced 200,000 single use water bottles with seaweed water pods
• the bees in notre dame survived the fire, and the roof could possibly built in a more eco-friendly way.
• the population of flightless kakapos (a cool bird) is rising
• the carbon emissions in the uk are the lowest they’ve been since 1998
• Another large bee habitat (.5 mil acres) has been created
• there is a robot that delivers young coral to help repopulate the great barrier reef
• portugal plans to stop using plastic on fruit, vegetables, and bread by 2020
• 106 new species of bees have been discovered in australia since 2010
• a group of Sikhs plan to plant 1,000,000 trees as a gift to the earth
• disney has made a mickey-shaped solar farm
• Morgan freeman turned a 124 acre ranch in mississippi to a bee habitat
• China plans on making a “forest city” to help clean up their air
• An increasing amount of countries and states are beginning to ban single use plastics.
• A couple replanted a whole forest in brazil (2.7 mil trees) in 20 years, and the animals have come back to live there
• The hole in the ozone layer is repairing itself more each year
• China plans on spending 360 billion dollars to improve renewable energy and has scrapped plans for coal powered plants that were going to be built.
• A national park has been built in the amazon (3.3 mil acres in peru) to preserve the rainforest
• Ireland and the uk have declared a climate emergency
• The guy who played aquaman (jason momoa) has spent 31,000 dollars to help clean up plastic
• South korea is now recycling 95% of food waste
• There is a cleanup campaign being planned for mt. everest
• Puerto rico wants to use all renewable energy by 2050 and is setting official goals for that
• Some schools have special water bottle fill-up stations that encourage you to use refill and reuse plastic bottles rather than throwing them out after one use, these are becoming more common.
• 9 endangered species are thought to make a comeback this year
• 20 countries in africa are planning to make a “green wall” of trees and plants that will span the width of africa to stop desertification
• recently, a lot of volunteers and organizations are planting a ton of trees.
• Awareness about the environment and climate change is growing super fast right now among people and countries, which will only help us
• Most pollution is caused by like 100 companies, but a few of those (like pepsi) are trying to cut down on that.

• Recycle 
• Plant gardens in your yard for bees if you can
• Participate in community volunteer things that plant trees and gardens
• Theres this search engine called ecosia that plants a tree for every 45 searches you make, it has almost 2 mil users. 
• Pick up trash if you see it when you’re at the beach or in nature
• If you have a fair amount of money, consider donating some to trustworthy environmental organizations
• Start using a reusable water bottle (like those ones at target) rather than relying on single use plastic ones.
• Cut the plastic rings on plastic milk bottles. You know, the little spiky plastic ring near the cap. Birds get those things stuck around their neck and die, so cut them so that they can’t get stuck on a neck.
• If you can afford it, get some of those reusable grocery bags and sue those. most grocery stores have them, and it saves a lot of waste.

• use ecosia!! its a search engine that uses the income from searches to plant trees!

Sophie Turner by Jack Waterlot | S Moda EL PAÍS (June 2019)