https://fixthenews.com/p/338-ten-thousand-shades-of-green
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This week’s top stories
* The news media was all over US vaccinations declining. Why so quiet now that
vaccinations are rising?
* The European Parliament has backed an EU-wide conversion therapy ban after a
1.2 million-signature citizens’ campaign
* The EU is also moving closer to a consent-based rape standard
* Colorado just legalised ‘balcony solar’ for apartments and renters
* Elephants on farm raids might help us find new medicines
* Queensland restores tidal wetlands by letting the sea back in
* New South Wales creates vast koala refuge after 13 years of campaigning
* Off-patent ‘abortion pill’ could treat common, deadly cancer
* Brazil’s forest losses fell by 42% in 2025, helping pull the global tropical
deforestation curve back from a record high
* Chinese meat importers pledge to buy deforestation-free Brazilian beef
* China has cut its oil imports by roughly 25% from pre-Iran war levels
* A California company is pulling clean drinking water straight from the air
* Also: desalination startups are promising freshwater from saltwater
* The United States now has rape-kit reform on the books in all 50 states,
Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico
* Violent crime is plummeting in America’s biggest cities in 2026
* Australia, the first ever country to roll out a national HPV vaccination
programme, is now seeing zero cervical cancer in women under 25
* It’s not just Australia: from Norway to Burundi to Indonesia, HPV vaccination
is becoming routine
* Chile’s maternity leave reform boosted women’s employment by 16%
* Philippines’ 250,000 community health workers secure first union
registration"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
