📈 Human Progress
🐸 UK charity brings Ghost Ponds back to life
These ancient ponds being restored are a unique sort of pond called pingo (from the Inuit word for hill). The Norfolk Wildlife Trust explained that these ponds are relics from the last ice age. When the glaciers from the last ice age withdrew, they left behind chunks...
🦋 Strong recovery for the monarch butterfly in California
The population of monarch butterflies in California has declined dramatically in recent decades. In the 1980s, there were around 4.5 million monarch butterflies in the state. In a census carried out by the nature conservation organization Xerces Society in 2020, there...
👧 Philippines bans child marriage
In the Philipines, one girl in six is married off before the age of 18, but now the end of child marriage could be here, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.A new law makes it illegal to marry or cohabit with someone under 18 years of age. Anyone who breaks...
