Bears, flowers and a plan: three signs of recovery on Earth

These days show that nature can bounce back when people give it space, and that countries sometimes take surprisingly concrete steps. From the mountains of northern Spain to the driest desert in the world: signals are emerging everywhere that protection and good policy work. Something new is also happening in the field of climate policy, with one country putting down on paper for the first time exactly how it wants to phase out fossil fuels. In Spain, the Cantabrian brown bear has doubled in twenty years, from roughly 140 animals to 370 now [1]. The bears no longer live only...