Trees, beavers and bales of waste: the environment scores small victories

Recent days show that good news about nature and the environment comes from everywhere, from Ethiopian fields to Canadian wilderness and American tennis courts. Sometimes it's about people actively planting trees, sometimes about animals quietly building something grand, and sometimes about waste that finally gets a useful purpose instead of ending up in a landfill. In Ethiopia, the country lost around 560,000 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2025, but since 2019 the population has been massively planting new trees through the Green Legacy Initiative [1]. In the Berbere district, Halima Kedir started with thousands of saplings despite skepticism from...