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What went right: a soaring conservation success, and more positive news

[ad_1] Goldman environmental award announced its winners Activists who helped disrupt the illegal pangolin trade, who led successful campaigns to ban plastics, and who prevented the opening of coal-fired power plants are among the winners of this year’s Goldman environmental award, a global award for environmental activism. The six winners were: Sharon Lavigne (pictured), who…

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‘Miraculous’ Mosquito Hack Cuts Dengue by 77%

[ad_1] Just as mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit affect tropical societies, taking advantage of society’s own plague of mosquitoes, Wolbachia bacteria, is helping Indonesia fight dengue fever. Scientists creating an epidemic of Wolbachia Dengue infection rates among mosquitoes in Indonesia were reduced by 77%, opening new doors in the possible control of mosquito-borne epidemics….