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Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

[ad_1] December 11, 2020– This 30-minute documentary about the Hinewai Reserve on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula is an incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has regenerated into beautiful native forest over 30 years. Once considered a plan only expected from fools and dreamers, the manager, botanist Hugh Wilson, is now considered a hero locally…

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Greece Opens First Underwater Museum–A 2,400-Year-old Shipwreck in the Middle of Lively Coral Meadows

[ad_1] Greece’s first underwater museum allows visitors to immerse themselves in time to the Peloponnesian War era while gazing at ancient shipwrecks and pristine coral gardens. YouTube / BLUEMED Interreg Atlantis Consulting Partner By diving to depths of 80 feet, guides can show visitors the 90-foot-long Peristera shipwreck, where it sank 2,400 years ago while…

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What went right this week: urban rewilding cities and more positive news

[ad_1] UK’s biggest supermarket cuts plastic Tesco has become the latest UK supermarket chain to commit to reducing plastic in its Christmas range. Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Iceland have recently introduced seasonal products that use less or no single-use plastics, a development that activists said was “promising.” Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket…

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‘Secret Santa’ Just Paid Off Every Layaway Item For All the Shoppers At Mississippi Walmart

[ad_1] Christmas came early to the city of Canton, Mississippi, when a generous and very secretive Santa paid the bill for more than 300 reservation tickets at the local Walmart. Walmart, CC MikeMozardJeepersMedia; Santa, CC Douglas Rahden A donor who chose to remain anonymous approached the store’s management and made them an offer they had…