Angus Hervey
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Sharing stories of human progress, environmental restoration, clean energy, and scientific discovery.
Sharing stories of human progress, environmental restoration, clean energy, and scientific discovery.
We thought we were making a documentary. We didn't realise it was also making us.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
We thought we were making a documentary. We didn't realise it was also making us.
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Legal and digital identity. Dystopian stories of overreach might provoke a shiver on hearing that phrase, and yet official documentation is key for participation in modern economies. Good news then that millions more people gain official proof of identity year on year.
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Legal and digital identity. Dystopian stories of overreach might provoke a shiver on hearing that phrase, and yet official documentation is key for participation in modern economies. Good news then that millions more people gain official proof of identity year on year.
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
tinyurl.com/236mcbtg
Can we meet the world's growing thirst for electricity without digging up more of the dirty stuff? Demand is up 603 TWh in the first 9 months of 2025 alone. Actually, yes. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in that period, so fossil generation's got nowhere to grow.
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Can we meet the world's growing thirst for electricity without digging up more of the dirty stuff? Demand is up 603 TWh in the first 9 months of 2025 alone. Actually, yes. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in that period, so fossil generation's got nowhere to grow.
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
tinyurl.com/2bd26y2x
Which country is the 7th largest user of coal in the world? Well let's just say they've done some Seoul-searching, and have now joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP30, with a pledge to stop new coal power and retire two thirds of existing plants by 2040.
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Which country is the 7th largest user of coal in the world? Well let's just say they've done some Seoul-searching, and have now joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP30, with a pledge to stop new coal power and retire two thirds of existing plants by 2040.
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
tinyurl.com/22hxrbnj
Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
Anyone in your life have tool-shed that they've been pottering in for 30+ years? Decades of fixing and figuring out residing in the layers of dust. Now multiply that by 10,000 and step into a site in Kenya that has revealed 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking.
tinyurl.com/2cmrgdzn
tinyurl.com/2cmrgdzn
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Anyone in your life have tool-shed that they've been pottering in for 30+ years? Decades of fixing and figuring out residing in the layers of dust. Now multiply that by 10,000 and step into a site in Kenya that has revealed 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking.
tinyurl.com/2cmrgdzn
tinyurl.com/2cmrgdzn
Hang Sơn Đoòng, Vietnam. "Discovered" in 2009, it's the world's largest cave. Large enough to fly a Boeing 747 through, with underground weather and its very own rainforest. And now the epicentre of a World Heritage Site, anchored by sustainable tourism, that spreads into Laos.
tinyurl.com/27osoj6
tinyurl.com/27osoj6
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hang Sơn Đoòng, Vietnam. "Discovered" in 2009, it's the world's largest cave. Large enough to fly a Boeing 747 through, with underground weather and its very own rainforest. And now the epicentre of a World Heritage Site, anchored by sustainable tourism, that spreads into Laos.
tinyurl.com/27osoj6
tinyurl.com/27osoj6
Tuberculosis. For many of us, a lurgy from the distant past, and yet it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Fortunately the stats show TB mortality is down by 29% since 2015. May that downward trend continue.
Global gains in tuberculosis response endangered by funding challenges
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year, according to the WHO Global…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Tuberculosis. For many of us, a lurgy from the distant past, and yet it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Fortunately the stats show TB mortality is down by 29% since 2015. May that downward trend continue.
Tuberculosis. For many of us, a lurgy from the distant past, and yet it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Fortunately the stats show TB mortality is down by 29% since 2015. May that downward trend continue.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tuberculosis. For many of us, a lurgy from the distant past, and yet it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Fortunately the stats show TB mortality is down by 29% since 2015. May that downward trend continue.
"Population of Hungary wiped out in brutal conflict!" Not true. But that number of people have been killed in the 30 year conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels. Thankfully diplomacy is edging them towards de-escalation.
tinyurl.com/27w7uxup
tinyurl.com/27w7uxup
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Population of Hungary wiped out in brutal conflict!" Not true. But that number of people have been killed in the 30 year conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels. Thankfully diplomacy is edging them towards de-escalation.
tinyurl.com/27w7uxup
tinyurl.com/27w7uxup
"Ah, ha!" that moment when it all becomes clear: an insight drops into your mind with a flush of emotion. Neuroscientists have now identified a clear brain pattern behind this phenomenon, and its benefits for long-term memory.
tinyurl.com/23wfrnd6
tinyurl.com/23wfrnd6
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Ah, ha!" that moment when it all becomes clear: an insight drops into your mind with a flush of emotion. Neuroscientists have now identified a clear brain pattern behind this phenomenon, and its benefits for long-term memory.
tinyurl.com/23wfrnd6
tinyurl.com/23wfrnd6
The red kite. A living symbol of regeneration in the skies of Britain since its scrape with extinction in the 1980s. Now, closing a conservation loop, British-born kites are helping avert a similar crisis in Spain the country that helped restock their now abundant population.
tinyurl.com/2bt55vmg
tinyurl.com/2bt55vmg
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The red kite. A living symbol of regeneration in the skies of Britain since its scrape with extinction in the 1980s. Now, closing a conservation loop, British-born kites are helping avert a similar crisis in Spain the country that helped restock their now abundant population.
tinyurl.com/2bt55vmg
tinyurl.com/2bt55vmg
Many of us still associate conservation with wilderness: 'Humans out! Let nature do its thing'. Solomon Islanders' defence of one of the Pacific’s last untouched forests demonstrates how biodiversity benefits when humans remain and fight for their sacred connection to land.
tinyurl.com/23ps7gau
tinyurl.com/23ps7gau
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Many of us still associate conservation with wilderness: 'Humans out! Let nature do its thing'. Solomon Islanders' defence of one of the Pacific’s last untouched forests demonstrates how biodiversity benefits when humans remain and fight for their sacred connection to land.
tinyurl.com/23ps7gau
tinyurl.com/23ps7gau
"Oh, bumble bee, please buzz for me. How I can feed your busy buzzing glee?" Turns out, sowing wildflowers around solar panels can make all the difference to our dear bumbling friends. Solar farms. Biodiversity hubs.
tinyurl.com/2ywvex3z
tinyurl.com/2ywvex3z
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"Oh, bumble bee, please buzz for me. How I can feed your busy buzzing glee?" Turns out, sowing wildflowers around solar panels can make all the difference to our dear bumbling friends. Solar farms. Biodiversity hubs.
tinyurl.com/2ywvex3z
tinyurl.com/2ywvex3z
Refuge. Safety. Protection. Corals and kelp, seagrass and salmon, herring and harbour seals are amongst the species granted such respite off the coast of British Colombia through recent joint agreements between the federal government and the Haida and Gitxaała Nations.
tinyurl.com/26qwxsgn
tinyurl.com/26qwxsgn
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Refuge. Safety. Protection. Corals and kelp, seagrass and salmon, herring and harbour seals are amongst the species granted such respite off the coast of British Colombia through recent joint agreements between the federal government and the Haida and Gitxaała Nations.
tinyurl.com/26qwxsgn
tinyurl.com/26qwxsgn
Battery powered. Not all that long ago the Duracell bunny was boasting how long it could keep the music pumping out of the latest walkman. Now that phrase describes the 13,000-ton Gezhouba - the largest in a growing fleet on the world’s most electrified shipping route.
tinyurl.com/25zg8eh9
tinyurl.com/25zg8eh9
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Battery powered. Not all that long ago the Duracell bunny was boasting how long it could keep the music pumping out of the latest walkman. Now that phrase describes the 13,000-ton Gezhouba - the largest in a growing fleet on the world’s most electrified shipping route.
tinyurl.com/25zg8eh9
tinyurl.com/25zg8eh9
The submission is in. The argument laid down with utmost clarity. And surely, hopefully, the truth is incontestable: this land and its wildlife need protecting. And then the waiting. For years. Then finally, this month, India's Supreme Court made Saranda forest a sanctuary.
tinyurl.com/24fuecz6
tinyurl.com/24fuecz6
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The submission is in. The argument laid down with utmost clarity. And surely, hopefully, the truth is incontestable: this land and its wildlife need protecting. And then the waiting. For years. Then finally, this month, India's Supreme Court made Saranda forest a sanctuary.
tinyurl.com/24fuecz6
tinyurl.com/24fuecz6
“Fraud.” “Dangerous incrementalism.” COP21 copped a lot of flack, but the Paris Agreement that came out of it seems to actually be working.
tinyurl.com/2blmmsha
tinyurl.com/2blmmsha
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Fraud.” “Dangerous incrementalism.” COP21 copped a lot of flack, but the Paris Agreement that came out of it seems to actually be working.
tinyurl.com/2blmmsha
tinyurl.com/2blmmsha
"Neonicotinoids on the rise!" Sounds like a looming political threat in some sci-fi dystopia. However, turns out that the order these pesky pesticides are good at unravelling is biological rather than social. Good job their 2018 ban in the EU is showing positive results.
tinyurl.com/22czsb5b
tinyurl.com/22czsb5b
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Neonicotinoids on the rise!" Sounds like a looming political threat in some sci-fi dystopia. However, turns out that the order these pesky pesticides are good at unravelling is biological rather than social. Good job their 2018 ban in the EU is showing positive results.
tinyurl.com/22czsb5b
tinyurl.com/22czsb5b
If the words "Great Barrier Reef" provoke a twinge in your gut - "no, please, not more bleaching" - let that twinge release. A new technique of collecting and redeploying unspawned coral larvae holds exciting promise for reef restoration.
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If the words "Great Barrier Reef" provoke a twinge in your gut - "no, please, not more bleaching" - let that twinge release. A new technique of collecting and redeploying unspawned coral larvae holds exciting promise for reef restoration.
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
Youth Crime. Now that's definitely increasing. There's even been machete bans in Australia to try and curb this wild trend. What does the data say? Youth crime in developed nations has plummeted since the 1990s. Well I never.
tinyurl.com/27w7g2l2
tinyurl.com/27w7g2l2
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Youth Crime. Now that's definitely increasing. There's even been machete bans in Australia to try and curb this wild trend. What does the data say? Youth crime in developed nations has plummeted since the 1990s. Well I never.
tinyurl.com/27w7g2l2
tinyurl.com/27w7g2l2
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It's like that growth spurt your nephew or niece goes through when you haven't seen them for a year. Transforming in the blink of an eye. China’s renewable capacity is currently jumping 47.7% year-on-year and accounting for 84% of all new power installations.
tinyurl.com/27kw62b9
tinyurl.com/27kw62b9
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's like that growth spurt your nephew or niece goes through when you haven't seen them for a year. Transforming in the blink of an eye. China’s renewable capacity is currently jumping 47.7% year-on-year and accounting for 84% of all new power installations.
tinyurl.com/27kw62b9
tinyurl.com/27kw62b9
So, gun violence in the US. That's gotta be ramping up right now, right? Wrong: an analysis of 150 US cities shows that 2025 is seeing one of the greatest drops in gun violence - ever. Read it and weep (with relief).
tinyurl.com/25sseeeg
tinyurl.com/25sseeeg
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So, gun violence in the US. That's gotta be ramping up right now, right? Wrong: an analysis of 150 US cities shows that 2025 is seeing one of the greatest drops in gun violence - ever. Read it and weep (with relief).
tinyurl.com/25sseeeg
tinyurl.com/25sseeeg
Forest Crime. Latest Netflix genre? Moody shots of a banyan in a fedora figuring out who felled Betty Baobab? Nah, just run-of-the-mill illegal logging that threatens biodiversity and climate stability. Fortunately now the focus of a new INTERPOL coalition.
tinyurl.com/2yn9dlyj
tinyurl.com/2yn9dlyj
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Forest Crime. Latest Netflix genre? Moody shots of a banyan in a fedora figuring out who felled Betty Baobab? Nah, just run-of-the-mill illegal logging that threatens biodiversity and climate stability. Fortunately now the focus of a new INTERPOL coalition.
tinyurl.com/2yn9dlyj
tinyurl.com/2yn9dlyj