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Angus Hervey
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 1h
One blood for all.

Researchers have engineered enzymes that strip away the sugars on red blood cells, effectively converting all donated blood into universal type O. The treated cells flowed safely with all blood types, opening the door to solving chronic shortages.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3h
Dr Doolittle files #2: Humpbacks

A Whale-SETI team studying non-terrestrial (aquatic), nonhuman communication systems to help parse cosmic signals for signs of extraterrestrial life, have documented humpbacks producing bubble rings in friendly encounters with humans.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 9h
Filling little bellies.

National school meal programmes now serve 466 million children worldwide, up 80 million since 2020. Low-income countries expanded access by 60%. The most encouraging statistic of all? 99% of funding is now coming from national budgets.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 11h
China’s green “Marshall Plan” is reshaping global energy.

China has invested over $200 billion into green manufacturing projects in other countries since 2022, cementing the world’s commitment to clean technology & generating jobs and investments for decades to come.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 13h
Sanctuary for humpbacks, dugongs and turtles.

Western Australia has created a 3,200 km² protected area along its northwest coast. The move follows years of community opposition to industrial expansion into one of the nation’s richest marine habitats. 

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 23h
How do you do, Mountain?

Taranaki Maunga, a mountain on New Zealand’s North Island, was granted legal personhood in January after a unanimous parliamentary vote, following years of advocacy by Māori iwi who regard the volcano as an ancestor. 

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 1d
Filling little bellies.

National school meal programmes now serve 466 million children worldwide, up 80 million since 2020. Low-income countries expanded access by 60%. The most encouraging statistic of all? 99% of funding is now coming from national budgets.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 1d
Diminishing deaths from disease.

An analysis of WHO data shows that, between 2010 and 2019, the probability of dying from a non-communicable disease before the age of 80 fell in 152 countries for women and in 147 for men.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 1d
China taking care of birds.

Authorities are launching a three-year nationwide bird protection drive that will intensify crackdowns on poaching and illegal trade, while expanding sanctuaries for species such as the crested ibis and black-faced spoonbill. 

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Good morning with good news: An historic energy milestone is reached. Renewables globally produced more electricity than coal for the first time on record in the first half of 2025!

How?

Solar skyrocketed 31%
Wind rose 7.7%

Coal FELL in China & India!
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 2d
Economics trumps politics in energy transition.

Political winds may swirl, but structural change will endure. The transition is now being carried forward by factories, grids and S-curves, rather than photo ops and communiqués. That is genuinely good news.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 2d
Dr Doolittle files: #1 Bonobos

Field teams deep in the rainforests of the Congo have recorded bonobos combining calls in several ways to make complex phrases, something thought to be uniquely human. How long til we can learn bonobo and chat with them?

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 2d
The wild world of ants.

Scientists have discovered that Iberian harvest ants can do something no other animal is known to manage: clone themselves using the sperm of a different species. To build their worker caste, the queens must rely on males from another lineage.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 2d
Kidney replicas get closer to the real thing.

Scientists report lab-grown organoids that better reproduce kidney structure and function, promising sharper disease models and drug tests — a step toward lab-built tissue that could one day ease transplant shortages.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
India shows steely resolve in cutting emissions.

The Indian government has announced $570 million in grants to help steelmakers adopt cleaner technologies. India is the world’s 2nd largest steel producer, with the sector producing 12% of its total carbon emissions.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
CRISPR just got crisper.

MIT researchers have re-engineered CRISPR’s “prime editors” to slash one of their biggest problems: random DNA errors. The result is a new family of editors that keep efficiency while cutting errors up to 60-fold. 

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
Feather forensics catching poachers.

Scientists are using stable isotope analysis to trace feathers back to where they grew, turning moulted plumes into crime-scene evidence. Dietary fingerprints provide a powerful way to expose traffickers and map smuggling routes.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
Metabolic upgrade trebles plant growth 

Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to three times larger.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
Mexican revolution in early-psychosis treatment.

The brainchild of neuroscientist Camilo de la Fuente-Sandoval, Mexico’s first free early-psychosis clinic sees young people within 24 hours, does CT, MRI glutamate & cognitive tests, then starts treatment the same day. 

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d
A global flotilla of action on emissions.

Over 200 shipping companies have come together to urge the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt the first-ever global fee on shipping emissions. The levy would channel billions into green fuel and technology.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 4d
Even more EV in China.

Public and private charging points in China have grown 54% year-on-year to 17 million units, according to government figures. The expansion cements China’s dominance in EV infrastructure, dwarfing networks in Europe and North America.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 4d
Bangkok’s tuk-tuks tidy up their emissions.

Thailand’s capital is converting its iconic three-wheeled tuk-tuks from petrol to electric power, en masse. Thousands have already been replaced, cutting noise and emissions while preserving the city’s cultural symbol. 

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 4d
Plans afoot for new Canadian national park.

Canada has launched consultations on creating a national park in Yukon’s Teetł’it Gwinjik watershed. If designated, the park would secure caribou habitat, wetlands, and permafrost zones under Indigenous co-management.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 4d
A great catch for inter-planetary comms.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired off a stream of laser-encoded data across 218 million miles. And Earth caught it. The test, using Californian telescopes, is part of the Deep Space Optical Communications project.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 5d
Energy jobs are cleaning up.

Clean energy roles accounted for 82% of all new American energy jobs last year, expanding three times faster than the overall workforce. The growth underscores the sector’s rising role as an employment engine. 

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