News that isn’t awful from around the world for the week of 12 October 2026…
🐧 Free land, no more coal, fiction becomes reality, Nobel Peace Prize, challenging drug laws, new penguin!
🏡 In south-east London, Lewisham council is developing plans to give public land away to community groups on the condition that they build social housing.
Source: archive.is
⚫ Australia top court denies permit to expand coal mine, citing climate harm.
Source: aljazeera.com
🌈 A fictional charity from Heated Rivalry just became reality. The Irina Foundation will support LGBTQIA2S+ and marginalised communities in sport and the arts.
Source: yahoo.com
🏅 Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her track record includes fighting Apartheid in South Africa and standing against genocide.
Source: bbc.co.uk
🐧 Researchers have identified a brand new penguin species.
Source: bbc.co.uk
🇨🇦 Two activists in Vancouver have had their drug trafficking convictions overturned after successfully challenging Canada's drug laws.
Source: cbc.ca
💚🌿🌲🌳 A new research paper shows that rewilding is a key part of wildfire prevention and management.
Source: rewildingbritain.org.uk
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