News that isn’t awful from around the world for the week of 7 September 2026…
Equal marriage, sealing gas leaks, ocean-cleaning robots, solar power, and payback for library worker.
🌈 Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognising same-sex marriages from other countries.
Source: lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/poland-has-started-recognizing-same-marriages-but-theres-a-catch/
🏭 Methane ‘super-emitter’ Turkmenistan has begun sealing leaks in its oil and gas facilities.
Source: newsbase.com/story/turkmenistan-starts-plugging-its-methane-mega-leaks-464962
💧 A Canadian teen won the Stockholm Junior Water Prize with his robot that detects and removes plastic.
Source: cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-johns-student-wins-9.7321191
🍉🥬🍓🥒🍅 A fruit and veg market is now home to London’s largest rooftop solar project.
Source: euronews.com/2026/08/28/powered-by-sunshine-london-fruit-and-veg-market-now-home-to-the-citys-largest-rooftop-sola
📚 In the USA, a library worker who was fired for protesting a book ban has been granted a cash settlement by the courts.
Source: lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/she-was-fired-for-refusing-to-censor-lgbtq-books-she-just-got-a-big-payback/
🥁 A First Nations woman in Canada has founded a lending library for powwow regalia, serving northern Ontario.
Source: indiginews.com/features/powwow-regalia-lending-library-supports-dancers-in-anishinaabe-aki/
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