Blair

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk/p/2152492/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution

The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths from air pollution.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk/p/2152486/global-solar-power-growth-reaches-historic-turning-point

Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026 found that global solar power growth reached record levels in 2025, helping renewable energy overtake coal in the world’s electricity mix for the first time in more than 100 years.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk/p/2152476/mushrooms-used-to-clean-e-coli-from-rivers-and-immediately-implemented-in-england

"The application was ever so simple: a bag of woodchips impregnated with turkey tail spores left at the bottom of the river. The mycelia, or filament system of the mushroom, filtered out 80% of the E. coli, 83% of the phosphorous, and 35% of the nitrogen."