NEWS May 15 2025

Water City of Phoenix encouraging residents to harvest rainwater this summer https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/city-of-phoenix-encouraging-residents-to-harvest-rainwater-this-summer How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/california-groundwater-study-central-valley-drought-managed-aquifer-recharge/ Drawdown This Solar-Powered Device Sucks CO2 From the Air—and Turns It Into Fuel https://gizmodo.com/this-solar-powered-reactor-sucks-co2-from-the-air-and-turns-it-into-fuel-2000563558 Genetically enhanced crops proposed as scalable solution for CO₂ removal https://phys.org/news/2025-05-genetically-crops-scalable-solution.html Marine IUCN launches project to combat marine plastic pollution in the Pacific https://iucn.org/news/202504/iucn-launches-project-combat-marine-plastic-pollution-pacific Indonesia plans 200000 hectares of new marine conservation areas in 2025 https://en.antaranews.com/news/354329/indonesia-targets-200-thousand-hectares-marine-conservation-growth Rewilding Captive-Bred Axolotls Can Survive in the Wild, Sparking Hope for the Endangered Species https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captive-bred-axolotls-can-survive-in-the-wild-offering-hope-for-the-critically-endangered-amphibians-180986543/ Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/study-suggests-there-are-more-jaguars-in-the-amazon-than-previously-thought/