Greetings, Earthlings 🌱

Welcome to our newsletter! Whether you’re on a social media break or looking for new ways to get your climate news, we’re excited to share these stories with you every Tuesday.

We believe in sharing climate stories that are centered in action and rooted deeply in hope. Like Rebecca Solnit puts it, “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”

Let’s get started with some posts that might have of fallen of your radar. After that, some news that doesn't make the headlines but absolutely should.

Gray whales are making a comeback. NOAA reported that whales in Mexico look healthier, and strandings* along the West Coast are at the lowest level since 2019. Scientists also counted more mothers with calves than at any point in the last five years. Yale Environment 360
*a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach, leading to death 

New Zealand is banning plastic produce bags. This will be the first country to expand its ban on plastic bags in supermarkets to thin bags used to hold fruits or vegetables. More than one billion plastic bags have been saved since the ban on thicker bags took effect in 2019, and the new ban could mean 150 million more saved per year. MSN

Agroecology schools in Guatemala are helping restore degraded land. A network of more than 40 Indigenous and local communities and farmer associations are developing schools across the country to promote the recovery of ancestral practices, educate communities on agroecology and teach them how to build their own local economies. Their methods have protected 182,858 acres of forest across Guatemala. Mongabay