Happy Friday!

Here’s today’s good climate and environment news.

👩‍⚖️ A new law protecting workers

After the devastating floods in Valencia, Spain has introduced a new law that gives workers paid leave during extreme weather. The policy of “climate leave” is inspired by legislation in Canada, and will grant employees up to four days paid leave if weather conditions make travelling to work dangerous. As the risks of these disasters escalate with worsening climate change, these types of adaptations are crucial to saving lives.

🐳 Modelling whales’ movements

A new model has been developed to help track the behaviours and migratory patterns of humpback whales, an animal which is notoriously tricky to research. The upshot is that it will expand scientists’ understanding of the creatures and can help predict the challenges they may face as the climate continues to change. The researchers hope this will prove a boon to conservation efforts, which have already been hugely successful following the end of commercial whaling. 

🍌 Saving sad singles

Labelling lonely bananas as ‘sad singles’ can tug on a shopper's heartstrings and make them more likely to buy them – increasing sales by 58%. Humanising these fruits and encouraging people to buy the last banana of a bunch is an unusual but apparently effective way of cutting down food waste, of which single bananas have the highest climate impact. However, the researcher notes “we don’t know whether consumers might get emotionally numb to sad bananas in the long term”. So…