is there any good news right now?
i’d like to add that this isn’t meant to be howling into the void. i think we all need good news right now so if anyone has any send it in
A woman paid all adoption fees for over 800 animals so they could be adopted a few days before Christmas Eve.
Another animal shelter celebrated their entire kennels being empty, as every single dog was adopted just before Christmas.
A pastor held a drive for coats to donate to the homeless and got enough to clothe several hundred people.
A woman discovered a (possible) cure for cancer, that has worked very well in tests.
All (remaining) citizens were evacuated from Aleppo as of 12/22.
Las Vegas is now entirely powered by renewable energy (which hopefully will make other cities follow suit!)
Anyone else know of some good news that I probably missed??
Newest species of fish in Hawai’i has been named after President Obama.
Capsaicin recently confirmed in some experiments to prevent the growth of breast cancer cells.
The economy is recovering – the employment rate is back down to 4.6%
For the first time since 1991, CO2 emissions have been at their lowest.
As well, renewable energy has overtaken coal in energy capacity. AND! Paris’s climate agreement went into effect.
Astronomers have found evidence of a possible ninth planet at the edge of our solar system. As well, the Juno spacecraft finished its 5 year journey and has entered Jupiter’s orbit.
Obama expanded a national marine monument in Hawai’i to create the biggest ecologically protected area on earth. As well, he also officially made Stonewall Inn a national monument to gay rights movement. In fact, in his entire career, he’s now surpassed Theodore Roosevelt (and every other president) for the amount of land and water protected.
Giant pandas were removed from the endangered species list this year. And, the population of tigers are rising.
Journalists Jason Rezaian, Khadija Ismayilova and Can Dundar were released from their wrongful imprisonments.
India opened the largest solar plant in the world.
France opened the world’s first solar road.
A cancer treatment has shown incredibly signs of reversing MS complications.
Louisiana researchers have developed eye drops that treat cataracts without surgery.
A new wheelchair called the Ogo creates hands free mobility.
Related to CO2 emissions, the Ozone layer seems to be healing itself.
No comprehensive links but it’s looking like green technology will now be market driven, requiring less government assistance for funding for development, which is going to be a boon in the future.
Final trial results show that the ebola vaccine is about as close to 100% effective as we’re going to get.
This one school in inner Chicago has admitted all its seniors to colleges for the 7th year in a row.
Kidnappings in Colombia are down 92% since 2000.
The Batts family of Huntington, West Virginia lost their home to foreclosure. Santa Claus gave the deed to the house back to David Batts on December 22.
Another secret Santa donated 3,500 pounds of rib-eye steak to feed the homeless in Seattle.
Poland announced that its stockpile of over one million land mines has been completely destroyed–and in a green way “through recycling of…components, wood and metal, and using extracted TNT material for military training and other specific purposes, such as breaking ice jams on rivers.”
Hearing loss is declining in U.S. adults aged 20 to 69.
Bill Gates started a $1B fund on climate change. To quote from the article:
The Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund “will finance emerging energy breakthroughs that can deliver affordable and reliable zero carbon emissions[.]“
Ireland is planting the largest redwood forest outside of California.
Anushka Naiknaware invented a bandage that will tell doctors when it needs to be changed, which will help prevent re-injury through changing the bandages too often. Oh, and she’s 13.
Two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen in 2002 have been recovered.
A large-scale clinical trial for an HIV vaccine has begun in South Africa.
At age 70, a trans woman got the sexual reassignment surgery she had always wanted–supported by her wife of forty years and their two children.
The World Health Organization announced that measles have been eradicated in all of the Americas, from Canada to Chile. It’s the first time the disease has been eliminated from an entire world region.
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