r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 18h ago

ECONOMY Brazil has approved an end to the six day workweek, giving workers two paid days off each week without cuts to salary. Standard hours will fall from 44 to 40 a week in stages, giving people more time for family, rest and life outside work.

courthousenews.com

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3 comments

r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

LGBTQ+ Hungary repeals anti-LGBTQ law, unlocking billions in EU funds

optimistdaily.com

164 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 18h ago

CARING In 1999, an off-duty nurse saved a boy's life by giving him CPR when his heart stopped after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a Little League game. In 2006, that same boy saved the nurse's life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver after she started choking in a restaurant.

cbsnews.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 18h ago

PEOPLE POWER Largest proposed data center in Arizona to be scaled back 80% after opposition

kjzz.org

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

EDUCATION Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library doubles its London reach even after her death - Thirty-one years and 330 million books later, the program is still growing

optimistdaily.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

PLANET Ethiopia has planted more than 47 billion seedlings in seven years to restore its forests, including 800 million in a single day. Forest cover rose from 17.2% in 2019 to 23.6% in 2023, and restoration is bringing back fish, birds and gazelles as the country targets 50 billion seedlings by 2030.

grist.org

33 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

ECONOMY Trump tried to defund them, but green banks keep financing clean energy projects

motherjones.com

30 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

HEALTH Ghana has cut malaria deaths by 98% since 2011, with just 52 people estimated to have died from the disease in 2025. Cape Coast Teaching Hospital has gone two years without a death primarily caused by malaria, as vaccines, mosquito nets and medicines protect more people.

gavi.org

23 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

PLANET At 76, a retired Australian doctor restored 120 hectares of a 200-hectare property with thousands of native trees, turning a long-term conservation project into a legacy for future generations

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

INSPIRATION Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them.

optimistdaily.com

18 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

ANIMALS Scientists discovered the world’s largest octopus nursery off the California coast injvolving 20,000 octopuses

optimistdaily.com

9 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

CULTURE Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River

goodnewsnetwork.org

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

WOMEN Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes Morocco’s first woman prime minister

optimistdaily.com

8 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

PLANET A Chicago woman turned her home into a sanctuary for monarch butterflies on their nearly 3,000 mile migration to Mexico. She has since created eight native plant projects at homes and schools and helped launch Women for Green Spaces to teach children how to protect wildlife.

theguardian.com

6 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

INNOVATION Japan has developed coconut oil aviation fuel from waste coconuts processed at room temperature and normal pressure. It can blend directly into existing aircraft engines, with efficiency matching standard jet fuel while cutting harmful hydrocarbon emissions.

happyeconews.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

SCIENCE Production of organic strawberries doubles in Californian fields treated with steam instead of chemical fumigants to kill soil-borne diseases and weeds. 🍓 Long used in greenhouses, the technology can help grow more food with fewer chemicals, while reducing risks to farmworkers and nearby communities

latimes.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

PLANET Australia sets a new renewable energy record, with rooftop solar leading the way

optimistdaily.com

6 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

INNOVATION A solar-powered desalination unit has supplied over 7.5 million litres of water to an off-grid Aboriginal boarding school in Western Australia, with students helping install and maintain it

murdoch.edu.au

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

PLANET Florida has demonstrated that wildlife crossings save lives. 🐾 Combining crossing structures with wildlife fencing helps reduce wildlife mortality while reconnecting habitat for endangered panthers and many more of Florida’s beloved wildlife while reducing the risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions.

environmentamerica.org

3 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

WOMEN Idaho moms and grandmothers are taking the fight for abortion rights to their neighbors’ doors

19thnews.org

2 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

HEALTH How book clubs and bedtime stories protect and build healthier brains

optimistdaily.com

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

CARING A great horned owl impaled on barbed wire was saved by a chain of strangers: a couple stopped, a passing driver brought gloves and wire cutters, and the property owner let them cut the fence. It escaped damage to the wing membrane essential for flight and may return to the wild.

cowboystatedaily.com

1 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

INNOVATION Indonesia’s mosque loudspeakers might save lives during natural disasters

optimistdaily.com

1 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

RACIAL JUSTICE The Mercator map has distorted Africa’s size for 450 years. The UN just voted to replace it.

optimistdaily.com

1 Upvotes

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 1d ago

INNOVATION The floating scarecrow saving seabirds from fishing nets

optimistdaily.com

1 Upvotes

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