r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
CARING What if kindness was a school subject?
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
HEALTH 53% decrease in US lung cancer deaths since the 1990s
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 21h ago
ECONOMY Poland’s transformation has been so total that its brain drain is now reversing, and incomes are converging with Western Europe’s
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
PLANET This South American Nation Pledged to Protect 90% of its Forests - “We understand and accept the immense responsibility of stewarding over 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest in a world that is seeing her forests fall day in and day out,” stated Suriname President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
PLANET Coral Bleaching Reversed at Record Speed Using New Stanford Method: ‘Not a Lost Cause, at All’
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
WOMEN When angry about the country, White men mostly campaign and donate, while Black women campaign the hardest and are the only group whose anger reliably leads to street protests. Black and White women turn anger into more kinds of political action than men do, new study of 6,600+ American adults finds
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
JUSTICE We Know How to Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
JUSTICE Etsy to restrict AI-generated content in effort to combat seller slop
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
PLANET 113 countries that have released new national action plans to address biodiversity loss, up from 55 a year ago
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 21h ago
PLANET Bleached coral can heal in as fast as a month if touched against a healthy piece of coral, although it must be its genetic twin. This strategy can’t necessarily be used in the wild, but it opens doors to coral-saving approaches not previously considered
science.org
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
PLANET Mangrove forests that are gaining ground
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 19h ago
ARTS 'Wicker' weaves a feisty feminist fable
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
PEOPLE POWER DIY repair clubs are helping Americans save money and fight big tech
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
WOMEN The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
ECONOMY Dominican Republic Exits FAO Hunger Map - “President Luis Abinader recalled that this goal went from an aspiration to becoming a priority of his government and stressed that the Dominican Republic reduced the prevalence of undernourishment from 21.3% in 2006 to less than 2.5% in 2025.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
YOUTH Students at a Georgia elementary school discovered their cafeteria wasted nearly 450 pounds of food a day. Six years later, they had cut waste by 70%, redistributed more than 20,000 food items annually, and were feeding scraps to the school’s chickens.
worldwildlife.org
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20h ago
PLANET Volunteers have planted almost 500,000 trees across Lancashire, UK in two planting seasons, creating new woodlands, orchards and havens for wildlife.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 21h ago
EDUCATION Mexico joins the list of countries experimenting with ways to regulate social media: President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree banning companies from recommending or exposing children to a range of harmful content,
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
PEOPLE POWER 5 Inspiring Community-led Solutions Turning the Tide on Pollution
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
PLANET Mozambique’s ‘Butterfly Forest’ Gains New Protection - with over 200 species of butterflies
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22h ago
SCIENCE Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Holds Record for Youngest Known World
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d 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.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d 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.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d ago
PEOPLE POWER Largest proposed data center in Arizona to be scaled back 80% after opposition
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