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A major arts and heritage conservation project in China has born unexpected fruit thousands of miles away in New York City. In the Chinese arts and antiquities gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 50-foot-long mu
Dan Cuthern had been under a Missouri overpass with his dog Bentley for more than a decade — until five women decided to change that.
Fifteen years old and missing for more than ten of them, Buttercup turned up at a Florida shelter — and her chip did the rest.
Twenty-three calves were spotted this season — a hopeful sign for one of the world's most endangered whales.
Science Wins
Episode Description: Arielle and Karissa cover ten solutions this week, including 20,000 octopuses hiding in well-studied waters off the California coast, what Indonesian mosque loudspeakers have to do with earthquake su
Science Wins
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall there’s a pull to tidy things up. Cut back the perennials, rake the leaves, clear the beds, put the garden to rest. It feels satisfying, honestly, and spring does seem to s
Science Wins
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you’ve bought a Japanese sweet potato, cut into it expecting orange, and found creamy white instead, you’ve already spotted the first thing that sets it apart. The skin is reddish-
The Planet
The world’s roads got much safer, global hunger levels eased, and Brazil set a welcome record for deforestation, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news that matters appeared first on Positive News .
The Planet
A Ukrainian city is preparing to hold a repair festival in an underground shelter, giving new meaning to the act of fixing broken things The post In Ukraine, the repair movement is heading underground appeared first on P
Even when discontent is near-universal and the desire for change is palpable, the way forward is not always clear.
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A new study has discovered that contact with nature may help people develop healthier eating habits. The research from Anglia Ruskin University in the UK is reportedly the first to provide evidence that exposure to natur
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A high school teacher in Sandy Springs, Georgia, got an unexpected surprise on her way to work earlier this month. “It was a pretty wild story,” she told GNN—and it happened just in time to celebrate her Halloween weddin
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An Oregon couple facing financial hardship can now endure the winter in comfort and with ‘peace of mind’ since a new HVAC system was installed in their home at no cost. Diane and Brian Johnsen of Beaverton received a com
The news moves fast; progress moves slowly. Zoom out, and the long trends are some of the best good news there is.
Share of the world living on less than ~$2.15/day. About half the world was in extreme poverty in 1950; today it's fewer than one in ten.
Share of children who die before their fifth birthday. It has fallen in every decade since 1950 — from nearly 1 in 4 to fewer than 1 in 25.
Source: UN IGME / World Bank
Share of adults who can read and write. It has climbed from roughly a third of the world in 1950 to nearly nine in ten today.
Source: UNESCO / Our World in Data
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