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What went right in 2022: the top 25 good news stories of the year
Dec 20, 2022 · 1. The energy paradigm shifted Two things happened this year that may have changed the energy paradigm forever. The first was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s subsequent dash to wean itself off Russian gas while ramping up renewables.
What went right in 2023: the top 25 good news stories of the year
Dec 19, 2023 · 1. The world entered a ‘golden age’ of medicine. The burgeoning medical revolution was a major theme of 2023. “We are seeing a pace of progress that has not been witnessed for 100 years,” Bertalan Mesk ó, director of the Medical Futurist Institute in Budapest, told Positive News in October.. Mesk ó is among a chorus of voices hailing a new ‘golden age’ of medicine – thanks, in ...
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What went right in 2021: the top 26 good news stories of the year
Dec 24, 2021 · 5. Other viruses were kicked into touch An Ebola outbreak that erupted in Guinea in February was declared over by June.It claimed 12 lives. While each death is a tragedy, the toll highlights the progress that has been made tackling the virus in West Africa: by comparison, more than 11,000 people died during the 2013-16 epidemic.
What went right in 2020: the top 20 good news stories of the year
Dec 22, 2020 · Efforts to improve access to electricity in developing nations are bearing fruit, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in October. It found that the number of people without electricity dropped from almost 860 million in 2018 to 770 million in 2019, which the IEA claimed was a record low.
5 possible solutions to overpopulation - Positive News
Jul 10, 2017 · 2. Promote family planning. Simply educating men and women about contraception can have a big impact. When Iran introduced a national family planning programme in 1989, its fertility rate fell from 5.6 births per woman to 2.6 in a decade.
Five workable solutions to deforestation - Positive News
Jun 15, 2022 · 2. Give indigenous people control of the land. Research suggests that one of the most effective solutions to deforestation is giving indigenous people control of the land.A 2021 study found that tree-felling reduced by a fifth where indigenous communities were in control.In some cases, deforestation rates were lower than in national parks.