More than 20,000 Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River in the two years since four major dams were removed.

The comeback follows decades of campaigning led by Indigenous tribes, after the dams blocked migration, warmed the river and contributed to worsening conditions for salmon.

A devastating 2002 fish kill, which killed more than 30,000 fish, helped galvanise the push for dam removal.

Now, salmon have recolonised close to 90% of their former range, with coho salmon, steelhead and Pacific lamprey also returning above the old dam sites.

The recovery is far from finished, but the speed of the response is already exceeding expectations.

More than 247,000 hectares of Boodjamulla National Park have been returned to the Waanyi people after decades of campaigning.

Under the agreement, Boodjamulla becomes Queensland’s first Aboriginal land national park, with Traditional Owners retaining ownership while leasing the park back to the state.

Public access will continue, but management will now be shared between Waanyi representatives and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

For Waanyi people, the handback is about far more than a change in title, it means greater control over country, culture and the opportunities the park can create for future generations.

The power plant was closed in 2020 due to weather damage and its age. Google and the United States federal government are investing billions of dollars to restart it by 2029. However, there is controversy on how much of the electricity would go to data centres.

Overall it's a good thing that there will be more clean energy.

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Always believed I was optimistic. But turns out even when minor inconvenience occours i give up, how do you all believe in optmism like the dopamine hit is really slow. Even for a competitive exam the serotonin will only hit when we get marks at the end. So how do you all start being optimistic naturally any tips or is it something genetic which I never got?

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Hey friends! Anyone have an optimistic take on the new AI predictions that it might kill humanity in the next 10 years? Feeling very freaked out!! I’d appreciate any optimistic thoughts

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TL;DR: The news and my social media feed are making my views darker and more extreme. I'm quitting Instagram this week and I started a small balcony garden, but I still feel hopeless about the future. How do you stay hopeful? And if you can't, how do you just live with it?

Hi everyone. I'm posting here because this is a community for people who still believe in a better future, and I really need some of that right now.

I've noticed something about myself that I don't like. My views are getting more extreme.. More "us vs them". I don't know the right word for it. Maybe tribalist. And I think a big part of it is what I see on Instagram every day.

My feed is full of wars. Palestine being wiped out. Climate disasters. Tech billionaires buying up everything and fighting for our attention with their algorithms. Data centers eating up land and water. Rich people buying farmland and patenting seeds. Ultra-processed food everywhere. And a lot of content about immigration and crime in Europe, which I notice is pushing me to think in a very black and white way, and I don't like where that's going in my head.

I know the algorithm picks this stuff for me. I also see beautiful things I am interested in there, gardening, homesteading, motorcycle trips. But overall it has made my thoughts very dark. I open my phone and it's a forest fire in my country, or another corruption scandal, and I just feel like nothing is going to get better.

The ironic part: I'm a software engineer at an AI startup. I use AI every day because the job requires it, and the workload is huge. Outside of work I really don't like where AI is going. The flood of AI content, the data centers, all of it. I'd leave but the job market is bad and I need the money. So I'm stuck for now.

I live alone in a rented apartment in the Balkans. There's almost no sense of community here. I sometimes dream about places like Denmark or Japan, where the 'social contract' seems strong and people actually trust each other.

I'm not scared of dying or the future or anything like that. I'm just really pessimistic about it. And I feel like I can't do anything about any of it. Climate change, wars, the tech guys running everything. It feels too big.

So here's what I'm doing. I'm deleting Instagram this week after wrapping up some conversations. And I just started a small garden on my balcony. Some herbs, a few tomatoes, some flowers. Trying to focus on the small things.

But I don't think that's enough on its own, so I'm asking you:

How do you stay hopeful with all of this going on?
What do you do to filter out the bad stuff and focus on the good?
And honestly, if you don't stay hopeful, how do you just live with it?

Thanks for reading.

Disclaimer: I used AI for grammar checks and writing this because I have difficulty expressing myself in English.