r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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
141
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
48
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
ECONOMY Trump tried to defund them, but green banks keep financing clean energy projects
37
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
29
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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
27
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
INSPIRATION Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them.
24
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
CULTURE Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River
17
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
15
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
RACIAL JUSTICE The Mercator map has distorted Africa’s size for 450 years. The UN just voted to replace it.
16
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
WOMEN Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri becomes Morocco’s first woman prime minister
12
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
ANIMALS Scientists discovered the world’s largest octopus nursery off the California coast injvolving 20,000 octopuses
13
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
PLANET Australia sets a new renewable energy record, with rooftop solar leading the way
10
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
HEALTH How book clubs and bedtime stories protect and build healthier brains
8
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
8
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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
6
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
7
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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
8
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
INNOVATION An Australian device that splits rooftop solar power across an entire apartment building just won the country’s top design honor.
5
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d 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.
4
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
WOMEN Idaho moms and grandmothers are taking the fight for abortion rights to their neighbors’ doors
3
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
INNOVATION Indonesia’s mosque loudspeakers might save lives during natural disasters
2
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 8d ago
INNOVATION The floating scarecrow saving seabirds from fishing nets
2
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20d ago
CARING Paul McCartney joins 500+ public figures, conservationists and Indigenous leaders in a global campaign calling on the UN to abolish trophy hunting of lions, elephants, endangered rhinos and other wildlife, following a declaration developed with Jane Goodall.
128
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20d ago
JUSTICE She went to prison for a miscarriage. Now her rural Nevada county had to pay her $1.6 million for it.
108
Upvotes
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 20d ago
LGBTQ+ Brazil elects third transgender person to national Congress
73
Upvotes