📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🌏 Is the world really a dangerous place for a traveler?
Hidden historical treasures, clear waters, high peaks, colourful districts. The world is full of beauty ready to be discovered, often with safer conditions than you expect.
🏭 3M stops making harmful "forever chemicals"
The risk of having to pay large damage compensations causes 3M to abandon the manufacture of the "forever chemicals" PFAS, which can remain in nature for a thousand years or more.
🚀 Jim O'Shaughnessy launches new venture for creators
Wall Street legend, Jim O'Shaughnessy, is looking for creators around the globe.
🔬 Cell glue – a breakthrough for regenerative medicine
Engineered molecules with glue-like properties open the door to regenerating tissues, healing wounds and regenerating nerves. The knowledge can also make it easier to study diseases.
🤔 Shockingly bad? Think for a moment before you swallow the bait
Too bad to be true? The Warp News columnist gives three examples: A white van, dead construction workers in Qatar, and extremely extreme weather.
🌊 30% of Barbados' seas to be protected under "Blue Bond" funding
The island nation of Barbados is to receive 50 million dollars in funding for conservation of its entire marine ecosystem as a part of a debt-for-nature refinancing program.
📅 The four-day working week increases both well-being and productivity
A pilot study in which the employees worked one day less a week was such a success that all 33 companies that participated in the study intend to continue with the four-day week.
🦏 Zimbabwe’s endangered black rhinos are making a comeback
In Zimbabwe, rhinoceros populations are beginning to recover which indicates that conservation efforts are making a difference.
🦋 Endangered blue butterfly quadruples in numbers - saves a lupine from extinction
The conservation work to save a butterfly, once thought to be extinct, causes a chain reaction and saves a lupine from extinction as well.