📅 Monthly summary
💡 Fact-based optimistic news from October
❌ UK closes last coal power plant - end of a 142-year era. 🤰 Obesity in the US is decreasing. 🧊 They are developing a technology to restore sea ice in the Arctic. 🦌 Saiga antelope goes from endangered to thriving.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news from September
💊 Overdoses from opioids are finally beginning to decrease in the US. 📉 Large decrease in domestic violence. 👩🚀 First private spacewalk conducted. 🔋 Solar energy and battery storage set to double in the US this year. 🦾 AI avatars protect journalists in Venezuela.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news from August
🌾 Lower food prices, thanks to record harvests. ⚖️ Global inequality decreases. 🌅 Wind and solar energy surpass coal power in the EU, in the US and in China. 🔥 Much lower risk of fire in electric cars. 🦾 AI Scientist can write science papers on its own.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news from July
🐝 Insects in Sweden have not decreased. 👮 Crime continues to decline in major American cities. 📞 Chatbots used to trick phone scammers. 🐳 AI has been used to identify a phonetic alphabet in whales
💡 21 fact-based optimistic news from June
🌎 The last ozone-depleting chemical is now decreasing. 🚀 First crash-free test of Starship. ✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased dramatically. 🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? New stats suggest so. 🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon reaches lowest level since 2018.
💡 22 fact-based optimistic news from May
🌍 We have passed "peak pollution". 👩⚕️ We are close to eradicating polio. 🧠 Neuralink's first patient can control a computer with his mind. 🚗 Waymo's robotaxi has now reached 50,000 paid trips per week. 🏭 Record reduction in emissions within the EU emissions trading system.
💡 24 fact-based optimistic news from April
❌ Slovakia closes its last coal-fired power plant – six years ahead of schedule. 🏢 Thousands of deaths avoided in Taiwan earthquake. 🛫 Successful demo flight with the first private supersonic aircraft since Concorde. 🦾 Chatbot convinced conspiracy theorists.
💡 27 fact-based optimistic news from March
🧒🏿 UN: Historic milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. 📉 India has eliminated extreme poverty. 🌾 28 years of GMO food without any harm. 🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a human for the first time.
💡 23 fact-based optimistic news from February
📈 People with Down syndrome live more than twice as long today. 🌚 A private company successfully lands on the moon for the first time. 🔫 Sharp decline in U.S. murders during 2023. 🦟 Cape Verde reaches milestone – free from malaria