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☣️ Toxic chemicals have decreased by 21% over ten years. 🌬️ Significantly improved air quality in Europe. 👩⚕️ Sharp decline in tuberculosis in Cambodia. 🌎 The vast majority believe in climate change.
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We published 27 fact-based optimistic news in March. (We could write many more if we had the resources.) Among these are news that should have made global headlines. Like India eliminating extreme poverty or the significant improvement in air quality in Europe.
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☯️ Bad and better – at the same time
For the first time, fewer than five million children are dying per year. Fantastic! But... nearly five million dead children, terrible! Hans Rosling taught us that something can be bad and get better at the same time.
💡 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.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
👩⚕️ Sharp decline in tuberculosis in Cambodia
The number of tuberculosis deaths has decreased by 45 percent during the 21st century. New cases of tuberculosis have also decreased by 45 percent during the same time period.
🌬️ Significantly improved air quality in Europe over the past two decades, study shows
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health demonstrates significant improvements in air quality across Europe. Levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide have decreased by 1.7-2.7 percent per year.
☣️ Toxic chemical emissions have decreased by 21% over ten years
Emissions of toxic chemicals in the USA decreased by 21 percent between 2013 and 2022. Over this ten-year period, emissions from manufacturing facilities decreased by 9 percent while the economic value that the manufacturing industry contributed to the American economy increased by 14 percent.
🌎 The vast majority believe in climate change and want to do something about it (but think others don't)
A study published in Science, in which 59,000 people in 63 countries were surveyed, showed that 86% "believe" in climate change. 86% think that people in their country "should try to combat global warming." However, they wrongly believe that others do not think the same.
🍅 New CRISPR tomatoes require less water, but yield remains the same
Scientists have used CRISPR technology to create tomatoes that use water more efficiently. These tomatoes require less water to grow but still produce the same amount of tomatoes, with the same taste and quality.
🌽 The Food Price Index has dropped for the seventh consecutive month – the lowest in three years
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that the Food Price Index in February fell to its lowest level in three years. Prices for cereals, especially corn and wheat, decreased by 5 percent.
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