At what must have been some low point this year, I started collecting the good news of 2022. Here goes. Fin whales making a comeback in the Antarctic. wsj.com/articles/whale…
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Electric car sales are way up -- even with supply-chain pinches. 2/ #goodnews2022 nytimes.com/2022/07/14/bus…
Guinea worm disease - a horrible illness in lower-income countries, is almost gone. 3/ #goodnews2022 ourworldindata.org/guinea-worm-pa…
Sleeping sickness is gone in three African countries. 4/ #goodnews2022 who.int/news/item/24-0…
Japan ends stupid restrictions on the remarriage of divorced women. 5/ #goodnews2022 archive.ph/GUq7I
Narcan (reverses opioid overdoses) is going over the counter with real price competition. 6/ #goodnews2022 wsj.com/articles/narca…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is leaning less. 7/ #goodnews2022 thehistoryblog.com/archives/65973
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted huge acceleration in the predicted adoption of renewable, nonpolluting energy. 8/ #goodnews2022 iea.org/reports/renewa…
Scientists nailed this year's flu vaccine. Get it! 9/ #goodnews2022 amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/05…
The loss of mangrove forests, important for coastal protection and carbon storage, is slowing and maybe stopping. 10/ #goodnews2022 news.mongabay.com/2022/11/mangro…
Forests are returning to Nepal. 12/ #goodnews2022 nytimes.com/2022/11/11/wor…
Lula's victory in Brazil is good news for the Amazon rainforest. 13/ #goodnews2022 cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ama…
Breakthrough in research on the origins of the enigmatic Basque language. 14/ #goodnews2022
https://twitter.com/AlsDodds/status/1592124116748103681
Deworming saves children's lives. 15/ #goodnews2022
https://twitter.com/salonium/status/1589969884859232257
Beavers make a comeback in Europe. 16/ #goodnews2022
https://twitter.com/Loca1ion/status/1587078800890040320
Reasons to be optimistic about clean hydrogen energy? 17/ #goodnews2022
https://twitter.com/gnievchenko/status/1545409816130207744?s=20&t=_lZQB_GYKvhqO2CN2PaimA
Coral reefs may be totally doomed. 18/ #goodnews2022 archive.ph/DTQKa
Over the long term, US child poverty has plunged. (But we still need to restore the American Rescue Plan child tax credit!!) 19/ #goodnews2022 childtrends.org/publications/l…
Waters around NYC are cleaner than they have been in a very long time. Whales are swimming in them. 20/ #goodnews2022 economist.com/united-states/…
There is a new dengue vaccine. 21/ #goodnews2022 ema.europa.eu/en/news/new-va…
Vaccine science may finally make progress against malaria, which kills half a million kids a year. 22/ #goodnews2022 economist.com/science-and-te…
Comeback for the American chestnut? 23/ #goodnews2022 washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…
More progress on neglected tropical diseases. 24/ #goodnews2022
https://twitter.com/progressntwrk/status/1564608175147565068
Feds deregulate hearing aids, disrupting a robber-baron industry. 25/ #goodnews2022 nytimes.com/2022/08/16/hea…
United States, the world's worst greenhouse polluter along with China, passes a climate act. 26/ #goodnews2022 scientificamerican.com/article/biden-…
Australian parliament passes first climate legislation in a long time. 27/ #goodnews2022 theguardian.com/australia-news…
Women of Iran rise against the murderous fundamentalists who run the place. 28/ #goodnews2022 euronews.com/2022/12/20/ira…
Amazing Ukrainian resistance thrills the world and yet again exposes the weakness of autocratic, non-open societies. Yay Karl Popper! Yay @FukuyamaFrancis! 29/ #goodnews2022 foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukrain….
The Ethiopian civil war seems to be ending. 30/ #goodnews2022 nytimes.com/2022/12/11/bri…
I'm sure there's more but that's what I got. Happy holidays everyone and here's to a decent 2023.
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