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Jacob Atkins @atkins_jacob1
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Since I’m bored and 2017 was full of negative news stories, I’ve found some positive stories you probably didn’t hear about.

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Scientists have found a way to successfully rebreed sections of the Great Barrier Reef.
Once Amazon’s new headquarters is finished it will include space to shelter 200 homeless people.
The snow leopard has been taken off the endangered species list.
HIV/AIDS is no longer the leading cause of death in Africa.
Honey bee populations have increased by 27%. Researchers have also found an insecticide that doesn’t kill bees.
A shoe company in Argentina makes shoes from recycled tires and employs only women from rural areas.
Conservationists agreed to plant 73 million trees over the next 6 years in the Amazon rainforest. New Zealand’s next prime minster wants to plant 100 million trees next year.
Even though it doesn’t seem like it, crime has decreased by 2.7% this year.
Child labor rates have declined by half since 2000.
In Lexington Kentucky, people who get parking tickets can pay them off by donating canned goods to the local food banks.
Last story, probably heard of it but I like it. At the end of the 1st quarter of football games the University of Iowa fans stand and wave to the kids in the children’s hospital across the street.
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