Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Whales seen in hundreds off NYC shores, drawn by cleaner waters. – Source
2. New Zealand wants to make people happy, not rich. New Zealand’s latest budget, unveiled this week, is being touted as the first in a Western country to put well-being over economic pressures. – Source
3. Genetically enhanced fungus killed 99% of Malaria-causing mosquitos in the trial. – Source
4. Texas medical student survives 6 brain surgeries while studying to be a doctor at the hospital treating her. – Source
5. New Filipino law requires all students to plant 10 trees if they want to graduate. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Sweden’s recycling is so good, the country has run out of garbage. They now have to import rubbish from other countries to keep their recycling plants going. – Source
7. In one year, this woman has picked up 2 tonnes of plastic ocean trash. – Source
8. High school and college STEM students build electric cars for kids with disabilities for free. – Source
9. Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer: 93% of girls now receive the HPV vaccine. – Source
10. MacKenzie Bezos, worth nearly $37 billion, will give half her fortune to charity. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. The UK’s astonishing coal-free run continues two weeks and counting. The world’s fifth largest economy has not switched on its coal plants since the 17th of May. – Source
12. Farmers stand together in silence so a young man can buy back his family farmhouse. – Source
13. Colorado governor signs gay conversion therapy ban. – Source
14. A North Carolina barbershop owner has raised enough money to erase the debts of more than a dozen high school seniors who risked not graduating if they didn’t pay them off. – Source
15. Jamaican businessman organizes trash-collecting tournament removes over 11,000lbs of trash from the sea. – Source
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