Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. New Zealand to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for Pacific Island neighbors, including Samoa and Tonga. – Source
2. Bees don’t just love cannabis. It can also help save their dying populations. – Source
3. African cheetah to be re-introduced in India after it was declared extinct 68 years ago. – Source
4. She was demoted, doubted, and rejected. Now, her work is the basis of the COVID-19 vaccine. – Source
5. MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, gave away more than $4 billion over the last 4 months to help those impacted economically by the pandemic. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. New Jersey legislators passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana possession. – Source
7. Grandma who survived COVID-19 after ICU stay delivers 800 handmade tamales to Cedars-Sinai workers. – Source
8. Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday. – Source
9. Henry the Crocodile celebrates his 120th Birthday. – Source
10. Gay conversion therapy: Hundreds of religious leaders call for a ban. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. ‘Happy corals’: climate crisis sanctuary teeming with life found off East Africa. – Source
12. The largest coal plant in the western United States was demolished today. – Source
13. Two 12-year-old boys made $250,000 during the pandemic and are giving back to local animal shelters. – Source
14. Japanese city of Akashi to certify same-sex couples, children as ‘family’; a first in Japan. – Source
15. The first vaccine has been given in New York, beginning America’s most ambitious vaccination campaign. – Source
