Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Colombia is the first in the Western Hemisphere to protect 30% of the ocean. – Source
2. How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public. – Source
3. James Webb Space Telescope operating better than expected. – Source
4. Bruce’s Beach returned to a family nearly a century after a seizure. – Source
5. Boy missing for eight days in Germany found alive in the sewer. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Polish court rules that four “LGBT-free zones” must be abolished. – Source
7. A Ukrainian TV host crowdfunded $20 million to buy Bayraktar drones. The company making them refused the money and said it’d donate the aircraft instead. – Source
8. A new, PET-like plastic has been developed that is easily made from the non-edible parts of plants, which is a promising candidate for food packaging. It can be chemically recycled and degrade back to harmless sugars. – Source
9. Germany to return looted artifacts to Africa. – Source
10. Western monarch populations grew over 100-fold in 2021. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. 1,000 dogs are put down every day. These trainers are trying to save them, and virtually all can be saved in the new ASPCA rescue model. – Source
12. A month after getting shot in the face, the grandmother of the Uvalde school shooter is released from a hospital. – Source
13. Revolutionary new Swiss ‘water battery’ will be one of Europe’s main renewable sources of energy. – Source
14. Florida judge says he’ll delay the 15-week abortion law. – Source
15. Arizona offers free college tuition to the state’s Native students. – Source