Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. New law: Seniors on medicare kick off New Year with $35 insulin. – Source
2. Scarborough, Yorkshire, canceled their New Year’s fireworks so that Thor, the Arctic Walrus, could continue to sleep in the harbor. Chris Cook, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, said that the creature needs to rest and recuperate before he continues his journey. – Source
3. A barber in Buffalo turned his shop into a shelter for 50 people during the killer blizzard. They slept in the chairs and the floor with barber capes as blankets. – Source
4. The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed. – Source
5. “Total disbelief”: Cat missing for nearly 6 years reunited with owner thanks to a microchip. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. New York opens its first legal recreational marijuana dispensary. – Source
7. Brazil has the first Indigenous woman chief for the key post. – Source
8. France bans disposable tableware in fast-food restaurants, saving 100,000 tonnes of waste. – Source
9. Mcdonald’s workers take in more than 50 people during the storm. – Source
10. Adik the dog stolen by Russian soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Defying expectations, EU carbon emissions drop to 30-year lows. – Source
12. Once an open sewer, New York Harbor now teems with life. Thank the Clean Water Act. – Source
13. Marathon man Gary McKee hits £1m goal after the 365th run of 2022. – Source
14. Bats plunge to the ground in Texas cold; Nearly 1,600 saved by incubators, and fluids. – Source
15. Tobacco firms to partly pay for clean-up of butts. – Source
