What Went Right This Year: 10 Positive Stories From 2023
1️⃣Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Was Way Down
The Amazon rainforest has long been a prime example of the importance of fighting climate change — the essential ecosystem (and carbon sink) has suffered from devastating deforestation, fires, and more over recent decades. But 2023 proved to be a banner year for Brazil’s portion of the rainforest.
#NiceNews #GoodNews #ClimateChange #2023
2️⃣Harvard Researchers Found the Key to Happiness
Happiness is an amorphous concept, one that means something different to each individual person. But this year, Ivy League researchers seemed to get as close as they could to nailing down that elusive “key to happiness” — and it all has to do with our connections to one another.
3️⃣Guinea Worm Disease Got Close to Eradication
The World Health Organization declared in 1980 that smallpox had officially been wiped out, thanks to successful vaccination campaigns around the globe. In 2023, another illness got on track to become the second-ever infectious disease to be eradicated, and the first to reach the milestone without medicine or a vaccine.
@nursefrombirth Amazing story. They did it by changing cultural norms.