on technology, science and human progress.
Could climate anxiety be on the decline? According to a recent survey, most people believe that they live a sustainable life.
Finally the Australian humpback whale has recovered enough to be taken off the endangered species list. Last Friday, the North Island brown kiwi was also classified as โno longer threatenedโ.
Researchers have designed speakers that are no thicker than a sheet of pape and can be "wallpapered" on the walls.
In Sweden, a seafarm wants to show how seaweed can become a future food necessity and a possible resource for plastics and biofuel by growing it in abundance all year round.
A new automated and eco-friendly water taxi launches in the Netherlands. Itโs called the Roboat and itโs now navigating the canals running through Amsterdam.
A research team from UCLA have proposed a solution to the CO2 problem and they believe the ocean to be the key.
A community in Kenya called Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) regrew its forest and by doing so reduced their flooding problem.
This experimental โsuper forestโ in England aims to show us how to plant trees the right way.
A physical product that becomes digital end up so cheap and accessible in its final stages that it becomes democratized.
Ocean Cleanup has designed a pair of sunglasses from the trash they have gathered from oceans and other watercourses.
There is still hope for the wild red wolf after the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina, welcomed a litter of pups.
The Morlais tidal energy project aims to create energy from one of the most untapped and overlooked methods to create renewable energy.
A year ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the ivory-billed woodpecker was extinct. According to a team of researchers, the woodpecker is now reported alive and pecking in Louisiana's forests.
A newly developed way to improve crop quality without any genetic modification might make the promise of scientific advancement in food production come sooner.
Ecuador has become the first country in the world to grant legal rights to individual wild animals, all thanks to the woolly monkey Estrellita.
โMy hope is that this helps humanity to understand what really creates value and direct our efforts, capital, passion and energy into those things,โ says Annu Nieminen. She has created the Upright platform that measures the impact of 15 000 companies.
We're honored to present these top reads from World-Class writers, who contribute to Warp News because they believe in our mission of spreading fact-based optimism all over the world.
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that โso-called-progressโ is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.
As an optimist, you are often faced with an interesting dilemma: the rest of the world thinks that the world is getting worse, and you yourself think that it will get better โ should you try to convince everyone else that it really gets better, Nicklas Berild Lundblad asks.
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.
If you thought that the successful moon landing in the '60s was due to luck and high ambitions, you are wrong. Nicklas Berild Lundblad writes about how optimism should be based on an analysis of what growing human abilities can achieve.
There is more to the question than you might think. It helps you shape your future, from a point in the future- as well as discover a richness of potential outcomes.
An increasing number of people think the future belongs to China. Interestingly, thatโs what well-informed pundits assumed 1,000 years ago as well. The reason that those predictions turned out wrong tells us something important about Chinaโs prospects this time.