📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🥤 Maldives taking action to reduce plastic waste – targeting 85 percent reduction
With simple methods, the Maldives should be able to turn an expected increase in plastic waste in the sea into a drastic reduction.
🤸♀️ One youth in three felt better during the pandemic
Better sleeping habits and less bullying are some of the reasons why a large proportion of British young people actually felt better mentally during the beginning of the pandemic.
Iceland could stop all whale hunting by 2024
Whale fishing has such little economic significance that the Icelandic government expects that no new permits for whaling will be granted after 2023.
🗳️ Behind dark headlines for democracy there is also progress
Is democracy in crisis? 2021 was a bad year and 2022 has started negatively. But if you look over time - behind some headlines - more countries are free today. Writes political scientist Max Rånge who has created democracy index.
🌲 IKEA buys land and turns it into forests
IKEA has bought 1321 hectares of land previously destroyed by hurricanes and plan to turn it into forests.
🐟 Scotland shades rivers to save salmons
Scotland will plant over a million trees along the nation's rivers to cool the waters in order to help save the wild salmon.
♻️ Science moms on a mission to spread climate optimism
These science moms are on a mission to fight climate change for their children by spreading science-based climate optimism. They want to fight “climate doomerism”.
🐠 Coral reef untouched by climate change
A coral reef untouched by climate change and human activity has been found in the depth of the South Pacific Ocean, outside Haiti.
🌱 Plant-based chewing gum can reduce the spread of Covid-19
A new chewing gum can help stop the spread of corona virus. The gum lowers the viral particles by 95 percent.