NATURE
DONE BY HAND.
NATURE
The diggers couldn't get there. So they fixed the bog by hand.
Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.
SOURCENatureScot
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NATURE
DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.
NATURE
The dams came down. More than 20,000 salmon came back.
Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.
SOURCEScientific Reports
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HUMANS
800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.
HUMANS
They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.
About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.
SOURCEBorneo Futures
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HUMANS
$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.
HUMANS
The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.
Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.
SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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NATURE
208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.
NATURE
Seven “turtle women” sent 208 hatchlings back to the Amazon.
235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.
SOURCEMongabay
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PROGRESS
THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.
PROGRESS
The world map is finally admitting how big Africa is.
Africa was not small. The map was weird.
SOURCEAssociated Press
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HUMANS
SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
HUMANS
The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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PROGRESS
RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.
PROGRESS
Thailand just knocked rubella off the public-health list.
Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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NATURE
THE LAND CHANGED HANDS.
NATURE
7,500 acres just switched sides.
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
SOURCEThe Guardian
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NATURE
ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.
NATURE
One weird bird helped build 19 nature reserves.
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
SOURCEThe Guardian
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HUMANS
THE BOAT ADAPTED.
HUMANS
The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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PROGRESS
STONE IS LOAD-BEARING AGAIN.
PROGRESS
They built a high-rise out of stone. Like, structurally.
The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.
SOURCEDezeen
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NATURE
THE WATER IS COMING BACK.
NATURE
We drained the swamp. Now we’re un-draining it.
A 23-square-mile tract of drained North Carolina peatland is being rewetted, replanted and restored to hold water, reduce fire risk, rebuild habitat and stop releasing so much stored carbon. Sometimes progress is admitting the ditch was a bad idea.
SOURCEAssociated Press
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HUMANS
DINNER. YOUR PRICE.
HUMANS
100 restaurants said: pay what you can.
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
SOURCEPaga Lo Que Puedas / Masala y Maíz via Good Good Good
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PROGRESS
TRACHOMA, REGION-WIDE, GONE.
PROGRESS
A whole region just knocked trachoma off the public-health list.
WHO has validated Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. Because it was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region where the disease was still suspected to be a public-health problem, the entire region has now cleared that threshold.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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HUMANS
HUNTING SKILLS. NEW MISSION.
HUMANS
The hunters switched teams.
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, former hunters are using the tracking skills they once used to hunt wildlife to find snares and help stop poaching instead. Redemption arc: operational.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful / Ogar Monday
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PROGRESS
RABIES LOST ITS FOOTHOLD.
PROGRESS
Bhutan just kicked dog-transmitted rabies off the public-health list.
WHO has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem — the first country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to reach the milestone. Bhutan has gone more than two years without a human death from dog-transmitted rabies. Vaccines, surveillance and people showing up worked.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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HUMANS
ALL THREE STEPS, THEIRS.
HUMANS
The women took the whole podium.
At Colorado’s Aspen Backcountry Marathon, Brier Youngfleish won the race outright — and women finished first, second and third overall. The overall podium was all women. That’s the whole post.
SOURCERunner’s World / Aspen Backcountry Marathon
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HUMANS
SPIN CYCLE, STORY TIME.
HUMANS
The laundromat has a library now.
Laundromats are becoming tiny literacy hubs, with children’s books and family reading spaces turning wash-cycle downtime into reading time. Apparently the spin cycle comes with a library card now.
SOURCELaundryCares Foundation / Reasons to Be Cheerful
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