Category: Positive News

Using personal narratives of mental health struggles in a digital library format can help others in their own recovery, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Nottingham. The team collected hundreds of different audio, video, written and image files recounting different stories of recovery, to understand their effectiveness in mental health… Continue reading ‘This too shall pass.’ World-first study proves the power of mental health recovery stories

Three educational projects aimed at addressing climate anxiety, food insecurity and helping young people with visual impairments have been awarded funding in the first Big Education Challenge. The prize fund, run by education charity Big Change, aims to support the development of “bold ideas that have the potential to transform education and learning”. Winners of… Continue reading Three good things: transformative educational projects

In this week’s news roundup, there are several positive stories to report. Cameroon has become the first country to begin routine vaccinations against malaria, which is seen as a transformative chapter in public health history. The vaccine is free for children up to the age of six months, and it’s expected that it will reduce… Continue reading What went right this week: the good news you should know about

In South Africa, women are five times more likely than the global average to die at the hands of a partner. To combat gender-based violence (GBV), Phola, a pioneering project, has turned to psychologically creative therapy methods. Founded by psychologist Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, the project uses the Tree of Life psychotherapeutic method developed by Ncube-Mlilo, itself… Continue reading The township caravan tackling South Africa’s femicide problem – the African way

Mychal Threets, a supervising librarian at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in California, US, is a superhero to his 600,000-plus followers on Instagram and almost 700,000 on TikTok. With his first-rate reading recommendations and sheer passion for advocating libraries as a tonic for a whole host of challenges, he encourages others to take advantage of… Continue reading The social media star helping people fall in love with libraries

Chris Packham, the TV naturalist, has faced a decline in biodiversity, death threats, and even had a bomb go off outside his New Forest home. The attack was a result of his outspoken campaign against the illegal persecution of birds of prey and wider destruction of the UK’s wildlife. Packham has credited his relentless search… Continue reading Chris Packham on why he’s angry, yet hopeful

Richard Mawby, a forager who participated in a three-month wild food challenge, has recommended adding ‘to taste pigeon sashimi’ to your culinary list this year. Mawby was one of 26 foragers in the UK who lived entirely on wild foods to determine its impact on their health. The group’s surprising results, after having consumed roadkill… Continue reading 10 things we learned making the new issue of Positive News

This week brought important developments for the planet, including global ocean conservation, a new greenwashing law, reduced Amazon deforestation, and a promising cancer drug. Chile is due to be the first country to ratify a global agreement to protect one third of the world’s oceans. The treaty was signed by 84 countries last September, and… Continue reading What went right this week: the good news you should know about

A UK-based tech firm called Deep Green has come up with an innovative idea to provide free heating for public swimming pools. The firm captures excess heat from data centres and repurposes it for community use. Deep Green has developed a method of sharing the heat with swimming pools that also cools down its computers.… Continue reading Data centres could soon be heating your local swimming pool

Hannah Ritchie, a renowned environmental scientist, used to be a gloomy teenager who believed that the world was slipping into a watery abyss due to runaway global warming and rising oceans. But, moving forward to her current age of 29, she is a rare, positive, fact-based voice in the realm of environmental data, vastly different… Continue reading ‘Ours could be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than we found it’