After Maui officials named 388 people unaccounted for in fires, many called to say they're OK (apnews.com)
Scientists Regrow Retina Cells to Tackle Leading Cause of Blindness Using Nanotechnology (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
An Unloved English Field Restored to Beautiful Brook as Part of a Large Project to Glorify the River Ise (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Newly-Identified Molecule Could Be the Key to Targeting Obesity and Osteoporosis (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Israeli doctors restore eyesight of girl with degenerative disease (m.jpost.com)
India approves $7 bln plan for electric buses in nearly 170 cities (www.reuters.com)
1 Million New Seagrass Seedlings Will Be Planted To Protect Sardinia’s Beaches While Storing 35-Times More Carbon Than Trees (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Dog chases bear away from where Connecticut toddler was playing (www.upi.com)
Saturday marked 3rd-highest ridership day on BART since pandemic (www.kron4.com)
Hopefully, our public transit can recover and continue to serve us in the Bay Area. This is encouraging.
Dutch researchers: “Less plastic in oceans than assumed” (nltimes.nl)
FDA approves first ever pill for postpartum depression (www.nbcnews.com)
Groundbreaking Immunization Against Lyme Disease Takes Aim at the Microbiomes of Ticks and Mosquitoes (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Piles of books and money donated to a library in San Diego, California after anti-LGBTQ+ group tries to hold Pride display books hostage (www.kpbs.org)
A ransom note, copied word for word from a template from a Catholic organization, was sent to the Rancho Peñasquitos Branch Library after two women followed the instructions of an anti-LGBTQ+ organization and checked out every potentially queer or trans book they could find. It backfired.
The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
A Teen Lost Her Ring With Her Father's Ashes. Strangers Dug Through Piles Of Trash To Find It (www.sunnyskyz.com)
Senior Dog 'Overlooked' in Shelter for 11 Years Finally Gets Forever Home (www.newsweek.com)
Abandoned Supermarket Turned into An Indoor Skatepark for the Community (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Raccoon rescued from mayo jar in Florida neighborhood (www.upi.com)
A video of the rescue shows the trio chasing the raccoon through a street before managing to get a catch pole around its neck. The jar is then carefully removed.
A Texas Oak Tree Was Believed to Be Extinct. Now It’s Making a Comeback. (www.texasmonthly.com)
EU wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for the first time last month (www.euronews.com)
Wrexham: Book-loving boy reads to care home residents (www.bbc.com)
A book-loving five-year-old has brought joy to care home residents by reading his favourite stories to them....
Why a rare image of one of Malaysia’s last tigers is giving conservationists hope (www.cnn.com)
Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria (www.theguardian.com)
An endangered river dolphin finds an unlikely savior: fisherfolk (www.kpbs.org)
An unlikely citizen scientist is helping to save an endangered dolphin that lives in Pakistan’s Indus River. He’s a fisherman who cannot read or write....
Good news you may have missed in 2023 - CBS (yewtu.be)
