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😀 Take a break from doomscrolling! We share tech, science, health, environment, and social progress What Could Go Right? newsletter and podcast 👇 linktr.ee/progressntwrk

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🤔What have they agreed to do? 💰The agreement covers an expansive range of topics, including restoring ecosystems, addressing climate change and providing developing nations with finance to help cover the costs of protecting nature. www.carbonbrief.org/cop17-which-...

carbonbrief.orgCOP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss? - Carbon BriefSome 58% of countries have met a UN call to submit new pledges on addressing nature loss – two years after the original deadline – according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🌲 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest declined to the lowest level on record in a series of data that goes back to 1988. 💊 A drug has reversed paralysis and vision loss in mice with multiple sclerosis (MS).

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No matter what poverty line you choose, the share of the global population below it has declined. The World Bank's International Poverty Line is an extremely low poverty line. Set at $3 per day, it draws attention to the living conditions of the poorest people on the planet.

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🤔How come? 🚭Partly people are smoking less and partly because newly developed treatments are working. 🧐Is it all good news? 🫤Nope, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women, killing more than 124,000 Americans each year. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/s...

nytimes.comA New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope LeoLung cancer is still a leading cause of cancer death, but that rate is half what it was in the 1990s, partly because newly developed treatments are working.
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🤔How did they do it? 💉"Medical professionals agree: it’s the fact that Ghana is deploying a combination of all the available anti-malarial interventions, from vaccines to preventive meds, mosquito nets and therapeutic drugs that are saving all those lives," writes Claudia Lacave.

gavi.orgGhana is on the path to eliminating malariaMalaria control tools are becoming both more numerous and more effective, and that’s showing up in Ghana’s plummeting mortality rates.
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🤔How many people is that? 😮The number of people living in extreme poverty in Indonesia has fallen from 140 million to about 10 million. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

ourworldindata.orgChina reduced extreme poverty fast, but Indonesia hasn’t been far behindChina is often the poster child for rapid reductions in poverty, and for good reason. In the early 1980s, over 90% of its population lived in extreme poverty, but by the early 2020s, that number had d...

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A couple of decades ago, the chances of surviving more than ten years with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were slim. Today, thanks to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV/AIDS can expect to live long lives.

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🧑‍⚕️ Maryland has become the first state in the US to mandate notification of arterial calcification alongside a mammogram, at no additional cost. 😮Calcification is linked to events like heart failure, heart attack, and stroke.

washingtonpost.comNew state law requires mammogram results to include this heart disease warning signAs of Oct. 1, mammography centers in Maryland must notify patients if their scans show breast arterial calcification (BAC). Other states may follow suit.
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😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🐢180,000 giant tortoises are living on one of the species’ two natural habitats, the highest count ever recorded. 💧 A startup is working to harvest water from air using waste heat from data centers.

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🤔How come? 🤳Rwanda says digital health systems helped reduce maternal mortality by improving pregnancy monitoring and identifying high-risk cases earlier. www.wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/n...

wearetech.africaRwanda Turns to Smartphones and Health Data to Track High-Risk PregnanciesRwanda says digital health systems helped reduce maternal mortality by 30% over the past two years by improving pregnancy monitoring and identifying high-risk cases earlier. More than 54,000 community...

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Happy birthday and well done. Uplifting news that’s a perfect antidote to all the doomscrolling. Thank you for all you do. Well worth a follow folks!

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🎂We are six today! 🥰Thank you all for coming with us on this adventure.

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"'As Nathaniel Hawthorne remarked in 1851 in his proto-blog The American Note-Books, 'Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.' Virtue does not come incidentally, but feelings do.