• Best science news 2022. Neurologica.
• New clean energy investments have topped $40B since the IRA passed, report says. Utility Dive.
• Oregon governor commutes all 17 of the state’s death sentences. CBS News.
• Largest study to date confirms Ebola vaccine safety, with immunity lasting up to a year. Gavi.
• Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine shows promise in preliminary study. The Wall Street Journal.
• U.S. rents drop at the fastest rate in 7 years. Axios.

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• 99 good news stories you probably didn’t hear about in 2022. Future Crunch.

• The biggest wins in clean energy in 2022. Inside Climate News.
• Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia. NewScientist.
• More cities are excelling at policies on LGBTQ equality even amid hostile legislation, report finds. USA Today.
• How Houston halved homelessness. The Nation.
• The White House unveils a new system to track and better prevent opioid overdoses. NPR.

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• Rubella eliminated from Singapore. WHO.
• Over the past 30 years, Cambodia has cleared landmines from a total of 2,531 sq km, making the land safe for an estimated nine million people to use for the construction of houses, schools, hospitals, bridges, roads and farming. The Phnom Penh Post.
• Bangladesh attains huge success in reducing infant, maternal mortality. The Business Standard.
• Canada’s overall poverty rate fell from 14.5% in 2015 to 6.4% in 2020. This means that Canada has met its target of reducing poverty by 50% by 2030 ten years ahead of time. National Advisory Council on Poverty (PDF link).
• Abu Dhabi reduces number of single-use plastic bags by half a million per day. The National News.
• The cost of college has stopped rising faster than inflation for the first time since the 1980s. The Hechingerr Report.
• Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2022 so far. Euronews.
• New Mexico voted a child care guarantee into its constitution. CNN.
• Critically endangered tiny gecko comes back from the brink. New Scientist.
• Kenyan female innovator awarded $1.2M for providing clean cooking stove. Africanews.
• Renewable energy sources accounted for 47.1% of Greece’s electricity generation in the first 10 months of the year, surpassing the share of fossil fuels. Ekathimerini.
• Captioned smart glasses let deaf people see, rewind conversations. CBS.
• Immigration naturalizations in the US highest in a decade. Changing America.
• U.S. jobless claims fell last week, showing solid labor market. The Wall Street Journal.

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• In Tanzania, there has been a 27 percent decline in tuberculosis incidence and a 52 percent reduction in TB deaths. The Citizen.
• Brazil reports almost 28% decrease in malaria from 2017 to 2021. In the Americas overall between 2000 to 2020, malaria cases decreased by 58%. Outbreak News.
• In Kenya, child mortality is about half of what it was 20 years ago. Nation.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces it will spend more than $7 billion over the next four years to support African countries and institutions working to confront hunger, disease, gender inequality, and poverty. Gates Foundation.
• Overall crime in the United Kingdom is now at its lowest level since the 1980s. ONS.
• The governor or Oregon grants pardon for marijuana offenses. Approximately 45,000 people will be impacted. More than $14,000,000 in fines and fees will be forgiven. State of Oregon.
• South Korea has almost zero food waste due to mandatory composting. Guardian.
• Efforts to save the endangered Fender’s blue butterfly in Oregon have quadrupled the population and saved its host plant from extinction as well. The butterfly is slated to be downlisted from endangered to threatened. High Country News.
• Electricity from snow? A Japanese city believes it can be done. Nikkei Asia.
• Promising universal flu vaccine could protect against 20 strains. NewScientist.
• A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay. The Guardian.

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