Good News Friday

  • How Finland conquered homelessness. Spiegel.
  • Critically endangered parrot bounces back in huge conservation victory. Science Alert.
  • Mapping the world’s corals reveals more reefs than previously known. Bloomberg.
  • Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex marriage. The Guardian.
  • In the half-century before the covid-19 pandemic, the black unemployment rate was on average twice as high as the white one. At the end of last year the black unemployment rate was only 1.5% higher than the white one, the narrowest gap on record. The Economist.
  • Polio eradication is within reach. Our World in Data.
  • Cambodia on track to eradicate malaria by 2025. Khmer Times.

For more good news, check out Future Crunch and The Progress Network.

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