Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. It’s the first time in history that a person with type 1 diabetes has been freed from insulin injections using cells made from their own body. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01022-5?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #ShareGoodNewsToo
In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. 45 women patrol the territory, enforcing ancestral laws and mapping sustainable livelihoods in a “plan of life.” Their vigilance has preserved both forest ecosystems and cultural autonomy amid growing national extractive pressures.
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador's Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza pro...
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Christiana Figueres: The global south is now leading the clean-energy revolution. The architect of the Paris Agreement argues that while politics remain paralysed, economics and technology are driving unstoppable change, led by emerging economies from Nigeria to Oman. Clean industries are scaling at exponential speed across the global south - home to 70% of the world’s wind and solar potential. The Economist https://archive.li/2AHpU #ShareGoodNewsToo
Barn owl numbers soar in Cheshire thanks to volunteers. Three decades after a survey found just six breeding pairs in West Cheshire, the Broxton Barn Owl Group now counts around 160 pairs: a 25-fold increase, driven entirely by local volunteers. Founded in 1995 by Dot and George Bramall, the group has restored habitats, installed nest boxes and monitored chicks, turning once-vanishing owls into a thriving rural presence across the county. BBC
Barn owl numbers 'booming' in west Cheshire thanks to volunteers
A 30-year conservation project has led to a "dramatic increase" in barn owl breeding pair numbers.
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The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful, least reported stories in development. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS?end=2024&start=2000&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #ShareGoodNewsToo
Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind.
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while ...
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Aztec-era farms revived by women to heal Mexico City wetlands Women farmers in Xochimilco and San Gregorio are restoring chinampas (high-yield island farms) using canal-mud fertiliser, biofilters and invasive-fish barriers. The programme has certified 16 producers and is improving water quality in a wetland that’s just 3% of its original extent but buffers floods, cools the city and shelters the axolotl. AP
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Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.
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Social media use begins global decline. For the first time, time spent on social media is falling worldwide. An analysis of 250,000 adults across 50 countries shows average daily use dropped nearly 10% since 2022, reversing a decade of growth. The steepest declines are among teens and 20-somethings, suggesting humanity’s fever may have broken. Financial Times
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In Maine, four hydroelectric dams are being sold to conservationists, paving the way for the largest river-restoration effort in US history. The deal could reopen hundreds of kilometres of spawning habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon and other migratory fish, following decades of advocacy and smaller dam removals that already boosted alewife and shad runs. The Maine Monitor
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Kennebec River dams sale clears way for salmon to return
The Nature Conservancy will buy the last four dams blocking salmon from their spawning grounds in the Sandy River.
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Solar in California now out-generates fossil fuels. California’s vast solar farms, now backed by giant batteries, have flipped the state’s electricity balance, driving record emissions drops and lower power prices. The shift, built on three years of storage expansion, shows how clean energy can run an economy the size of France’s without the grid collapsing. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/californias-solar-battery-combo-packs-transformational-punch-2025-10-03/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #ShareGoodNewsToo