Good News roundup for this month. Hope it brightens your day.

Smoking rates here in Australia have dropped to a new low: https://substack.fixthenews.com/p/347-public-media-must-not-lie-battery

Gut Bacteria found in frogs destroys cancer tumors: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japanese-find-frog-bacteria-that-wipes-out-cancer-tumors-with-a-single-dose/

The Amazon just had its lowest fire year on record and deforestation is at a 10 year low: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx78eplqqlo

Global hunger has fallen for the third year in a row: https://www.wfp.org/news/un-report-global-hunger-levels-ease-third-consecutive-year-regional-disparities-persist

HIV infections and AIDS deaths have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years: https://substack.fixthenews.com/p/348-wildfire-aids-recess-yellowstone

First Puffin chick born on England's South Coast in 30 years: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-puffin-chick-spotted-in-over-30-years-emerges-along-cliffs-at-englands-south-coast/

Promising new Alzheimer's treatment passes safety trials: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/drug-may-repair-dna-at-earliest-stages-of-alzheimers-and-its-already-passed-safety-trials/

Is there a way to bookmark topics so I don’t have to go digging to find them? Because I want to do that for this one.

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Data centers are now banned everywhere in this Monterey Park, California.

That’s very good news, thanks!  In good keeping with the topic.

Well, I just got some very positive medical news.

For the past few weeks I have been feeling exhausted, spaced out, light-headed and clumsy, and given my history with cancer I feared the worst.

Today the doc reckons he's figured it out, postural tension is messing with the blood/nerve supply at the back of the skull, which is annoying but thankfully fixable and not the dire prognosis I was worried about.

Big sigh of relief.

🫂 

Five endangered secretary bird chicks have hatched in a conservation first.

270,000 Square Miles Around Easter Island Will Be Indigenous Managed Nature Reserve.

In world first, cancer vaccine passes major trial, prevents melanoma from returning

https://7news.com.au/news/world-first-cancer-vaccine-led-by-australian-researcher-professor-georgina-long-passes-major-trial-c-22755253

Eighty two shark pups were just released as part of a rewinding program.