Every month good things happen. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
For january there are no articles in our database since BetterNews.eu only launched at the end of february 2019.
The Sorek desalination plant, about 15km south of Tel Aviv, is eerily unpopulated. This is the largest such plant in the world, producing as much as 230m cubic metres of desalinated water a year—about one-fifth of Israel’s domestic water supply.
27/02/2019 Economist
Costa Rica has launched an economy-wide plan to “decarbonize” the country by 2050, as the Central American nation aims to show other nations what is possible to address climate change.
25/02/2019 The Guardian
Carbon capture and sequestration via direct air methods - that is, from the ambient air rather than point sources - is a relatively new field in science. Even more so is turning that captured carbon into something stable - such as basalt rock.
27/02/2019 Reset.org
To outsmart influenza, researchers are leveraging the biological information encoded in infection-fighting antibodies to design new drugs. One attempt neutralizes near-lethal levels of flu in mice.
07/03/2019 NPR
Africa's space race is accelerating as more countries on the continent launch satellites. This is bringing faster internet, better weather foresting and improved disaster management to the continent.
02/04/2019 Deutsche Welle
It's important to reverse the global population growth, but it doesn't let us off the hook for reducing consumption.
25/05/2019 Sydney Morning Herald
The Wind Blows more strongly at higher altitudes. That is why wind turbines have grown ever taller. The blade tips of today’s biggest now reach up a dizzying 260 metres, the height of the Transamerica building in San Francisco.
06/06/2019 Economist
For children in developing countries, cancer care is largely out of reach. But new research is challenging assumptions that it's too costly and complicated.
26/07/2019 NPR
The Children's Defense Fund is training young people at its Haley Farm in east Tennessee to run summer enrichment programs modeled after Civil Rights era Freedom Schools.
02/08/2019 NPR
City-bike share schemes have long been touted as an eco-friendly form of urban mobility, part of the sustainability package of any modern city. But has Paris’s adoption made it a greener city? And does bike sharing in general have genuine…
30/09/2019 Reset.org
There are 10 million new cases each year of tuberculosis, now the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Even a partly effective vaccine could help turn the tide.
29/10/2019 New York Times
DIY cervical screening kits boost uptake by more than 50 per cent, among those who otherwise fail to have the checks, trials show.
06/11/2019 Telegraph
A new research institute at UCLA wants to start a virtuous cycle of generosity and do-gooding.
28/11/2019 The Atlantic
A program that uses cocoa plantations, in combination with other types of trees, to guarantee income to the local population while restoring lost Amazon forest cover in Brazil will be expanded, the organization behind the project said on Wednesday.
06/11/2019 Reuters
Pejo 3000 in Trentino cuts use after discovering nearby glacier contained microplastics
27/12/2019 The Guardian
