Good News Headlines 5/5/20
Scuba Divers Make Face Masks Out Of Recycled Ocean Plastic
by Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
While some people are heading outside in snorkeling masks as makeshift protection, a group of scuba divers is using their social distancing time to help people and the oceans… Read More
Coronavirus Is Driving Down Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions To Levels Last Seen 10 Years Ago
by Steven Mufson, The Washington Post
The world’s CO2 emissions will plunge 8 percent this year, a reduction six times as large as the previous global record set in 2009 when the financial crisis rocked the world economy… Read More
Pakistan Hired 63,000 People, Unemployed By COVID-19, To Help Plant 10 Billion Trees
by Tod Perry, Upworthy
If there is a bright spot to the COVID-19 epidemic, it’s the positive environmental impact that social distancing has had on the planet… Read More
Urban Beekeeper Using Bee Sounds And Honey To Make Experimental Music
by Kimberley Mok
Wrapping our heads around the scale and huge impact of colony collapse disorder on global bee populations is a difficult task. That’s where artists like UK-based Bioni Samp come in… Read More
Americans In Stable Financial Positions Answer The Call To Donate Their $1,200 Stimulus Checks
from Good News Network
Since the United States government began issuing stimulus checks to Americans this week, a group of volunteers from North Carolina has rallied thousands of people in stable financial positions to donate part of their stimulus checks to help people affected by COVID-19… Read More
Around Orlando, Families Are Getting ‘Tea-P’d’ With Kindness
by Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel
Around Orlando, some families are gazing out in their front yards only to discover they’ve been “tea-p’d.” Except this kind of gesture is not looked upon with scowls and shaking fists, but rather with smiles and sometimes tears of joy… Read More
Washington State Now Has the Most Diverse Supreme Court In History
by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, elevated Grace Helen Whitener to the state Supreme Court. Whitener is a disabled black lesbian who immigrated from Trinidad… Read More
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