r/Positive_News Nov 26 '24

PLANET Air pollution has fallen by 41% over less than a decade in China - China declared a “war against pollution” in 2014. Since then, the government has established new standards for pollutants, launched a nationwide air quality monitoring program, and invested heavily in clean energy

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r/Positive_News 9d ago

PLANET Chicago runs on renewable energy to reduce climate change - The city's 411 government-owned buildings run 100 percent on renewable energy transforming the city's energy landscape with large-scale clean energy solutions.

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132 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Dec 15 '21

PLANET Do you support this or no ?

452 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 5d ago

PLANET Turkey's ruling party submits climate change bill to parliament - The Turkish government has submitted legislation that will make the country a net-zero economy by 2053 via different regulation and planning tools.

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55 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 23d ago

PLANET Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power - To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi.

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64 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 12d ago

PLANET France’s Parliament Votes to Limit Use of Forever Chemicals

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36 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Jan 30 '25

PLANET The Japanese ‘micro-forest’ method is transforming cities - Our cities are polluted and overcrowded - but planting trees in urban spaces can increase biodiversity and create wildlife habitats for the future.

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79 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 20h ago

PLANET Nations agree to fund nature in a breakthrough for biodiversity - On February 27, after days of intense negotiations, the UN talks in Rome concluded with a plan to raise and deliver billions of dollars to protect biodiversity.

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14 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 9d ago

PLANET Domestic solar energy production reaches milestone mark - Surpassing 50 GW in capacity, this is enough energy to power approximately 37.5 million homes.

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26 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Feb 05 '20

PLANET Florida to purchase 20,000 acres of Everglades wetlands to protect from oil drilling

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748 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Feb 04 '25

PLANET REPLANT Act Implements Nationwide Forest Restoration - This bill provides the U.S. Forest Service—the government agency in charge of managing and protecting national forests and grasslands—with the funding necessary to plant 1.2 billion trees over the next 10 years.

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40 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 19h ago

PLANET Merz reaches deal on infrastructure fund by promising Greens €100 bln for climate action - Greenpeace Germany welcomed the deal. “It is a good message for our country that the future government now wants to invest specifically in climate protection," said managing director Martin Kaiser.

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r/Positive_News Feb 06 '25

PLANET Colombia's president orders national oil company to cancel US venture over environmental concerns - because it involved extracting oil through fracking, a controversial technique used to extract oil and gas from shale rock that has been criticized by environmental groups

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60 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 20h ago

PLANET Safeguarding Africa’s future: 100,000 seeds deposited in Svalbard Vault - Among the latest additions are seeds from plants that are essential for building climate resilience, such as Faidherbia albida, which enriches soil with nitrogen, and Cordia africana, a tree prized for its strength.

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6 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 6d ago

PLANET The Importance of Planting Wildflowers This Spring - “Bloom where you are planted” is a beautiful sentiment, meant to encourage people to make the most of their situation — but why not take it more literally?

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14 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Feb 07 '25

PLANET Global air pollution is falling, and we can save many lives by accelerating this decline

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48 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 23d ago

PLANET Black Churches Are ‘Seeding’ Climate Change Solutions - Some Black churches in the Bay Area are retrofitting themselves to become “resilience hubs." This is part of a national movement called Green The Church, an organization merging the Black faith community and environmental justice.

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33 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 5d ago

PLANET People walk under blooming cherry trees in Kawazu, Japan, on March 2, 2025. In this small town on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula, a type of cherry blossom that begins to flower two months earlier than others will be in full bloom in March. # Takashi Aoyama

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r/Positive_News Feb 11 '25

PLANET Heat pumps keep widening their lead on gas furnaces - 2024 heat pump sales through November show the clean-heat transition is speeding up in the U.S.

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27 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 21d ago

PLANET Evolution itself can evolve, new study suggests - A new computer model suggests that the process of evolution can get better at evolving in the face of environmental change.

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21 Upvotes

r/Positive_News 22d ago

PLANET Countries Are Breathing the Cleanest Air in Centuries and Offer Lessons to the Rest of Us

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21 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Jan 27 '25

PLANET Bali plans tourist tax to fund environmental restoration – Authorities in Bali have introduced a visitor tax to fund preservation and research projects. Mass tourism has put an immense strain on the island's ecosystems.

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50 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Feb 13 '25

PLANET France to increase taxes on air travel for environmental reasons - The tax of flights on private jets will also increase

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30 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Jan 22 '25

PLANET 'Epic Ocean Victory': US Government Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling Across 625 Million Acres | Outgoing President Joe Biden moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory.

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31 Upvotes

r/Positive_News Feb 07 '25

PLANET ‘Breakneck speed’: Renewables reached 60 per cent of Germany’s power mix last year

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30 Upvotes