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Good News Stories

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A good friend sent me the link (see below) with some of the good news stories that so often seem to get lost in the everyday maelstrom. And the illustrations (by Italian artist Mauro Gatti) are brilliant.

Take a look at the link, in the meantime here are a few of my favourite positive stories from around the world.

In India trees are being planted…

And, responding to the global crisis in bee populations, Finnish scientists have developed a vaccine….

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…while Holland and the UK are creating places for bees to be busy in….

Problems of waste are being tackled in Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Italy….

And medical advances in Sweden and other countries can help improve our health…

And around the world, for example in Malawi, Finland, the US and South Korea, things are happening to make life fairer and more rewarding…

 

Whichever country you live in, may 2020 bring you good news, health and happiness.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

from Travelling Frogs

And here’s the link for the more good news…

https://www.boredpanda.com/positive-news-2019-illustrations-mauro-gatti/

Want to escape the crowds?

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Perhaps, like the Travelling Frogs, you are native of a densely populated country. In our case England, which vies with the Netherlands for the title of most densely populated country in Europe. Both have around 415 people per square kilometre*, small in comparison with Singapore (7804 per square kilometre) or Hong Kong (6732) but even so…

So maybe when you travel you like to escape the crowds, in which case maybe the best way is to visit Greenland. The world’s biggest island, not only does it have stunning flora and fauna, an ancient culture, glaciers and hot springs, the midnight sun in the summer and hot springs all year round, but it also boasts the lowest population density in the world.  In fact, rounded to the nearest whole number, the number of people per square kilometre amounts to zero. Yes, zero!

*The Dutch are taller, though