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2025
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025) - AI is beating doctors at empathy – because we’ve turned doctors into robots, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2025)
- Ukraine’s massive nature project is helping veterans and land recover, theconversation.com (Nov 05, 2025)
- Why healthcare’s ‘do no harm’ ethic must include the planet, theconversation.com (Oct 30, 2025)
- Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
- The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025)
- Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 03, 2025) — A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan. Ryan Krugman
- ‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds, theguardian.com (Oct 02, 2025) — Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
- Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025)
- ‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025) — As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences
- Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 11, 2025)
- Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025)
- A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2025)
- Getting young and old people to dance together boosts health and reduces age discrimination – new research, theconversation.com (Aug 06, 2025)
- These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025)
- A Food-Growing Tradition Finds New Roots in the Mississippi Delta, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 01, 2025)
- Health amid collapse: How one woman’s efforts brought hope to Sudanese displacement camps, globalvoices.org (Jun 15, 2025)
- Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (May 30, 2025)
- Trump Executive Orders Violate Young People’s Rights to a Stable Climate, a Lawsuit Alleges, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025)
- Insect protein could support healthy ageing and fight climate change, theconversation.com (May 16, 2025)
- Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025)
- Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
- The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation, theguardian.com (Apr 23, 2025)
- Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 19, 2025)
- Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land, theguardian.com (Apr 10, 2025)
- Growing and sharing seeds can boost mental health, positive.news (Mar 31, 2025)
- Finland named as happiest country for eighth year, BBC News (Mar 20, 2025) — Costa Rica and Mexico enter top 10 for the first time
- Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025)
- Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste.
- In Great Falls, students are on the front lines of mental health support, montanafreepress.org (Feb 20, 2025)
- A Holistic Approach to Health Care Is Helping to Keep Rural North Carolinians Housed, reasonstobecheerful.world (Feb 20, 2025)
- ‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma, theguardian.com (Jan 27, 2025)
2024
- What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers, Devi Sridhar, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- The Importance Of Discomfort, Alternative Editorial (Dec 01, 2024)
- In India, Good Health Starts in the Soil, reasonstobecheerful.world (Nov 19, 2024)
- We need stories, characters, mythologies to firm up our resolve to tackle climate catastrophe. Swarm Dynamics are animating these, for NGOs and others, Daily Alternative (Oct 28, 2024)
- Parkrun: The local jog that became a worldwide hit, BBC News (Oct 05, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
- Why we need to talk about older people and climate change in Africa, theconversation.com (Sep 30, 2024)
- Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
- It’s easy, it’s everywhere: the simple solution improving mental health around the globe, positive.news (May 20, 2024)
- How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 16, 2024)
- ‘Composting Our Emotions’: How Climate Action Cultivates Well-Being, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 30, 2024)
- A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
- How Climate Impacts Mental Health in Africa, strongminds.org (Apr 10, 2024)
- Swapping red meat for herring, sardines and anchovies could save 750,000 lives, study suggests, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- As the First Nations know, forests are ‘music to the soul’, positive.news (Apr 03, 2024)
- Lima’s neurodiverse picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse, positive.news (Mar 13, 2024)
- The climate cafe helping eco-anxious Africans find hope amid the heat, positive.news (Mar 11, 2024)
- ‘Forest pharmacy’ kept standing by traditional healers in Philippines, news.mongabay.com (Feb 09, 2024)
- Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- The township caravan tackling South Africa’s femicide problem – the African way, positive.news (Jan 24, 2024)
- As a psychologist I have witnessed a surge in climate grief. This is what I tell my clients, Carly Dober, theguardian.com (Jan 12, 2024)
2023
- Circles of hope: the Guatemalan women reviving Indigenous concepts of mental wellbeing, positive.news (Dec 08, 2023)
- NYC launches free online therapy for teens, chalkbeat.org (Nov 15, 2023)
- How forest schools boost children's immune systems, BBC Future (Nov 01, 2023)
- The Floating Health Clinics Delivering Care to Isolated Island Dwellers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 31, 2023)
- How ‘recovery doulas’ are helping Montanans navigate addiction and parenthood, montanafreepress.org (Oct 16, 2023)
- The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)
- How Tripadvisor for hospitals and clinics can improve healthcare, theconversation.com (Sep 13, 2023)
- Free Therapy Putting Philadelphia’s Black Men on a Path to Healing, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 30, 2023)
- The World’s Therapists Are Talking to Ukraine, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 24, 2023)
- The sports movement spreading positivity in war-torn Yemen, positive.news (Aug 16, 2023)
- “If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care, The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2023)
- Zimbabwe’s therapeutic ‘friendship benches’, coming to a city near you, positive.news (Jul 26, 2023)
- Meet the young graduate who lives in a nursing home, positive.news (Jul 24, 2023)
- Vandana Shiva, Robert Pirsig, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Einstein and others speak on the inner change that system (and climate) change requires, The Daily Alternative (Jul 20, 2023)
- The new approach to ending FGM that’s showing promise in Kenya, positive.news (Jul 10, 2023)
- Alternative Editorial: Our Human Revolution, The Daily Alternative (May 28, 2023)
- Barcelona green space plan could improve health of 30,000, study finds, The Guardian (Mar 30, 2023)
2021-2022
- The best countries for social progress, according to new research, Positive News (Dec 14, 2022)
- Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind, and 12 other life-learnings from Maria Popova, The Alternative UK (Mar 05, 2022)
- Wellbeing: how living well together works for the common good, The Conversation (Feb 16, 2022)
- Ten Million a Year, David Wallace-Wells on polluted air, Dec 2, 2021...lrb.co.uk "Ten million people die every year from air pollution, perhaps 8 million from the burning of fossil fuels. Ten million a year is 100 million a decade. It's 400 million in my lifetime. Everything we burn, we breathe." David Wallace-Wells....twitter.com
- 'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds, Feb 9, 2021...theguardian.com
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