📈 Human Progress
🤸♀️ One youth in three felt better during the pandemic
The pandemic was difficult for many. Even those who did not become seriously ill could feel unwell from anxiety and isolation. But parts of society shutting down was detrimental to far from everyone's mental health and wellbeing, according to a study from the...
Iceland could stop all whale hunting by 2024
Today, whaling is only allowed in Iceland, Norway, and Japan, but one of the countries is about to change its mind.Iceland's Minister of Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, believes that there is little reason to think that fishing will continue to be...
🗳️ Behind dark headlines for democracy there is also great progress
If one tries to digest all the negative arguments floundering around about the crisis of democracy, it's easy to get an impression of the world being more democratic a few decades ago. This is also in fact a false impression. Going back to the early 2000s, Saddam...
🌲 IKEA buys land and turns it into forests
Earlier this year, the Ingka Group, which owns most of IKEA’s furniture stores, announced that they had bought 1 321 hectares of land destroyed by hurricanes and now plan to transform it into forests. This is part of a long-term commitment to responsible forest...
