News that isn’t awful from around the world for the week of 9 November 2026…
💚 Making queer history, healthy babies, more renewable energy … and more!
🌈🌊 The USA didn’t just vote for democracy last week, they made history with the country’s queerest ever results.
Source: advocate.com
🍼 Barbados has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV as a public health problem.
Source: who.int
💚 Global renewable refinery production capacity is forecast to triple (from 2025 levels) by 2030.
Source: globaldata.com
🎨 Canadian artists get tax relief with the income tax threshold rising to $45k.
Source: cbc.ca
🔋 New rules in Portugal will require data centres to be powered via renewable energy.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com
🌳 A UN report found that 252 million hectares being restored, creating more than a million green jobs, the largest global restoration effort.
Source: unep.org
📚 Book publishing software maker Vellum reversed course on a new AI feature within days after authors objected, showing that people can drive change.
Source: vellum.pub
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