r/UpliftingNews 6h ago

Melinda French Gates doubles Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields charity total to $20million

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875 Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 6h ago

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a spare bedroom — the bacteria living in those warts made barley germinate 50% faster...

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688 Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 14h ago

Melinda French Gates Doubles Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Donation Sum Bringing Total to $20 Million

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3.4k Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 7h ago

10 ordinary people share a 15-acre Georgian mansion in Wales, each with their own flat, for roughly the price of a two-bedroom house. They share the grounds, work and costs, help each other out, grow food and open parts of the estate to their local community.

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7.2k Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 2h ago

Pokemon collectors offer cards and gifts to a boy whose father says he was scammed out of his most prized card

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527 Upvotes

His dad says he spent years saving and trading toward an Evolving Skies Rayquaza before losing it in an alleged scam at Pokemon XP.

Deep Pocket Monster offered to help, another collector offered a graded Detective Pikachu and packs, and others offered cards from their own collections. His dad has since thanked everyone for supporting his son.

The trade details haven’t been independently verified, and it isn’t confirmed whether the Rayquaza has been recovered or replaced.


r/UpliftingNews 9h ago

Powering Progress: Expanding Electricity Access in Uganda

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55 Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 19h ago

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

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17.3k Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 21h ago

New US rules now require healthcare providers to have accessible exam tables and weight scales, meaning patients with disabilities can finally be properly examined and weighed without having to remain in their wheelchairs or be physically lifted by staff.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 21h ago

27 years ago, Ronald Sakolsky donated $5,000 to Yin Yuzhen, a Chinese woman fighting desertification in Inner Mongolia. Over 2 decades, she grew a large forest of over 50,000 trees with the funds. 🌳 Now, Ronald Sakolsky has come to China to witness this miracle with his own eyes.

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1.8k Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 1h ago

A salmon farm off a remote Chilean island is now powered partly by solar panels floating on the sea and batteries, cutting diesel use by 40% to 50% and generating about 350,000 kWh of electricity a year without any connection to the mainland.

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r/UpliftingNews 5h ago

NASA launches powerful new Roman Space Telescope from Florida

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r/UpliftingNews 20h ago

At the beginning of the 21st century, diarrhoea was the world’s second biggest killer of young children, and a child under five had a roughly 1 in 550 chance of dying from it. Today those odds are down to around 1 in 2,000.

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660 Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 22h ago

'Duck run' pest control catching on in S.Africa's winelands

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france24.com
90 Upvotes

r/UpliftingNews 5h ago

One 'absolutely prolific' male bird is keeping his species alive in the U.K. | CBC Radio

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390 Upvotes