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Queensland, Australia was just declared drought-free for the first time in over a decade
For the first time in 11 years, all of Queensland, Australia has officially been declared drought-free, with the last two shires’ drought status revoked.
Recent increases in rainfall and flooding have filled the region’s waterways with more water than usual, and while farmers are apprehensive about a looming dry season — they’re celebrating the (literal) change of scenery.
The land has truly transformed from dry and desolate to bright green grass peppered with wildflowers, shrubs, and weeds next to waterways, creeks, and rivers filled to the brim.
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Global maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years
In the last 35 years, the estimated annual number of women who died from pregnancy-related causes has been halved. In 1985, there were an estimated 595,000 maternal deaths around the world — in 2020, that number was 301,000.
While it’s important that we celebrate and mark this incredible progress — it’s equally important to acknowledge that we could be doing a lot better.
In 2015, the EU had the lowest maternal mortality, with 8 people dying per 100,000 births — if all countries shared this level, only 11,000 people would die annually.
Still, it’s so significantly better from where we’ve been — if conditions were the same as in 1800, around 1.26 million people would die from pregnancy every year.
There’s a lot of heartbreak in the world right now. Whenever we get overwhelmed by a seemingly never-ending cycle of devastating news, we remember this famous quote from Mister Rogers:
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
And he’s never been wrong: wherever we’ve seen bad news, the Helpers are always close by.
You’ll read about them here in the Goodnewsletter, and we encourage you to be on the lookout too — anytime, anywhere bad things are happening.
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