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A Galápagos wildflower down to 6 plants in 2007 now has 28 growing in the wild, the product of 17 years of hand-propagation. Researchers reintroduced 94 nursery-grown plants with a 100% survival rate and recorded the species’ first wild seedling in 2021. buff.ly/Ni3MDXh
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A near extinct plant in Galápa...

Científicos han cartografiado un paisaje de 7.000 años de antigüedad, con ríos, lagos y playas sepultados bajo la parte sur de la Gran Barrera de Coral. Un equipo liderado por la Universidad de Queensland pasó 24 días a bordo del buque de investigación Investigator, extrayendo más de 20 núcleos de sedimentos para reconstruir la llanura costera que existía antes de que el aumento del nivel del mar la inundara. Trabajaron junto a los propietarios tradicionales Darumbal y Woppaburra, cuyo conocimiento de este territorio sumergido es anterior a los avances científicos.

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news…/researchers-map-ancient-world-beneath-southern-barrier-reef/

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Good suggestions! Today I learned, and followed both #GoodNews and #ShareGoodNewsToo hashtags.

Think I'll keep using the #CounterTheDoomscroll hashtag too, as it communicates more of the intent on why it is important to share good news.

As you say, good news is subjective. The advantage of the hashtag follow is that everyone gets to decide for themself whether they agree, and boost. Whereas acting as "good news provider" might see you at odds with (overly) critical fedizens who blame you for not 100% aligning with their worldviews and ideologies. Progressive circles are quite divisive that way (I sometimes say that posting on fedi can be like "walking on eggshells through a minefield", and when it blows we are all-too-eager to "divide ourselves to be conquered).

Fediverse ideally becomes representative for what it means to live in a "harmonious society" where we have much in common and shared principles and values, but also respect that each person is uniquely different.

@smallcircles
Agreed, this is a real problem.

It does help to follow hashtags such as #GoodNews and #ShareGoodNewsToo and perhaps someone could curate a Mastodon Collection with accounts focussed on good news or positivity.

We have been toying with adding a Good News channel to our existing channels. It does require some thought, though, especially around the definition of "good news". It's quite subjective so it would need to focus on things over 90% of people would consider good news.