Good news on global health, land conservation, electric vehicles

I hope you enjoy the many good-news items in the free section of Fix the News. Among the additional stories of progress around the world in the subscriber section:

— The Global Fund, a worldwide partnership to defeat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reports that it’s saved 70 million lives since 2002.

— U.S. Midwest prairie ranchers are using conservation easements to prevent the development of their land in perpetuity, with benefits for drought prevention, wildlife protection and plant diversity, reports the nonprofit online magazine Reasons to be Cheerful (have I said before how much just reading the name of this publication cheers me up?).

— Bangkok’s iconic three-wheeled tuk-tuks have evolved from noisy, smoke-belching two-stroke engines in the 1960s to zero-emission electric powertrains, says CleanTechnica.

Note to readers

I’ll be taking an extra day off this holiday weekend and will see you next on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela

Nobel Prize in literature goes to László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian master of absurdist excess

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