Four good news climate stories from 2023

By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition

We don’t want to give you the wrong idea: things are bad. Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the fossil fuel lobby was everywhere at the COP talks, and even solutions like electric cars have their problems. And that just covers the past few weeks of this newsletter.

But to end 2023 we’d like to focus on a few of the more optimistic stories we have run over the past year.

This roundup of The Conversation’s 2023 climate coverage comes from our

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~ Brazilian jiu-jitsu is having its #MeToo moment

~ Front lines of humor: Dark humor voices Ukrainians’ hopes for victory

~ Far from random, China’s global port network is clustering near the world’s riskiest trade routes

~ AI and 3D printing help researchers create heat- and pressure-resistant materials for aerospace and defense applications

~ With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program

~ I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness

~ When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965

~ Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds

~ Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions

~ Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

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~	Brazilian jiu-jitsu is having its #MeToo moment

~	Front lines of humor: Dark humor voices Ukrainians’ hopes for victory

~	Far from random, China’s global port network is clustering near the world’s riskiest trade routes

~	AI and 3D printing help researchers create heat- and pressure-resistant materials for aerospace and defense applications

~	With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program

~	I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness

~	When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965

~	Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds

~	Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions

~	Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority