i asked my bf to make me some fucking hot chocolate and the entire time he was trying to remember that one harry potter spell about turning water to rum anyway he came in with my drink and he just goes “eye of newt, sperm of groot” and i dont remember the rest becasue i just burst into tears
The idea of spontaneously getting on a train and going somewhere far might be romantic in another country but England is too small for that. Pull an Eternal Sunshine and go where? Fucking Slough? Go to fucking Slough and get a fucking boots meal deal?
i only understand about 60% of the words in this post but i still think its funny
do teens still go to malls in cosplay?? i haven’t seen any 14 year olds gallivanting around dressed like anime characters in a while. i miss them. come back. i need to know that at least SOMEONE is still having fun
i hate that i’m so absent as a person. i don’t start conversations. i can barely maintain them. i’m so weary and spaced out all the time to the point where i can’t even keep up small talk and i’m just so disappointed in myself
ok straight up if i went to hogwarts and the stairs started moving just as i was getting to where i was going I’d just lie down on the stairs and give up. Not going back to my dorm tonight lads that’s where i live now. Stairs wanna fuck with me? Jokes on them I’ve already given up on life this is just another step further into my grave.
Hi i am back again this year with good things that happened and there were quite a few tbh. most of these are from this website and this post
scientists are replacing plastic with algae, a revolutionary idea that can suck carbon out of the air
scientists accidentally create super enzyme that can devour plastic pollution
scientists capture first ever confirmed image of a planet being born
more reliable new form of digital analysis may help to eliminate animal testing
361 golden retrievers met up in Scotland to celebrate their breed’s birthday
goats want to see you smile, says new study
France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away excess food, they must donate unused food or face a fine
beer company creates six pack rings that feed turtles instead of killing them
France becomes the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees
Scotland gives free sanitary products to women on low income and students
the number of tigers in the wild Nepal have almost doubled in under a decade
1.5 million volunteers in India set a new world record: they planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours
a South Korean court has ruled the killing of dogs for meat is illegal in landmark ruling
California banes beauty products tested on animals
giant pandas are no longer endangered and China is going to build a massive $1.5B panda conservation park
breast cancer deaths have fallen by 39%
Portugal has banned the use of wild animals in circuses by 2024 with a new law passed in parliament
Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving officially ends
the ocean cleanup project hopes to remove 50% of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years
soft drink sales in the United States dropped for the 12th year in a row, thanks to consumer education and new sugar taxes
dutch prison population is the lowest in Europe and its prisons are being turned into homes for refugees
Norway is set to become the 14th European country to ban fur farming industries
rats are protecting elephants on their migration routes across Southern Africa, sniffing out land mines that are too small to trigger
study shows that global tree growth over the past 35 years has more than offset tree losses
Bill Gates is donating $12 million to help develop a universal flu vaccine
plant based diets keep becoming more and more popular
pianist finds fulfillment playing music for blind elephants
World Bank says it will no longer fiance oil and gas exploration
China is building another enormous floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine
vulnerable turtles return home to shore after world+s largest volunteer-led beach cleanup
world’s second largest coral reef has been removed from endangered list
after planting a tree every day for the past 40 years, a man has created a blossoming forest on barren wasteland
China hits carbon goals 12 years early
once thought to be extinct, first ever photograph of the tree-kangaroo proves its survival
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Scientists accidentally create a fast growing coral, which can help rejuvenate other reefs or create new ones.
Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma. In 2000, it threatened 2.8 million people (15% of the population) with blindness
Rwanda became the first low-income country to provide universal eye care to all of its citizens, by training 3,000 nurses in over 500 health clinics
Since 2010, global HIV/AIDS infection rates have fallen by 16% in adults and by 35% for children
The WHO revealed that teenage drinking has declined across Europe, the continent with the highest rates of drinking in the world. The country with the largest decline? Britain
India registered a 22% decline in maternal deaths since 2013. That means on average, 30 more new mothers are now being saved every day compared to five years ago
Canada signed another conservation deal with its First Nations people, creating the largest protected boreal forest (an area twice the size of Belgium) on the planet
Harvey Weinstein finally got arrested for his crimes
Ireland ended it’s abortion ban
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules that Latin American governments have to allow same-sex marriages in their countries. The court decision sets a binding precedent in Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname.
France revealed a sharp fall in daily smokers, with one million fewer lighting up in the past year, and cigarette use among Americans dropped to its lowest level since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started collecting data in 1965
In the forests of central Africa, the population of mountain gorillas, one of the world’s most endangered species, was reported to have increased by 25% since 2010, to over 1,000 individuals
Scientists in Rome unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory
Scientists report, for the first time, the discovery of a new form of light, which may involve polaritons, that could be useful in the development of quantum computers
Morocco passed a landmark law that criminalizes violence against women, and imposes harsh penalties on perpetrators
South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, shocked health officials by revealing a 44% decline in new infections since 2012
The Kofan people of Sinangoe, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River, nullifying 52 mining concessions and freeing up more than 32,000 hectares of primary rainforest
A new assessment of the ozone hole, published by the UN, shows it to be recovering faster than previously thought
The Indian Supreme Court decriminalizes homosexuality
Scientists report the discovery, based on MARSIS radar studies, of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap, and extending sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the first known stable body of water on the planet
Deforestation in Indonesia fell by 60%, as a result of a ban on clearing peatlands, new educational campaigns, and better law enforcement
In a major milestone for human rights in the Middle East, a Lebanese court issued a new judgement holding that homosexuality is not a crime
Scientists discovered a whole new branch of the tree of life, distinct from animals, plants, bacteria and fungi
New research revealed that in the last two decades, female genital mutilation has fallen from 57.7% to 14.1% in north Africa, from 73.6% to 25.4% in west Africa, and from 71.4% to 8% in east Africa
In California, the world’s smallest fox was removed from the Endangered Species List, the fastest recovery of any mammal under the Endangered Species Act
According to new data from the Department of Justice, the proportion of people being sent to prison in the United States has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years
The WHO certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973
Niger revealed that it has planted 200 million new trees in three decades, the largest positive transformation of the environment in African history
Scotland became the first country in the world to include teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights into its state school curriculum
Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace treaty, signaling the end of a 20-year war, and reuniting thousands of families
After a decade long effort, Herat, Afghanistan’s deadliest province for landmines, was declared free of explosive devices
For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty
Chile said it had managed to quadruple its clean energy sources since 2013, resulting in a 75% drop in the average cost of electricity
Pakistan’s parliament passed a landmark law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender citizens and outlawing all forms of discrimination by employers
120 million people gained access to electricity. That means that for the first time since electrical service was started (1882), less than a billion of the world’s population are left in darkness
Bangladesh revealed this year that it had reduced its child mortality rate by 78% since 1990, the largest reduction by any country in the world
