Evening edition
Friday 30 October

Seven nice things for Friday evening. Put your feet up and enjoy.

  1. Mongabay

    Wool spinning cuts women's risky firewood trips into Nepal's tiger habitat

    Women-led microenterprises like wool spinning in Naya Padampur, Nepal, give women income and reduce dangerous trips into tiger and rhino habitat to collect firewood, though land ownership and financing barriers persist.

    Read it at Mongabay
  2. wtae

    A Pittsburgh nurse hand-sews 80 Halloween costumes for NICU babies

  3. ScienceDaily

    Intensive diet and exercise put 54% of young diabetics into remission

  4. Good News Network

    A Chinese strawberry farmer mentors students who call his exam-listed number

  5. Mongabay

    Chinampas and 80 crocodiles help restore mangroves in Veracruz, Mexico

  6. Global Voices

    Street and social media campaigns carry Lula to a fourth Brazil win

  7. Good News Network

    Aubrey ISD names new Texas school after janitor Marilyn Hampton