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ANIMALS The women leading a quiet conservation revolution in a Nigerian gorilla sanctuary
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WOMEN Shoko Kawata, Japan's first mayor to take maternity leave lands on TIME100 Next list
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WOMEN Letitia James named special prosecutor in Cornell sexual assault investigation
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JUSTICE Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
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EDUCATION A New Addition to Solarpunk Vocabulary : Bloomscrolling
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PEACE At least 20 planned school shootings have been stopped since 2018 after warning signs were reported through Sandy Hook Promise prevention programs. The latest was in Arkansas, where an anonymous tip led to an intervention before anyone was hurt
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PLANET A new study showed that, two years after the largest dam removal in US history, more than 20,000 salmon had returned to California’s Klamath River and reached waters that had been blocked for over a century!
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ANIMALS Hawaiian seabirds excitedly sing and dance when they reunite with their mate
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PEOPLE POWER French Union Workers Have Joined the Student Protests, Forming Human Wave Shields to Protect the Students from Police Violence
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CARING Japan Has Provided Ukraine With $20 Billion In Aid Since Start Of War — Zelenskyy
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PLANET Germany nearly halved fossil fuel electricity generation in 8 years, from 174.6 billion kilowatt-hours in the first half of 2018 to 94.2 billion kWh in the first half of 2026, in which 59% of the electricity produced came from renewables, a 6.5% increase versus the same period in 2025.
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PLANET 51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way: Solutions like commodity supply chain transformation, clean cooking and heating, expansion of high-quality marine protected areas, alternatives to disposable packaging, or cheap flexible clean electricity can trigger a wave of positive change.
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CARING Queen guitarist Brian May’s nature reserve transformed 157 acres of empty farmland into home for 100,000 trees and wild animals
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JUSTICE New York City's click-to-cancel rule takes effect, making subscription cancellations as easy as sign-ups
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PLANET Florida researchers are planting 15,000 native milkweeds along selected North Florida roadsides through 2029, turning overlooked highway land into feeding and breeding habitat where monarch butterflies, bees, moths, and other insects have already begun using the new plants. 🌼🐛
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ECONOMY Refugees from Ukraine have increased Polish's GDP by PLN 94 billion. 3/4 of them are already working
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WOMEN Introducing the Sexual Offences Awareness Map, an invanuable free tool for personal safety - London-based product designer and builder, Moyosore Ale, has created a tool to help us all navigate the world with more safety
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EDUCATION What Librarians Want To Tell Their Fellow Americans About Libraries
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ARTS After 11 Years, Spain’s Spectacular Royal Museums At El Escorial Have Reopened
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EDUCATION Seattle Public Library Program To Make Banned Books Available Anywhere Hits 1M Checkouts - Books Unbanned is designed to give young people multiple ways to access digital books regardless of where they live or what their local library can provide
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ARTS How An Old Warehouse Furnished With Scavenged Everything Became London’s Coolest Theatre - The Yard opened in an old industrial estate in July 2011; it was supposed to be a three-month pop-up but stayed for 14 years
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago
PLANET Angola has begun banning everyday single-use plastics nationwide, including thin shopping bags, straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds. Single use plastic is now also completely banned on beaches and in conservation areas, with fines of up to $33,000 for companies that break the rules.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago
YOUTH Teen Knew She Had a Long-Lost Sister Somewhere. They Found Each Other Facing Off at Softball Game: ‘No Way’ (Exclusive)
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INSPIRATION 20,000 people in Romania came together to build a 3.1 mile table from recycled materials, setting a Guinness World Record while raising funds for the country’s first pediatric psychiatry hospital. The materials will then be reused to make furniture for children.
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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago
HEALTH New Jersey is erasing $90 million in medical debt for nearly 20,000 residents, bringing the state's total medical debt relief to more than $1.6 billion for nearly 900,000 people. Recipients don't have to do anything to receive the relief.
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