Good News Break
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Take a break from the day with positive news stories.
In Conservation:
Good news for at-risk turtles: India's olive ridleys make slow recovery www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
Good news for at-risk turtles: India's olive ridleys make slow recovery www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
A bright spot for turtles: Olive ridleys are recovering in India, but still at risk
India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it last?
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In Conservation:
Good news for at-risk turtles: India's olive ridleys make slow recovery www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
Good news for at-risk turtles: India's olive ridleys make slow recovery www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
In Conservation:
"Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year"
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"Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In Conservation:
"Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Good ideas in pet adoption
Photographer Adam Goldberg is helping shelter pets find their forever homes in southwest Florida.
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Photographer Adam Goldberg is helping shelter pets find their forever homes in southwest Florida.
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Meet the Photographer Giving Shelter Pets a Second Shot | Tether Tools
For most of us, a photograph is a memory. For a shelter pet, it can be a lifeline. That’s the philosophy behind Second Shot, a heartfelt initiative created by Florida-based pet and portrait photograph...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Good ideas in pet adoption
Photographer Adam Goldberg is helping shelter pets find their forever homes in southwest Florida.
tethertools.com/blog/giving-...
Photographer Adam Goldberg is helping shelter pets find their forever homes in southwest Florida.
tethertools.com/blog/giving-...
In Australian Conservation:
A father and daughter team constructed 1,000 bee hotels in a study that showed they can help native pollinators recover from climate-fueled wildfires
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A father and daughter team constructed 1,000 bee hotels in a study that showed they can help native pollinators recover from climate-fueled wildfires
www.ecowatch.com/bee-hotels-w...
Bee Hotels Can Help Native Pollinators Recover in the Wake of Climate-Fueled Wildfires: Study - EcoWatch
Bee hotels can play an essential role in helping native bee populations recover from wildfires, new research has found.
www.ecowatch.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In Australian Conservation:
A father and daughter team constructed 1,000 bee hotels in a study that showed they can help native pollinators recover from climate-fueled wildfires
www.ecowatch.com/bee-hotels-w...
A father and daughter team constructed 1,000 bee hotels in a study that showed they can help native pollinators recover from climate-fueled wildfires
www.ecowatch.com/bee-hotels-w...
Good News In Conservation:
Black rhinos continue to rise! In August 2025, the latest population estimates for all five species were published, showing a welcome increase for black rhinos in Africa.
www.savetherhino.org/africa/world...
Black rhinos continue to rise! In August 2025, the latest population estimates for all five species were published, showing a welcome increase for black rhinos in Africa.
www.savetherhino.org/africa/world...
World Rhino Day 2025 | Latest Progress | Save the Rhino
For World Rhino Day 2025, we're looking back to look ahead. The future of rhinos depends on us, and we will make a difference.
www.savetherhino.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Good News In Conservation:
Black rhinos continue to rise! In August 2025, the latest population estimates for all five species were published, showing a welcome increase for black rhinos in Africa.
www.savetherhino.org/africa/world...
Black rhinos continue to rise! In August 2025, the latest population estimates for all five species were published, showing a welcome increase for black rhinos in Africa.
www.savetherhino.org/africa/world...
In Health Advancements:
Huntington's Disease has been successfully treated for the first time! (BBC)
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Huntington's Disease has been successfully treated for the first time! (BBC)
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
In Health Advancements:
Huntington's Disease has been successfully treated for the first time! (BBC)
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Huntington's Disease has been successfully treated for the first time! (BBC)
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In Disease Prevention:
CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
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CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
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CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
From 2008 to 2022, rates for precancerous lesions decreased about 80 percent among 20- to 24-year-old women who were screened for cervical cancer.
www.pbs.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
In Disease Prevention:
CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Turns out, it's just a scheduling issue. 😉
Why are so few blue whale calves ever sighted? I delved into this mystery and I think I have an answer!
Paper here: www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...
Popular article: fish.uw.edu/2025/02/unra...
Paper here: www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...
Popular article: fish.uw.edu/2025/02/unra...
Unravelling the mystery of the missing blue whale calves
Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, an extraordinary mystery given they give birth every two to three years. Calves are also only rarely sighted—far less than would be...
fish.uw.edu
February 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Turns out, it's just a scheduling issue. 😉
9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024:
Cape Verde and Egypt became malaria-free. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). Jordan became the first country to ever be certified as leprosy-free, & more...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Cape Verde and Egypt became malaria-free. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). Jordan became the first country to ever be certified as leprosy-free, & more...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024
Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.
www.npr.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024:
Cape Verde and Egypt became malaria-free. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). Jordan became the first country to ever be certified as leprosy-free, & more...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Cape Verde and Egypt became malaria-free. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). Jordan became the first country to ever be certified as leprosy-free, & more...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Blast from the Past: Smallpox Eradicated
May 8th, 1980
The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3,000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
www.who.int/news/item/08...
May 8th, 1980
The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3,000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
www.who.int/news/item/08...
Commemorating Smallpox Eradication – a legacy of hope, for COVID-19 and other diseases
On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.’ The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity...
www.who.int
February 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Blast from the Past: Smallpox Eradicated
May 8th, 1980
The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3,000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
www.who.int/news/item/08...
May 8th, 1980
The declaration marked the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for at least 3,000 years, killing 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
www.who.int/news/item/08...
In Energy Production:
Solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) for the first time in 2024, according to a report released on Thursday by climate think tank Ember.
www.dw.com/en/eu-solar-...
Solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) for the first time in 2024, according to a report released on Thursday by climate think tank Ember.
www.dw.com/en/eu-solar-...
Solar power surpasses coal as EU energy source – DW – 01/23/2025
Europe's transition to renewable energy comes at a time when US President Donald Trump, upon inauguration, pulled out of the Paris Agreement aiming to pursue a "drill, baby, drill" energy policy.
www.dw.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In Energy Production:
Solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) for the first time in 2024, according to a report released on Thursday by climate think tank Ember.
www.dw.com/en/eu-solar-...
Solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) for the first time in 2024, according to a report released on Thursday by climate think tank Ember.
www.dw.com/en/eu-solar-...
Protecting rare cold-water corals:
(2024) Fisheries and Oceans Canada closes the first and only known live coral reef in Pacific Canada to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries.
www.canada.ca/en/fisheries...
(2024) Fisheries and Oceans Canada closes the first and only known live coral reef in Pacific Canada to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries.
www.canada.ca/en/fisheries...
Fisheries and Oceans Canada closes the first and only known live coral reef in Pacific Canada to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries - Canada.ca
Vancouver, B.C. — Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), is taking measures to protect the unique and highly sensitive Lophelia Reef—also known by its Wakashan name q̓áuc̓íwísuxv—by closing all commercial...
www.canada.ca
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Protecting rare cold-water corals:
(2024) Fisheries and Oceans Canada closes the first and only known live coral reef in Pacific Canada to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries.
www.canada.ca/en/fisheries...
(2024) Fisheries and Oceans Canada closes the first and only known live coral reef in Pacific Canada to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries.
www.canada.ca/en/fisheries...
In Conservation (2024):
Mexican Wolf Population Grows for Eighth Consecutive Year
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Mexican Wolf Population Grows for Eighth Consecutive Year
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Mexican Wolf Population Grows for Eighth Consecutive Year | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The wild population of Mexican wolves saw another year of growth in 2023, according to the results of the annual survey. The 2023 population census revealed a minimum of 257 Mexican wolves distributed...
www.fws.gov
February 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In Conservation (2024):
Mexican Wolf Population Grows for Eighth Consecutive Year
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
Mexican Wolf Population Grows for Eighth Consecutive Year
www.fws.gov/press-releas...
Accomplishments and Successes of Reducing Air Pollution from Transportation in the United States
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Accomplishments and Successes of Reducing Air Pollution from Transportation in the United States | US EPA
For a history of how air pollution from transportation in the US has been reduced.
www.epa.gov
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Accomplishments and Successes of Reducing Air Pollution from Transportation in the United States
www.epa.gov/transportati...
www.epa.gov/transportati...
Lifesaving Medicine:
WHO, St. Jude launch groundbreaking international delivery of childhood cancer medicines
www.who.int/news/item/11...
WHO, St. Jude launch groundbreaking international delivery of childhood cancer medicines
www.who.int/news/item/11...
WHO, St. Jude launch groundbreaking international delivery of
childhood cancer medicines
WHO and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have commenced distribution of critically needed childhood cancer medicines in 3 of 6 pilot countries, through the Global Platform for Access to Childhood...
www.who.int
February 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Lifesaving Medicine:
WHO, St. Jude launch groundbreaking international delivery of childhood cancer medicines
www.who.int/news/item/11...
WHO, St. Jude launch groundbreaking international delivery of childhood cancer medicines
www.who.int/news/item/11...
What's been done can be done again.
IFAW: Because of you, 2024 was a life-changing year for animals.
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IFAW: Because of you, 2024 was a life-changing year for animals.
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Because of you, 2024 was a life-changing year for animals
YouTube video by ifaw
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February 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What's been done can be done again.
IFAW: Because of you, 2024 was a life-changing year for animals.
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IFAW: Because of you, 2024 was a life-changing year for animals.
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Feel like doing some good for someone today? Like saving their life?
Consider donating live-giving blood, plasma or platelets.
Or join the bone marrow donation registry (www.nmdp.org/get-involved...).
www.redcrossblood.org
Consider donating live-giving blood, plasma or platelets.
Or join the bone marrow donation registry (www.nmdp.org/get-involved...).
www.redcrossblood.org
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Blood donors report feeling a sense of great satisfaction after making their blood donation. Why? Because helping others in need just feels good. Donate blood today to help those in need.
www.redcrossblood.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Feel like doing some good for someone today? Like saving their life?
Consider donating live-giving blood, plasma or platelets.
Or join the bone marrow donation registry (www.nmdp.org/get-involved...).
www.redcrossblood.org
Consider donating live-giving blood, plasma or platelets.
Or join the bone marrow donation registry (www.nmdp.org/get-involved...).
www.redcrossblood.org
When times get hard and you grow tired, lean on each other. You're probably surrounded by others who are feeling just like you. Let them know you're there, that you hear them, and they're not alone either.
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
When times get hard and you grow tired, lean on each other. You're probably surrounded by others who are feeling just like you. Let them know you're there, that you hear them, and they're not alone either.
NOAA Satellites Helped Save 350 Lives in 2023 ⚓️
"NOAA’s partnerships with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, NASA and others around the world are the foundation of SARSAT’s long success.”
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"NOAA’s partnerships with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, NASA and others around the world are the foundation of SARSAT’s long success.”
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
NOAA satellites helped save 350 lives in 2023
NOAA’s satellites, known for their pivotal role in tracking weather and climate, were behind the rescue of 350 people from harrowing, life-threatening ordeals in the U.S. and its surrounding waters in...
www.noaa.gov
February 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
NOAA Satellites Helped Save 350 Lives in 2023 ⚓️
"NOAA’s partnerships with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, NASA and others around the world are the foundation of SARSAT’s long success.”
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
"NOAA’s partnerships with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, NASA and others around the world are the foundation of SARSAT’s long success.”
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
Look for the helpers.
When Vera and her daughter Tamarah saw the wildfires in Pasadena, they didn't hesitate to lend a hand.
“It doesn’t matter if you know the person or not. If there is a fire in Southern California, people come with trucks and trailers,”...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/u...
When Vera and her daughter Tamarah saw the wildfires in Pasadena, they didn't hesitate to lend a hand.
“It doesn’t matter if you know the person or not. If there is a fire in Southern California, people come with trucks and trailers,”...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/u...
‘These animals are essentially family:’ Horses, sheep and ducks not forgotten in California wildfires amid rescue efforts | CNN
People in Southern California are risking their own safety to rescue animals, both big and small, from the wildfires that have killed 27 people and displaced even more after thousands of structures we...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Look for the helpers.
When Vera and her daughter Tamarah saw the wildfires in Pasadena, they didn't hesitate to lend a hand.
“It doesn’t matter if you know the person or not. If there is a fire in Southern California, people come with trucks and trailers,”...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/u...
When Vera and her daughter Tamarah saw the wildfires in Pasadena, they didn't hesitate to lend a hand.
“It doesn’t matter if you know the person or not. If there is a fire in Southern California, people come with trucks and trailers,”...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/u...
The Iberian Lynx, one of world’s rarest cats, is no longer endangered in Spain and Portugal.
"The increase is largely thanks to conservation efforts that have focused on increasing the abundance of its main food source - the also endangered wild rabbit..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The increase is largely thanks to conservation efforts that have focused on increasing the abundance of its main food source - the also endangered wild rabbit..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
One of world’s rarest cats no longer endangered - conservation agency
The Iberian lynx is now classed as "vulnerable" as numbers surge due to conservation efforts.
www.bbc.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Iberian Lynx, one of world’s rarest cats, is no longer endangered in Spain and Portugal.
"The increase is largely thanks to conservation efforts that have focused on increasing the abundance of its main food source - the also endangered wild rabbit..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The increase is largely thanks to conservation efforts that have focused on increasing the abundance of its main food source - the also endangered wild rabbit..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Climate News: Juan Guillermo Garcés, once a rancher clearing forests with fire, turned a near-death experience into a lifelong mission to restore Colombia’s jungles, creating a 3,000-hectare nature reserve that now teems with rare species. (www.dailyclimate.org)
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‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest
Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Climate News: Juan Guillermo Garcés, once a rancher clearing forests with fire, turned a near-death experience into a lifelong mission to restore Colombia’s jungles, creating a 3,000-hectare nature reserve that now teems with rare species. (www.dailyclimate.org)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good conservation news!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Recovering Under Endangered Species Act
Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened.
biologicaldiversity.org
November 12, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Good conservation news!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Good wildlife news: The National Wildlife Federation and a home developer are building permanent butterfly gardens with native plants to bring back monarch butterfly populations.
www.9news.com/article/life...
www.9news.com/article/life...
Monarch butterfly garden developers hope to recover declining populations
The National Wildlife Federation and a home developer are building permanent butterfly gardens with native plants to bring back monarch butterfly populations.
www.9news.com
November 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Good wildlife news: The National Wildlife Federation and a home developer are building permanent butterfly gardens with native plants to bring back monarch butterfly populations.
www.9news.com/article/life...
www.9news.com/article/life...