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🧑‍🚒 Fire and rescue crews are still performing search and rescue efforts following a fatal building collapse in Brooklyn, New York, and will continue to do so “until we are 100% sure there are no more people trapped.”

🚢 The ocean liner SS United States was sunk off the Florida Gulf coast, officially becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.

🇺🇸 A record 11 women veterans will serve in Congress next year, including a three-star Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Animals

The world’s largest wildlife crossing just had its first animal visitor, weeks before it officially opens

Cameras just captured a coyote using California’s Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, weeks before it’s set to be officially completed on December 2. It’s the first large mammal to use what will be the world’s largest wildlife crossing.

Spanning 10 lanes of freeway, the $114 million project will reconnect fragmented habitats for wildlife in the area, and will help reduce animal-vehicle collisions.

One of the biggest goals for the project is to assist the area’s mountain lions, which are facing critically low genetic diversity as close relatives mate, expanding their territory to find food and mates.

Why is this good news? Research continues to prove the effectiveness of wildlife crossings — and this coyote visitor shows animals are ready for them, too. This bridge in particular will save both human and animals’ lives, and help area wildlife thrive.

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You may also like: The world’s largest wildlife overpass is coming to California this year. It will help animals safely cross 10 highway lanes​

More Good News

​More than 1.5 million people have watched the “NAZA” documentary on killings in Gaza in less than two months. The award-winning documentary, which details Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, was released in cinemas across the world last month and has quickly become one of the year’s most-watched.

​Ohio State launched the first American Sign Language major among all Big Ten universities. Ohio’s high schools played a role in forming the major, after the university learned that 180 high schools in Ohio offer ASL.

​Pope Leo XIV visited a home for people with disabilities in Argentina, telling them their lives were a blessing, not a burden. In addition to hosting a Mass that drew 2.5 million people, the Pope called for the country to care for its most vulnerable, a symbolic rebuke of the president’s budget cuts.

​A medical breakthrough is offering hope to people with stiff person syndrome. Some patients in a trial for the autoimmune condition, which impacts Celine Dion, have been able to return to work and resume hobbies.

​Kenya’s government secured a $160 million conservation investment. Signed in partnership with a group of donors, the program aims to protect 17.3 million hectares of some of the ​most complex and least disturbed natural environments on Earth.

LGBTQ+

For every anti-trans bill that passed in 2026, seven times as many failed: ‘It’s grueling work, but it makes a difference’

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good progress

The share of the global population living in extreme poverty has declined

Set at just $3 per day, the World Bank’s International Poverty Line is an extremely low bar. The share of the global population living below this line has declined in the last generation, from 36% in 2020, to 10% in 2024.

But even progress against higher poverty lines has been significant: The share of the global population living on less than $5 a day has declined from 57% to 25%, and on less than $10 a day, from 74% to 53%.

While this is incredible progress to note and celebrate, it’s important to also acknowledge that 81% of people in the world still live on less than $30 a day, about $900 a month.

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More Good bits

🌳 A reforestation project gets the recognition it deserves.

🇵🇱 Poland is showing us how to reverse the brain drain.

🌊 Sir David Attenborough would approve. (Threads)

⛴️ New electric ferries are making waves — and flying.

🩸 Give blood, get free blood tests! (Reels)

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