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💉 A controversial study that some vaccine skeptics used to argue that millions of people likely died as a result of COVID vaccines has been retracted over misinformation and issues with the research.

🏳️‍🌈 Bolivia recognized its first-ever same-sex marriage, a historic step that could lead the South American country to make same-sex marriages legal.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England is on track to be one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver. (May require login)

National Parks

Zion is now the first national park to offer an all-terrain wheelchair for public use

Zion National Park just took a huge step toward making the parks more accessible to disabled visitors, debuting the first all-terrain wheelchair lending program for the public.

National parks around the U.S. have accessibility equipment, but it’s owned by nonprofits. Zion is now the first to own the equipment, and four others are reportedly “making steps” to do so, too.

The wheelchair is made by Extreme Motus, and cofounder Ryan Grassley has been taking his best friend, who has cerebral palsy, on adventures with it for the past seven years and has been advocating for their availability at national parks for years, too.

What’s the nuance? The lending program is available to guests on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reservations, which people have pointed out could make it difficult for disabled people to plan their visit to the park around the wheelchair’s availability.

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More Good News

​Australia is working to catch 5,000 of the world’s smallest penguins to vaccinate them against bird flu. Capturing wildlife to vaccinate them is difficult, particularly because the bird flu vaccination requires they be caught twice, for two doses.

​Bamboo tiny homes in Myanmar survived a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, and they were built for the price of a smartphone. The simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

​The first test flight of the largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity. The flight lasted nearly half an hour and comes at a time when jet fuel prices have skyrocketed because of the U.S. war with Iran.

​Conservationists created a “coastal corridor” in Florida designed to preserve and support vulnerable marine life. It replicates the state’s wildlife corridor, an 18 million-acre project that provides a safe, contiguous habitat where rare or threatened land-based species can flourish.

​A farmer had six words for an AI company’s offer to buy her land for $26 million. The family initially agreed to sell the land, but when they learned that the property would be used for data centers fueling artificial intelligence, they issued a six-word response.

​A personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine succeeded in a large, late-stage trial among high-risk patients with melanoma. The individualized vaccine, paired with an existing immunotherapy, is the first and only combination regimen to demonstrate potential to extend melanoma patients’ lifespans.

People doing good

The Trump administration wants to scrub national park history. Meet the librarians preserving it anyway

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good progress

Cities across Latin America have reached a historic milestone of 10,000 electric buses

In mid-August, during Latin America’s largest transport and mobility event, the International Council on Clean Transportation announced that cities across the region officially had over 10,000 electric buses in operation.

The historic milestone was reached after 80 cities in 13 Latin American countries prioritized the electrification of their bus fleets, with Santiago, São Paulo and Bogotá leading with more than 7,000 electric buses in operation across the three cities.

The operation of these buses is estimated to avoid more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions every year, with officials calling it a “turning point in the decarbonization of public transport.”

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More Good bits

🐾 A heroic dog saved his owner from the Spokane wildfires.

🤖 This font is great for humans, but a nightmare for AI.

🌎 Sorry Trump, erasing climate data won’t be *that* easy.

🐢 Once again: Fill in your holes at the beach!

🌳 The most official way to touch grass.

📼 Friday night movie night is so back.

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