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👏 After nationwide backlash, a Republican-led bill that would have weakened endangered and threatened species protections was removed from the House floor.

☀️ A federal judge in Massachusetts struck down several Trump administration actions intended to slow down the development of clean energy.

Governments doing good

Defying last-minute lobbying, Amsterdam is the world’s first capital city to ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements

Starting May 1, advertising for high-carbon products and services, like flights, petrol and diesel vehicles, gas heating contracts, and meat products, will be prohibited in all public spaces in Amsterdam.

In 2020, the city made a landmark decision to volutarily exclude fossil fuel ads from metro stations — but this new law goes even further, and was passed in defiance of last-minute lobbying from the world’s largest outdoor advertising operator.

There are a few exceptions for existing advertising contracts, and Dutch activists now want to see similar laws implemented at the national level.

Why is this good news? One of the law’s backers was Creatives for Climate, a global network of advertising professionals, which summarized it well: “Advertising doesn’t just sell products, it grants social license … promoting fossil fuels undermines climate action and public trust.”

Advertising products that the world needs less of is counterintuitive and contradicts government commitments to clean energy.

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More Good News

​A study found that school gardens lead to more positive attitudes about the environment. Gardening also builds agricultural literacy, increases physical activity during the school day, and improves hand-eye coordination in young children, which is linked to success in handwriting, math, and reading.

​For the first time since it was built, an orangutan used a canopy bridge created to unite its split community. When a road was built through the forest where the orangutans lived in Indonesia, it split the community in two and led to fears that inbreeding could cause health implications and eventual extinction.

​An endangered sea turtle is finally returning to the ocean after washing ashore in Ireland 22 years ago. “Molly,” the loggerhead turtle, made a remarkable recovery after barely surviving a shark attack in 2004.

​Researchers are using mRNA vaccines to engineer potential cures for cancer. A larger multisite trial has already shown promising results, with patient survival time doubling from 6.7 months to 13.2 months.

​In a British football club for child loss support, bereaved dads are emblazoning their children’s names on their jerseys. The league was just recognized by the English Football League as the “Outstanding Community Project of the Season.”

Environment

Coral reefs are secretly connected across oceans through ‘marine superhighways’

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good progress

Global solar power growth ‘the largest ever observed for any source’

According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, global solar power had the largest increase for any energy source in history.

After analyzing energy trends in 2025, the agency announced that the planet has entered “the Age of Electricity.”

Last year, solar power generated more than 2,700 terawatt-hours — over twice its output from three years earlier — and now supplies more than 8% of global electricity. IEA also saw electric vehicle demand rise by nearly 40 percent, with electric car sales being a quarter of the total of cars sold last year.

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More Good bits

🌏 Mother Earth can spell your name!

❤️ To end gender-based violence, we need men to step up.

⚽️ We have a Season 4 release date. (Instagram)

💸 Despite their own popularity, women’s sports deliver affordability.​

💍 They’ll also deliver love and happy tears.

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