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🌊 David Attenborough is returning to narrate “Blue Planet III” at 100 years old, 25 years after the original series.

🎤 ​At night 21 of his Madison Square Garden residency, Harry Styles honored Oscar Belgal​, the 28-year-old man shot by ICE agents during an operation in New York City.

🏆 Two U.S. academics won the Nobel Prize in economics for their decades of work developing ground-up models to stabilize economies.

People doing good

A Chicago woman transformed her yard into an oasis for migrating monarch butterflies

Claudia Galeno-Sánchez has spent the past two years transforming her Chicago home into a sanctuary and educational space for monarch butterflies.

With native milkweed and wildflowers in her back and front yards, Galeno-Sánchez, her husband, and her two children spend the fall admiring the monarchs that visit as they make a nearly 3,000-mile migration journey to Mexico until late October.

An immigrant herself, she’s found a kinship with the migratory butterflies and has even expanded her efforts throughout her community to nearby schools — she now has eight native plant projects and distributes milkweed plants to a community garden.

Why is this good news? Over the past 20 years, monarch butterflies have been severely declining due to habitat loss from deforestation, extreme weather from the climate crisis, and pesticides harming the plants critical to their survival. Along with regulatory protections, grassroots efforts like this have helped make a huge difference for their survival.

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​A record number of Native Americans are running in the 2026 midterm elections. (Gifted link) At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running in local, state, and federal primary and general elections this year.

​A Maryland family turned a 116-acre hunting farm into a protected wildlife haven. Over the course of two decades, they planted thousands of trees, including river birches, tulip poplars, sycamores, white oaks, loblolly pines, black walnuts, and pawpaws, alongside grasses, shrubs, and wildflowers.

​Robots are cleaning the dust off solar panels, saving billions of gallons of water. Where the sun is the strongest, the desert, the dust is also at its worst, and annual energy losses from panels covered in dust, called soiling, range from about 7% in parts of the United States to as much as 50% in the Middle East.

​The NAACP recruited more than 50,000 volunteers to help protect voters’ rights during the midterms. The effort is part of NAACP’s aggressive Election Protection program taking place across the country, with concentrated operations in 16 priority states.

​Researchers shared that gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people. Optogenetic therapy is based on Nobel Prize-winning science and involves turning nerve cells on and off using light.

Interesting story

1,000 people buried their underwear across Switzerland. The unusual study helped researchers gauge soil health

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good progress

Gas cars fell below 50% of new car sales globally for the first time

In the first half of 2026, gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales, down from 73% in 2021 — marking the first time on record they’ve fallen below half of sales. In a single year, gas-only car sales fell from 52% to 49% globally.

More hybrid-electric vehicles are still being sold than battery-electric vehicles — though the latter showed faster growth. BEVs grew 12%, making up 17% of new car sales, while hybrids grew 10%, representing 18% of sales.

China leads the way, but even in the U.S., where gas cars still dominate, hybrid sales volume was up 23%, reaching a record 16.3% of new car sales.

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More Good bits

🏳️‍🌈 Hungary is restoring LGBTQ+ rights.

🌱 Bet you never thought concrete could do that.

🍎 Community members filled a vacant lot with fresh, free fruit!

🇵🇸 Food is helping Palestinians rebuild in Mexico City.

🐻 Just your friendly, neighborhood bear family.

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