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💊 Health experts from all around the world are joining doctors and organizations in speaking out against the Trump administration's announcement Monday linking the use of acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol and many cold and flu medications — during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism in children.

☣️ Despite an internal effort to reverse the regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency will continue to hold polluters responsible for cleaning up “forever chemicals,” maintaining an important role of the agency despite chemical industry opposition. (Gifted link)

📚 A federal judge ruled that parts of Florida’s book ban law were unconstitutional and violated students’ First Amendment right of free access to ideas.

Environment

Arizona State University received its largest-ever grant to launch a new school dedicated to preparing the next generation of conservation leaders

At Climate Week in New York City this week, Arizona State University announced its brand new school dedicated to preparing the next generation of conservation leaders — thanks to the university’s largest-ever philanthropic investment.

Rob Walton, a philanthropist, conservationist, and the former chairman of Walmart, made a historic $115 million investment to establish the School of Conservation Futures, which will be named after him.

The school will be “laser-focused” on conservation, because “protecting the planet’s future is protecting our future.”

What’s the nuance? Walton is the eldest son of the founder of Walmart, which, as the largest retailer in the world, is not known for being particularly environmentally friendly.

But investments like this are critical in developing the people and solutions we’ll need in the future to manage the planet’s resources wisely. Do we wish the damage wasn’t being done in the first place? Definitely. Do the solutions we need require the best minds and a lot of money? Also definitely.

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More Good News

​The U.S. Forest Service will now provide wildfire fighters with N95 respirators as part of standard equipment. The decision reverses a decades-long police that banned the use of respirators to reduce exposure to toxins and carcinogens, with only bandanas approved for use as facial coverings.

​The Gates Foundation pledged $912 million to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria and urged governments to take stronger action, too. Global development assistance fell by 21% between 2024 and 2025 and is now at a 15-year low, and if that trajectory remains the same, Gates said that the progress that cut child mortality in half since 2000, saving 5 million lives a year, could be in jeopardy.

​Researchers were able to embed digital fingerprints into 3D-printed parts, which could help make ghost guns more traceable. The fingerprinting process adds a permanent marker to the object, which can be deciphered later to determine any data factors that were put in during the printing process, such as the owner of the printer that was used.

​A California city adopted an ordinance banning retail sales of nearly all live animals. West Hollywood has banned retail sales of dogs and cats since 2010, but has now extended it to amphibians, arachnids, birds, fish, hermit crabs, mammals like rodents and rabbits, and reptiles.

People doing good

This college student was tired of seeing red Solo cups litter her campus — she invented a way to turn them into sweaters

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Good around the world

Today, we’re taking a trip around the globe to celebrate good news and positive solutions happening outside the U.S. that are making people’s lives, communities, and the world a better place:

🇫🇷 In France, farmers are reducing pollution and saving energy by using powder made from algae grown on wastewater instead of conventional fertilizer. The results are encouraging: when mixed with mineral fertilizers, the bio-based product can reduce their use by up to 25% without sacrificing crop yields.

🇨🇳 In China, doctors just performed the world’s first 5G remote robotic urological surgery at an extreme altitude. The operation connected two hospitals thousands of kilometres apart, and despite the distance, they worked together in real time to carry out the groundbreaking procedure.

🇧🇷 In Brazil, a retired mechanic created a homemade solar heater made from plastic bottles that has changed thousands of lives. Beyond economic savings, the project helped create a recycling culture in a region where there was hardly any selective garbage collection — one city even adopted periodic collection programs thanks to the popularity of this system.

🇵🇭 In the Philippines, a new national protected area will protect some of the world’s most climate-resilient coral reefs. The country designated more than 200 square miles of its coastal waters in the new Panaon Island Protected Seascape, which hosts vibrantly colored and dense coral reefs teeming with schools of juvenile fish, sea turtles, sea anemones and other marine life.

🇦🇺 In Australia, the government vowed to cut its emissions by 62 to 70% by 2035, following the advice of the Climate Change Authority. The country’s emissions have already fallen by about 27% since the baseline year of 2005, and the government previously projected emissions to fall by 51% by 2035.

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More Good bits

🫶 Now and always, autistic people deserve better than stigma and misinformation. (Instagram)

🦜 Climate change created its first new bird species — and that’s a good thing.

🏠 Welcome to my crib … it’s in a wind turbine.

📺 Muslim-led storytelling is changing a harmful narrative.

🇮🇪 Ireland is showing us how to actually make a country better.

What’s good?

Not gonna lie: part of the reason we included that global good news roundup today was because we’ve got wayyyy too much to fit in a typical Goodnewsletter. Pretty good feeling to be overwhelmed by good stuff happening in the world right now!

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— Megan