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📺 The final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs tonight, ending an era of what one scholar called some of the best satire in U.S. history.

📰 The Denver City Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new data center development and construction, and it goes into effect today.

Animals

For the first time in 70 years, a wild jaguar was spotted in the largest park in Argentina

Together, Iberá National Park and Iberá Provincial Park are not only the largest park in Argentina, but they’re also home to sweeping grasslands, marshlands, forests, and 4,000 species of flora and fauna.

Earlier this month, tour guides spotted a young male jaguar named Ombú resting on a trail, marking the first wild jaguar sighting in 70 years.

The milestone was the result of decades of hard-fought conservation work, education campaigns, and collaborative rewilding efforts between local organizations, scientists, rangers, and ranchers — the park went from having no jaguars to now 50 total.

Why is this good news? Seven decades ago, jaguars were driven out of Argentina by twin forces: logging and poaching. As hunters killed them for their pelts, the forest shrank around them. This milestone proves conservation efforts are working.

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More Good News

​Even though Trump called climate change a “con job,” lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are still trying to protect the planet. Trump’s stance on climate change has led to some of the largest deregulatory actions in the nation’s history, but people are still fighting for protections.

​Fulfilling a lifelong dream, a 72-year-old nurse practitioner is now graduating from medical school. (Gifted link) Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft put her dream on hold to raise her children, and will start a three-year residency in Michigan in July.

​A new study suggests that a single immunotherapy infusion could suppress HIV for years. (Gifted link) After a single infusion of immune cells engineered to recognize the virus, two people in a new study have suppressed their H.I.V. to undetectable levels, one of them for nearly two years.

​Australia’s new national park links forest corridors to state forests, creating more space for koalas to roam. Great Koala National Park is home to 20% of the country’s wild koala population.

​Doctors are one step closer to treating pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy complication. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai are finding success with early trials of a new “blood-filtering” technique.

​Emergency responders in Wyoming are spearheading a new lifesaving blood transfusion method. Instead of waiting until patients get to the hospital, paramedics are now administering transfusions at the scene of the accident.

Economics

This is what happened when thousands of NYC artists received $1K a month, no strings attached

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good progress

The world is installing grid batteries 10 times faster than even just a few years ago

New data shows the world has gotten a lot more efficient when it comes to installing grid batteries. Installations of grid batteries surged by 48% from 2024 to 2025. In total, a record-breaking 112 gigawatts of battery storage capacity was installed worldwide in 2025 — a tenfold increase from 2021.

China and the United States lead the world in grid battery capacity, with China installing more than half and the U.S. accounting for 16%.

According to experts, battery installations are beginning to catch up to solar installations, largely thanks to the price of lithium-ion batteries dropping more than 90% in the last 15 years.

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More Good bits

💰 Before his last show airs, Colbert has been doing a lot of good.

📖 For these novelists, optimism is the whole point.

🥦 Billie Eilish has been walking the vegan walk for a very long time.

🦦 Meet the country’s first search-and-rescue otter!

🛝 For the “recess was my favorite subject” folks.

🎉 Living funerals are growing in popularity. (Gifted link)

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