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❤️‍🩹 Two bystanders and a teacher are being hailed as heroes for intervening to prevent an even worse tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where three students and another teacher were killed in a shooting last week.

🇪🇺 The European Parliament approved stronger regulations to restrict employees’ exposure to hazardous, cancer-causing substances in industries like battery, steel, and textile manufacturing.

Animals

Just 10 months in, the largest wildlife overpass in North America has reduced animal-vehicle collisions by 91%

On a stretch of highway between Colorado’s two biggest cities — Denver and Colorado Springs — there was a vehicle-animal collision about once a day. In the past 10 months, there have been 2 total.

That 91% drop is thanks to North America’s largest wildlife overpass across six lanes of Interstate 25. It features a 209-by-200-foot bridge, five underpasses, and miles of fencing designed to funnel animals toward the crossings.

Massive elk use the crossing, just as the smallest toads do — it connects 39,000 acres of wildlife habitat.

Why is this good news? People need to get around, and so do wildlife — neither can come at the expense of the other. Wildlife overpasses, which are more often becoming part of the initial road planning process in the first place, are incredibly effective at making sure both are possible.

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More Good News

​New York City announced its free 2-K program will expand by another 12,000 seats next fall. The expansion will bring the program to 22 of the city’s 32 school districts, including all of the Bronx and Staten Island after the two boroughs were left out of the city’s inaugural 2,000 seats.

​Scientists discovered how to create a never-ending supply of cancer-fighting cells. By growing and modifying immature immune cells rather than mature ones, researchers developed a system that can continuously produce tumor-fighting cells inside the body.

​The European Union is giving free rail travel passes to 41,000 teens. The program is intended to give young people “the opportunity to travel across Europe by rail, while gaining new experiences and meeting people from different countries.”

​In a major milestone, the largest private conservation project in the U.S. sees 1,000 free-roaming bison. A conservation nonprofit is working to stitch together the largest contiguous wild stretch of North American Prairie in the country for the purpose of conservation and recreation.

​After a smuggling raid in Bali, Indonesia returned 20 green sea turtles to the ocean. The turtles are a protected species in Indonesia, and two of the turtles rescued are still recovering.

Work

Remote work actually brings colleagues closer together, new study finds

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Good data

Per-person electricity generation in the UK has fallen to late 1960s levels

While electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% globally this century — the UK’s is falling. After peaking in 2003, it’s fallen by more than a third since.

While some of the decline is due to a change in electricity imports, it’s primarily a result of deindustrialization, from manufacturing to services, and improvements in energy efficiency, like shifting to LED light bulbs and the introduction of efficiency standards.

And the decline has been seen across industry, residential, and commercial electricity use.

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More Good bits

🫜 Pamela Anderson’s garden is feeding her community.

🐋 A humpback whale got the rescue of a lifetime.

🛷 That’s one way to sled across Antarctica.

💰 Economists need to reassess their priorities.

🎨 If painting crosswalks is wrong, we don’t want to be right.

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