The Uplift Brief — Thursday, June 25, 2026

Around the World

Amsterdam Had 19 Cats Drown in Its Canals Last Year. The City Built Them a Very Dutch Solution. Euronews

A 5-Year-Old Lost Her Fingertips on a Roundabout. What the Firefighters Did Next Saved Her Hand. Sunny Skyz

Whales in the Mediterranean Are Developing a New Dialect. Scientists Have Never Observed This Before. Science Alert

Conservationists 'ecstatic:' Trail cameras spot one of the world's rarest mammals — with a baby in its pouch Good Good Good

Scientists Just Discovered a Shark That Walks on the Ocean Floor. Nobody Had Ever Seen This Species Before. Good Good Good

Science

Eight Acres of Native Dunes Were Restored Along Santa Monica Beach. The Shore Is Protecting Itself Now. Good News Network

The World's Largest Whale Graveyard Is Teeming With Deep-Sea Life — Including Species Nobody Has Ever Named.. Good News Network

A NASA Astronaut Turned the Camera on the Southern Lights From the Space Station. The Footage Stopped People Mid-Scroll. Good News Network / NASA

Butterflies That Eat Pollen Live Dramatically Longer Than Those That Don't. Scientists Want to Know Why. Science Alert

Scientists Mapped the Fungal Networks Under Our Feet and Found 62 Quadrillion Miles Nobody Had Counted. Good News Network

Community Wins

A Minneapolis Artist Put a Vending Machine in a Bookstore. Every Piece of Art Inside Costs $1. Nearly 3,000 Have Sold. Good News Network

The 'Civic Hour' Is Changing How People Volunteer — and Cities Are Taking Notice. Reasons to Be Cheerful

Young Women Are Moving Into NYC Convents to Save Money. Rent Is $200 a Week. No Boys After Curfew. Good Good Good

A Community Rallied Around a Woman Stranded in Mexico After She Broke Her Neck. InspireMore

Medical Breakthroughs

Young Women Now Have a Near-Zero Risk of Dying From Cervical Cancer. The HPV Vaccine Did That. Good Good Good

Geologists Went Digging for Gold. They Found Something the Earth Has Never Shown Us Before. Science Alert

Christian Eriksen's Heart Stopped Again During a Match. A Device the Size of a Matchbox Saved His Life. Science Alert

Acts of Kindness

Emily Never Got to Graduate. But Her Mother Heard Her Heartbeat One More Time. Sunny Skyz

A Stranger Helped Him Survive a Heatstroke a Decade Ago. Now His Convenience Store Signs Are Helping Thousands. Good News Network

Uplifting Videos

Ripple (Award Winning)- Kindness and good deeds will come back to you youtube

A Bird Started Showing Up at a Woman's Window Every Evening at 5:30 to Sleep Inside Her House. GeoBeats Animals — YouTube

A Military Dad Pulls Off the Best Homecoming Surprise He Was Deployed for a Year. His Kids Had No Idea He Was Coming Home. youtube

Flamingos on Parade. Nothing Else Needed. r/BeAmazed

Every Day, These Macaws Fly Down From the Mountain to Eat From This Balcony. r/BeAmazed

The Bravery of Anthony Omari — a Story That Deserves to Be Seen Again. r/BeAmazed

A Teacher Carried a Paralyzed Student on His Back for an Entire Field Trip So She Wouldn't Miss a Moment. r/BeAmazed

This Dog Quietly Joined the Ice Cream Line and Waited His Turn Like Everyone Else. r/BeAmazed

A German Shepherd Encountered Kittens for the First Time. His Reaction Said Everything. r/MadeMeSmile

Wellbeing

One Stage of Sleep May Be the Key to Protecting Your Brain From Dementia. Scientists Just Identified Which One. Science Alert

Scientists Found a Way to Read Alzheimer's Risk in a Photo of Your Eye — Years Before Any Symptoms Show. Science Alert

She Wrote This Children's Book Four Decades Ago. This Week, It Finally Hit the Bestseller List. Sunny Skyz

One Brain Chemical May Be the Key to Breaking Any Habit. Scientists Just Identified It. Science Alert

Gallup Asked 2,000 Americans If the People Around Them Are Kind. The Answer May Restore Your Faith. Gallup / Good Good Good

Harvard Tracked 147,000 People for 30 Years. They Found Exactly How Much Exercise Adds Years to Your Life. U.S. News & World Report

Animals & Pets

Philanthropists Bought Land and Started Rewilding It. Then a Miner's Cat No One Had Seen in Years Showed Up. Good News Network

An Endangered Sea Turtle Just Laid Her 300th Nest of the Season. She's Been Coming Back to Florida Since 2001. Good Good Good

A Photographer Just Captured Images of an Animal Scientists Had Written Off as Extinct. InspireMore

Cape Hatteras Is Training Volunteers to Sit With Sea Turtle Nests Through the Night. The Waitlist Is Long. Good Good Good

Scientists Just Counted the Most Right Whale Calves Born in 17 Years. The Number Surprised Everyone. Good News Network

A Sea Turtle Survived the Most Severe Boat Strike Rescuers Had Ever Seen. Then She Made a Full Recovery. Good Good Good

Environmental Victories

A Laundry Filter Invented by One Person Is Already Keeping Tons of Microplastics Out of Waterways. Good News Network

Scientists Spent Five Years Without Finding a Single Living White Abalone. Then a Research Team Looked Down. Good News Network

A Phone Case Company Built a Robot That Hunts Plastic Across the Ocean Good News Network

Kids Making a Difference

15 Teenagers Were Handed $20,000 and Told to Do Something Good With It. Here's What They Chose. Whig

This Newark High School Has Sent Every Freshman Into the Wilderness for 53 Years Running. Here's Why. CBS News