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A Teacher Speaks. A Robotic Hand Signs Her Words. Deaf Students in Kenya Are Finally Keeping Up in Class.

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Kids Making a Difference

Every Drawing or Poem a Kid Submits About the Environment Now Triggers a $5 Donation. The Goal Is a Million Dollars. Creative Visions / PR Newswire

He Was Named a Pediatric Hero. Then He Raised $15,000 to Back It Up. WTRF

For the Fourth Year Running, a 7-Year-Old Set Up a Lemonade Stand to Help Shelter Dogs. WGEM

Community Wins

New Mexico Just Shut Uranium Mining Out of 13 Million Acres of Its Own Land. Good Good Good

A Washington Mine Left Toxic Waste Behind for Decades. A New Law Just Sent in the First Cleanup Crew. Good News Network

New Mexico Just Shut Uranium Mining Out of 13 Million Acres of Its Own Land. Good Good Good

A Washington Mine Left Toxic Waste Behind for Decades. A New Law Just Sent in the First Cleanup Crew. Good News Network

She Wrote One Check for Fifty Million Dollars. Every Cent Goes to Native Students. Native News Online

Metallica Helped Fill the Shelves of a Local Food Bank During a Tour Stop. Nobody Expected It. InspireMore

After a Civil Rights Complaint, Chicago Built the Nation's Largest Air Quality Monitoring Network. Good Good Good

Good News Around the World

A Girl Left Her Stuffed Animal Behind at a Hotel in Sicily. It Came Home With Its Own Passport Stamp. Good News Network

A Girl Left Her Stuffed Animal Behind at a Hotel in Sicily. It Came Home With Its Own Passport Stamp. Good News Network

Egyptian Farmers Started Growing Crops Underneath Solar Panels. The Shade Turned Out to Be the Whole Point. Good Good Good

A Shark Bit Their Friend at the Wharf. This Week, Two Boys Got Medals for What They Did Next. Queensland Ambulance Service

Scientists Gave Elephants a Classic Childhood Test. They Showed More Restraint Than Most People Would. Science Alert

A 'New' Pangolin Species Was Hiding in Plain Sight for Nearly 200 Years. Good Good Good

Scientists Just Found an Entirely New Monkey Species Living in the Congo Rainforest — Hidden in Plain Sight. Science Alert

Science Breakthroughs

Engineers Drove Steel Pilings Into the Seafloor Off Long Island to Hold Up Wind Turbines. Fish Moved In. The Optimist Daily

NASA's Mars Rover Just Finished Running a Marathon. Here's What It Found Along the Way. Good News Network

Acts of Kindness

Kids in Kansas Were Racking Up School Lunch Debt. A Group of Prison Inmates Wiped It Out. Good Good Good

Uplifting Videos

He Had $100,000 to Give Away. Watch What Happened. Jimmy Darts — YouTube

She Was Too Weak to Move From the Middle of the Road. Then Someone Stopped. The Dodo — YouTube

A Rescue Dog Refused to Eat — Until His Mom Made Him a Charcuterie Board. The Dodo — YouTube

Wellbeing & Happiness

Scientists Just Found a Second Job for Ozempic. It Might Slow Aging Itself. Science Daily

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

Medical Breakthroughs

Scientists Just Mapped the Genes Behind Bone Loss. It Could Rewrite Treatment for Millions. EurekAlert

Sugar-Coated Nanoparticles Shrink Deadly Brain Tumors in Mice Science Alert

A Blood Test Can Now Identify Dementia Risk Decades Before Any Symptoms Appear. Science Alert

Animals & Pets

Four Baby Bobcats Were Rescued in a Single Week. Now They're Healing Together. Good News Network

Buddy Fell 65 Feet Off a Cliff and Was Missing for Four Days. Rescuers Followed a Faint Bark. CBS 17

She Went Missing for 34 Days. A Random Car Fire Is the Only Reason Anyone Found Her. GreaterGood

Wisconsin has conserved 750,000 acres since 1989. These trail cam photos show why it matters Good Good Good

From Reddit

An Inheritance Came With Instructions Nobody Expected. r/MadeMeSmile

There's Still Good in Humanity. This Is Why. r/MadeMeSmile

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