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Nearly doubling their goal, a new holiday in California helped over 3,600 animals get adopted in a single day
On June 1, local, state, and national animal welfare organizations teamed up to host the first-ever California Adopt-a-Pet Day. The state's senate even passed a resolution proclaiming the day an official holiday across the state.
The event included more than 170 participating animal shelters across the state and was a resounding success, sending a total of 3,609 pets — nearly doubling their original goal of 2,024 adoptions — to their forever homes.
The ASPCA covered the cost of adoptions, making it easier for community members to welcome a pet into their lives, while still financially supporting the animal rescue organizations in the area.
Why is this good news? California shelters have faced a large influx of animals in recent years due to ongoing economic hardships, like finding pet-friendly housing and affordable veterinary care.
For many of the new pet parents, this was the first time they visited their local shelter and adopted a shelter pet — and for at least one shelter the holiday set a new single-day adoption record.
A critically endangered desert fish hit a 25-year population high in one of Earth's harshest environments
In a glimmer of hope for one of the world's rarest fish, scientists have counted 191 Devils Hole pupfish this spring in their tiny desert habitat — the highest spring count for the critically endangered species in more than two decades.
The fish is found only in the upper reaches of a single deep limestone cave in the Mojave Desert in the western U.S. state of Nevada — the smallest known range of any vertebrate species on the planet.
Scientists are cautiously optimistic about this latest count, especially since they counted just 35 pupfish in 2013, leading to fears that the species could wink out of existence.
Why is this good news? While their numbers continue to fluctuate, successful ongoing conservation of the species has helped set a precedent for using environmental science to guide policy and legal decisions surrounding endangered species.
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A breakthrough union contract for electric school bus workers is bringing better working conditions and cleaner air
For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America's iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in a 9,000-person Georgia town.
That factory, Blue Bird recently made history when its 1,400 employees voted to unionize with the United Steelworkers — a challenging feat in the Deep South — and because it was set to receive up to $1 billion over five years from the federal government in contracts to build more electric school buses.
Not only will factory employees be given guaranteed raises, new retirement benefits, and a profit-sharing with the company — they'll be working to bring cleaner transportation and healthier air to communities across the country.
Why is this good news?The grants to build electric school buses — funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — included a "union neutrality" provision prohibiting grant recipients from using the funding to sway workers against joining a union.
It's yet another example of how building a clean energy-powered future is good for the planet and for people.
Wealthy nations finally delivered $100 billion in climate aid they promised to developing countries
In the wake of collapsed negotiations at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009, wealthy nations, led by the United States, pledged to provide developing countries with $100 billion in climate-related aid annually by 2020.
The money was meant in part to ease tensions between the rich countries that had historically contributed the most to climate change and the poorer nations that disproportionately suffer the effects of a warming planet.
While they fell short of reaching that target in both 2020 and 2021, a new report just confirmed that wealthy nations finally surpassed the goal in 2022 — contributing nearly $116 billion.
What's the nuance?While it's welcomed news that wealthy nations have finally paid up, it's only a very small piece of the massive estimated need. United Nations-backed research projects that developing countries will need $2.4 trillion per year by 2030 to transition away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change.
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