Today’s Top Good News Story

National parks just got $700 million in federal funds to fight climate change — and it’s already making a difference

As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the National Park Service was given $700 million to make its land more protected and resilient to inevitable climate change — and conservation and restoration projects are already underway across the country.

In Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks, for example, efforts are underway to preserve and protect whitebark pine trees, which are now a threatened species on the Endangered Species list.

While their goals are wide-ranging — from protecting coral reefs to studying fish in warming streams — all the projects underway will help federal lands weather the climate-changed future.

What’s the nuance? While the IRA funds are a welcomed and much-needed boost to these resiliency efforts — they’re mostly helping in the short term, and more support will be needed to help the parks prepare for the impacts of climate change.

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​The newly launched American Climate Corps is placing around 20,000 young people in jobs in its first year. They’ll be working on projects like restoring land, improving natural disaster resiliency, deploying clean energy, and more.

​By removing dams, communities are adapting to intensifying extreme weather and protecting the health and safety people. Many dams were built when the water-related weather landscape looked completely different, and do more harm in intense climate change-related weather.

​Painting streets and buildings white and planting more trees is helping keep people and communities cooler. Climate change is causing more frequent and intense heat waves, sending more people in communities to the hospital.

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​Philadelphia kicked off Pride Month by setting a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest drag story time. An “important statement” as states try to ban drag story hours, 263 people attended the event to kick off Pride Month.

​In response to firefighters continuing to die of cancer, San Francisco is now going completely PFAS-free. Research suggests that firefighters have higher rates of cancer than the general population, including a 26% higher risk for brain cancer.

​An innovative “sign language ambulance” service is helping reduce barriers to care and save more lives. The implementation of this technology will make emergency services more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing patients.

Good Progress To Celebrate

Demand for hybrid vehicles is surging — and carmakers are making more of them than ever before

In model year 2023, sales of hybrid vehicles hit a new high, comprising 13.6% of all production.

The rise continued in 2024, with sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles in the United States increasing five times faster than that of fully electric automobiles in February.

In 2023, 29% of Toyota’s sales were hybrid vehicles and it’s expected to reach closer to 45% by the end of this year. Sales of the Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid increased from 37% of total Wrangler sales in the first half of 2023 to 50% in the second half of last year.

Toyota’s production of hybrid electric vehicles sits at 31.8%, it’s second only to Mercedes, which leads the way with 43.1% production.

Growing steadily since 2017, the hybrid electric vehicle market in the U.S. is expected to be worth over $55 billion by 2032.

While hybrids are more environmentally friendly (and better for human health) than gas-powered vehicles, they emit significantly more emissions than fully electric vehicles, which produce zero emissions.

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More Good bits

🩷 Sounds like more adults need to be watching Ms. Rachel, too.

🇪🇸 You can improve your Spanish vocabulary, even if you’re low on time.​

🐒 We finally know what this monkey’s large, bizarre nose is for.​

🌈 Florida: No rainbow lights! Floridians: Hold my Pride flag.​

📱 A Congresswoman just made disability history.​

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