Today’s Top Good News Story

With over 500 nests, sea turtles just made a comeback and broke a 42-year record in Florida

With its sandy beaches and subtropical waters, Florida is home to one of the largest loggerhead sea turtle nesting populations in the world.

Despite living up to 70 years, loggerheads have been on the decline due to ocean pollution, human interference, and the gradual destruction of their nesting habitats. They’re protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

But on the Gulf coast of Florida, Anna Maria Island just celebrated a huge milestone for sea turtle conservation when volunteers counted 546 nests on the island, breaking a 42-year record for the island.

And it’s thanks to conservation efforts that happened 25 years ago.

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​More good sea turtle news:

• Georgia recently made history with the state’s largest-ever endangered sea turtle release.​
• Thanks to extensive conservation efforts and local awareness, Bangladesh has seen the highest number of olive ridley turtle eggs this year.​
• Researchers and locals are using technology and tradition to study and protect sea turtles in one of their most critical nesting grounds.

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​An organization has set up 10 “period pantry” locations stocked with free supplies across Tampa, Florida. While Florida doesn’t have a “tampon tax,” many people in the state still experience period poverty and stigma around menstruation.

​A UK brewery is helping cut reoffending rates by teaching formerly incarcerated people to brew beer. Tap Social Movement’s proven success is being hailed as a possible template for ways to ease the unprecedented overcrowding in UK jails.

[Related: Two formerly incarcerated firefighters are helping people build full-time wildland firefighting careers.]

​Researchers have found a way to recycle old solar panels into lithium-ion batteries. The “game-changing” discovery uses silicon, which is more abundant and capable of making a more energy-dense battery than current commercial methods.

Good Progress To Celebrate

Continuing to gradually increase, wind power surpassed coal in electricity generation in both March and April

In March and April of this year, wind power generated more electricity than coal in the U.S. The Energy Information Administration expects wind power generation to fluctuate in the coming months, but maintain its steady increase overall.

The U.S. now has more than 74,500 wind turbines, with about 3,000 new turbines built every year since 2005.

And while wind power only represents about 10.2% of total U.S. energy production, it accounts for almost half of all renewable energy production.

This good progress comes even as offshore wind development faced setbacks last year. It also comes as new air pollution regulations signal the end of the notoriously “dirty” coal industry in the U.S.

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More Good bits

🦈 Let’s try that again: For those of you who wanted a look at the (kinda cute?) goblin sharks.​

💩 Dog poop bags are feeding dogs after major disasters.

🪸 Moana is Moana-ing in real life.​

❤️ The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.​

🏀 Hi, baller Barbie!​

🎙️ We’ve got to talk about the important issues — and we can do it thoughtfully.​

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— Megan

P.S. You already know I’m partial to Inside Out, too.​