Uno reverse...

🎓 The U.S. government announced it was reversing the termination of legal status for international students. The decision impacts 1,200 students, many of whom filed court challenges against the Trump administration.

🏥 In another reversal, the Trump administration is restoring financial support for a landmark women’s health study, which was researching “factors associated with cardiovascular diseases, aging, cognition, frailty, resilience, and much, much more.”

Environment

Saguaro National Park is expanding by nearly 50 acres due to a land acquisition

The Trust for Public Land acquired two properties in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, which will lead to the expansion of Saguaro National Park by 47 acres.

Beyond adding to the national park’s protected area, the expansion also improves connectivity between the park and nearby Sweetwater Preserve, boosts the local outdoor industry, and helps make the outdoors even more accessible while preserving the “national treasures” of these public lands for generations to come.

While Saguaro National Park already boasts tens of thousands of acres, this new addition only helps solidify its significance and conservation years into the future.

Why is this good news? Just this past week, the Trump administration was reportedly considering rolling back protections for six national monuments representing over 5 million acres of national public lands. While 50 acres of additional acreage seems like a drop in the bucket compared to that — these additions that prioritize conserving more, not less, land are so important.

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More Good News

​In honor of her late husband, a philanthropist has donated over $100 million to 350 local charities in Rhode Island. Barbara Papitto founded the Papitto Opportunity Connection to support nonprofits in Rhode Island that serve communities most in need of help, with grants focusing on three main areas of impact: education, skills training, and entrepreneurship.

​An autistic artist teamed up with city council to create and install “happy to talk” benches to combat loneliness. While Oliver Chan’s experience with autism might amplify feelings of loneliness, he knows it’s something everyone experiences. — and that became abundantly clear in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

​After a months-long recovery, 31 critically endangered, “cold-stunned” sea turtles returned to the Atlantic Ocean. The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the most endangered sea turtle species in the world — is ending up “cold-stunned” in Cape Cod Bay with increasing frequency due to changing ocean temperatures and extreme wind patterns that force sea turtles up north.

​Dutch engineers built a 3D-printed bridge using a decommissioned wind turbine blade. Another potential way to recycle would-be waste from wind turbines, people have also turned the decommissioned blades into surfboards, tiny homes, and more.

Housing

SuperAdobe homes have popped up all around the world to provide sustainable, safe, cheap housing for people in need — one just survived the L.A. wildfires

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People doing good

Three Indian teenagers built a salt-powered fridge to help bring vaccines and medical supplies to rural areas

After hearing how challenging it was to bring COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas that did not have electricity, three teenagers in India came up with a solution: a mini refrigerator that cools itself with salt and does not require an outlet.

Dhruv Chaudhary, Mithran Ladhania, and Mridul Jain’s invention, the Thermavault, just won the 2025 Earth Prize — and they’re using the $12,500 prize winnings to build 200 refrigerators for 120 hospitals.

The trio is hopeful that their invention will help transport critical vaccines, medicines and supplies, and even transplant organs.

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More Good bits

🪰 You won’t win money in this lottery: it’s something even better.​

📱 A dating app without the filters and Photoshop.​

⛳️ If your golf ball gets wet, the fish get fed.​

📚 Amazon tried to crash Independent Bookstore Day … book lovers said not so fast.​

🪻 The funnest native wildflower seed distribution idea we’ve seen yet. (Instagram Reels)

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