1. Brazil’s new president Lula vows to halt Deforestation. For many Brazilians, Bolsonaro’s defeat represents a rejection of the explicit anti-Indigenous, anti-environmental agenda he enacted while in office. Lula has promised to update Brazil’s climate goals to steer the country back in line with the Paris Agreement. He has also…

🏳️‍🌈 — Meet the best-looking couple in the world — 1. Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina reveal they secretly got married Beauty pageant queens Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina secretly tied the knot on Friday after revealing they had been in a relationship. In a joint Instagram post, newlyweds Fabiola Valentín, from Puerto Rico, and Mariana Varela, from…

🎃 — Happy Halloween! Let’s read some good news to start the week! — 1. A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View — in just 5 years humanity has cut expected warming almost in half Nice to see balance coming in on this stuff. The situation is *not good*, but the reporting and social focus until now has been “…and therefore you are…

🔬 — Looks like we’re 8 years away from developing a cancer vaccine! — 1. Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders Vaccines that target cancer could be available before the end of the decade, according to the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful Covid vaccines of the pandemic. Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, who co-founded BioNTech…

📖 A new bill will provide millions of children in CA with free books thanks to Dolly Parton A new bill signed into law will now provide millions of children in California with free books thanks to Dolly Parton. The bill, SB 1183, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin…

💻 — Here’s some good things that happened around the world last week — 1. Biden Pardons Thousands of People Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law In addition to the pardons, Biden said he had instructed Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Attorney General Merrick Garland to begin reviewing how marijuana is classified under federal drug laws. Biden noted that…

1. The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn’t just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug The ALS Association said that $2.2 million of funds that were raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge went into funding the development and trial of the new drug that the Food and Drug…

✈️ — Now I wanna fly to Denver to meet these dogs — 1. Connecticut Becomes One of the First States to Require Schools to Teach Climate Change The new law requires every school district within the state to teach climate change education in line with the Next Generation Science Standards. The mandate was included within the state’s budget implementer bill. Through the…

🎮 — Young people passion for eSports and the environment raised plenty of money for charity — 1. Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company — Profits will now go towards climate action Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a…