April '25 Good News

'Merica

• Legal aid for migrant children restored (1, 2)
• Harriet Tubman & Underground Railroad website restored (1, 2)
• Colorado House passes a bill expanding protection for transgender rights (1, 2)
• New Mexico has established a Turquoise Alert to assist in finding missing Native Americans (1, 2)
• For the first time in seven years, a building has been seized from a landlord in New York City. The 2201-2205 Davidson Ave building will be turning into a co-op one -- tenants all share a piece of the responsibility without a landlord in charge. For years, tenants have had to deal with mold, heat and water outages, elevator outages, partial ceiling collapses, roaches, and more (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Chevron ordered to pay $740 million for destroying Louisiana coastal wetlands (1, 2)
• New Mexico makes childcare free to about 70% of families (1, 2, 3)
• Chattanooga, Tennessee became the first National Park city in North America (1, 2)
• Reed College now offers free tuition for family making less than $100,000 (1)
• A former special education teacher, Sharon Lavigne, along with her community halted the $1.25 billion construction of a plastics manufacturing plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana. St. James Parish, Louisiana is predominantly inhabited by black people (1, 2)

World

• Spain imprisons Neo-Nazi leader for a year for hate speech against Moroccans (1, 2, 3)
• Plastic pollution on Australia's coastlines drops by 39% (1, 2)
• Georgia: the man responsible for the murder of transgender model Kesaria Abramidze gets life in prison (1, 2)
• A twice-a-day pill which helps slow down breast cancer is now offered in the UK (1, 2)
• Maternal mortality rate drops by 74% in Sierra Leone since 2000 (1, 2, 3)
• Anonymous releases 10TB of data from the Kremlin (1, 2)
• More than 2,000 elderly Swiss women win climate change lawsuit alleging that Switzerland is not doing enough to combat it (1, 2)
• 4,000 Indigenous Papuans win recognition over the rights of a 40,000 acre tropical rainforest in occupied West Papua (1, 2)

Animals & Conservation

• Carolina the Giant African Pouched rat retires after helping prevent 400,000 tuberculosis cases in 7 years (1, 2)
• The red-tailed amazon parrot's population has doubled in size in 20 years (1, 2)
• The first image of a Colossal squid in its deep sea environment has been captured (1, 2)
• 19 big cats rescued from an animal smuggling operation during a raid in Spain (1)
• Most sea turtle species all over the world show signs of recovery (1, 2)
• The once extinct Sihek bird laid the first wild eggs in 40 years (1)
• Federal judge orders more protections for manatees after the Florida Department of Environmental Protections fails to protect about 2,000 individuals from starving to death (1, 2)
• Colorado now requires medical research animals to be put up for adoption (1, 2)