5 wolves released in Colorado as part of reintroduction plan (www.nbcnews.com)
Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short....
WellSpan puts $1.5 million donation to use to boost local nursing opportunities (lebtown.com)
Some corals survive warming waters by 'remembering' heat waves (www.earth.com)
8 years and still meeting for Thanksgiving (www.cbsnews.com)
8 years ago a grandma accidentally texted a young man she didn’t know about Thanksgiving. They’ve gone from strangers to family to business partners
New York City Moves to Ban Solitary Confinement, Defying Mayor Adams (www.nytimes.com)
Polish parliament to host first ever Christmas meal for homeless and others in need | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
Bangor laundromat donates over 900 pairs of socks to local charities (www.wabi.tv)
Hawai‘i Land Trust purchases 642 acres at Mahukona, forever protecting important cultural site on Big Island’s Kohala Coast (bigislandnow.com)
California redwoods 'killed' by wildfire come back to life with 2,000-year-old buds (www.livescience.com)
Ghana will enter 'malaria elimination' phase in 2024 (www.semafor.com)
Alex Batty: Grandmother of British boy missing for six years says she 'can't wait' to see him again | UK News | Sky News (news.sky.com)
Tacoma becomes first WA city to ban non-therapeutic cat declawing (www.seattletimes.com)
Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy (www.nytimes.com)
Washington State, like more than 20 other states, bars licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors in their care.
'Signs of life': Sycamore Gap tree will live on, experts say (www.npr.org)
Deforestation hits record low in Brazilian Amazon in November (phys.org)
A 9-year-old wanted to honor her dog that died. So she organized a pet drive for shelters. (www.usatoday.com)
The world's largest single-site solar farm just came online (electrek.co)
Long thought to be extinct in Kenya, giant pangolins are now being helped back from the brink (www.theguardian.com)
Record number of golden eagle chicks on Gotland: ”The island is full” (sverigesradio.se)
Coral kickstart: Reefs get injection of funds at COP28 to stave off extinction (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music (www.nytimes.com)
It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in (www.npr.org)
It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming for 12 years. It is a...
As California’s redwoods recover from fire, an astonishing fact emerges (www.sfchronicle.com)
Raging wildfires in 2020 transformed Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County from a towering forested cathedral into a standing boneyard with some of the oldest trees on the planet seemingly burned beyond survival....
Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving Homelessness (www.wsj.com)
The “Biggest Little City in the World” is earning a new distinction: one of the few cities in the West to get large numbers of homeless off its streets....