Detroit Symphony Orchestra wants to gift 40 violins to local youth (www.metrotimes.com)
Keokuk High School helping students with food, laundry, personal products (www.tspr.org)
Pristine coral reefs discovered near Galápagos Islands are thousands of years old and teeming with life (www.livescience.com)
Houston officials going door-to-door for “Pets for Life” pilot program (www.houstonpublicmedia.org)
Honda Introduces Revolutionary Hands-Free Wheelchair Controlled by Body Movements (www.gamersubculture.com)
Solar cell prices plunge to all-time low (www.pv-magazine.com)
Arnold Schwarzenegger Was 'More Than Happy' to Give $1M to Strike Fund: “Have To Give Something Back” (streamsgeek.com)
Resc-ewed: Britain's loneliest sheep saved from shoreline (www.bbc.co.uk)
Dengue rates drop after release of modified mosquitoes in Colombia (www.nature.com)
B.C., Ottawa, First Nations announce $1B in funding for conservation of at-risk ecosystems. (www.cbc.ca)
The Kingdom Of Bhutan Becomes The First Country In The World To Achieve 100% Dog Sterilization & Vaccination (worldanimalnews.com)
Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth (news.mongabay.com)
South Korea passes new law to protect teachers from bullying parents (www.bbc.com)
A Sydney aquarium is helping endangered zebra sharks bounce back in Indonesia (www.abc.net.au)
Novel brain implant helps paralyzed woman speak using a digital avatar (engineering.berkeley.edu)
FDA moves closer to sickle cell cure that uses gene editing (www.nbcnews.com)
Single mother with 6 kids gifted car refurbished by high school automotive tech students (www.westernmassnews.com)
Toddlers are put to work spreading cheer at Japanese nursing home (www.nbcnews.com)
Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do....
[Brooklyn, NY] Early Childhood Literacy Programs Receive $5.5M Boost (www.bkreader.com)
Minnesota musicians share how disabilities elevate art and culture (www.postbulletin.com)
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment (www.technologyreview.com)
US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’...
Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature (www.cnn.com)
Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for biodiversity....
UN approves Gaza truce [video] (bee-tube.fr)
Ancient pear tree comes back to life after being felled to make way for HS2 (www.theguardian.com)
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