3 Men Trapped On Deserted Island Get Rescued After Spelling 'Help' With Palms (www.sunnyskyz.com)
New Zealand opens first 'kiwi hospital' for injured birds (phys.org)
New Zealand on Friday opened its first hospital exclusively treating kiwi birds, and vets have already nursed the first patient back to health—a chick nicknamed “Splash” that tumbled into a swimming pool.
Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Sierra Leone outlaws child marriage with new bill (www.reuters.com)
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The world’s emotional status is actually pretty good, a new global report finds (www.vox.com)
Massive forest restoration project makes steadfast progress: 'This will be the largest natural structure on the planet' (www.thecooldown.com)
Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further (www.cnbc.com)
The world's biggest carbon removal factory just opened in lceland (www.fastcompany.com)
Global Life Expectancy Rises by 6.2 Years After Drop in Deaths from Stroke, Diarrhea, and Respiratory Infections (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
UK hedgehog sightings on the rise after years of decline, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
Climate solution: Massachusetts town experiments with community heating and cooling (apnews.com)
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. (www.nature.com)
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Harvard and MIT Scientists Discover Cholesterol-Busting Microbes in the Gut (scitechdaily.com)
Milestone in neonatal surgery: a tumor in a baby before birth is successfully intervened on (www.infolibre.es) Spanish
Experts removed a heart tumor that put the lives of the 28-week gestating infant and her mother at risk....
Cambodia 'upcycler' turns tonnes of plastic bottles into brooms (www.reuters.com)
School bus driver buys pajamas for student sad about missing out on pajama day (abcnews.go.com)
Sea otters, once hunted to near extinction, are preventing coastal erosion as their populations grow, study finds (abcnews.go.com)
Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies At 100 (www.huffpost.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’...