Uplifting News

r/UpliftingNews • u/globalwarmingisntfun • 3h ago

Bison Are Back in Britain After 6,000 Years

people.com

592 Upvotes

26 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 7h ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs law opening the door to balcony solar for renters, apartment dwellers and homes without suitable roofs, allowing qualifying solar systems to plug into household outlets without utility approval or interconnection fees.

electrek.co

2.5k Upvotes

81 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/sg_plumber • 7h ago

Over the past 18 months solar, wind, and battery storage added 89 gigawatts of capacity in the U.S. Utility solar capacity rose 33% over the previous year, wind capacity rose 8%, battery capacity doubled, coal capacity dropped by 2.4%, natural gas capacity rose by just 1.5%.

commondreams.org

483 Upvotes

17 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9h ago

In Champaign, Illinois, 3 community members and 4 police officers were honored for saving a 90-year-old woman from a flooding car after they went into a retention pond to pull her to safety. She attended the ceremony to thank her rescuers.

champaignil.gov

202 Upvotes

2 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 11h ago

Formerly incarcerated advocates win a landmark victory as a federal judge orders Texas to air condition every state prison by 2029, ruling extreme heat violates the Constitution and saying the decision will save lives.

texastribune.org

2.0k Upvotes

55 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 14h ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs 7 laws making data centers pay their fair share of electricity and water infrastructure costs, disclose water use and face environmental review, protecting Californians from higher bills and environmental harm.

calmatters.org

15.3k Upvotes

455 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/Mastbubbles • 14h ago

A tree came through Gilbert Kirk’s ceiling in Kansas City, and six weeks later his living room was still open. A man saw it on TV, came with lumber, a tarp and a crew.

sheets.works

436 Upvotes

6 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 15h ago

In Savannah, Georgia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned 160,000 cubic yards of dredged harbor mud into an 8-acre bird island, where more than 300 nests were built in its first nesting season.

dredgewire.com

1.5k Upvotes

18 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/lostfly • 15h ago

Rice University copper-aluminum filter can destroy "forever chemicals" 100 times faster shows study

techspot.com

565 Upvotes

According to Michael Wong, director of the PFAS Research Center at Rice University's Water Institute, the new material could potentially be engineered to capture a wider range of PFAS.

PFAS researcher Laura Orlando explained: "We're going to need as many technologies as we can possibly find to deal with PFAS in drinking water, and if this works to scale on wastewater, then it would be really something to pay attention to."

14 comments

r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 15h ago