Not All News is Bad!

“There really wasn’t much of a discussion about it,” skydiver Sean Plastine said. “It was just, ‘People need help. Okay, let’s go.’”

Source: These skydivers parachuted 3,000 feet to help people in a plane crash (gift link)

Very cool.

An entangled humpback whale off Westport is swimming free again, thanks to a fast 911 call and a careful cutting sequence.

Source: Westport, WA Crews Free Entangled Humpback Whale

Well done.

This week in Leawood, Kansas, a police officer was patrolling a residential neighborhood when he noticed a dog standing in the middle of the roadway.

Source: Dog Standing in Road Leads Police to Owner Who Needed Help

A very good dog.

A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner

Source: Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist

Very cool.

Wind farm at the bottom of the world: three turbines power U.S. and New Zealand bases in Antarctica and cut diesel use by 122,000 gallons a year.

Source: The world’s southernmost wind farm uses just three turbines to help power U.S. and New Zealand research bases in Antarctica, cutting diesel consumption by about 122,000 gallons a year and preventing an estimated 1,242 metric tons of CO₂ emissions despite operating in one of Earth’s harshest environments

A cool (no pun intended) example.

“Flash floods wash down vast quantities of plastic and other waste.”

Source: Ocean Cleanup stops 463,000 pounds of trash before it reaches the Gulf of Honduras

Very cool.

Tucked inside a greenhouse in the commune of Ollioules, some 20 different tropical fruits like passion fruit and mango grow free of pesticides

Source: Resilient French Farmers Use Warming Climate to Grow the Country’s Own Tropical Fruit

Interesting adaptation.

A member at Walden’s Puddle Animal Rescue said he puts “foxes before himself,” always; quite something at 78-years-old.

Source: Nashville Singer Becomes Local Celebrity Rescuing Foxes and Saving Them from Mange

Nice.

Alzheimer’s may begin to unravel the brain when a small group of neurons switches on a receptor it was never meant to use, triggering damage that spreads from synapses to memories.

Source: Scientists Find a Potential “Root” of Alzheimer’s Disease

Fascinating and promising.

A shuttered Memphis hotel now houses 110 veterans for good — and Gov. Bill Lee is showing up to see it.

Source: Former Memphis Hotel Reborn as 110 Permanent Homes for Homeless Veterans

What a great idea.