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Africa’s Wildfire Season Is Actually Getting Shorter, Scientists Think They Know Why
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Africa’s Wildfire Season Is Actually Getting Shorter, Scientists Think They Know Why

A changing climate seems to be shortening Africa’s dry season, resulting in less land scorched during the wildfire season according to new science. For all the column inches devoted to the record wildfire seasons in France, Spain, or the Amazon, it is still and has always been Africa that’s the center of world wildfires. 70% […] The post Africa’s Wildfire Season Is Actually Getting Shorter, Scientists Think They Know Why appeared first on Good News Network.

Post Office Worker Saves 8-Month-Old Baby After She Suddenly Stops Breathing
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Post Office Worker Saves 8-Month-Old Baby After She Suddenly Stops Breathing

Florida Shelter Celebrates 11-Year-Old Boy for Spending Over 100 Hours Reading to Rescue Pets
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Florida Shelter Celebrates 11-Year-Old Boy for Spending Over 100 Hours Reading to Rescue Pets

Nehemiah Turner is the first volunteer in Jacksonville Humane Society’s Pawsitive Reading program to spend 100 hours reading to pets Source: Florida Shelter Celebrates 11-Year-Old Boy for Spending Over 100 Hours Reading to Rescue Pets Nice.  

Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’
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Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’

Once upon a time, in a little town called Atlanta, there was a dad who decided on a lark to take his 4-month-old baby girl to the library. He didn’t know it at the time, but the Georgia native had planted the magic bean that would grow into a giant beanstalk of brotherhood and paternity, […] The post Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’ appeared first on Good News Network.

3,000 Backlogged Eye Surgeries Paid Forward by US-Caribbean Churches, Restoring Sight for Thousands
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3,000 Backlogged Eye Surgeries Paid Forward by US-Caribbean Churches, Restoring Sight for Thousands

A hospital in Trinidad and Tobago was the site of an incredible, 12-day surgical marathon. When the scrubs were finally hung up, 3,000 people had regained vision free of charge thanks to the Church of the 7th Day Adventists, who organized donated cataract and pterygium surgery work through its community hospital. Day after day, between […] The post 3,000 Backlogged Eye Surgeries Paid Forward by US-Caribbean Churches, Restoring Sight for Thousands appeared first on Good News Network.