- America’s national parks need our support
Daily Edition • July 4, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Happy Fourth of July! While the Nice New team takes some time to rest and recharge today, we have a holiday-themed newsletter for you, featuring positive stories about this nearly 250-year-old nation — like the cherry festival taking place in Michigan this weekend and the historic Black church being rebuilt in Colonial Williamsburg. We’re also excited to share our newest Cause of the Season: With your support this summer, Nice News is raising money…Read more
- Could this city be home to the tallest US skyscraper?
Wake up to good news. Supported By Saturday • February 3, 2024 The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is expecting a rare event soon: Its Amazonian cactus seems poised to produce not one but four blooms. The moonflower, or Strophocactus wittii, has a fleeting bloom period — its flowers come in just once a year and last only 12 hours before dying. When Cambridge’s plant bloomed in February 2021, it was thought to be the first time one had ever flowered in the U.K., as the species is abundant...
- Why are moths attracted to light?
Wake up to good news. Supported By Friday • February 2, 2024 It’s here again: Groundhog Day! The unofficial holiday, which has its roots in the Christian celebration of Candlemas, stipulates that if famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, we’ll have six more weeks of winter. If he didn’t, an early spring is in our future. The tradition as we know it was first recorded in a Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, newspaper in 1886, though it was likely going on in some form long...
- Free tax filing is on the horizon
Wake up to good news. Supported By Thursday • February 1, 2024 Roughly 1 in 20 criminal cases in the U.S. results in a wrongful conviction. And those wrongful convictions disproportionately affect Black people, who account for around 53% of exonerations. This Black History Month, Nice News readers have the opportunity to support an organization at the forefront of creating change in the justice system: the Innocence Project. Guided by science and anti-racism, the Innocence Project not only...