Firefighting Goats and World’s Largest Plant

Today’s Solutions: November 17, 2024

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Firefighting Goats and World's Largest Plant

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Today’s positive news: Firefighting goats are helping prevent wildfires in California’s Ojai Valley (shout out to Emissary Warren Petersen for submitting this story for our Optimist Change-Makers nominations!)! Plus, the world’s largest plant (think 20,000 football fields big) has just been discovered off the coast of Australia. All that and more on The Optimist Daily today!

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This article was originally published on June 3, 2022

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