Good News Network
The Good News Network (GNN) is a website dedicated to sharing positive and uplifting news stories from around the world. Founded in 1997, it aims to counterbalance the often negative focus of mainstream media by highlighting acts of kindness, scientific breakthroughs, inspiring individuals, and other heartwarming developments. The site covers a wide range of topics, including health, environment, culture, and technology, with the goal of promoting optimism and hope. GNN also features a daily newsletter and encourages readers to contribute their own good news stories.
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‘Miracles Happen’: Woman Uses CPR Training she Learned 40 Years Ago to Save Teen Baseball Player’s Life
Johnette Wilmot learned CPR when she was 17-years-old and never needed it in the 40 years since then. But, recently, when a 15-year-old went into cardiac arrest during a baseball practice, Wilmot remembered everything as if she had been trained yesterday. Evan Tucker had just finished his freshman baseball season at Pinson Valley High School […]
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Hero Tells Mom on Burning 3rd Floor: ‘Drop the baby, I am going to catch her’
Absolutely gripping footage recorded during a recent apartment block fire shows a mother throwing her baby out from the third-floor window to a crowd of rescuers below. The arms of the rescuers envelope the falling child, and Cleveland news 19 reports that both mom and babe made it out unharmed. The ordeal began on June […]
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Ash Trees in Britain Are Evolving a Resistance to Fungal Disease That was Devastating Woodlands
To use what will become a timeless adage, one of the most amazing things about life is how it, uh, finds a way—as seen lately in England where ash trees are spontaneously developing resistance to a deadly disease. Natural selection in woodlands is acting to combat the disease ash dieback—caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus […]
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Parasail Operator Turns Into Rescuer After Storm Hits the Jersey Shore
From the Jersey Shore comes the story of a parasail operator rescuing a kayaker and her dogs as fast as the wind which capsized them was blowing across the water. It was Thursday evening in Sea Isle City and Brennan Bollard wasn’t working. A storm was forecasted and at around 7:00 p.m. it hit the […]
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Golden Wheat Anniversary: Farmer Uses Crop Field to Create One-Mile Message for Wife of 20 Years
A farmer in Kansas had an idea for an anniversary gift, but it was going to take eight months, one mile of land, and 65 million wheat seeds. Jesse Blasi and his wife Sarah were set to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year. And he was inspired by another Kansas farmer who had planted […]
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1,000-year-old Sword Decorated with Spiritual Symbols Found in Dutch River Goes on Display
Looking as intact as the day it was forged, a 1,000-year-old sword has gone on display in the Netherlands. Capturing a transition in medieval military technology with its expert degree of preservation as well as a dramatic culture of weapon embellishment with its series of religious symbols inlaid in copper, the sword is no doubt […]
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Dozens of Whales Saved by Locals After Mass Stranding on Icelandic Beach
From a country that’s typically in the news for hurting whales comes the story of a mass-stranding event with a happy ending. Around 60 pilot whales, known locally as grindhvalur, were found stranded on Ólafsfjörður beach last Sunday. Locals and emergency crews rushed to the remote area in a desperate effort to save the mammals, […]
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Police Ask Boston Seniors to ‘Walk the Beat’ with Them to Get Exercise and Make Friends
It takes guts, experience, and community connections to be a ‘beat cop’—not the sort of environment where you’d expect to see a senior club. “Walk the Beat” was the brilliant, and likely life-saving idea cooked up by the Boston Police Department during COVID-19 to keep seniors active, engaged, and safe. Police officers escort groups from […]
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Sunlight-Powered Catalyst Supercharges Green Hydrogen Production by 800%
Swedish engineers have improved the process through which hydrogen fuel is produced from solar electricity by 800%. Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the best renewable alternatives to fossil fuels in heavy machinery like planes and ships, but its creation requires electricity. That electricity can be from renewable sources like solar or wind, but the […]
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Work Begins on Multi-Million Dollar ‘Badger Bridge’ to Enable Wildlife to Cross in Cornwall
Nationally protected badgers have just been given the right of way by Cornwall council, with a new wildlife crossing that will allow them to pass over a busy road unharmed. To reach across the four-lane divided highway, the crossing, nicknamed the “badger bridge,” is nearly 150 feet long and 40 feet wide. It’s designed to […]
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12-year-old Hero Boy Saves Family from Blaze–and Secures Future Job by Impressing the Fire Chief
After a young Virginian saved his family from a house fire, the local fire chief admitted that if he ever needed a job in his hometown, it’s enough to come by the fire department. Romir Parker, a seventh grader from the city of Petersburg, near Richmond, was presented by the municipality with a special proclamation […]
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Infant’s Organ Donation Creates Lifelong Bond for Two Families, Lets Mom Hear her Late Daughter’s Heart
Addison McArthur was just a few weeks old when she received the gift that saved her life. Not long after her birth, the left side of Addison’s heart stopped working. The official diagnosis was left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy—a rare disorder that can lead to heart failure and a whole host of other problems. The Vancouver […]
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Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK
Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It has to be able to do this because of its unique mission […]
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A Deadly Tomb Fungus May Have Yielded a Killer Leukemia Treatment
A deadly fungus has been turned into a potent cancer-fighting compound after researchers isolated a new class of molecules from it. Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop fungus linked to deaths in the excavations of ancient tombs—such as that of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamon—was recently used in a test against leukemia cells. The result? A promising […]
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Giant Archaeological Puzzle Reveals Artworks Not Seen for 1,800 Years
Excavations at a London development site have yielded one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever discovered in the capital. The painted wall plaster once decorated a high-status Roman building in Southwark, which was demolished some time before 200 CE. Among the fragments is rare evidence of a painter’s signature, as well […]
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