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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Cancer-Fighting Cells Engineered Inside Patients’ Bodies Rather Than Laboratory for the First Time
In a pair of groundbreaking studies, scientists replicated a time-consuming, laboratory-based, cancer therapy within myeloma patients’ own bodies. If standardized, such an advancement would allow for one of the most successful non-chemo cancer treatments to be done both faster and cheaper. CAR T-cell therapy involves retrieving a patient’s immune system component called a T-cell
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Polar Bear Adopts a Cub That Isn’t her Own – Extraordinary Behavior Caught on Camera
A wild female polar bear was recently filmed with a cub that’s not her own: a notably rare behavior that’s been determined to be an adoption. It was filmed during the annual polar bear migration along Canada’s Western Hudson Bay in Manitoba. There’s a reason why “red in tooth and claw” has been used to […]
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Colossal Statues of Ancient Pharoah Stand Again in Luxor After 30 Years of Work
On Sunday, Egyptian authorities unveiled the completed restoration works on two colossal alabaster statues of a notable Egyptian king. Located in Luxor, and standing over 30 feet tall, the two statues were destroyed in an earthquake 1,200 years ago, making their reconstitution an awfully long time coming. King Amenhotep III (spellings may vary) ruled between […]
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Ambitious Rewilding Project for Koala and Platypus Undertaken by Sydney’s Taronga Zoo
An Australian zoo credited with saving 7 native species from extinction aims to continue its vital work by rewilding a 3,050-acre tract of farmland. The aim of planting a Box-Gum tree fores across the cleared land that would act as a corridor to help connect existing wildlife habitats. The Taronga Zoo Conservation Society (TZCS) then […]
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A Volunteer Team of Grandmas Dispense Street-side Wisdom to Those Who Need a Considerate Ear
From Canada’s “As it Happens” comes a story by way of Texas of a “Grandma Stand” where volunteer elders offer to lend an ear to anyone beset by troubles. Anyone can walk by the purple lemonade stand and sit down across from a real grandmother to chit-chat, ask advice, or just vent a little to […]
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‘Trashed Panda’ Story Raises $180,000 for Animal Shelter That Discovered it Drunk in the Bathroom
In early December, US social media airwaves got drunk off the hilarity of a Virginia raccoon that was discovered unconscious in a bathroom after breaking into a Richmond liquor store on what can only be described as a class A bender. Hanover County Animal Protection revealed the story on Facebook after one of their officers […]
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Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
The Better Bike Lanes project in the metropolitan area of Boston has led to a substantial increase in bicycle trips and a modest decrease in the number of motor vehicles on the roads at any given time. Taking place between 2023 and 2024, the changes were revealed in a report from the City of Boston. […]
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Their Husbands Were Killed by Tigers. Now These Women Are Restoring the Big Cat’s Threatened Habitat
They are called “swami khejos,” translated to “Husband Eaters.” In reality, it’s just a superstition, as it was the tigers of the Sundarbans forest that ate these husbands, not the women. This unique region of eastern India/western Bangladesh contains the world’s largest mangrove forest, and the 200 or so Bengal tigers that live there inhabit […]
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Footage of River Otter Scurrying Through Lincoln–a Delightful Reward for Decades of Conservation Work
In the dreamy old city center of Lincoln, where Tudor and Victorian buildings stand bedecked in Christmas gaiety, CCTV footage revealed a wild sight one evening in November. A red fox and a river otter were galivanting through the town—as near to a scene in a children’s books or a Disney film as could be […]
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Antarctic Research Station Receives its Mail in a Shiny New Box–a Christmas Gift from King Charles
Imagine the charm of sifting through bills and junk mail in your mailbox and seeing the quirky script and colors of a handwritten Christmas card—now imagine you’re pulling it out from a box at one of the farthest point on Earth from any human civilization. At the personal request of King Charles III, the Royal […]
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Cutting-Edge Facility Generates Pure Water and Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater for Mere Pennies
One might call the first three weeks of operations for a new, state-of-the-art seawater desalination plant in coastal China a ‘watershed’ moment for the industry. Long held back by fundamental difficulties in turning seawater into pure water, this new installation beats out previous flagship desalination plants in Saudi Arabia and California in terms of cost-effectiveness,
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Christmas ‘Miracle’ for 6-Year-Old with Leukemia Who’s Now Thriving After T-cell Therapy Instead of Chemo
Christmas 2025 is better and brighter for one family whose daughter is on the mend from a previously untreatable form of childhood cancer. Christmas 2024 saw then-5-year-old Bryn Ailinger isolated in a child cancer ward, having been diagnosed with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia which harbored a rare and aggressive mutation that rendered standard chemotherapies
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CNN Hero of the Year Turns Vacant Lots on Chicago’s South Side into Flower Farms
Hope and opportunity are blossoming on the South Side of Chicago where a man and his wife have used flowers to help poor communities turn over a new leaf. Running two nonprofits, Southside Blooms and Chicago Eco House, Quilen Blackwell and his wife Hannah Bonham are helping at-risk youth find opportunity while simultaneously cutting into […]
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Wireless Implant That ‘Speaks’ to the Brain with Light Paves Way To Potentially Restoring Lost Senses
Around the size of a postage stamp and thinner than a credit card, a wireless implant that “speaks” to the brain could help restore lost senses. The device uses light to send information directly to the brain, bypassing the body’s natural sensory pathways in what scientists are hailing as a “leap” for neurobiology and bioelectronics. […]
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Town on the Banks of the Nile Turns Flooding into Fortune
In South Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, a flood of rare destructive power swept an already water-stressed city into poverty before acting as the catalyst for a transformative humanitarian success. Development funding from the Netherlands and South Korea has made a big difference in the city of Bor, where tens of thousands of […]
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