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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Planting 30,000 Trees Surpasses Goal for Regenerating a Rainforest on the Isle of Man
3 years ago this month, GNN reported that a UK land trust had set the goal of reforesting a 70 acre “celtic rainforest” on the Isle of Man. 30,000 trees later, the effort exceeded expectations and finished ahead of schedule. The budding rainforest instead stretches 100 acres across an area called Creg y Cowin, owned […]
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Johns Hopkins Team Develops Therapeutic, Nasally-Delivered DNA Vaccine for Tuberculosis
A research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine is developing a nose-delivered inoculation against tuberculosis, the world’s leading cause of death from infectious disease. The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial survivors that can endure antibiotic treatment to spread another day. The paper on the
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Visitors Can Now Watch the Restoring of a Masterpiece Bellini in Venice (Check out the Video)
When Venetian conservators were preparing for another round of conservation work on a monumental, 500-year-old masterpiece, they decided to open the process to the public eye. Now installed in a special work area, visitors to the Galleria dell’Accademia can watch the various stages of conservation work that such an important and massive artwork requires to […]
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Cambodia Honors Minesweeping Hero Rat with Memorial Statue After He Cleared 100 Landmines
Cambodian artists and authorities have unveiled the statue of a four-footed hero to the nation, never to be forgotten. During his remarkable life and career, Magawa the African giant pouched rat used his incredible sense of smell to locate 100 landmines and unexploded bombs before they were able to hurt anyone. Because of his aptitude, […]
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(UPDATE) Aging Pizza Delivery Driver Gets $100K Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral
On the last day in March, GNN reported that the conscientious efforts of a 70-year-old delivery driver left an Idaho man so taken aback, he raised $24,000 on GoFundMe to reward the employee, who told him he was mere weeks away from retirement. Well the nation has clearly concurred that Dan the Dominoes deliveryman deserves […]
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Singapore’s First 3D-Printed Bridge Planned for 2028 After Rigorous Testing
Singapore’s transportation officials are set to debut the use of 3D-printed concrete in the form of a new pedestrian bridge that will stretch 30 feet across a waterway. Brought onboard a larger project to improve transit options in the Jurong River and Temah areas of the city state, it’s the country’s first use of 3D […]
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Pinch of Gold Dust May Be Secret to Bringing Longer Lasting and Safer Batteries to Market
A nano-scale pinch of gold dust may be enough to transform a previously-ineffective battery technology into a new industry standard. As the demand for more reliable power systems grows in the renewable energy sector, the race is on to develop batteries that cost less but have a longer lifespan. Precious metals are a key part […]
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Half-blind, 12-yo Dog Fights off Hungry Bear to Protect Family and Pets in New Mexico: “She’s our little savior ’
A rural New Mexico family was left in a state resembling heartbroken wonderment when they discovered their 12-year-old dog who’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner fought off a bear encroaching on their property. Honey the dog was recorded in security camera audio having it out with the bear, newly emerged from hibernation and famished; with […]
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Humanity’s Long-Awaited Return to Lunar Space Captured with Brilliant Photographs Aboard Artemis II
Americans and Canadians been delighted with images of the Moon and Earth taken from onboard the Orion capsule as it took 4 astronauts into Lunar orbit for the first time since the Apollo program. Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1st, 2026, reached the Moon on the 5th, and […]
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Betta Fish Turns Vivid Blue When Happy Again–After Moving From Pet Shop Jar to Caring Home (WATCH)
A woman who’s spent 15 years raising beautiful betta fish shared a heartwarming story about her latest family member: Stevie, who she found as a dull and depressed white color in a pet shop cup of water. Taking him home and nursing him back to health, he rewarded her by flushing an incredible electric blue. […]
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Endangered Bird Was Losing its Song, So Captive Breeding Now Includes ‘Singing Lessons’ from Wild Males
In one of the stranger manifestations of species decline in Australia, the Critically-Endangered regent honeyeater is having to re-learn its natural love song. With 300 or fewer of these beautiful birds left in the wild, young solitary males have been observed mimicking the calls of other honeyeaters, and even other birds. The songs are part […]
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Hard-to-Recycle Waste Forms Lightweight Concrete for Paving Roads and More in Hungary
A Hungarian firm is adding shredded, hard-to-recycle waste into a light concrete mixture for use in paving roads, building houses, and insulating structures. The firm based in Budapest, called Makropa, utilizes many unrecyclable waste streams that would otherwise be destined for landfills or the incinerator. It says it can entrap between 3,000 and 4,000 tons […]
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Scotland’s Largest Greenhouse Set to Be Preserved as ‘Living Ruin’ and New Event Space
A historic greenhouse in Glasgow is set to finally be revived after 40 years of dereliction. $1.5 million will help a trust organized to save the building do just that, while simultaneously opening it up to events and perhaps more. Located in the northern district of the same name, the Springburn Winter Gardens was Scotland’s […]
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Architect Creates App to Show Which Pub Gardens are Sunny – Using Shadow Simulations From Buildings
In cloudy old England, an architect has created his own phone app that displays which pubs are currently in the sunshine. Mo Dawod was out in London in April last year when he decided that he wanted an iced coffee in the sunshine, but there was no way to know which cafes would be blanketed […]
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Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot
A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics that has been scaring us for years now. Lab gloves may have skewed the data in the research. She discovered that residue from latex or nitrile gloves may be unintentionally contaminating lab equipment used to measure microplastics in the air […]
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