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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Florida Man Spends Days Searching for Owner of Lost $30,000 He Found: ‘it wasn’t mine to take’
From Riviera Beach in Florida comes the story of a man returning $30,000 to a poor soul who’d misplaced it, saying “it wasn’t mine to take.” The story is simple, yet powerful, and a reminder that there are good people all over the country; all over the world. It starts with Luis Salazar walking into […]
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Free Ice Cream Gift for One Child Prompts Donations to Fund Free Sweets For All Kids the Entire Summer
A heartwarming, brain-freezing story comes now from the streets of Massachusetts, where a woman who offered free ice cream to a penniless child sparked a McFlurry of giving. Madyson Silvagnoli can be found in her truck—Maddy’s Ice Cream and More—along the streets of Gardner on hot summer days. Silvagnoli says her ice cream truck is […]
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Instead of Arresting Indigenous Fishermen, Australia Begins to Pay Them to Control Sea Urchin Plague
Native coastal Australians are experiencing a dramatic reversal of fortunes—from facing jail time over fishing to being trained to lead a whole new fishing industry. Documented in a feature piece at Australia’s ABC News, young people from the Walbunja indigenous community are reconnecting to traditional fishing practices in order to suppress a very yummy plague […]
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India’s New ‘Good Samaritan Laws’ Reward Any Citizen Who Stops to Help with Traffic Injuries
In India, where more people are injured or killed on the roads than almost anywhere else, a recently created program is aiming to save lives by leveraging the largest source of capital the country possesses: human capital. The Rah-Veer program will reward Good Samaritans with 25,000 Indian rupees—about $250—for stopping to assist victims of road […]
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Salt Water Restores Native Queensland Ecosystems After Dozens of Tidal Gates Removed
From Queensland, Australia, comes the story of how a little salt can go a long way to restoring an ecosystem. Near the area of Mackay, tidal gates and embankments built between 50 and 60 years ago to keep out tides of seawater are being removed by the dozen. It’s reestablishing salt marsh and estuarine ecosystems […]
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Prince William is Selling 20% of His Duchy Landholdings to Build Affordable Housing and Restore Nature
Prince William is selling 20% of the Duchy of Cornwell estate to fund affordable housing and nature projects over the next decade. Established by King Edward III in 1337, the vast private estate spans 128,000 acres across 19 counties to provide the heir to the British throne with an independent income, which today amounts to […]
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Finance App Analyzes Your Jewelry and Puts it in a Digital Portfolio Where You can Track it Like a Stock
Since 2023, the price of gold has more than doubled, turning people’s spare jewelry or heirlooms into valuable assets—in many cases without them even fully realizing it. At the current spot price of $4,500 an ounce, anything above 18 karats is suddenly of substantial value. Pieces bought by one’s parents and grandparents in the 60s […]
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Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India
In the far-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, locals are protecting mainland Asia’s largest tortoise species, an animal they used to hunt. Governments around the world struggle to effectively govern or manage their frontier borderlands, and few borderlands feel as frontier as Nagaland, being more than two-day’s drive from New Delhi on the border with Myanmar […]
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Ancient Egyptian Crypt of 22 Singing Priests Unsealed for the First Time in Luxor
In Luxor, a large burial chamber has been uncovered in one of the city’s ancient necropolises that has remained undisturbed for at least 2,600 years. Inside was a depository of 22 coffins and 8 mummies that seemed to belong to a special female temple caste who sang sacred songs at festivals and during religious rites. […]
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Village’s Honored Oak with its Own Stone Wall Wins European Tree of the Year
In late March, the European Tree of the Year contest awarded Lithuania’s 400-year-old Laukiai Oak 1st place. Its incredible canopy, its eye-watering golden colors in autumn, and the manner in which it ties the small farming community together saw it end Poland’s 4-year winning streak in the competition that features nations honoring their most beloved […]
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Over 200 Volunteers Lead Largest-Ever Oyster Reef Restoration Off England’s Portsmouth
Last week, volunteers dumped 20,000 oysters into English waters to recreate historic, biodiverse oyster reefs. 260 people came down to Chichester Harbor in Portsmouth to take part in what one of the participating organizations called, “the UK’s largest subtidal oyster reef restoration project.” For centuries, native oysters were part of everyday life across an area
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Students Work to Fundraise to Save Habitat Where They Watch Bald Eagle Chicks on Livestream
4th grade science teacher Sara Stinson must have known she was doing a great job when her intrepid students began giving themselves extra homework. It didn’t involve studying for an exam, but raising money to help a local wildlife trust buy a parcel of imperiled land in California’s Big Bear Valley where Jackie and Shadow […]
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Hero British Cop ‘Saves Life’ of American Officer While on Holiday in Nashville
A British policeman has been hailed as a hero after helping to save the life of an American officer while on holiday in Nashville. Off duty sergeant Taylor Johanson had just arrived in the Tennessee city when he saw local Officer Peter Kinsey being assaulted by a man on the side of the road. The […]
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College Commencement Speaker Announces He’s Paying Off Final Year of Loans For Graduates, in Honor of Father
Over 170 students set to graduate from North Carolina State University were about to get the surprise of a lifetime when they filed into the arena in their red caps and gowns. As with all graduation speeches, possibilities seemed palpable; hopes and dreams were waiting on the horizon. Unbeknownst to the scholars, their commencement speaker, […]
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Jogger’s Call for Help Saves Critically-Endangered Penguin Found Face-Down on the Beach
Rescuers raced to save a stranded penguin after a jogger spotted it and called for help. Two weeks ago, wildlife veterinarian Catherine Hauw was alerted that there was an African penguin lying helplessly on a beach with its head buried in the sand. The 35-year-old medic rushed to the scene at Brenton-on-Sea in South Africa […]
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