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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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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Aquarium Seal Loves His Rubber Duckie – Now Adorable Video Goes Viral (LOOK)
You didn’t know how much you wanted to see a video of a harbor seal playing with his rubber duckie—until now. The New England Aquarium may call it an enrichment activity designed to stimulate its resident Atlantic harbor seals, but we call it adorable fun. And, soon after posting a video on social media of […]
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Wooden Loom Preserved By Fire 3,500 Years Ago Now Reveals Bronze Age Textile Revolution
A wooden loom that survived a devastating fire 3,500 years ago has revealed key aspects of the Bronze Age textile revolution. Most of the weights as well as components made from wood and plant fibers remained remarkably intact despite the blaze that burned down a settlement near Villena in present day Spain. Scientists explained that […]
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Watch This Rescue Rabbit Reign as the Furry Champ of Jenga
Morty wasn't always able to spend his days playing games – but now, he enjoys a life of luxury challenging his owner to Jenga competitions.
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Autistic Bowler Achieves Dream with First Perfect 300 Game – And Joins the PBA as a Pro
On March 25, an autistic bowler who recently entered the Professional Bowlers Association achieved something he’s been dreaming about for years—his first-ever 300 game. For most casual bowlers, a sanctioned perfect game is rare. For Matt Sipes, it represented so much more than just 12 strikes. It was the result of years of dedication, focus, […]
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Native Americans Were Making Dice and Gaming Thousands of Years Before Anyone Else
Tribal casinos in the US may seem a more natural fit, after hearing about new research showing that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world. Evidence revealed that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains […]
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Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: […]
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‘Grain Bank Accounts’ Free Indian Farmers from Middleman Through Online Marketplace
From the Indian state of Bihar comes the story of a life-changing argi-tech application that’s giving farmers unprecedented control over the financial destiny of their crop. Called Ergos, this digital “grain account” is linked to a network of “grain banks” where farmers can store their crops, monitor inventory and national prices, and sell when they’re
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Used Diapers Turned into New Ones Thanks to Super-Recycling Japanese Towns and New Innovation
In the 1990s, a pair of Japanese municipalities estimated that the landfill they shared was going to be full by 2004. Unless they did something to start reducing the size of their waste streams, the towns would have to sacrifice more precious land, or truck their waste much farther afield to another site. Their response […]
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Young Boy with Cancer Delivers 124 Gorgeous Easter Baskets to Kids in Hospitals After Fundraising $2,000
Nathan Yuill was diagnosed as a child with stage-4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the good news is that he’s two treatment courses away from what is anticipated to be a bell-ringing remission announcement. But before his time in Providence Children’s Hospital came to an end, 12-year-old Yuill raised $2,000 to give almost every child there a […]
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Teen Finds 6-Inch Megalodon Tooth Millions of Years Old While Diving for Fossils on Florida Coast
A Florida teen will have quite the story for his friends to chew on when they all meet back in class after spring break. 16-year-old Aiden Andrews found the 6-inch-long tooth of an ancient shark known as a megalodon while diving near Sarasota. This was the largest shark species in history, and is believed to […]
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