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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‘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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Endangered Cockatoos Finally Hatch Chick in Artificial Nest, a Promise of Conservation Success
The future looks substantially brighter for a beautiful and totally unique Australian cockatoo species that requires very specific nesting habitat. Scientists say it takes 250 years, some termites, no wildfires, and a cyclone to make the ideal home for the palm cockatoo, a difficult combination at the best of times. But deforestation is making this […]
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Remains of ‘Three Musketeers’ Hero May Have Been Found Under Church Altar – DNA Testing Underway
It had long been suspected that somewhere in or under the Church of Peter and Paul in Wolder, the Netherlands, lay the remains of the man who inspired the character of d’Artagnan, immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Real name Charles de Batz de Castelmore, this wartime participant was a close aid of the […]
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Windows Broken Into Become Earrings in One Woman’s Quest to Keep Glass Out of Landfills
Car break-ins in the Bay Area are down, but not out. From each one of these ugly surprises, local artisan Sydney Jones creates a surprising amount of beauty. Using a kitchen-top kiln, she takes advantage of safety glass’ crystalline structure to quickly turn the broken pieces into floral-themed earrings of jade green. It not only […]
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8-year-old’s ‘Sweet Monsters’ Drawing Chosen as Winning Design to Decorate Real Train
Now from the Netherlands comes the delightful story of an 8-year-old’s dream design made reality on the carriages of a very special train. Hosted by the national train operator NS, the NS Drawing Competition invites children all over the country to submit drawings to be used as an exterior design for one of the operator’s […]
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The Sunniest, Windiest Country Announces Renewables Project to Power 6 Million Homes
The Land of the Nile has quickly joined the number of countries responding to the current oil shock by announcing new wind and solar projects. For a country that’s over 90% sand desert, where the Sun was deified in ancient times as a scarab beetle and its dung ball, and where the Sahara wind is […]
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Once Dried up and Full of Plastic, Canal in India Is Now Clear and Lined with Mangroves
A canal in India has been transformed from a plastic-choked fetid mess into a growing mangrove forest. The clean-up has restored the waterflow, and the 20,000 mangrove seedlings will help clean the water and reestablish fish stocks. Along a 1.8-mile stretch of Buckingham Canal in India’s Tamil Nadu state, manual clean-up efforts began in Cuddalore […]
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New Views of Saturn Produced by Space Telescopes Help Researchers Understand the Planet’s Clouds
Storms, ribbons, and its iconic rings in screaming electric blue, Saturn appears like you’ve never seen it before in a new set of images released by our flagship space telescopes James Webb and Hubble. Whether you want to call it peeling an onion or cutting through a 7 layer cake, the combination of these two […]
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Vancouver’s ‘Teddy Bear Doctor’ Stitches Together More Than Just Plushies, but Memories Too
Ruth Hasman has repaired hundreds of stuffed animals over the years since she retired. Whether it was an overzealous child, a close encounter with a dog, or just too much loving, there’s no damage she can’t fix. From a mass-produced Spongebob Squarepants to a 115-year-old, hand-sewn bear cuddled through 5 generations, Hasman says her favorite […]
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Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower’s Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole
Roofers repaired a 78-year-old widower’s roof for free after he was scammed out of thousands by another tradesman. Mike Watkinson needed a few of his roof tiles replaced just weeks after his wife of 57 years died following a long battle with liver cancer. When the first set of roofers arrived, they aggressively quoted him […]
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UN Summit Sees Giant Otter and 39 Other Migratory Species Gain Cross-Border Protections
132 representatives from world governments recently adopted a sweeping set of conservation measures aimed at protecting migratory species and their habitats worldwide. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) took place in Brazil this March, where 40 animals were granted special protections under one of the […]
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Aging Delivery Driver Gets Huge Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral With Ring Video
GNN recently reported on a crowdfunding campaign gone viral on behalf of an elderly DoorDash driver working far beyond his retirement to afford his wife’s expensive medication. Now along a similar vein, an Idaho man was left “blown away” when he learned that a nearly 70-year-old Dominoes driver had gone to the grocery store to […]
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