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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Mosquitoes Can’t Resist Smell of Fungus That Lures Them to Their Death Inside Trap Patented by Researchers
There are dozens of ways to implement mosquito control, but none have proved a cure-all against the deadliest animal on Earth. Now, researchers have genetically-engineered a natural enemy of the mosquito—with millions of years of evolution backing up its deadly design—to attract and kill the insects even when humans were also on the menu. It’s […]
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100 Years After Vultures Disappeared from These Mts, Their Return Completes ‘Europe’s Yellowstone’
Young griffon vultures are set to be reintroduced to the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, around 100 years after they went extinct there. The reintroduction is part of a grand vision for “Europe’s Yellowstone,” a national park based in the Carpathians that would boast robust populations of wildlife unrivalled by any ecosystem on the continent. It […]
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TikToker Crowdfunds $1.5 Million for 88-yo Army Veteran After Viral Supermarket Moment
In time for the holidays comes the incredible story of a stranger using GoFundMe to change a live. Encountering 88-year-old Army Veteran Ed Bambas working at a local grocery store in Detroit, Australian content creator and TikToker Samuel Weidenhofer decided to try and raise some money to allow the man to retire. The veteran, who […]
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3 Rebel Nuns Escape Senior Home to Return to Their Abbey – Prompting a Win in Showdown with Church
From Austria comes the story of 3 ‘rebel’ nuns who left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives. While doing so they made headlines worldwide, amassed a captivated and supportive following on social media of over 100,000 people who cheered them on as they […]
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Wildlife Poachers to Be Targeted Using State of the Art AI Listening Technology
Wildlife poachers can now be located and arrested across the central African forests thanks to state-of-the-art AI listening technology. A network of microphones has been deployed across the rainforests to detect gunshots from illegal poaching of elephants and other animals, and American scientists are using AI to ensure the network can distinguish gunshots over the […]
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Daddy-Daughter Dance in Notorious Prison Turns ‘Worst of the Worst’ into Loving Fathers Again
In a Louisiana state penitentiary, incarcerated men were able to dance with their daughters for one special night: many of whom had not seen each other for years. The tear-jerking occasion was organized by the brilliant God Behind Bars, a nonprofit that partners with churches and ministries on behalf of jailed men and women, in […]
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Restless Legs Syndrome Linked to Parkinson’s Risk–Making it a Perfect Case for Early Treatment
South Korean scientists recently determined that patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS) showed approximately double the Parkinson’s disease incidence. If that doesn’t sound like good news, it’s because you haven’t heard what they found next. Researchers from Korea University Ansan Hospital and collaborators then found that among those RLS patients, those who were
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Tongue-Zapping Device Does More in 6 Months Than 4 Years of Normal Stroke Rehabilitation
A fall from a 10 foot ladder triggered a cascade of neurological problems that might have left an Ontario man paralyzed on his right side for life. But working with a device that delivers an electrical shock through the tongue has allowed him to recover movement and speech, and even has him looking towards a […]
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Syrian Refugee Learning English Brings Food for His Class Every Week–Bringing the Nation’s Legendary Hospitality Home
This screenshot maybe be blurry, but what isn’t blurred is this immigrant’s instincts of the legendary hospitality of Syria. Attending an English-language and integration class run by volunteers in Ohio, Hazaa Alabdullah brings food to each class and feeds everyone there out of the goodness of his heart. He’s now the subject of a viral […]
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Romania Hits 94% Recycling After Launching Largest Return Plan in the World
If you had to guess where in the EU you would find the most sophisticated and effective recycling system for beverage containers, how long before you’d say Romania? Beating out Scandinavia, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, the Romanian government’s private-public partnership with the logistics firm RetuRO, has led to an incredible 94% collection rate of […]
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A Pile of Puppies Treatment Cheers Up Seriously Ill Kids with Bundles of Cozy Joy
Even if cancer can survive chemotherapy, it’s no match, at least for a moment, for the smile that shines from underneath a pile of puppies. Pile of Puppies is a Portland-based nonprofit that brings large litters of puppies to the homes of chronically or terminally-ill children. It was founded by Jennifer Trepanier, a woman who […]
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Superman No.1 Comic Book Found in Mom’s Attic Bags $9.1 Million in Most Valuable Comic Auction Ever
Their mother often boasted to her three sons that she had very valuable comic books upstairs, but they never sought to verify or explore her claim. Now, her Superman No.1 comic book has become the most valuable one ever auctioned, after hauling in $9.1 million on November 20th. Found where treasures often are—in the attic […]
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Popemobile Transformed into Mobile Clinic for Gaza Children: Francis Would Have Loved it
The global Catholic charity organization Caritas, asked Pope Francis in the final years of his life if he would like to see his old ‘popemobile’ used as a mobile hospital for children. Blessing the idea, the back of the vehicle was converted under the auspices of the Swedish Caritas chapter into a children’s clinic, capable […]
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Stunning Photo Captures Gaseous Wings of Butterfly Nebula from the Gemini Telescope (LOOK)
There are a lot of nebulae in the universe, and they often get given catchy names like the Crab Nebula or Cat’s Paw Nebula. There needs no explaining the name of this nebula—seen in an image taken from the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. Located between 2,500 and 3,800 light years away in the constellation […]
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Sanctuary Offers to Care for Pet Pig Adopted by Deceased Wife Until Man Recovers From Homelessness
A Portland man found himself homeless at 44 years of age, along with his dog and a 250-lbs. pet pig. But the fire department’s special homeless assistance team got the man and arranged for a trip home to his family in Chicago, and for the Roscoe the pig, a spot in the state’s largest farm […]
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