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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Yet More Scrolls Burned by Vesuvius Decoded by AI–Revealing Insights by Unknown Stoic Philosopher
More insights into Classical literature have been recovered from the burned papyrus scrolls destroyed in the same eruption that buried Pompeii. They include ruminations on Stoic philosophy by an unknown author, and the title “Book 8” from a work called On Gods, by the Greek philosopher Philodemus. Fruits of major scientific advancements in particle acceleration and
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New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water
A team of materials scientists in China have developed a solar-powered device that can produce freshwater from seawater with better economics than bottled water. By creating a weave of nanomaterials and organic polymers which were both durable and highly reflective, they created a device that could absorb 90.2% of incoming sunlight and use it to […]
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Southeast Asia Nears Malaria Elimination, Down Two-Thirds Since 2010
Early in June, international experts joined leaders from Southeast Asia for a summit in Laos, where they discussed the “last mile” of malaria elimination from the eastern-most sector of the region. Burgeoning economically for decades, Vietnam and Cambodia, but also Laos DPR, have seen malaria transmission fall 67% over the last 15 years. Asia Pacific […]
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3-Year-old Rescued After 6 Days Beneath Rubble in Venezuela as Rescuers Arrive in Droves to Help the Country
A week after two magnitude 7 earthquakes struck Venezuela’s capital of Caracas, search and rescue teams from around the world are still rescuing people from the jaws of death. This includes Aaron Levi Cantillo, who was trapped under rubble for more than 4 days, and a 3 year old named Klieber Moran, who was rescued […]
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July Fireworks Include 2 Separate Meteor Showers to Light up the Night Sky Late in the Month
With plenty to see across the firmament this month, one event surely stands out for stargazers: when 2 meteor showers bombard the sky over the last nights of July. The first is the Southern Delta Aquariids, and though they can be seen as early as July 12th, their peak display will come on July 30th/31st. […]
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Scientists Have Found Climate-Resistant Coral Reefs Around the World Totaling the Size of Wisconsin
A sophisticated AI-powered examination of coral reef resistance extrapolated into the future found that there’re about 64,000 square miles of coral reefs on Earth that could still be resisting climate change by 2050. The common theory states that CO2 emissions create a greenhouse effect which warms the seas which causes coral reefs to bleach or […]
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From One Surviving Male Bison, Azerbaijan Now Has 25 Calves Born Wild in 7-Year Success Story
It was 7 years ago that the heavy wooden doors of transport crates slid open, and 12 European bison who had grown up in zoos suddenly were looking around, blinking at an unfamiliar wild landscape. They were standing on the slopes of Shahdagh, or the King’s Mountain, northern Azerbaijan—their new home. Together with the UN […]
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New Law Will Protect Kids’ Lemonade Stands After State Employees Were Caught Demanding Fees
In Michigan, a prospective law would eliminate virtually all regulations on that ole’ chestnut: the childhood lemonade stand. If it can be believed, state house Representative Cam Cavitt (R-Cheboygan), had the issue brought to his attention after the local health department in his district demanded that some children pay repeated fees to run their lemonade […]
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Largest and Most Detailed Picture Taken of Milky Way’s Center–With Millions of Stars and Thousands of Worlds
It took a new and special space telescope to parse out each one of these individual stars gleaming in a dizzying mass at the center of our own dear Milky Way galaxy. The European Space Agency’s Euclid Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth at the 2nd Lagrange Point—an orbit it shares with NASA’s James […]
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Herculean Effort to Restore Mozambique’s Rhino Population Succeeds with 61 Animals Moved There
9 female white rhino have been reintroduced to one of Mozambique’s southern national parks as part of a mammoth undertaking to bring back species the country has lost. Mozambique was the victim of one of Africa’s worst post-colonial power struggles, during which time they lost virtually all of several large animals during a civil war […]
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Dad Gave Up His Old Mustang to Raise 6 Kids. Decades Later, His Son Got it Back
It was a 1969 Mustang Mach 1, Daniel Allen would tell his boys; the best car he’d ever owned. And he traded it away to make room for his growing family. Every time Mr. Allen told the story, one of his six sons was listening intently. Shane Allen recently traded his own restored Mustang for […]
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Great Smokey Mountains Will Soon Get Even Greater – Thanks to Nonprofit’s Land Purchase
The Great Smokey Mountains is set to get just a little bit greater thanks to a 600-acre donation from a south-focused nature nonprofit. Foothills Land Conservancy (FLC) recently completed the acquisition of the Oliver Tract, a 600-acre property bordering the national park. The purchase permanently protects “one of the most significant remaining privately held properties”
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Motorcyclist Reunites with Strangers Who Lifted a 3,300-Lb. Car Off His Body
In Queensland, a father of 2 is alive to see his daughters again thanks to a horde of Good Samaritans who rushed to his side after he was pinned under a car during a collision. Lifting with “all their might,” the bystanders managed to hoist the wheel and get the man out from underneath its […]
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Biggest Change to English Farming Policy Since WWII Aims to Make Agriculture Profitable and Resilient
From the halls of Westminster comes the news that English farmers may finally be covered under a national agriculture policy that extends beyond the next harvest. In what it described as “the most significant moment for English agriculture since the Second World War,” the currently-leaderless Labor government has prepared a 25-year farming plan to make […]
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Record Low Child Mortality Rates Recorded in Both India and China
Across Asia, children are living past their 1st birthday at record rates that underscore just how successful the region has been at raising the standards of living. In India, China, and Indonesia—the world’s 3 most populous nations, infant mortality rates have fallen to record lows. The most populous of the 3, India, recorded a drop […]
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