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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2025 Was ‘Year of the Octopus,’ Says UK Wildlife Trust Amid Record Cephalopod Sightings
It was 75 years ago the last time there were as many octopus in British waters as there are now, with the UK’s Wildlife Trusts declaring that 2025 was the ‘Year of the Octopus.’ These eight-legged spineless creatures, one of the most fascinating to inhabit our planet, have been seen in record numbers by divers, […]
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Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification
Drought is affecting the Great Hungarian Plain like never before, but a team of concerned citizens have hatched a clever plan to address it in the short term. It’s arguable what the Eastern European country is more famous for, its grasslands and horse heritage, or its thermal baths. The capital of Budapest is filled with […]
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January Stargazing Offers the Best Time of the Year to See Jupiter and its Moons
Kicking off the new calendar this month is a tasty opportunity to see Jupiter and its four largest moons with the naked eye. On January 10th, generally across the US time zones, Jupiter will crest the eastern horizon at sundown and continue to climb until midnight when it reaches the highest point in the sky. […]
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‘It Feels Like Me Again’: World’s First Arm Exoskeleton Gives Stroke Patients Independence
An exoskeleton for the entire arm has been invented and designed in Norway to help stroke victims recover the use of their arms. It detects and then amplifies tiny movements through the arm and shoulder, and the developers hope to launch it as a fully commercial product this year. Today, more and more people are […]
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Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry
Western admirers of Japanese aesthetic are keeping afloat tatami craftsmen in Japan, where modernity and maintenance requirements are driving down interest in this artisanal form of flooring. From Europe to the US and even in the Middle East, eager importers of tatami mats now account for a sizable amount of orders from workshops like that […]
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4,500 years ago, Worship of the Sun Took Place in This Recently-Uncovered Temple in Egypt
An Italian-Egyptian archaeological mission has finally excavated a temple for the worship of the sun after it was identified over 100 years ago. It’s only one of two sun temples that have been definitively identified, and dates to the reign of King Nyuserre, the sixth ruler of the Old Kingdom’s Fifth Dynasty. He is credited […]
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Young Atlantic Salmon Seen in Three English Rivers for First Time in a Decade
Considered critically endangered in Britain, young salmon must nevertheless be finding their way safely back to the island from the Arctic Ocean, as they’ve been found spawning in three different rivers. In the Mersey, Goyt, and Bollin, the fish have been recorded where they’d once been absent, a development described as a “significant environmental turnaround.”
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University in China Begins Installing World’s Strongest Gravity Centrifuge to Compress Space and Time
What can you do if you want to test a dam, railway line, submersible, or a space capsule’s resistance to gravitational force without risking the destruction of it in the process? Well now, you can take a scale model to Zhejiang University in China, where the CHIEF1900 gravitational centrifuge can batter it with 300 times […]
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Hall of Peacock Frescoes Restored at Pompeii Villa Belonging to Emperor Nero’s Wife
Conservation work on a luxurious royal villa near Pompeii has revealed sumptuous frescoes, including one depicting a famous fictional theater character, and another of a peacock. Additional recent work using cast molds has identified the position of a colonnade of trees in the villa’s garden, showing that they were planted in precise ornamental positions. Called […]
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Missing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration
Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery. Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos rail, a bird which hadn’t been seen […]
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Brother-Sister Spring into Action to Help Save Their School Bus Driver from Medical Emergency
When an Ohio school bus driver began to suffer a medical event, a brother and sister took action that may have saved her life. Footage taken from a surveillance camera inside the bus shows 8-year-old Catrina sitting in the seat nearest the driver, who began to have trouble breathing. Catrina asked if she was alright, […]
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Britain’s Loneliest Sheep is Now Pregnant with Twins Two Years After Cliffside Rescue
Having been called “Britain’s Loneliest Sheep,” and later the “World’s Most Famous Sheep,” Fiona is now pregnant with twins 2 years after her harrowing rescue. GNN reported in 2023 that rural Scotsmen were planning a daring, cliffside extraction of a sheep that had been seen stranded on an isolated beach two years earlier by a […]
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India’s Beautiful and Historic Stepwells Restored to Working Order for the Thirsty Nation
Ancient Indian stepwells are being restored to modern water storage facilities to help cure modern water shortages. Recently, an Indian environmentalist and editor was invited to share his incredible work restoring hundreds of natural and man-made water sources all across India on CNN. His nonprofit, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI), has cleaned and reshaped more
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Trail Cam Spotted a Rare Fisher Not Seen in the Cleveland Area Since the 1800s
A slender North American predator not seen in parts of Ohio for 200 years has started returning to its former habitat. The fisher was extirpated from the state in the 19th century due to fur trapping. Back in 2013, it was spotted again for the first time in northern Ashtabula County, and since then they […]
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Boss Gifts Employees $240M in Bonuses After Selling Family Company
From Louisiana comes the story of a corporate dream fulfilled, as a man succeeded his father as CEO of the family business, invested in innovation which paid off, and guided the business through a big sale. But there was something else that Graham Walker had in his mind to achieve when he prepared to hand […]
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