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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Your Weekly Horoscope from ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, 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 […]
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In the Amazon, One Woman’s Ingenious Canopy Bridges Are Helping Monkeys Cross the Road Safely
Why did the monkey cross the road? Because someone built a bridge for him. Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, motorists hauling along the few highways that bisect the great ecosystem will have seen a series of rope bridges extending from the tree tops over their heads. They are the result of one ingenious and now-decorated […]
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World’s First All-Timber Wind Turbine Blades are Cheaper, Recyclable, Fire-Resistant and Stronger than Carbon Fiber
A company making wooden wind turbine blades has successfully tested a 50-meter-long prototype that’s set to debut soon in the Indian and European markets. Last year, the German firm Voodin successfully demonstrated that their laminated-veneer timber blades could be fabricated, adapted, and installed at a lower cost than existing blades, while maintaining performance. Now, Voodin
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Japanese Team Saves Nearly-Extinct Herons by Hand-Rearing Chicks
With Japanese know-how and the unwavering support of Japanese experts, Bhutan’s national bird is being hatched and hand-reared in captivity successfully for the first time ever. The major hurdle to rearing chicks was overcome, and two healthy birds were just hand-reared, bringing the total captive population to five—a crucial lifeline to a bird that numbers […]
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Horses and Humans Go Blind for Similar Reasons, So This Medicine Might Cure Both
Whether one sports hooves or toes, a mop or a mane, autoimmune uveitis can strike away eyesight equally. A cure for this form of blindness common in horses, but also people, is now undergoing trials that may benefit both. An interdisciplinary team from the Univ. of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, College of Veterinary […]
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Countries Are Breathing the Cleanest Air in Centuries and Offer Lessons to the Rest of Us
An article at Our World in Data recently explored trends in air quality across a selection of high and middle-income countries, and found that not only is the West breathing better air than at perhaps any point since urbanization, but that developing nations likely won’t need 100 years or more to arrive at similar outcomes. […]
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Bamboo Panels on World’s Longest Sea Crossing Withstand 6 Years of Sun and Typhoons–Still Solid as Ever
Reprinted with permission from World at Large. Six years after their installation on the world’s longest sea crossing, thousands of bamboo panels have withstood six years of intense exposure to the elements without issue. A report published by engineers in the Chinese paper Science and Technology Daily claims the panels are “as solid as ever,” […]
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Jet Engine Exhaust is Turned into Electricity to Power Dallas International Airport
An intuitive piece of hardware is collecting days’ worth of renewable energy from airplane engine exhaust before take-off from a Dallas airport. “Boarding is completed” is a common refrain heard over the intercom system in the moments before taxiing to the runway. At that moment, the pilot will begin a series of engine tests and […]
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Cleaning a Millennium of Sand and Soot Egyptologists Reveal Ancient Creation Myth in Exquisite Artwork
From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once covered in dirt and soot, that’s now revealing an ancient creation myth and the cult that worshiped it. Located far in the south, confusingly called “Upper Egypt” on the west bank of the Nile, the Temple of […]
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Under Duress from Bird Flu, California Farm Donates 300,000 Eggs to Victims of Palisades Fires
What do you get when you cross some good eggs with a fire? In Los Angeles County, you get much-needed relief. In the wake of the Palisades and Altadena fires, and amid continual rising prices for eggs at the supermarket, a California farm has donated 324,000 eggs to victims of the recent wildfires. 54,000 will […]
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Australia’s ‘Bee Man’ is Saving Native Species, One ‘Hotel’ at a Time
A young Australian ecologist travels from town to town building bee “hotels” and educating children and adults alike about the importance of making room for native insects. Australia has a high prevalence of solitary bee species: that is, bees that don’t live in colonies or hives and potentially don’t even make honey. Nicknamed the “Bee […]
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Teen with Rare Tumor Gets Marathon Facial Surgery Delivering Results in 7 Hours Instead of Several Years
“I’m really excited to eat Korean fried chicken again,” said Bruce Yamate, a California teen who, after undergoing a marathon surgery, has a whole new reason to smile again. At 16 years old, Yamate would probably be focused on hanging out with his friends, finishing up high school, maybe chasing a girl or two—even thinking […]
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Woman in Her 90s Reunites with Toddler She Saved from Drowning 64 Years Ago, ‘Goose Bumps’ (Watch)
A woman who rescued a drowning toddler from a pool has met him again for just the second time—64 years later. CBS 8 San Diego was live at the reunion organized by siblings of Ben Colwell, now 66, with his savior Barabara Ribeiro—now 94. She was Barbara Urban back then—in 1961 when she made the […]
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Antarctica Yields Intact Skull — An Ancestor of Today’s Waterfowl That Survived Dinosaur Extinction
A modern-looking diving bird was living somewhere in Antarctica when a massive asteroid struck the Earth and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. But unlike the dinosaurs, this early ancestor of today’s waterfowl survived that mass extinction event, and a nearly complete skull has now been recovered by a special paleontological project on the southern […]
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Man, 87, Goes Viral for Delivering Party Invitations Door-to-Door: ‘4 PM until the cops arrive’
From Pennsylvania comes the story of a sweet old neighbor lighting up social media with his quirky annual tradition. Recounted to the Washington Post by local Michelle Hernandez, one morning whilst she was working from home, 87-year-old Doug Turner rang her doorbell. Having only moved to the neighborhood in Bucks County 5 months past, Hernandez […]
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