A pair of climate-solution firms have just turned on the largest CO2 vacuum in the world, capable of sucking thousands of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere. In 2021, GNN reported on the operat...
A food bank in a fast-growing Texas community is building affordable housing next to its bank, to ensure people who have to juggle food and rent are able to with minimal effort. The 51-unit apart...
Andriana Green captures the unique patterns and colors of the human iris before transforming the results into beautiful works of art. Stunning macro images show the ‘windows of the soul’ look...
Having spotted peculiar activity on the Sun, a federal agency has issued an advisory that the Aurora Borealis may be seen as may south as Alabama or Northern California. The Space Weather Predict...
200 years ago today, the National Gallery opened its doors to the public in Trafalgar Square, Westminster. It houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900....
British telecom giant BT Group is now converting curbside cable boxes into charging stations for electric cars, helping Great Britain accelerate its transition to a net zero emissions economy. Ma...
Construction of the “largest wildlife crossing in the world” passed a significant milestone in April placing the first girders over an 8-lane freeway near Los Angeles to preserve the local mo...
A team of Canadian and US researchers are using X-rays to revive the images that were captured in the 18th century on the earliest form of photography—Daguerreotypes. Their breakthrough demonst...
According to a recent federal report, the US seafood industry has never been more sustainable, with the fewest overharvested fish stocks ever recorded. The report, ‘Status of the Stocks’ was ...
638 years ago today, the Treaty of Windsor, the world’s oldest international accord still in force, was signed between Great Britain and Portugal. It was signed and sealed by King Richard II of...
An interesting event happened in the domain of classic English literature recently when a 78-page memoir of Jane Austen’s brother came into the hands of the Jane Austen House Museum, who were h...
A fascinating new discovery offers “tantalizing” evidence for the origin of multicellular development in life on Earth. It seems related to something that had perhaps never happened before, a...
Three years ago, Araba Maze was reading a book to her niece on the front stoop of her Baltimore home in a perfectly ordinary fashion. But as the pages turned, the number of local children gathere...
An eighth-grade Wisconsinite is being hailed as a hero after grabbing hold of the wheel of his school bus after the driver lost consciousness. His heroics have earned him plaudits from the mayor�...
Happy 98th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, the legendary naturalist, broadcaster and producer who created and wrote the influential documentaries Life on Earth (in 13 parts) and The Life of ...
Scientists at Johns Hopkins say that an experimental antibody drug appears to prevent and reverse the onset of type 1 diabetes in mice—and often lengthen their lives. The drug called mAb43 is u...
Debra Solomon could think of no other gift that would delight her mother more than to reunite her with her favorite kindergarten pupil, decades later. Retired from 27 years of teaching, Karen Sol...
White-tailed eagles nesting and breeding in Belgium has been observed for the first time since Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to look upon the island of Manh...
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/white-tailed-eagle-breeds-in-belgium-for-first-time-in-500-years/
A new blood-draw device that’s painless but more reliable than a finger prick has been developed by researchers in Zurich to help physicians bypass two major problems with taking blood samples....
18 years ago today, at the final match of Arsenal’s home stadium of Highbury, their star forward Thierry Henry scored a hattrick against Wigan Athletic in what was a game they needed to win to ...
In late April, Honda Motor Company announced plans to build a comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) value chain in Canada with an approximate investment of CAD$15 billion (USD$11 billion). Consisti...
After decades of overfishing in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, hake fisheries off the coast of Spain are as large as ever thanks to timely and targeted conservation measures. It’s believed that ...
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hake-fisheries-remarkable-recovery-is-a-sign-of-hope-for-our-oceans/
The man in the purple shorts only wanted to step outside for a quiet moment of prayer whilst waiting for his coffee, but ended up attracting the attention of the young man in the grey sweats. The...
It’s not every year that a major discovery is made in the basic natural sciences of Earth, but using painfully precise measurements, MIT has written a new chapter in something that most people ...
70 years ago today Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes—significant because for many years nobody believed it was pos...
Visitors to a zoo in China captured the moment a clever elephant returned a shoe using its trunk, after it fell into the enclosure. A video shows the animal stooping to pick up the baby’s footw...
What is the oddest thing you’ve ever eaten in a salad? From marshmallows to meatballs, beef jerky and hotdogs — a new poll has uncovered how Americans are expressing their creative taste buds...
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/these-are-the-strangest-things-people-put-in-salads/
Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants. Now, biologists in Indonesia hav...
Beyond simply providing entertainment and relaxation, watching sports fosters community and belonging, which benefits both individuals and their society. Despite its recognized positive effects, ...
121 years ago today, one of the most influential chefs in American history, James Beard, was born in Portland. His towering success led to the creation of a foundation that gives out the James Be...
The world’s oldest bird may have lost her mate, but she’s now courting new suitors in her 70s. The Laysan albatross named Wisdom, was photographed dancing with potential mates on Midway Atoll...
The White House recently announced it has issued a final rule that requires airlines to promptly provide passengers with automatic cash refunds when owed. The new rule makes it easy for passenger...
Researchers have found that vitamin D improves immunity to cancer by encouraging the growth of a type of gut bacteria in lab mice. Given a diet rich in vitamin D, they had better immune resistanc...
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 Fre...
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/horoscope-from-rob-brezsnys-free-will-astrology-5-4-2024/
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was born. His absolutely stunning depictions of North...
English couple Margaret Isdale and her husband Robert decided to welcome a teenage girl into their home for foster care back in 1978. Now almost 40 years later, they are receiving a lifetime achi...
Like the mythical Excalibur sword of King Arthur, a relic from 1,000 years ago was recently found lodged upright in a stone in Spain. But while Arthur quested for the Holy Grail and gathered knig...
In a world-first, University of Sydney researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creat...
In a pair of busts that will end up costing criminals millions, Thai police raided a suspected wildlife smuggling site and saved hundreds of animals. 48 lemurs, 30 primates of various species, se...
71 years ago today, two men were rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. At the same time, amateur photographer Vir...
When drones appeared on the scene en masse, many people saw the potential immediately—for military purposes, for breathtaking photography, even wildlife conservation, but for one small group of...
Scientists believe they’ve found a way to make plastics more durable and biodegradable by adding bacterial spores that have been put through evolutionary rigors. This kind of “living plastic�...
A Utah housecat was reunited with its parents recently after a nap in her favorite hiding place turned into a 6-day nightmare. Galena the calico was accidentally shipped—in the box she had snuc...
Are you in Paris in late May? Well make sure you stay around for Le Grand Pique Nique, or for those of you who chose German, Spanish, or Italian to learn in high school, “The Grand Picnic.” ...
60 years ago today, Shishapangma was summited for the first time as the last of Mother Earth’s 14 peaks above 8,000 meters to be climbed by mankind. It is both the 14th highest mountain in the ...
Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a ‘mega-rare’ bird never seen before in either the state or the ...
Yesterday, a bipartisan collection of Senators introduced the Fans First Act, which would help address flaws in the current live event ticketing system by increasing transparency in ticket sales,...
An apex predator can be any size really, from the raccoon-sized quolls of Australia to the Bengal tiger: and this is exactly the sort of insight that scientists have just gleaned from a giant din...
An Alabama woman broke the odds of 70-million-to-1 giving birth to quadruplets that are two sets of identical twins. Hannah Carmack and her husband, Michael, found out they were expecting a year ...
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/alabama-mom-has-70-million-to-1-quads-two-sets-of-identical-twins/
217 years ago today, the Slave Trade Act of 1807 entered into force in Great Britain, abolishing the British participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and pressed other nation states to abol...