Good News Headlines 11/4/2024
Technology expert Dino Ambrosi has made a startling revelation that perfectly underlines the big question of the smartphone era, and shares this one message that can get teens to rethink their screentime.
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Good News Headlines 10/28/2024
During his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday, Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.
Good News Headlines 10/21/2024
More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S. The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people.
Good News Headlines 10/14/2024
After the Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, caused 1,000 bird deaths in a single night, a Chicago real estate company shelled out $1.2 million for sophisticated decals that will deter birds from crashing into its glass windows.
Good News Headlines 10/7/2024
A 3-day strike by tens of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts, that could have seriously hurt the U.S. economy had it continued, has been called off following a tentative agreement on wages between the International Longshoremen's Association and the United States Maritime Alliance.
Good News Headlines 9/30/2024
After 7 years of the Fluoride Action Network pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has now deemed fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such.
Good News Headlines 9/23/2024
For the first time in decades, national surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show an unprecedented and unexplained decline of as many as 20,000 drug deaths per year nationwide, a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.
Good News Headlines 9/16/2024
A young woman’s attempted suicide on a bridge in Nashville was interrupted at the last minute by an unlikely hero. She was halfway there, then “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer Jon Bon Jovi appeared at her side and managed to talk her out of the life-ending decision.
Good News Headlines 9/9/2024
Nearly 5,500 Oregonians have been moved out of homelessness and into housing thanks to persistence from a recently-appointed task force. This amounts to a 28% increase from the previous year, and the number of housing placements is the most seen in a fiscal year since the task force’s inception.
Good News Headlines 9/2/2024
Buddhist nation Nepal and a drone manufacturer in majority Buddhist China, have signed an agreement to supply Mount Everest’s Buddhist authorities with heavy lift drones that will help clear trash off Everest’s holy slopes.
Good News Headlines 8/26/2024
There wasn’t a dry eye among staff at Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium as Magic and his fellow gentoo penguins cried out, mourning the loss of Sphen in an emotional scene never before witnessed by employees.
Good News Headlines 8/19/2024
American billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg has announced that a series of grants worth $600 million will be presented to five historically Black colleges and universities. The donations are being channeled specifically to the universities’ medical colleges.
Good News Headlines 8/12/2024
The Biden-Harris administration has announced the issuance of $2.2 billion in discrimination relief payments to more than 23,000 individuals who were unfairly denied USDA loans for farming operations, as for decades, the federal government and banks discriminated against Black farmers, reported The New York Times.
Good News Headlines 8/6/2024
The felling of the Sycamore Gap tree brought forth an outpouring of emotion last year, with local people and tourists alike left bereft by pictures showing it on its side. But the latest stage of the saga has brought some “astonishing” green shoots of recovery.
Good News Headlines 7/29/2024
With its nine brains, the octopus has long been considered the most intelligent creature in the ocean, inspiring bipartisan legislation banning octopus farming, co-authored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to be introduced in Congress.
Good News Headlines 7/22/2024
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo fulfills her pledge and swims in Seine as cleanup operation makes water quality safe enough to host the Olympics just in time for opening ceremonies this Friday, July 26.
Good News Headlines 7/15/2024
Most students pursuing medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University will receive free tuition, thanks to a $1 billion gift from businessman Michael Bloomberg's philanthropic organization. “As the U.S. struggles to recover from a disturbing decline in life expectancy, our country faces a serious shortage of doctors, nurses, and public health professionals," Bloomberg said.
Good News Headlines 7/8/2024
The global pandemic plunged the entire world into economic free fall and societal unrest. Since then, one notable country has emerged successfully to stabilize global markets and calm fears—it’s the United States, which has maintained the lowest inflation rate of any major nation.
Good News Headlines 7/1/2024
Colorado used 1.5 billion fewer plastic or paper shopping bags since the implementation of the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act of 2021 that entered into force at the beginning of 2023, and is now a leader in the nation.
Good News Headlines 6/24/2024
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the federal law making it a crime for anyone subject to a domestic violence court order to possess a gun. The 8-to-1 decision was the first since the court in 2022 broke sharply with the way gun laws had previously been evaluated by the courts.
Good News Headlines 6/17/2024
85 years after white rioters burned her family home down, Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" is moving back to the same lot, in a home gifted to her with the help of several North Texas organizations.
Good News Headlines 6/10/2024
Claudia Sheinbaum, an environmental scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, was overwhelmingly elected Mexico’s first female president on June 2, 2024, a historic milestone in a country rife with gender-based violence and misogyny.
Good News Headlines 6/3/2024
For the first time in Brazil, a traditional community has been awarded the concession to manage and operate visitor facilities inside a state conservation unit. The Caiçaras, a traditional fishing peoples, of Cardoso Island have lived in what is today Ilha do Cardoso State Park since the 19th century.
Good News Headlines 5/27/2024
The Oakland School District in California is set to fully transition its school bus fleet to electric buses, meaning this fleet of electric buses and chargers will double as a virtual power plant, sending 2.1 gigawatt hours per year back to the grid, and saving 25,000 tons of emissions.
Good News Headlines 5/20/2024
As bombs rain down on Gaza, community-led groups are providing children with psychological first aid (PFA) — play, support and laughter — alongside food and healthcare aid.
Good News Headlines 5/13/2024
A new initiative launched by Parley for the Oceans and the Australian SailGP Team aims to fight plastic pollution by raising awareness through a group of individuals who have a special relationship with the ocean — the sailing community.
Good News Headlines 5/6/2024
Dramatic dash cam video shows strangers on I-94 in Minnesota come together with highway personnel, and desperately fight to remove a trapped man from a car engulfed in flames — and succeed!
Good News Headlines 4/29/2024
With more than 1200 volunteers who have cleaned up nearly 9.9 tons of marine litter from beaches in East Africa’s Seychelles islands over the past five years, this Parley Seychelles cleanup effort shows the potential for citizens to tackle marine trash.
Good News headlines 4/22/2024
Millions of wildflowers now delight a small Vermont countryside community after two transplanted Long Islanders got tired of mowing their massive lawn all day and planted wildflowers instead, delighting the neighbors, birds, bees and butterflies.
Good News Headlines 4/15/2024
She was four years old when a cyclone devastated her hometown. Six when she started cold-calling landowners to get them to plant new trees. Ten when National Geographic shone a light on her work. Meet Prasiddhi Singh, the young girl taking on climate change one tree at a time.
Good News Headlines 4/8/2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) finalized three rules to protect threatened species and their habitats, the Department of Interior announced.
Good News Headlines 4/1/2024
As news deserts expand, students journalists in academic-media partnerships are stepping up to bolster local coverage, from student-staffed statehouse bureaus to papers run by journalism schools.
Good News Headlines 3/25/2024
Beekeepers triumphed against a deadly insecticide linked to a nationwide honey bee die-off, which remains banned in California thanks to Earthjustice’s legal work, after a state agency approved the insecticide sulfoxaflor for use.
Good News Headlines 3/18/2024
Places across the U.S., including Chicago’s Cook County, are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net. Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, says people “can invest in their families in ways that make them more stable over time."
Good News Headlines 3/11/2024
Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be found in your water, which may be the solution to microplastics in drinking water.
Good News Headlines 3/4/2024
Bob Moore, the founder of Bob's Red Mill, who died on Saturday, set up a unique ownership model for his natural food company. Rather than sell out to a food giant, he transferred full ownership to his employees — more than 700 of them.
Good News Headlines 2/26/2024
Japanese scientists have launched the world's first wooden satellite using biodegradable magnolia wood as an environmentally friendly solution to help combat the growing problem of metal space pollution.
Good News Headline 2/19/2024
The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced that it will put an additional US$80 million toward Food is Medicine (FIM) programs in the United States over the next five years. The new commitment will bring the Foundation’s total funding of FIM interventions to over US$100 million.
Good News Headlines 2/12/2024
Christian Bale has led a tour round the new village in California where he plans to build 12 foster homes, as well as two studio flats to help children transition into independent living, and a 7,000 sq ft community centre. The actor has spearheaded the building of a unique complex of facilities with the aim of keeping siblings in the foster care system together.
Good News Headlines 2/5/2024
The mayor said medical debt is the No. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the United States, disproportionately burdening low-income households and people with inadequate insurance. He called the debt relief program the largest municipal initiative of its kind in the country.
Good News Headlines 1/29/2024
A new report from nonprofits Environment America, U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and Frontier Group has found that bans on plastic bags around the U.S. have already reduced the number of bags used by billions.
Good News Headlines 1/22/2024
For some good news to start 2024, key new laws at the state level, which are the result of so much rallying and advocacy, and which will contribute to shaping the humane world we envision, are now in place to help animals.
Good News Headlines 1/15/2024
A Texas tiny home community, slated to become one of the largest communities of its kind anywhere in the country with 2,000 neighbors, is easing homelessness in Austin, while offering gardens, bee hives, kitchens, workspaces, playgrounds and a dozen other group facilities.
Good News Headlines 1/8/2024
Restaurants are making sure that consumed oysters have their shells returned to the reefs, ensuring they rebuild and thrive in the deep Hong Kong water; the Hong Kong oyster filters more water of impurities than any other species.
Good News Headlines 1/1/2024
Many of our favorite 2023 pictures are stunning images of the natural world. Some show moments of intense emotion. But these dozen photos chosen by GNN are guaranteed to uplift your spirits—or your curiosity—as we look back on the past year.
Good News Headlines 12/25/2023
The U.S. Forest Service, an agency with a long history of prioritizing timber production, has taken a first step toward protecting the nation’s most ancient forests from logging. The agency on Tuesday announced a proposal to amend management plans for all 128 national forests and grasslands across the country to better conserve carbon-rich “old-growth” forests.
Good News Headlines 12/18/2023
Detroit recently celebrated another milestone in automotive innovation by installing the nation's first electrified wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles. The roadway will enable EVs to charge their vehicles without stopping to plug them in.
Natural Living Expo 2024
Save the date for the Natural Living Expo, November 16 & 17, 2024 at the Best Western Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, MA. Now in its 17th year!
Good News Headlines 12/11/2023
Ancient California redwoods in Big Basin, some of which are over 2,000 years old, have defied scientists’ expectations and sprouted new shoots from blackened trunks, and will recover in time. The study presented a fascinating finding that changes how we short-lived fleshlings perceive our slow woody neighbors.
Good News Headlines 12/4/2023
Residents of the Swedish city of Luleå take on loneliness by welcoming the new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months with just three hours of sunlight everyday.
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Overnight the waning Leo Moon embarks on a lengthy void of course period. The relaxed and somewhat unfocused mood lends itself to creative projects. If possible, follow the fancies of your heart. During the early...
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