A Nashville singer-songwriter has become a star—but not because of his guitar playing. Jerry Vandiver, whose songs have been recorded by country stars like Tim McGraw, moonlights as a volunteer hero to the local red fox population. As Tennessee suffers from a serious mange epidemic, particularly bad in the area around Vandiver’s adopted home of […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley1h ago
Scientists have revealed that Australia may hold the key to generating ample green energy while creating a major export industry, and that it’s buried underneath their feet. The breakthrough centers on magnetite, a mineral found in Western Australia’s vast iron ore deposits throughout the Pilbara region. Researchers at Edith Cowan University’s School of Engineering have […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley4h ago
A series of reintroductions have seen the bison return to a landscape in Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert after a 200 year absence. Having acted as ecosystem anchors for the vegetation is this vital biosphere reserve for millennia, their return is seen as a major step towards fortifying the area’s sensitive arid grasslands. A vast bison herd […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley6h ago
Metal detectors have had a banner year in Scandinavia, where records for the largest recovered Viking silver hoards have been made in Norway, Denmark, and now Finland. A man found two large hoards of silver in southern Finland, containing thousands of coins, as well as pieces of jewelry and scrap silver, that together weighed around […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley8h ago
60 years ago today, the Metropolitan Opera House opened at the Lincoln Center on Broadway and Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Back then, it opened its doors and its curtains for the first time to Franco Zaffirelli’s Antony and Cleopatra. Today it’s one of the most prestigious opera […]
Good News Network•Good News Network12h ago
The personal passion project of Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale has finally come to fruition, as the Welsh actor cut the ribbon on a children’s foster care village in Palmdale, California. Called Together California, the facility and the organization which will run it are focused on one key mission Mr. Bale says the state foster system […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley15 Sept
When thousands of employees at Station Casinos arrived at one of the company’s resorts to celebrate its 50th anniversary, they hadn’t a clue what was about to happen. They were going to hit the jackpot. In a stunning display of profit sharing, business moguls the Fertitta brothers announced that each of Station Casinos’ 10,000 employees […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley15 Sept
A runner whose improbable resurrection from the frigid fells of north England saw his heart stopped for hours, has returned to conquer the athletic challenge that nearly claimed his life. Tommy Price suffered cardiac arrest triggered by hypothermia while running the “Bob Graham Round,” a punishing trail run up and down 42 separate hills and […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley15 Sept
In 2006, the largest wind power project in Kansas was turned on among the Flint Hills. Today, the royalties it has generated for rancher Peter Ferrell are allowing him to pass the farm down to his children. The 50 turbines—which Ferrell barely notices these days—have provided half of his income since then, insulating him and […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley15 Sept
Many happy returns to a brilliant Brit, Tom Hardy, who turns 49 years old today. The London actor got his start in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, and preceded along a course of action and adventure films to rival any actor of the 21st century, including Inception, Dark Knight Rises, and Mad Max: Fury Road. The charismatic Londoner […]
Good News Network•Good News Network15 Sept
A former Athens airport site is set to host one of the continent’s most ambitious urban greening projects. Called the Ellinikon Park, it won’t only add an unforgettable attraction to the birthplace of Democracy, but also a shaded refuge for residents of the continent’s hottest city. The park will stretch over 400 acres along the […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley14 Sept
A feather preserved inside dinosaur dung could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction that wiped out most life on Earth. Specifically, it could explain whether it prepared a certain lineage of birds to weather the unnatural winter that followed in the wake of the asteroid impact. Scientists at the Field Museum of Chicago […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley14 Sept
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced it has certified Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The leading infectious cause of blindness, the achievement on the island nation now means that the entire Southeast Asian region, as defined by the WHO, is trachoma-free. It means over 2 billion people now live […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley14 Sept
A conservation charity in the UK has turned what was once a dumping ground for material dug up during canal dredging into a nesting habitat for two-thirds of the UK’s black-necked grebes. These beautiful waterfowl with thin ochre-golden feathers sashaying away from their ruby-red eyes have a very unusual migratory pattern which in the UK […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley14 Sept
41 years ago today, the Penang Bridge officially opened connecting the Malay Peninsula with the island of Penang. Stretching 5.2 miles across the Penang Strait, it’s the second-longest bridge over water in Malaysia. Architects decided to use a cable-stayed suspension design similar to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than the steel-tied arch style of the […]
Good News Network•Good News Network14 Sept
A woman in England had just “asked for a sign” when a kingfisher streaked in, and even landed on her hand—staying there for ten minutes. “I had just asked for a sign, then just moments later this happened,” Laura O’Brien told SWNS news. The 24-year-old says she was “amazed” because the Eurasian Kingfisher (also known […]
Good News Network•Good News Network13 Sept
Millions of people playing their daily Wordle games will be eager to hear about this new research. Using information theory, the team of researchers from Binghamton University and State University of New York has developed a method to solve the game with a 99% success rate. In the The New York Times online game, players […]
Good News Network•Good News Network13 Sept
Elephants can think before they act, as well as resist impulsive behavior, reveals new research that adds to growing evidence of elephants possessing sophisticated cognitive skills. Experiments at the National Elephant Institute in Thailand show Asian pachyderms are able to deny their impulses and choose a more rational course of action, in order to solve […]
Good News Network•Good News Network13 Sept
Happy 75th Birthday to actor-comedian Jean Smart, the brilliant TV star and winner of 7 Emmys, 3 Golden Globes and many other awards for her lovable characters in Designing Women, Frasier, and Hacks. Check out her trophy case and WATCH a recent talk show segment honoring her for the show that has ruled HBO for […]
Good News Network•Good News Network13 Sept
In November of 1965 a great blackout spread across the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. 30 million people were affected and Lynn Lowin was one of them. Now in her senior years, she wanted to finally tell her inspiring tale from 61 years ago, so reached out to Good News Network. During that […]
Good News Network•lynn Lowin12 Sept