DATE: April 05, 2025 at 07:53PM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Philadelphia Zoo’s 100-Year-old Galapagos Tortoises Hatch 4 Babies–to Help Ensure Species Survival

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The Philadelphia Zoo is overjoyed to announce the hatching of four critically endangered Galapagos tortoises for the first time in the Zoo’s 150 year history. The parents, Western Santa Cruz tortoises, are the Zoo’s two oldest residents, each estimated to be around 100 years old. Additionally, the female named Mommy is considered one of the […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 02:30PM
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TITLE: World’s Smallest Pacemaker is Made for Newborns, Activated by Light, and Requires No Surgery

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Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so small that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe and be non-invasively injected into the body, according to a new study published in Nature. Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of newborn […]

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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 11:30AM
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TITLE: A Treetop Walkway Perched Above Zoo Animals in Minnesota is Winning Awards and Hearts (LOOK)

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/award-winning-treetop-walkway-over-the-minnesota-zoos-animals-is-the-worlds-longest/

There’s no better way to observe and enjoy wildlife than when they aren’t aware of your presence, and hoping to create these conditions at the Minnesota Zoo, the administration has converted an old monorail track into a pedestrian walkway that’s winning awards. Opened in 2023, the Treetop Trail was recently called the Best Specialty Construction […]

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April 3, 2025 at 12:44PM

CHANNEL: Sam Bentley

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These Spanish ladies crocheted a canopy to help cool down streets! #shorts

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DATE: March 31, 2025 at 02:00PM
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TITLE: Presumed Extinct: World’s Smallest Otter Found in Busy Nepal River After 186 Years without a Sighting

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/presumed-extinct-worlds-smallest-otter-found-in-busy-nepal-river-after-186-years-without-a-sighting/

Though officially classified as vulnerable, no credible sighting of the Asian short-clawed otter, the smallest species of its kind, has been made in almost 200 years. So when forestry officials in Nepal found an injured, juvenile otter at the confluence of two major rivers last November, they never imagined that their actions might determine the […]

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DATE: March 31, 2025 at 11:30AM
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TITLE: In East Africa, Rats Have Prevented 400,000 New Cases of Deadliest Infection Using Their Super Sense of Smell

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For most people, a rat is at best an unwelcome guest, and at worst, the target of immediate extermination. But in a field clinic in Tanzania, rats are colleagues—heroes even. Far from a trash bin-dwelling NYC street rat, the African giant pouched rat is docile, intelligent, easier to train than some dogs, and for East […]

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DATE: March 29, 2025 at 12:26PM
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TITLE: Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten

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When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walked closer to the nest, the chick began twitching […]

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DATE: March 28, 2025 at 04:33PM
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TITLE: Green Startup Boston Metal Now Has All the Ingredients Needed to Make Steel Without Emitting Gobs of CO2

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/green-startup-boston-metal-now-has-all-the-ingredients-needed-to-make-steel-without-emitting-gobs-of-co2/

An MIT-startup has found a way to commercialize steel production by the ton using electricity rather than a CO2-emitting blast furnace, promising the beginning of decarbonization in one of humanity’s most carbon-intensive industries. Called Boston Steel, their industrial-scale production facility can make a ton of steel per month using a technique called molten oxide electrolysis […]

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DATE: March 27, 2025 at 02:30PM
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TITLE: Three Critically Endangered Orangutans Rescued from Illegal Captivity and Returned to Their Forest Realm

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/three-critically-endangered-orangutans-rescued-from-illegal-captivity-and-returned-to-their-forest-realm/

In a heartwarming milestone for great ape conservation, Mary, a rescued orphaned orangutan, has been released into the jungles of Borneo following rehabilitation. After spending four years at the Bornean Orangutan Rescue Alliance (BORA) Rescue and Rehabilitation Center learning how to survive independently in the jungle, she has been allowed to return to her home […]

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DATE: March 27, 2025 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: UNICEF-led Volunteer Effort Has Prevented Afghanistan’s Health System from Collapsing, Ensuring Care for Millions

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/unicef-led-volunteer-effort-has-prevented-afghanistans-health-system-from-collapsing-ensuring-care-for-millions/

After a few years of Herculean efforts, UNICEF has reached a point where it has prevented two-thirds of Afghanistan’s healthcare sector from collapsing. Working mostly in rural areas, the operation has been vast, employing 28,000 full-time carers and physicians and 32,000 volunteers staffing 96 fully-equipped hospitals and 2,400 rural healthcare centers, sometimes as small as […]

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DATE: March 27, 2025 at 03:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Good News in History, March 27

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2,221 years ago today, the Decree of Memphis, proclaiming the rule of the King of Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemy V, was carved in three languages on black sandstone blocks around the kingdom. The top two scripts were Egyptian hieroglyphics and Demotic, but the bottom third was ancient Greek. The block today is known as the “Rosetta […]

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DATE: March 26, 2025 at 07:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: From Sewage-Filled Waters to Crystal Blue: Switzerland Rivers and Lakes Offer Hope for Cleaning Up Other Countries

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/from-sewage-filled-waters-to-crystal-blue-switzerland-rivers-and-lakes-offer-hope-for-cleaning-up-other-countries/

From Phoebe Weston at the Guardian comes the story of the Herculean effort to clean up Switzerland’s waterways, an effort that has transformed the unique European country into one that enjoys the cleanest urban swimming spots on the continent. In the 1960s, water quality in the form of sewage treatment investment received the smallest share […]

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DATE: March 25, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: Klimt Painting of an African Prince Lost for Nearly 100 Years Goes on Show in Austria

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/klimt-painting-of-an-african-prince-lost-for-nearly-100-years-goes-on-show-in-austria/

A portrait of a stately West African leader painted by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has reappeared in public after being lost before World War II. Nearly a hundred years have passed since it was last seen, and is now exhibited at Wienerroither Kohlbacher Gallery in Vienna, with a price tag of €15 million. […]

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DATE: March 24, 2025 at 11:30AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: South Africa Bans Commercial Fishing at Penguin Breeding Spots Where Food Supply Shortage Could Drive Extinction

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/south-africa-bans-commercial-fishing-at-penguin-breeding-spots-where-food-supply-shortage-could-drive-extinction/

For a critically endangered species of penguin, a recent decision to remove fishing competition from its hunting and breeding grounds may prove to be the key to saving it. In the rich waters of South Africa’s cape and Atlantic coastlines, 6 key breeding colonies of the African penguin are now no-go zones for commercial sardine […]

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DATE: March 24, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: Judge Rules ‘Moral Damages’ Against Cacti Smuggling Ring, Orders Them to Pay for Desert Restoration

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/judge-rules-moral-damages-against-cacti-smuggling-ring-orders-them-to-pay-for-desert-restoration/

In Italy, a judge has applied a novel legal concept in sentencing two convicted plant smugglers: payment for the damage done to an irreplaceable ecosystem. Following a trial in the Italian city of Ancona, Andrea Pombietti and Mattia Crescentini were found guilty of trafficking in endangered species; in this case, two rare cactus genera Eriosyce […]

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DATE: March 23, 2025 at 03:53PM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: She’s a Dopamine Dresser: ‘Get Happier and More Productive With Color, Yellow is a Big Mood Booster’

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/shes-a-dopamine-dresser-get-happier-and-more-productive-with-color-yellow-is-a-big-mood-booster/

An artist says she’s a “dopamine dresser” and picks her bold-colored outfits to ward off feeling grumpy. Dopamine dressing is a fashion trend which involves wearing clothing that makes you feel good and confident, based on the idea that outfits can affect your mood and happiness. Kerry Jones has always loved color and says she […]

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DATE: March 23, 2025 at 12:19PM
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TITLE: Being Kind–and Believing Others are Kind–Makes you Happier Than Wealth: Happiness Report Ranks 150 Countries

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/being-kind-and-believing-others-are-kind-makes-you-happier-than-money-new-happiness-report/

Believing that a wallet will be returned if dropped in public is one of the most important indicators of well being and happiness. In fact, it’s 7 times more impactful that doubling your income, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 just released this week. Jeffrey Sachs conceived of the report that would measure wellness […]

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DATE: March 19, 2025 at 11:43PM
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TITLE: Tiny Dam Demolitions

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DATE: March 19, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: Rare Sighting of Four Snow Leopards Together Sparks Frenzy of Excitement – (WATCH)

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rare-sighting-of-four-snow-leopards-together-sparks-frenzy-of-excitement-watch/

In the remote mountains of northern Pakistan, four majestic snow leopards have been recorded recently moving through the snow-covered hills in a piece of footage that has ignited a flurry of excitement among conservationists. These animals are seldom seen alone, much less in a group, and it’s being considered a sign of success for Pakistan’s […]

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