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Stranded During COVID, Athlete Trained With Water Jugs—Now She’s Won Olympic Gold, a First for Philippines

Have a minute? Try sitting still and watching the second hand of a clock as it sweeps its way around the dial. Feels like...

Científicos Usan Aguas Residuales para Hacer que 202 Hectáreas de Bosque Crezcan en el Medio del Desierto Egipcio

Investigadores han reencaminado aguas residuales de una ciudad para hacer crecer árboles en Egipto -y podría llevar a más de 36 santuarios de bosques en el desierto.

Mira el Momento en el que Un Oso Perezoso fue Rescatado del Tráfico

Tal vez haz oido acerca de la razón por la que una gallina cruzaría la calle, pero, ¿porqué lo haría un oso perezoso? Este intrépido...

IKEA Releases Free Design For Garden Sphere That Feeds a Neighborhood

This easily-constructed new IKEA product could feed dozens of people in your very own neighborhood – and the blueprints are available for download free...

Immigrant Designer Goes From Sleeping on Park Benches to World Fame

This beloved fashion mogul didn't start out as a success – in fact, he was a homeless Brazilian man in NYC who didn't have an education or speak English.

Athlete Overcomes Depression and Brings Home Olympic Silver for Home Crowd in Brazil

The champion is back! Brazilian gymnast Diego Hypólito amazed the nation during the 2016 Rio Olympic games and finally beat his greatest enemy: depression. //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle =...

Rio Slums Transformed Into Canvas Bursting With Color

Two Dutch artists are transforming a shanty town clinging to the hillside in Rio de Janeiro using buckets of bright neon colored paint. With the...
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Live Earth Concerts on 07/7/7 Tune in Worldwide Climate Message and Music

Plan this Saturday, 7/7/07, to check in with Live Earth, a 24-hour concert taking place on 7 continents that will bring together more than...

Good News in History, March 1

Happy 80th Birthday to Roger Daltrey, singer-songwriter for The Who. The band's co-founder put the stutter in My Generation, and the scream in Won't...

Good News in History, February 19

Happy 38th Birthday to perhaps the greatest competitive female soccer player in history—the Brazilian colloquially called "Marta". Marta Viera da Silva holds the record for...

Good News in History September 22

19 years ago today, J.J. Abrams's brilliant science-fiction drama Lost debuted on ABC. Running from 2004 to 2010, the show charted a course over six...

Good News in History, August 19

This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—August 19.

Good News in History, August 13

118 years ago today, the Norwegian people voted themselves out of the union with Sweden that they had been subjected to for centuries following...

Good News in History, August 12

173 years ago today, Issac Singer received his patent for the improved sewing machine, paving the way for his eventual invention to spread across...

Good News in History, August 2

11 years ago today, Michael Phelps won an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley, his 16th gold medal in...

The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest

At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin...

Good News in History, July 15

Though not a pilot, on this day in 1939 the fashionable and smashing Clara Adams stepped off her passenger aircraft in Newark, having completed...

Good News in History, June 8

70 years ago today, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC could not refuse to serve black patrons, invalidating “separate...

Good News in History, June 6

Happy 67th birthday to tennis star and heartthrob Björn Rune Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slam singles titles consisting of 6 French Opens and...

Good News in History, April 21

April 21st marks Groundation Day, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great...