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Deforestation Fell 26% in Colombian Amazon Last Year Since Peace and Reconciliation with Rebels in FARC

  After its first-ever left-wing presidential administration took charge of negotiating permanent peace with the socialist FARC rebels, Colombia's forests are feeling the effects with...
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Colombia’s Farc Rebels: End to Kidnapping a New Start?

In an unprecedented concession, Colombian rebels have pledged to end their practice of kidnapping for ransom and release the hostages they hold, hoping to...
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FARC Guerrillas Release Hostage After 12 Years

A soldier held hostage for more than 12 years was freed by Colombian rebels Tuesday, the International Red Cross said. The...

Good News in History, April 13

Today is Vaisakhi, the second most important day of the year on the Punjabi calendar, on which Sikhs from around the world celebrate a...

Good News in History, February 14

129 years ago today, The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, debuted in the St. James Theater of London....

Good News in History, January 17

63 years ago today, President Eisenhower went on television to deliver his farewell address after two full terms as president. He prepared it along...

Good News in History, January 7

127 years ago today, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, held its first performance during the heyday of the city's rubber boom. It was...

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest Drops Sharply in One Year–Fewest Acres Since 2019

Deforestation across the Amazon Rainforest has fallen by 55% this year, marking the lowest amounts since 2019, and somewhat of a major victory to...

School Teaches Students on Opposite Ends of Violent Conflicts – Reconciliation Over Revenge

In Italy, a one-of-a-kind school sees Palestinians graduating alongside Israelis, Americans with Tribal origins alongside those with European origins, and Bosnian Muslims next to...

Good News in History, May 13

65 years ago today, Ben Carlin became the world's first, and still only man, to circumnavigate the Earth in an amphibious vehicle. He traveled...

Scientists Create Algorithm That Uses Routine Eye Scans to Identify Heart Attack Risk—With Accuracy of 70%-80%

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyze eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and...

Incredible Cave Paintings 8 Miles-Long Revealed Deep in Amazon Forest: The Sistine Chapel of Ancients

Tens of thousands of pristine cave paintings were found daubed across an eight-mile stretch of rock in a once-in-a-century discovery in Colombia's Amazon rainforest. Hailed...

Swedish Firm Delivers First Batch of ‘Green Steel’ to Volvo – Made Without Any Coal

A quartet of manufacturing firms has managed to create the world's first fossil fuel-free steel in Sweden, much of which will go straight into...

Ryan Reynolds and ‘It’s Always Sunny’ Star Buy Bad English Football Team to Turn it Around – Now an FX Series

What's better than two likeable, excitable, Hollywood stars handing out perhaps far too much money to get into a business enterprise they know nothing...

Increíbles Pinturas Rupestres de casi 13 Km de Largo han sido Descubiertas en las Profundidades de la Selva Amazónica

Ha sido descubierto en Colombia un mural de 13 kilómetros de largo con más de 10,000 pinturas rupestres, y se la ha llamado la Capilla Sixtina de los Antiguos.

Ex Guerrilleros se Vuelven Ciudadanos Científicos Usando Conocimiento de la Selva y Proteger su Biodiversidad

En la selva de Colombia, ex-gerrilleros de las FARC se vuelven científicos, protegiendo la biodiversidad de la jungla donde una vez ellos lucharon.

Ex-Guerrillas Turn into Citizen Scientists Using Their Knowledge of the Colombian Jungle to Protect Biodiversity

In the jungles of Colombia, former FARC guerrillas become citizen scientists, protecting the biodiversity of the jungles where they once fought.

Scientists Use New ‘Holy Grail’ Gene Therapy to Heal Damage Caused By Heart Attacks and it Could Save Millions

This is the first successful demonstration of scientists using gene therapy to help a heart repair itself following a heart attack.

FDA Approves First Depression Treatment in Decades: A Nasal Spray Doctors Can Administer for Quick Relief

Though the treatment has received its fair share of wariness, it could provide immediate relief for patients experience treatment-resistant depression.

Scientists Can Now Regenerate and Implant Any Injured Organ Without the Body Rejecting It

“We can [regenerate anything] ... a heart after a heart attack, a brain after trauma or with Parkinson's disease, a spinal cord after injury.”