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Switzerland Set to Roll Out Solar Panels Between Railway Tracks–A World First
Europe's love of train travel is about to transform the continent's solar energy production as the Swiss are set to begin installing solar panels...
Endangered Frogs See ‘Population Explosion’ After 422 Ponds Were Built in Switzerland
All of Switzerland's threatened frog species' populations 'exploded' when scientists began a simple pond-building campaign.
Particular among the web-footed beneficiaries were the European tree frog,...
Switzerland’s Brilliant Plan For Underground Cargo Delivery Tunnels to Reduce Traffic is Now Underway
The dream of a new and ambitious mode of freight transportation just took a big leap towards reality in Switzerland.
On August 1st, planning stages...
Switzerland to Launch ‘Janitor’ Satellite to Collect Pieces of Space Junk
Space junk is an ongoing problem for the world’s space administrations as decades worth of satellite launches and space missions have filled the Earth’s...
Russia to Create National Parks and Reserves Nearly Size of Switzerland
Polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and other endangered species are all set to benefit from a Russian decision to boost its national protected...
Defago Restores Downhill Gold To Switzerland, Bode Gets Bronze
Didier Defago broke a two-decade Swiss drought with gold in the Olympic downhill Monday and American Bode Miller broke his personal streak of...
Incredible 60% of Europe’s Electricity Was Powered by Clean Energy in the First Two Months of 2024
According to an energy think tank, Europe's generation of 516.5 terawatt hours of renewable electricity in January and February satisfied 60% of overall power...
8-year-old Boy Becomes Youngest Player to Beat a Chess Grandmaster: ‘I felt amazing’
At the tender age of eight years, six months, and 11 days, Singaporean Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster...
Good News in History, March 29
50 years ago today in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province, a group of farmers—Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and his neighbor Wang Puzhi—were digging in...
‘A Beautiful Idea’: This French Town Is Making its Cemetery a Source of Solar Energy
A community on the Loire in France has come up with a solar-powered idea that will clear two hurdles in a single leap.
The town...
A Coal Billionaire Is Building the World’s Biggest Clean Energy Plant to Power 16 Million Homes in India
The Khavda solar and renewables park in a barren salt pan in India's state of Gujarat is going to be big; really, really big.
Its...
Good News in History, March 20
205 years ago today, the Burlington Arcade opened in Piccadilly, London. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European shopping gallery and...
High-Speed Railway Progresses Towards a 200-mph Train Line From Dallas to Houston
High-speed rail is a standard form of transport in places like Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan, and Switzerland, but with any luck at all,...
Village Saves 45,000 Toads From Roadway Deaths Cutting Casualties By 60%—All the Way Down to 3% Rate
Dispersed around the UK, hundreds of heroic volunteers soak themselves to the skin on early spring nights in order to save toads, frogs, and...
Until Death Do Us Part: Europeans Were Buried With Their Dogs 2,200 Years Ago
People from an ancient community in what is now northern Italy were buried with animals such as dogs and horses. The reasons remain mysterious,...
Good News in History, February 23
5 years ago today, 71-year-old Roy Hodgson overtook Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when his...
New Prosthetic Hand Allows Man to Sense Temperature: ‘I could feel the warmth of another person’
The first-ever prosthetic limb that allows the wearer to sense temperature and feel the warmth of another person has been created.
The MiniTouch device allows...
Amateur Paleontologists Discover Site of Epic Importance–400 Fossils from 470M Years Ago Amid Global Warming
Two amateur paleontologists have discovered a site of 'worldwide importance' in France containing nearly 400 fossils that date back 470 million years.
The exceptionally well-preserved...
Good News in History, February 7
40 years ago today, astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the space shuttle Challenger’s payload bay as part of the first untethered space...
Good News in History, February 5
On this day 39 years ago, and in a charming little stint of political theater, the mayor of Rome, Ugo Vettere, and his counterpart...