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Wild Mushroom Harvest Helps Keep Trees Standing in Mozambique
By Ryan Truscott.
Lomwé and Macua communities in Mozambique’s Zambezia province traditionally harvest wild mushrooms to eat alongside staples like cassava. Conservationists are working with...
Good News in History, October 6
112 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia...
Good News in History, October 2
66 years ago today, a new island, or Ilha Novo, appeared on the edge of the westernmost island (Faial) in the Azores chain after...
Early Man Was Building Lincoln Log-like Structures 500,000 Years Ago, New Preserved Wood Shows
In a true paradigm shift, persevered timbers show that early man, and potentially older species than Homo sapiens, were building wooden structures 476,000 years ago.
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Good News in History September 25
On this day, 133 years ago, Congress established Sequoia National Park in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Since that day, the protected area in which...
New Color-Changing Coating Inspired by Chameleons ‘Could cool and warm buildings cheaply all year round’
The search has intensified for alternative energy-saving technologies for heating and cooling that don't run on fossil fuels.
Now, by mimicking a desert-dwelling chameleon, Chinese...
Good News in History September 20
765 years ago, the Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated in England. Considered the oldest example of early Gothic architecture in England, the old beauty maintains...
A Kind of Cretaceous Crane Enters Fossil Record as Long-Legged Wading Dinosaur Found in China
China introduced many things to the world—paper, fireworks, gunpowder, zippers, but it's also in China's soils that the greatest scientific advancement in paleontology was...
Good News in History, August 26
On this day in 1949, jazz singer Leon Redbone was born in Nicosia, British Cyprus. As American as one might perceive Redbone as being...
Barnacles Could Lead Investigators to the Wreck of the Missing Malaysian Airways Flight 370
Apart from a few pieces of debris that washed onto an Indian Ocean island, no trace has been found of the Malaysian Airlines flight...
To Halt Ibis Extinction Austrian Man Shows Birds a New Migration Route With His UltraLight–And it’s Working
An Austrian ornithologist has pioneered an incredible way of wildlife rehabilitation by fostering chicks of an endangered species before re-instituting their migratory practice by...
Good News in History, August 18
60 years ago today, James Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 2 years after his famous challenge...
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...
Mom Bought Rare Steiff Teddy Bear at Yard Sale That’s Set to be Sold For $6,000
Jeanette Davies saw two antique teddy bears on a stall at a yard sale in South Wales while browsing with her son Kyle.
One might...
Good News in History, August 10
120 years ago today, Anthony Pratt was born. Pratt's claim to fame was his conversion of the popular social party game Murder into a...
Good News in History, August 9
101 years ago today, Philip Larkin, the English poet and novelist was born. A beloved if somewhat polarizing figure, his poetry has been described...
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...
Groundbreaking Immunization Against Lyme Disease Takes Aim at the Microbiomes of Ticks and Mosquitoes
The glory days for some of the most debilitating pathogenic diseases may be numbered thanks to a new class of immunizations that change the...
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 23
3 years ago today, China launched the Mission Tianwen-1, or "Heavenly Questions" to Mars, becoming the second nation to have a presence there. It...