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Solar Panels Turning Dirty Water Clean in Angola
A brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices inside looks out of place in the dusty...
Rare Wild Giraffe Population Makes a Comeback
The last West African giraffe population living in the wilds of southwestern Niger is making a comeback with numbers reaching 310 last year, up...
Carter Center Gets $40M to Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease
The Guinea worm disease soon will be relegated to the history books, thanks to The Carter Center's ongoing eradication program and new donations from...
U.S. Forces Rescue Iranians at Sea for Second Time in a Week
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Iranians from sea whose boat had flooded on Tuesday in the Gulf, the second time in less than...
13 Compassionate Americans Receive White House Medals
Recognizing their good deeds, President Barack Obama yesterday awarded the nation's second-highest civilian honor to 13 compassionate Americans for their decades of service helping the...
Microfinance Effort Matches Tiny Lenders with Kids Who Yearn for College Worldwide
Another micro-finance initiative is improving the economic outlook for poor families around the world, this time through the financing of college tuition for students.
Although...
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to be Alive: The Rational Optimist
A British scientist and author of the book, The Rational Optimist, makes the case that mankind's progress has been vigorous, widely spread, and not...
President Obama Honors 15 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Today, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, to fifteen diverse recipients. The Medal of Freedom is...
Good News for World Forests: Deforestation Slows in Last Decade
The Earth lost fewer trees in the last decade as global deforestation over the past ten years fell by more than 18 percent,...
Building Bridges of Hope
In a remote corner of Ethiopia, a single dilapidated bridge had been critical to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Amhara highlanders who...
Sudan Marks Five Years of Peace Agreement
South Sudan on Saturday marked five years of peace as it pushed for full implementation of the deal that ended 21 years of...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2009
Despite what may be your immediate impression of 2009, overall it was a great year. Looking back, one can be grateful that the economy...
Time Calls it “The Decade From Hell”… NOT!
Time magazine named this "The Decade From Hell". The sensationalist headline ignores all the good things that happened, so we, at the Good News...
Measles Deaths Dramatically Cut by 74 Percent Worldwide
Measles deaths have plummeted by some 74 percent worldwide since 2000, the United Nations announced yesterday. Thanks to improvements in routine and immunization activities,...
A Sea of Humanity Voted Today
3rd UPDATE, NOV 8 The number of votes counted after Nov. 4 has already shattered all records. But the turnout rate appears to...
Extinct Javan elephants may have been found again – in Borneo
The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant...
King’s Memphis Motel Now Marks National Civil Rights Museum
40 years ago yesterday -- one day before he was shot -- Martin Luther King, Jr. predicted, “I may not get there with you,...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
10,000 Men For a Safer Philadelphia
Thousands of African-American men are heeding the call, signing up to patrol the streets of crime-infested southwest Philadelphia and serve as mentors. "We need...
Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide
Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...