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Good News in History, June 17
90 years ago today, Harry Browne, among the first men to introduce Libertarianism to a national audience, was born in New York. Browne was...
Good News in History, June 14
Happy 64th birthday to the radically cool bassist Marcus Miller. Along with a very successful solo career, he has worked closely with Miles Davis,...
Good News in History, June 2
70 years ago today, Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in one of the first major international events to be televised. Twenty-seven million people across...
Good News in History, May 18
On this day 975 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating...
Good News in History, May 9
637 years ago today, the Treaty of Windsor, the world's oldest international accord still in force, was signed between Great Britain and Portugal. It...
105-Year-old WWII Veteran With No Surviving Relatives Receives 3,000 Birthday Cards
A World War II veteran with no surviving relatives celebrated his 105th birthday with more than 3,000 cards from kind-hearted strangers.
Ernest Horsfall, who has...
Texas Lists Two Critical Pollinator Flowers as Endangered Species, Practically Guaranteeing Milkweed Recovery
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has taken steps to practically guarantee the survival of a beautiful pink wildflower in Texas just a...
Your Inspired Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
Queen Victoria’s Personal Letter Box Dating Back 140 Years is Unearthed–With a Christmas Card Inside
Queen Victoria’s miniature mailbox which she used to send letters and cards during her reign 140 years ago has been unearthed.
The 30 inch tall...
Efforts to Save Endangered Blue Butterfly Quadruples its Population–but Also Saves a Lupine from Extinction
In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in...
70 Vultures Released Into Bulgaria to Start Wild Population After Dying Out 60 Years Ago
Two female Cinereous Vultures flew into the wild skies of Bulgaria—the culmination of a 7-year project that successfully completed its mission on September 3rd,...
Elderly Couple Among Last to Receive Signed Letter From The Queen–Delivered the Day She Died
An elderly couple were among the final people to ever receive signed correspondence from the Queen after opening a card from her on the...
The Queen Broke a 450-Year-old Palace Tradition to Honor Americans After 9/11
Marking the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, one social media poster dug all the way back to the tragedy of 9/11 to remind people...
Rare ‘Dinosaur Bird’ Patiently Awaits a Lifelong Mate to Populate the Magnificent Species
An extremely rare 'dinosaur' bird, the only one of its kind in the UK, is patiently awaiting a new mate while the Exmoor Zoo...
Watch These Fascinating Toads That Can Jump Like Champs but Can’t Land on Their Tiny Feet
We think of frogs and toads as hopping machines—but in reality they have to be landing machines as well to control the force they...
Millions of Tons of Earth Dug for New London Subway Line Became a New Bird Sanctuary
Multi-billion dollar civic engineering projects tend not to be good news for wildlife, but upon the completion of a new English underground railway line,...
Bigger than Texas: Huge New Marine Park Will Protect ‘Australia’s Galapagos’
Massive new marine parks will now protect and preserve the Australian oceans surrounding Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands—home to life found nowhere else...
‘Comical-Looking’ Bat Thought to Be Extinct is Found Again After 40 Years in Dense Rainforest
Of more than 1,300 bat species on our planet, this might be the most comical-looking.
So says the chief scientist at Bat Conservation International when...
The Values of Giving, Compassion and Family, Flourishing Across the World: Survey Shows
A recent worldwide investigation into human goodness and thoughtfulness found that, delightfully, it's broadly distributed across cultures even in difficult times. Far from being...
70 New Species Were Discovered in 2021 – Including 2 Guitarfish and a Pink Pygmy Pipehorse
From the lowland forests of Madagascar to Easter Island’s coral reefs, dozens of new flora and fauna were added to the scientific tree of...