Good News
Browse the latest good news stories curated by Brightside Report from trusted sources.
Woman Becomes First Person to Swim the Entire California Coastline.
Long-distance swimmer Catherine Breed has become the first person to swim the length of the entire Californian coastline after cross 900 miles in 111 ...
ABC NewsSmartphones, ancient tracking skills and a future for desert lions.
In Namibia, rangers are using real-time data and traditional knowledge to support farmers and safeguard a recovering lion population.
Positive News‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding.
SYDNEY — After more than a decade of campaigning, Australian conservation and community groups celebrated a historic win on Oct. 23 after legislation ...
MongabayBizarre Rescue Sees Divers Save Kangaroo That Found Itself Over a Mile from Dry Land.
In a story too ‘Australiana’ to believe, a scuba diver and his crew rescued a kangaroo over one and a half miles out to sea. Spotted at first by the c...
ABC News (ABC Eyre Peninsula)J-PAL North America launches Homelessness Evaluation Resource Hub to drive evidence-informed approaches to housing stability.
The hub serves as a free, online repository of essential content for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers seeking to leverage rigorous researc...
MIT NewsSpearfisherman scanning the seabed accidentally discovers 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck.
When he dove 150 feet to investigate a dark mass on his sonar, he found a 2,000-year-old Roman merchant ship.
CBS NewsWorld Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans.
Snow leopards range across Asia’s rugged mountains, where they face mounting threats from climate change, declining wild prey, and retaliatory killing...
MongabayMinnesota Youth Jumps Onto Runaway School Bus and Saves 18 Kids After Driver has Seizure.
Luckily, this 27-year-old was taking a break at work on a slow Monday in Minnesota—because his actions, jumping on a moving school bus, saved 18 stude...
CBS NewsVolunteers became salmon, deer and earthworms.
An experiment is helping a Somerset community see its landscape through the eyes of wildlife – and plot a 30-year route to change it.
ASRAIndonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung.
JAKARTA — Wisye Sahambangung is a fisher, community leader, and mangrove conservationist from Sarawet, a coastal Indonesian village in North Sulawesi ...
MongabayHow NYC Students Saved School Lunch.
There were three clear reasons why Leslie Gomez Rivera avoided the cafeteria at her high school in Brooklyn: She didn’t like the food, the room felt h...
Reasons to be CheerfulRebuilding Mosques Brings Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims Together After Punjab Violence.
In the Indian state of Punjab, Muslims are watching Sikhs and Hindus organize the rebuilding of old mosques destroyed following Partition. Emotional t...
The GuardianMan Named ‘Service’ Cleans Up NYC Dumping Site on His Own Initiative.
It’s not uncommon to walk past litter in a major city: what’s uncommon is stopping to do something about it. Yet it wasn’t just litter that Queens res...
CBS News New YorkGirl Sitting in Dirt at Bus Stop Gets Surprise Bench From Homeowner–Camera Catches her Jig (WATCH).
Florida teachers Maren and David Douglass went viral for some heartwarming acts of kindness shown to a young schoolgirl whose bus stop was assigned to...
PEOPLEArtificial nests help Hong Kong’s rare cockatoos cope with a ‘housing crisis’.
In the urban landscape of Hong Kong, artificial nest boxes are providing shelter and research opportunities for one of the world’s most threatened par...
MongabayMajor Supermarket Begins Wide-Scale Tests to Bring Heritage Apple Varieties to Market.
See these apples here? They rank among the most consumed worldwide—and one of Europe’s largest supermarkets would like to see that changed. The Spar G...
The GuardianIsle of Jersey Expands Marine Protections to Cover 21% of Territorial Waters.
The self-governing British Isle of Jersey announced in late August it would increase its percentage of protected waters by 15%. Now, 21.7% of Jersey’s...
BBC News99-yo Woman Snags ‘World’s Oldest Wing-Walker’ Title – 3 Months After Another Gran Did It (LOOK).
A 99-year-old has become the world’s oldest wing-walker—just three months after her niece saw another elderly woman do it, and the staff at her assist...
BBC NewsPittsburgh Water Launches Debt Forgiveness Program to Help Families with Rising Costs.
Residents of Pittsburgh with outstanding debt on their water utilities can see it forgiven over a 24-month period. Instituted by Pittsburgh’s water au...
Pittsburgh WaterWorld’s Heaviest Pumpkin Sets Incredible New Record at 2,856 lbs.
This seismic squash was just certified as the largest ever grown by a man at a recent British competition. When volunteers at the Wargrave Nursery Gia...
Guinness World Records‘Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty.
An open-source app has thousands of Berliners adopting and watering city trees as if they were their pets, helping keep the city green amid repeated s...
The GuardianGiant Tortoise Population is Thriving–Survey Finds 180,000 on One Island Chain.
A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once-endangered species is now thriving. The latest c...
University of ExeterNonprofit Brings Free Music Education to More Than 20,000 Miami Students in 131 Schools.
Down in Miami-Dade County, educators are seeing how school doesn’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Showing up, taking an interest in school a...
CBS News MiamiNeighbors Flock to Rescue a Wounded Owl Tangled Up in Barbed Wire.
From the Cowboy State Daily comes the story of a rural community flocking to the side of an injured owl and rescuing it from a dreadful fate. The stor...
Cowboy State DailyNPR-Inspired Homework Leads Teen to Find Hidden Message a Decade After a Stranger’s Kindness.
From Seattle’s chapter of National Public Radio comes the remarkable story of the kindness of strangers immortalized in an origami crane. Published th...
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