This is the Good News Room. Fresh, true, encouraging stories from around the web, updated automatically. Pick one and let it lift your day. Each story opens at its original source, and I am grateful to the people who report them.
Good News Network
- A man who’s believed to be the oldest individual in the state of Oregon recently rung in 108-years-young with a cake and some words […]
- Children of astronauts may soon be able to video call their parents in space, as NASA wants to bring terrestrial 4G to the Lunar surface. […]
- On a stormy afternoon in Illinois in August, an elderly driver lost control of her vehicle as it plunged into a flooded retention pond. Sinking […]
- Virginia’s new Clean Slate law came into effect last Thursday, meaning that thousands of misdemeanor offenses will be automatically sealed to help residents move forward […]
- 115 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia in […]
- Rather than being stuck on the chain gang, California prisoners are often on the bucket brigade. Roughly half of all California firefighters are incarcerated individuals. […]
Positive News
- Across Africa, women are challenging old assumptions about who conservation is for – and who gets to lead it The post The women putting community […]
- Seasoned mudlark Emmylou Vaxby has spent nearly a decade searching the Thames foreshore for fragments of the city’s past The post Meet the 14-year-old uncovering […]
- The ‘alternative Nobel prize’, global progress on ageism, and a boost for gorillas, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news […]
- Listening is often overlooked as a leadership skill, but it can challenge assumptions and lead to better decisions The post Why good leaders listen appeared […]
- What changes when you swap the daily doomscroll for journalism that asks not just what’s wrong, but what’s working? Oliver Balch finds out The post […]
- Ancient knowledge and new technology are combining to help Indigenous communities in Peru tackle forest fires The post ‘The forest is life’: how Indigenous communities […]
Reasons to be Cheerful
- Beep. Beep. Beep. The heartbeat monitor chirps. Hospitals have long tried to fight acoustic chaos with passive tactics — hanging sound-absorbing ceiling tiles, laying soft […]
- Welcome back to The Spark, our monthly celebration of how people just like you are creating positive change, one meaningful step at a time. The […]
- If you’ve been through a wildfire, you may never forget the torrid heat, the acrid smell of smoke and the threatening sight of flames closing […]
- Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might […]
- This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell […]
- Nora Griefahn’s office showcases her work better than words: The interior walls at the C2C LAB on a busy street in Berlin, Germany, are alive […]
The Optimist Daily
- BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A study published in Science Advances found that eating the same meal with a close companion produces measurably better […]
- BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you’ve ever caught a flash of movement in the branches in early October – something small and unfamiliar, […]
- BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Think about the last time you went for a walk in the woods. Were you listening to a podcast? […]
- BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Sign language interpreters at rap concerts go viral for a reason. There’s something genuinely arresting about watching BSL in […]
- Episode Description: This week Arielle and Karissa cover the Colorado wildlife overpass that came in $15 million under budget and brought pronghorn back to habitat […]
- BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the University of Manchester developed a non-invasive womb cancer test that correctly identified most cancers and returned a […]
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