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Good News in History, June 25
68 years ago today, the renegade travel host and chef Anthony Bourdain, was born. With his food and culture show, No Reservations, and the...
US Puts Solar Panels on Old Nuclear Weapons Sites for Powering 70,000 Homes
Across the nation, land set aside for the purpose of possibly destroying the world is now welcoming infrastructure meant to save it.
Sites managed by...
Meteorites From Mars Found on Earth Provide Unprecedented Insight into Red Planet
When a meteorite smashed into Mars eleven million years ago, pieces of the Red Planet hurtled into space—and some of them landed on Earth...
Good News in History, May 28
92 years ago today, one of Europe's greatest landscape engineering projects, the Afsuiltdijk, was completed in the Netherlands, proving that newly-mechanized Man could tame...
Endangered Pupfish Found Only in a Death Valley Cave Springs Back to Life in Numbers at 25-Year High
Quick: Where is the most unlikely place to find a fish in the USA? Unless your answer was Death Valley, you were probably wrong.
The...
Good News in History, May 10
200 years ago today, the National Gallery opened its doors to the public in Trafalgar Square, Westminster. It houses a collection of over 2,300...
Mountain Chickadees have Remarkable Memories–with Ability to Recall Locations of 10,000 Hidden Snacks
Lost your keys? Can’t remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee.
These half-ounce birds, with brains...
Good News in History, April 21
April 21st marks Groundation Day, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great...
Pyrite May Be Known as Fool’s Gold, but It Actually Contains a Kind of Green Gold: Lithium
Appalachian mining country seems an unlikely place to find a potential breakthrough in renewable energy, but samples of mine tailings in West Virginia have...
Good News in History, April 14
41 years ago today, EMI released David Bowie's 15th studio album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's greatest commercial success, with 11 million albums sold and...
Good News in History, April 3
Happy Birthday to Dame Jane Goodall who turns 90 years old today. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and...
A California Superbloom Is Springing to Life and the Best is Yet to Come
Drenching rains and record snowfall throughout California's 2022-2023 winter season carried on throughout the year, and by September, normally the peak of the dry...
Foundry Closing Devastated Tennessee Town but New Lithium Plant Brings Hope, Thanks to 2021 Infrastructure Bill
A Tennessee manufacturing town could be in for a revitalization after a shuttered iron foundry is poised to be replaced with a lithium mine,...
Powering Cars With Wood Byproducts Turned into Graphite for EV Batteries
While more of the world's population are enjoying battery-powered electronics than ever before, concerned governments and manufacturers are running around seeking to secure reliable...
NFL Scores Touchdown for Renewables: The Super Bowl Was 100% Solar Powered
The biggest sporting event in America went green this year thanks to its position out in the desert. 621,000 solar panels channeled the electricity...
New Google Geothermal Electricity Project Could Be a Milestone for Clean Energy
An advanced geothermal project funded and developed by Google has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power the company's data centers...
Good News in History, November 25
43 years ago today, "Sugar" Ray Leonard reclaimed his WBC Welterweight world championship in New Orleans after a masterful display that famously, infamously, left...
After Fracking is Halted, the Site’s Drill Hole is Now A Source of Clean Geothermal Energy
In England's North Yorkshire, locals opposed a fracking project vigorously enough to get the whole thing canceled, but the almost 2-mile deep borehole had...
Chicago Marathon Runner Rescues Stray Kitten During the Race–Bystander Gives it a Home
A Chicago Marathon runner gave up a record finish in order to save a stray kitten she found on the course.
The story got sweeter...
Rare Annular Solar Eclipse Transfixes Crowds Across the Americas – LOOK
(Reuters) - Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar...