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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, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
Good News in History, March 26
49 years ago today, the Biological Weapons Convention, (BWC) entered into force. It's considered to have established a strong global norm against biological weapons...
Number of Electric School Buses More than Doubled in the U.S. in Past Year
According to the World Resources Institute, the number of electric school buses operating or delivered in the United States more than doubled—from 598 in...
Starbucks Workers Raise Over $40K for Beloved Barista After Her Car Was Burglarized
Recently, hordes of West Virginia college kids who "couldn't afford a cup of coffee" shelled out five dollars to help a motherly Starbucks barista...
City Sparrows Make Better Dads Than Their Country Cousins, Says New Research
Despite being more aggressive in defending their territory, sparrows that live in urban areas find more time to visit the nest and feed their...
A Paramedic Saved a Veteran’s Life –And 7 Years Later Saved His Daughter, Too
Ohio resident Molly Jones was worried about the possibility of leaving her 15-year-old daughter behind in the event of her death from autosomal dominant...
Man Builds Cozy Treehouse to Post on AirBnB and Earns Enough to Quit His Job (LOOK)
Keen to quit his day job, a West Virginian has built a quaint, beautifully furnished treehouse for Airbnb.
It will pair with his other, rather...
Eight Mysterious Radio Signals Uncovered by Astronomers Using AI Could Be Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Astronomers have picked up eight mysterious radio signals that could be coming from aliens sending messages with technology more advanced than our own.
The electromagnetic...
Good News in History, December 20
20 years ago today, Gangs of New York premiered in theaters. Martin Scorsese's colorful and gritty depiction of gangland violence among the poor immigrant residents of...
Young Girls Who Met on a Ship Sailing for America 75 Years Ago are Reunited: ‘I could never forget her’
It’s not uncommon for reunions to take place within a few years of the initial event—or maybe ten to twenty years after the first...
Beautiful City of Savannah Wins Survey of Top 5 Most Underrated Places to Visit in USA – LOOK
Three in four Americans are usually stuck in their ways and always go on vacation to the same places, according to a new poll—but...
Career Oil Exec Dedicates Himself to Capping Millions of Abandoned Oil Wells to Help the Planet
Across the United States, there may actually be millions of old oil wells that emit methane into the atmosphere and pollute local ecosystems; a...
Locals Digging a Well Accidentally Discover a $140 Million Star Sapphire Weighing Half a Ton
It's hard work being a farmer, that is until you pull a half-ton sapphire out of the ground while digging a well... Then it's...
The US Halts Old-Growth Timber Sales in World’s Largest Remaining Temperate Rainforest
The US Department of Agriculture announced this month an end to large-scale old growth timber sales in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, “returning stability and...
A ‘Trail Angel’ Sprinkles Good Deeds Along Appalachian Trail For Unsuspecting Hikers
This blog was submitted to GNN by one of our readers for publishing. If you have an interesting story of kindness or positivity, be...
Dr. Patch Adams Known For Wearing a Clown Nose Has a Foot Amputated—And He Says He’s Thrilled—Watch
For those unfamiliar with the iconic physician Patch Adams, he has for the last 50 years devoted his life to giving free medical care...
COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Tracker Lets You See Where U.S. Doses Are Going
If you'd like to see how quickly vaccinations are progressing in your state, the COVID Data Tracker from the Centers for Disease Control and...
This City’s Police Force Says No Officer Fired a Single Shot in 2020, Citing Successful De-escalation Training
Newark police and city officials say their de-escalation training program is working, with not one officer firing his or her weapon while on duty...
‘Memory Cop’ Uses Incredible Face Recognition Skills to Catch 2,100 Suspects–Including People in Face Masks
An eagle-eyed police officer dubbed "Memory Cop" has used his mind-blowing face recognition skills to catch 2,100 suspects—including those wearing face masks.
England’s Andy Pope...