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Summer Vacation for Kids Includes Helping Neediest Communities in Dallas
As most teenagers spent their summer break at the beach, pool or working at summer jobs, some 240 junior high and high school-age kids...
Ten Tips for Summer Learning
Schools may be empty during the summer, but learning can continue. California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell gives his top ten suggestions...
Summer Camp Where Military Kids Can Relax (Video)
At Camp Purple, children of military parents make instant friendships with other kids whose parents are deployed overseas, who have experienced the same worries...
Summer Vacations, Cheering Orphans, and Host Couples
To California, North Carolina, and Virginia, the Summer Miracles program brings orphans from Russia, Kazakhstan and Columbia for summer vacation with host families. Through...
World’s First Wooden Satellite Aims to Tackle Space Debris Problem with Sustainable Solution
One might imagine the hostile environment of space as bad news for any organic molecules.
However, Japanese engineers just created a wooden satellite called LignoSat,...
Baby Emu Orphan is Adopted by a Chicken–An Unexpected Mother Hen Turned Teacher
An abandoned emu is thriving in a British aviary after being raised by an unlikely foster mom one-tenth her size.
The emu, named Shrub, was...
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Returns to Modern Screens With Hopeful Stories of Wildlife Problems Solved
Edited from original article by World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
For an entire generation of Americans who...
Good News in History, November 5
555 years ago, Guru Nanak, the spiritual teacher and founder of Sikhism, was born. A poet, mystic, philosopher, and singer, Guru Nanak’s philosophy centered on...
Good News in History, November 4
287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the...
When Missouri School Wanted to Rename Their Building, They All Agreed to Honor the Longtime Janitor
A Missouri K-8 school was debating long and hard over what to rename their school.
The decision-makers could have picked any number of famous Missouri...
Good News in History, October 25
23 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows XP, one of the most widely-used operating systems in the history of personal computing. Released to critical...
Good News in History, October 24
20 years ago today, Arsenal Football Club set an unbeaten record winning 49 matches in a row, the most ever in the English Premier...
‘We Didn’t Think Our Little Boy Would Survive’ – Now He’s Saving Lives in English Waters
This is Daniel Kinsella, a 16-year-old Liverpudlian who recently rescued three separate groups of paddleboarders in the family's dinghy.
North Wales Live in the UK...
Good News in History, October 17
21 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
Dog Sits Down in Middle of Road Unmoving–Until Officer Follows to Save Her Owner
From Washington state comes the story of a senior citizen being saved by his senior canine, who risked her life obstructing traffic in order...
Good News in History, October 8
On this day in 1945, the microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer. The self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, employed by Raytheon at the...
Good News in History September 30
161 years ago, George Bizet's famous opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles, The Pearl Fishermen, debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. Set in ancient...
What Makes the Perfect Forest for the Perfect Autumn?
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
Depending on where you live in the world, you...
Sahara Desert Is Turning Green Amid Unusual Rains in Parts of North Africa
Bountiful rains are greening parts of the Sahara that haven't had a good soak in years.
An extratropical cyclone pushed across the northwestern Sahara on...
Vertical Greening Brings Nature to Urban ‘Heat Islands’ Quickly and Easily (LOOK)
Now at the London Design Festival, a nifty piece of "street furniture" allows for rapid urban greening with little effort and maximum impact.
"Vert" is...