Good News

Good Good Good’s collection of positive news stories

An orange and white train travels on tracks through a wide valley with colorful striped mountains in the background under cloudy skies.

Latin America's first solar-powered train travels through a stunning 10,000-year-old canyon

The Tren Solar de la Quebrada travels through a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A still from House of the Dragon: Rhaenyra, a woman with platinum blonde hair wearing a burgundy tunic with embroidered shoulders and a metal necklace, stands in a mountainous landscape with large scaled reptilian creatures behind her.

Scientists discovered a new species of horned lizard in Thailand. They named it after Rhaenyra's dragon in 'House of the Dragon'

“House of the Dragon” may be on a two-year hiatus, but it is still making headlines — especially in the scientific community.

A man holding a leash next to a tan and black dog with its tongue out, and a woman in a wheelchair, all posing together indoors.

Heroic dog saves his owner — and cat — as Spokane wildfires set home ablaze

Shadow courageously alerted his owner to the Old Trails Fire as it encroached on their property.

A large sea turtle lies on sand while several people lean over to examine and touch its shell and flippers.

Beachgoers are learning a vital lesson from this harrowing sea turtle rescue: 'Fill in your holes'

A viral video posted on World Sea Turtle Day is serving as a cautionary tale for beachgoers this summer.

A child rides a bicycle past a row of five pink structures with teal roofs and crosses mounted on their walls, elevated on wooden platforms beneath a large tree.

Bamboo tiny homes survive a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. They were built for the price of a smartphone

These simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

Six young penguins with dark gray and white plumage stand together on sandy ground with sparse vegetation visible behind them.

Australia is working to catch 5,000 of the world's smallest penguins to vaccinate them against bird flu

Capturing wildlife to vaccinate them is difficult, particularly because the bird flu vaccination requires they be caught twice, for two doses.

A person with reddish-brown hair holds a hand-painted sign reading "PROTECT TRANS KIDS" in a crowd of protesters on a city street lined with buildings and trees.

New report shows trans students thrive when their teachers support them: 'Higher grades and belonging'

Actions as simple as asking for and affirming a student’s name and pronouns can make trans students feel substantially safer and more likely to succeed in the classroom, a new report shows.

Left: A gloved hand points to barnacles and other organisms covering a sea turtle's shell. Right: A close-up of a barnacle on a shell.

This sea turtle had an incredible 92-day recovery. See the day she finally got her barnacles removed

Syrena made headlines last year when she was rescued from the Gulf of Mexico, barely able to swim. Now, her rescuer is sharing never-before-seen clips from her incredible recovery.

Two California condors perch on a metal railing overlooking a vast valley landscape with mountains, farmland, and scattered development below. Text overlay shows "ALERTCalifornia" and "UCSan Diego" logos with timestamp and coordinate information.

California condors are critically endangered and hard to spot in the wild. Two just photobombed a trail camera

ALERTCalifornia has over 1,200 cameras set up across the state to monitor wildfires. Two condors took an interest in one trail camera high above a mountaintop.

Three people smile at a kitchen counter with packaged foods, bottles, and bowls visible.

Startup matches college students in need of housing with boomer homeowners who have rooms to spare

Students trade their time to support retired homeowners who need a little extra help. In exchange, they have a cheap place to stay.

A wooden pier extends into blue-green water beneath a sign reading "THE PORT OF NEWPORT PUBLIC FISHING PIER" with a crab illustration. A steel bridge spans the water to the left, with forested hills and residential buildings visible across the water.

Humpback whale entanglements are on the rise. Oregon is trying innovative 'rope-free crab traps' to help

Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopts new rules to enforce vessel monitoring system and to begin testing pop-up gear in state’s Dungeness crab fishery.

Left: An orange and white cat wearing a black visor and holding a blue and yellow toy in its mouth, looking directly at the camera. Right: Two orange and white cats sitting together on a checkered blanket, both looking at the camera with wide eyes.

Two disabled cats are going viral for beating all the odds: '5.5 half legs, three claws, two crooked tails, one titanium skull'

Oliver, the cat with the “titanium” skull, is going viral on social media three years after his harrowing brain surgery.