Good News

What could bring Syrian refugees, Sudanese migrants and marginalised Lebanese around the same table in Beirut? The threat of eviction – and the housing rights project trying to prevent it.

As we rounded out the year 2021, we're looking back on the best good news stories from December. While this year or this month have been filled with heartbreak, pain, and injustice — there have still been so many stories worth celebrating.

Although there are many more cars on the road today, vehicle fatalities are significantly lower than they were 60 years ago.

Las Cruces will have women representing all of its city council seats. It joins a short list of all-women governing bodies.

A Rhode Island brewery is capturing carbon and putting it right back into their beer — as an environmentally-friendly alternative to purchasing C02. This technology is now becoming a growing trend.

The ultimate list of the best good news stories from the year 2021.

Survival rates were higher in Congo than in previous outbreaks — thanks to a new vaccine, more effective treatments, and survivors seeking to help their communities

A Chicago effort to plant 75,000 new trees aims to identify areas in greatest need of additional tree cover and prioritize restoring a green canopy in these under-resourced neighborhoods disproportionately affected by climate change.

A group of women in rural El Salvador is standing up against a major infrastructure project that threatens to clear hundreds of hectares of forest and cut off access to rivers that provide the community with clean drinking water.

The result could solve two problems at once - the increasing demand for fish protein, and the emission of a harmful greenhouse gas

The world has experienced a 59% decline in the deaths of children younger than five years since 1990. New mortality estimates indicate that the largest drop was in 2019, when global under-five deaths were reduced to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990.

Lesbian and gay couples celebrated in Chile after winning a decades-long fight for the right to wed, joining more than 20 other nations that have legalized same-sex marriage.