Good News

Seeing someone do something good for someone else motivates people to perform their own helpful acts, researchers report. We all have the power to create a chain reaction of good.

Revolutionary stem cell treatment offers hope of 'functional cure' for people living with HIV.

Throughout the pandemic, local neighborhoods — especially gay neighborhoods — have played a critical and well-documented role providing the health and social services necessary for American communities and businesses to survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new type of cooling cube could revolutionize how food is kept cold and shipped fresh without relying on ice or traditional cooling packs — free from waste and mold.

Nepal is the only country on track to meet a 2022 pledge to double its wild tiger population from a 2010 baseline.‍ Key to the growing tiger population is the combination of a tough anti-poaching approach and close engagement with communities living near tiger habitats.

One of the most innovative projects now underway may be WildEast, which ambitiously hopes to rewild an area more than three times the size of New York City, creating interconnecting wild corridors across East Anglia, the country’s most intensely farmed region.

Brooklyn-based Fabscrap hopes to sign up 20 to 25 brands to recycle textile waste in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and southern New Jersey areas over the next year.

Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo, said she is 'proud to be in a position' to start with a term offensive to Indigenous women on 650 different places on federal land.

Milan launched a new Food Policy aimed at creating a more sustainable food system, involving local players such as the city’s research centers, institutions, private sector and NGOs as much as possible.

With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks.

Uninhabited Poilão Island in Guinea-Bissau is Africa’s most important nesting ground for green sea turtles. Researchers and local people now work together to study the turtles with the aim of better protecting them.

Coral Catch Gili Air recently received a grant to fund an all-women conservation team to train women from all over Indonesia how to plant, breed, graft, and garden corals.