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A beaver building a dam

A team of 'human beavers' is creating 29 dams across this national park

The park rangers borrowed inspiration from beavers throughout Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Countryside in Romania: Rolling fields of green with a sky full of clouds behind them.

Rare moose sighting in Romania gives conservationists hope for biodiversity returning to region

In North America, the land mammal is second only in size to the bison.
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A small bird holds a white feather in its beak as it rests on a branch.

Scientists gave endangered birds 'insecticide-sprayed' feathers to help them build new nests. It saved them from a deadly parasite

The forty-spotted pardalote is only found in Australia — and it's in dire need of help.
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Children and adults from the Burned Children Recovery Foundation pose with a fire truck at a summer camp

This burn survivor became a firefighter to help save others. Now he works at a camp for kids like him

Terry McCarty’s childhood accident no longer defines him.
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A photo collage of a building with flags in front of it, a pizza joint, a portrait of Jesse Kortuem smiling, a person inside a CT scan machine with 2 monitors in the foreground, and an aerial view of a church

Good News This Week: January 17, 2026 - Churches, Pizzas, & Teachers

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...
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A brass band performs in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis

Minneapolis brass band founded after George Floyd's murder helps community heal once again

Brass Solidarity meets weekly to spread music, usually at George Floyd Square. But with ICE in the area, their music has a renewed purpose.
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On the left, Keith McHenry, a young bearded white man is arrested in a black and white photo. On the right, an older Keith McHenry leads a protest.

This man has spent over 500 nights in jail. His crime? Feeding homeless communities without a permit

Keith McHenry’s first arrest was on August 15, 1988, when he and eight fellow volunteers were detained at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
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Two photos side by side. On the left is a screenshot of a video of a person speaking outside of Smitten Kitten, a sex shop in Minneapolis. On the right is an aerial view of canned food donations in brown paper bags

Amid ICE crackdown, this Minneapolis sex shop has transformed into a donation center for neighbors in need

Smitten Kitten has become a hub to gather food, personal essentials, and more, for distribution to community members in need.
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A pile of unlabeled uncooked pasta beside unlabeled cans of food and water bottles

New study: food banks divert a whopping 1.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year

Supporting your local food bank doesn’t just help your community — it helps the planet.
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Two college-aged people, a woman and a man, sit in a courtyard, smiling into a notebook

For the third year in a row, college students report lower rates of depression and suicidal thoughts

“These sustained reductions tell me this is not a blip,” one researcher said.
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Two long-tailed long-tailed macaques sit side-by-side in a green forest

Can animals be gay? New study finds that many apes and monkeys are — and it may be a survival advantage

A growing body of research suggests same-sex behavior in nonhuman primates is important to social connections.
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An array of vegan-friendly food on a wooden table, some in small bowls.

Researchers ranked the carbon footprint of six types of diets. Here’s how vegans and vegetarians ranked

Two separate studies pointed to the environmental merits of eating a vegan diet.
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