News outlet expands team and shares uplifting stories including restaurant's kindness to dying dog owner and teen hockey player's miraculous recovery.
By Aaron Parnas•October 12, 2025•6 min read
Good News
Happy Sunday, everyone, and welcome to our weekly dose of good news only. In a world that often feels heavy with negativity, take a moment this morning to breathe, reset, and remember: there is good out there. More uplifting stories are coming your way this afternoon, but for now, grab your coffee and start your day with a little hope.
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With that, here’s some good news:
When a Missouri man ordered his terminally ill dog Bella a final steak from Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, the restaurant’s staff gave him the meal for free, added a heartfelt signed card, and later sent a care package—an act of compassion that touched millions online.
After a medical helicopter crashed on Highway 50 near Sacramento, over a dozen motorists heroically lifted part of the wreckage to free a trapped nurse, saving lives before first responders arrived—an act witnesses called “truly amazing.”
In Australia, a man was stunned to find his Golden Retriever giving a baby koala a piggyback ride after it fell from a tree, a heartwarming moment of cross-species kindness that ended with the joey safely reunited with its mother.
After suffering a devastating spinal cord injury that doctors said would leave him paralyzed, Minnesota teen hockey player Jackson Drum defied the odds—regaining movement, breathing on his own, and returning to the rink just nine months later in what his family calls a “one-in-a-trillion” recovery.
Bay scallops have returned to Virginia’s Eastern Shore after nearly a century of local extinction, thanks to large-scale seagrass restoration led by William & Mary and VIMS, with populations now booming so rapidly that they may soon support a recreational fishery.
A New York wildlife rehabilitator successfully performed what’s believed to be the first butterfly wing transplant, using a donor monarch’s wing to save an injured one—an intricate procedure that went viral online and inspired millions worldwide.
In a historic medical breakthrough, scientists have successfully slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease for the first time using a one-time gene therapy called AMT-130 — reducing disease advancement by 75% over three years and offering hope that the fatal brain disorder may finally be treatable.
Renewable energy sources, led by solar and wind, have surpassed coal as the world’s largest source of electricity for the first time, meeting 100% of new global power demand in early 2025 thanks to record-low solar costs and massive expansion in developing countries such as China and Pakistan.
After years of instability and homelessness, Florida social worker Ana Duarte gave her 64-year-old mother, Anette, the master bedroom in her new apartment — the first room her mother has ever had to herself. Ana, the first in her family to graduate college, said she wanted to offer her mother “peace, dignity, and a fresh beginning” after a lifetime of hardship and cramped living conditions.
Nineteen pine martens have been reintroduced to Exmoor National Park for the first time in a century as part of a rewilding effort led by the Devon Wildlife Trust and National Trust, marking a major milestone in restoring the species to southwest England’s woodlands.
A new study using nighttime “blackwater” photography has revealed a surprising form of cooperation between juvenile fish and sea anemones, showing young fish carrying stinging anemones for protection while helping the anemones travel farther — a never-before-seen mutualism that expands scientists’ understanding of marine behavior.
After four decades and $84 million in cleanup efforts, Michigan’s Lake Muskegon has been officially removed from the Great Lakes’ list of polluted “Areas of Concern.” Nearly 200,000 cubic yards of toxic sediment and over 100,000 tons of sawmill waste were cleared, restoring the lake’s ecosystem and transforming it into a hub for recreation, tourism, and local economic growth.
A routine iPhone theft report in London led police to uncover a massive international smuggling ring responsible for exporting up to 40% of the city’s stolen phones, after a victim’s tracking app guided officers to a warehouse holding nearly 900 devices.
Bat populations in Wisconsin are bouncing back for the third straight year after being devastated by white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that wiped out millions of cave-dwelling bats across North America. Recent surveys counted more than 25,000 bats across key roosting sites—up by over a thousand from last year—suggesting species like the little brown and tricolored bats are adapting by reducing fungal buildup on their bodies.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Omar Yaghi, and Susumu Kitagawa for creating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)—porous materials with vast internal surface areas capable of storing gases and chemicals—hailed as a “Hermione’s handbag” innovation for holding enormous amounts in tiny spaces.
MIT scientists developed a new conductive “ec³” concrete that can store and release electrical energy, potentially turning buildings, roads, and bridges into massive energy storage systems by integrating nanocarbon networks and electrolytes directly into the concrete mix.
Swiss company Panatere unveiled the world’s first solar-powered steel recycling furnaces, using 500 mirrors to concentrate sunlight to 2,000°C—melting steel in under two hours and aiming to produce 1,000 tons of fossil-free “solar steel” annually by 2028.
Spanish researchers discovered a 650-year-old straw sandal and other ancient artifacts in a bearded vulture nest, revealing centuries of nest reuse and offering new insights into the species’ history and ecosystem preservation.
