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At an Oklahoma High School, an unlikely candidate was recently crowned Prom King: Principal Kirk Moore. Moore was recently hailed as a hero by the students after he disarmed a gunmen entering Pauls Va…
Today is the 56th anniversary of Earth Day. Created at a time when water and air pollution were out of control—20 million Americans in colleges, schools, and communities observed the first Earth Day. …
More than 25,000 books are on the way into the hands of underserved residents across New York City and Long Island. They’ll be distributed across the boroughs by Book Fairies a nonprofit that si…
A small but substantial tweak to the treatment regime of bowel cancer demonstrated remarkable improvements in survival almost 3 years after surgery. Changing the kind of drug and the delivery window s…
Employees at a Lowe’s in Pennsylvania were shocked after they went to retrieve a pallet high on a shelf and heard a chorus of frightened mewling. Atop the boxes the pallet held, they discovered …
On April 13th, the world’s oldest gorilla celebrated her birthday with a vegetable feast at the Berlin Zoo. Named Fatou, no one knows how she was taken from her home in Africa, but one story say…
60 years ago marked the first Groundation Day, now celebrated every year on April 21st, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The …
2,100 years ago, famed Roman general and one-time dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla laid siege to a rebellious Pompeii during a lesser-known conflict called the Social War. On the day, Sulla brought alo…
Local but lovely, a historic street in a Florida town is getting a new-old makeover, that will restore the oldie charm and reduce traffic risk for pedestrians. The key to clearing both these hurdles i…
A jury recently decided unanimously that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster were operating as a monopoly, and that this had led to exploitative pricing and promotional contracts with venues. …
40 years ago today, Vladimir Horowitz, one of the world’s greatest pianists, returned to his Russian homeland, after 61 years away, to perform for an emotional audience in his hometown of Moscow…
For most people, Wake Atoll will remind them of a battle, not an island. Well now, 81 years later, another battle has been fought—and won—on Wake: against invasive rats damaging the island ecosystem. …
A nurse who gave up on dating decided to pay for IVF treatment to have a baby on her own, before meeting her soulmate four months later—who became a devoted father. The 39-year-old always dreamed she&…
In an update from a GNN story 15 months ago, this ‘hilariously bad’ artist has raked in thousands from his ‘dad paintings’, after receiving more than 430 commissions from around the world. The 42-year…
6,500 volunteers worked around the clock to build over 10,000 beds in just 24 hours for kids who don’t have one of their own. Inside the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina, Lowe’s sto…
A spunky video captured a popular entertainer leading a ‘day rave’ inside a London senior center—on a mission to combat loneliness. The DJ named AG, who has performed alongside stars like Ed Sheeran a…
251 years ago today, a shot rang out in Lexington, Massachusetts, that’s often called the one “heard round the world.” It marked the start of a skirmish leading to the American Revol…
A woman was dubbed a heroine after she rescued an injured seagull that had been stuck in fishing line for more than five hours near the Irish Sea. Dramatic photos show Lorraine Bullar swimming out 50 …
Maryland is set to become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail grocery stores, after the legislature last week passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Also known as dynam…
A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history—and answering a decades-old scientific mystery. Lystrosaurus, a hardy, plant-eating mammal ances…
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astr…
251 years ago, Paul Revere, who was 40 years old at the time, a respected craftsman and father of 16 children, rode with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, galloping through the countryside of colonia…
Challenging a 50-year-old narrative about Hawaii’s native birds, a new study from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa found no scientific evidence that indigenous people hunted waterbird species to exti…
For this hefty long-haired cat, no amount of attention seems to be enough for his new public relations role. Named Isambard Kitten Brunel after the famous British industrialist, the cat is called Issy…
“I can’t believe Deep Purple are here,” swooned the hard-rock drummer Sanae Takaichi, whom readers may know from her other job—the Prime Minister of Japan. Indeed, the aged rockers were in Japan…
Rescuers in Australia were able to save a humpback whale after becoming stranded on a sandbar during its migration. The 10-ton marine giant was freed and guided back into the ocean off Forster, New So…
62 years ago today, Americans got their first glimpse of Ford’s new sporty car. The Mustang first appeared in showrooms at the 1964 World Fair in New York City for a retail price of $2,368 (equi…
Saunas are all the rage these days for exercise recovery and longevity, because the increased ambient heat triggers a cascade of effects in the body that can lower blood pressure and reduce inflammati…
3 years ago, the last non-domesticated species of horse was reintroduced into a Spanish woodland in the hopes they would act upon the land as wild equines had done for thousands of years. The Iberian …
In 2022 during a conceptual bid to improve library access, Chicago Public Schools thought they’d see whether teens would be more likely to use the library if their school ID doubled as a library…
A Chinese conglomerate that controls 37% of global market for EV batteries has recently said it will “spare no effort” to electrify parts of the marine shipping industry. The costs of lith…
108 years ago today, Xuan Hua, also known by the dharma name An Tzu, was born. Xuan Hua founded The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, and the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, bringi…
Though overall levels remain high, the number of pedestrians killed by motorists in the US fell nearly 11% over the first 6 months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Data from the Governors …
In Rio de Janeiro’s largest urban park, the tumult of the city can subside to the faintest murmur among the thick Atlantic Forest ecosystem remnant. It’s here that ecologists have reintrod…
Just weeks ago, a jaguar was captured on camera in Honduras’ Sierra del Merendón mountain range for the first time in a decade as part of high-tech monitoring and conservation efforts from Panth…
Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams – using acid recovered from old …
79 years ago today, years before the Civil Rights Movement gained prominence in the news, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier becoming the first black player on any Major League Baseb…
From New York comes the story of a restaurant owner who shelved his Easter plans to fulfill a dying man’s last wish. Jokingly described as looking like “a big, bad biker guy” by his …
  Without any fanfare from either party, it was recently revealed that Mozambique cleared its entire $701 million debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The news comes as a meeting betw…
It’s a simple story of well-rooted love, nurtured year after year, blooming, and producing fruit—but the latest chapter has social media entranced. High school sweethearts Kelsey Dixon and her now-hus…
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an astrosphere—…
87 years ago today, John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath was published, a story he wrote after interviewing displaced migrants who escaped the Dust Bowl (a period of…
A golden helmet belonging to an ancient Romanian culture holding “inestimable value” was recovered after it was stolen in January from a Museum where it was on loan. A museum director soug…
Preparatory archaeology work at an English wind farm development site has turned up two incredible discoveries. The first was a Roman villa and bathhouse, and the second was a Neolithic burial mound. …
An Alaska district court judge has ruled against a coalition of logging interests looking to get their saws on Tongass National Forest’s old growth timber stands. As the nation’s largest n…
With the Earth having welcomed the month of April with a full Moon, several celestial events will follow that promise to provide a perfect reason to get out into the shortening spring nights. Chief am…
‘Southern California is home to a black-and-yellow flying treasure’, wrote scientists giddy over good news about bee populations—and our food supply. Commercial honeybee hives across the US have been …
His songs are born inside the imagination of a three-year-old girl. But thanks to her music-teacher father, the songs—like, Purple Bear Princess—are enjoying a long life on social media, becoming vira…
Beautiful portraits are showcasing the twelve species of hand-reared birds that are being touted among the largest collection of owls in the world—over 150 raptors in total. Ranging in age from 1-19 y…
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s stunning coastline will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water to their destinations. A Norwegian leader in sustainable tra…
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“The only advice I can give to young people is the advice my mother gave to me, because I can’t think of anything better,” Jane Goodall shared from her seat under a tree in Arusha, Tanzania, las…
When’s the last time you walked barefoot in the dirt or lay in the cool grass staring at the sky? In childhood, that was just part of everyday life. In adulthood, it has a name — earthing — and there’…
This article was written by Laela Sayigh, a senior research specialist, cetacean communication at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for The Conversation — a nonprofit news organization dedicated t…
When you think of volunteering, you likely picture someone ladling up hearty bowls of soup at a food pantry or caring for pups at an animal shelter. But while these are among the most popular opportun…
This article was written by Benjamin F. Henwood, a professor of social policy and health at the University of Southern California, for The Conversation — a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sha…
What will it take to build a better future? According to TED2026, everyone — which is why “All of Us” was this year’s theme. The weeklong conference, held April 13-17 in Vancouver, Canada, assembled s…
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In 2016, wild cat conservation organization Panthera recorded a jaguar for the first time in the Merendón Mountains between Honduras and Guatemala. A decade then passed with no camera sighting of the …
Our human footprint on national parks is undeniable: a crushed can littering the ground in Denali, a lone flip-flop left behind in Zion. Trash sullies these sights of natural beauty, but eco-artist Ma…
The outdoor area at Yarm Wellness will officially open to the public on Saturday.
"I want to tackle loneliness and we feel like this group can do that," the organisation's founder says.
The Hospice in the Weald in Pembury runs the sessions for people with life-limiting conditions.
New Bedford Community Heroes to Be Honored at Annual Award Ceremony New Bedford Guide
Working together to save lives at suicide awareness event Times.co.nz
Unsung heroes celebrated for their 'kindness and commitment' at awards ceremony Dudleynews.co.uk
CIBC Caribbean boosts prize money as it searches for Unsung Heroes Barbados Today