First River Otter Spotted in the Bronx in 100 Years Along the Bronx River

Seattle’s newest and weirdest local celebrity is a stubby mutant raccoon named Jimothy

What went right this week: wins for health and high seas, plus more

White Storks Make Historic Return to the English Midlands After 600-year Absence

Threatened Bird Species Given Tiny Foot Casts to Help Recovery After Hit by Car

First Wild Beaver Born in Staffordshire for More Than 400 Years

270,000 Square Miles Around Easter Island to Become Indigenous-Managed Ocean Reserve

Good News in History, August 17

Good News in History, August 16

Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation

A controversial scientist created a ‘utopia’ for mice. 19 months in, it all went haywire.

California Creek Restoration Helps Young Salmon Grow Twice as Fast—And Doubles Their Survival Rate

A Real Rockin’ Horse: Music Tames a Rescue Foal Who Learns to ‘Play’ Instruments for Album Debut

Here's Why These Male Spiders Sacrifice Themselves by Somersaulting Into Females' Fangs While Mating

Rescued Orangutans Released Into Isolated Forest Are Now Raising Babies, Creating New Wild Population

Five Endangered Secretarybird Chicks Hatch in Major Conservation First

Ospreys Recover Thanks to ‘Pioneering Pairs’ Who Nest Away From Main Population

Surf’s Up for Pups at World Dog Surfing Championship Where Rosie Leads the Pack (Video)

Cat Named ‘Toast’ Survives Intense Heat of 4-Alarm Fire By Hiding in Closet

Guard Becomes Celebrity Making Mini Statues For Each Event at Virginia Tech As Free Giveaways

Duck Becomes Emotional Support Animal That Unexpectedly Heals a Golden Retriever (WATCH)

Fishing Guide Dials 911 for Entangled Manatee, Leading to Rescue While Calf Watches

Good News in History, August 11

Great Barrier Reef’s Recovery From Bleaching is Aided by Monsoon

Europe removed a record 602 river barriers last year

Toronto Zoo Celebrates Birth of Endangered Pygmy Hippo – The Pictures and Video are Adorable

When Zoo Elephants Are Rewilded in Africa, Here’s How Good Their Coping Skills Are

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Earth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More Than Three Times as Many as Previously Thought, a Study Suggests

Intricate Carvings in Ostrich Eggshells are 60,000 Years Old – and Reveal ‘Remarkable’ Human Thinking

Leo DiCaprio Launches $200M Project to Bring 100 Most Threatened Species Back From the Brink

Blind Dressage Horse Wins Competitions By Using ‘Equine Braille’

Once Gone From Ireland, Majestic Sea Eagles Continue Their Comeback with Rare New Chick

Loggerhead Sea Turtles Break Nest Record in Georgia – The Most in 37 Years

The Tiger Returns to Kazakhstan in First-in-the-World Rewilding Project a Decade in the Making

These Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here's How the Cells Don't Become a Tangled Mess

‘Like a Moody Punk Rocker,’ the Red Handfish is National Geographic’s 18,000th Species Photographed

SeaWorld Completes Largest Captive Whale Transportation Operation in Nation’s History

Podcast Transcript June 5th, 2026— Pancreatic cancer cracked, hepatitis B cleared, and wild mice who run for joy

Okefenokee Swamp Clinches World Heritage Status, Joining Ranks of Top Natural Wonders

Locals Succeed in Tripling Protected Seascapes Along 300 Miles of Turkiye’s Breathtaking Coastline

Best Friends Forever: Rescue Greyhounds Search for a Home Together After Heartwarming Battersea Bond

Longest Predator Exclusion Fence in the Pacific Protects Thousands of Ground-Nesting Seabirds

New Images Capture the Oldest-Known Sunda Clouded Leopard–an 8-yo Huntress with All Her Teeth

How shark tracking data shaped Papua New Guinea’s ocean sanctuary

Do-Good Doggies Fight Invasive Mussels on Team ‘Conservation Canines’

Chihuahua Won’t Stop Pawing at Her Until Owner Finds the Breast Cancer She Smelled

World’s Oldest Cat Drinks Only Spring Water as She Celebrates 31 Years Old

Lynx Rescued in War-torn Ukraine Walks on Grass for the First Time (WATCH)

Blowing Bubbles Allows Sperm Whales to Sleep Soundly Beneath the Waves, Reveals Study

Organizations Rally to Reunite Lost Pets with Owners Following Earthquake in Japan

The World’s First Giant Anteater Reintroduction Appears to Be Succeeding in Brazil

American Bald Eagle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Can Apes Play Pretend? What Scientists Learned From Having Imaginary 'Tea Parties' With Kanzi the Bonobo

Heading to a National Park? Watch Out for Elk. They Attack People Way More Often Than Bears Do, According to a New Study

It’s a Record Breeding Year for National Bird of Serbia: The Eastern Imperial Eagle

These 12 Popular Dog Breeds Are at Risk of Breathing Problems Related to Their Short Snouts, a New Study Suggests

Volunteers’ Tiny Bamboo Bridges Have Helped Double Migratory Crab Populations on Taiwan

Podcast Transcript March 20, 2026— From psilocybin to ocean robots: 10 solutions you’ll actually want to hear about

Vanished Hornbill Species is Breeding Again Among the Old Trees After 60 Years

Celebrating Good News of 2024

Santa's Son Steps into His Father's Boots

Women Will Have a League of Their Own... Again

Stephen Knight Named 2024 CNN Hero of the Year

From Ashes to Art: Notre Dame’s Revival

Elevate Prize Foundation to Match Donations for Top 5 CNN Heroes Up to $50K Each and Present $100K to CNN Hero of the Year

Bradley Cooper, Pedro Pascal, Oprah Winfrey, Misty Copeland, Zachary Quinto, Danai Gurira to Present Honors in the 18th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute

Would You Bust a Move for A Free Cup of Coffee?

Betty White Gets a Stamp

Move Over Moo Deng: Meet Scotland’s New Baby Hippo

An Athlete with Terminal Cancer Tackles an Ironman

The Runner with the Streak to Beat at the NYC Marathon

Top 5 CNN Heroes to Be Honored at the 18th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute Hosted by Anderson Cooper and Laura Coates

Top 5 CNN Heroes of 2024

Mozart Dropped a New Single

A Big Baby Penguin with an Even Bigger Following

A New View of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’

A Woman Bikes 700 Miles to Honor Her Late Brother’s Memory

MLB All-Star Joins Backyard Wiffle Ball Game

TikTok Says This Car Dealership’s Videos Are Emmy-Worthy

Why This Olympics Marks a Big Moment for Women’s Sports

All Aboard the Googly-Eyed Train

We Can Sip Wine Because the Dinosaurs Died

America’s Best Towns to Visit

Irish Kids’ Rap Song is ‘The Spark’ You Need

A Chicago Teen Earns a Doctorate Degree

Can Bacteria be the Future of Fashion?

Why We Should Be Buzzing About the Bees

What if we Could Speak to Whales?

The Island Where Goats Outnumber People

Hundreds of Couples Are Eloping During the Eclipse

A Happy Ending for a Furry Wedding Crasher

Dapper Day, ‘Assume I Can,’ March Meowness & more

Sailing into history, surprise wedding, luck of the Irish & more

Dr. Kwane Stewart Named 2023 CNN Hero of the Year

Edie Falco and Sterling K. Brown Join Star-Studded CNN Heroes Presenter Lineup

The West Faces Snow Drought

NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way

A Winter Blanket Covers North Carolina

The Year's First Bright Supermoon and the Colorful Quadrantid Meteor Shower Coincide This Weekend

Hundreds of Mysterious Victorian-Era Shoes Are Washing Up on a Beach in Wales. Nobody Knows Where They Came From

U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Wounds

New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor

By Collecting Whale Breath, Researchers Detected a Deadly Virus in the Arctic for the First Time

Claude Monet Painted This Palace Overlooking Venice's Grand Canal. Now, the Legendary Mansion Is Officially for Sale

Meet the National Zoo’s Adorable 1-Month-Old Sloth Bear Cubs—the First Born There in More Than a Decade

Many Americans Will Soon Have Access to At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Tests at No Cost

Man Arrested in Connection With Theft of Sword From Historic Joan of Arc Statue in Paris

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient War Trumpet That Once Struck Fear in the Hearts of Enemies on the Battlefield

See the Record-Breaking Bluefin Tuna the Size of a Grizzly Bear That Sold for $3.2 Million at a Tokyo Fish Market

Eating Large Amounts of Certain Preservatives Might Increase Your Risk of Developing Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes

This Mysterious Gas Cloud Spotted Around a Dead Star Is Beautiful—but Astronomers Say It Shouldn’t Be There

New Livestream Tour Takes Tourists Underneath Rome Into Never-Before-Seen ‘House of Griffins’

All Nine of Jan van Eyck's Surviving Portraits Are Coming Together for the Very First Time in History

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death

This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide

Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Within the Iconic Ring Nebula

This Detachable Robotic Hand Can Scurry Around and Grasp Objects Just Like Thing From the Addams Family

See How These Wristwatches Reimagine Famous Masterpieces by Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas and Paul Klee

United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

Frida Kahlo's Image Is on Paintings, Posters, Socks and Sanitary Pads. How Did Fridamania Come to Dominate Popular Culture?

Why Do These Tudor-Era Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I Look So Strikingly Similar?

See How Alex Honnold Climbed a Dizzying 1,667-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Without Ropes

You Can Buy This 438-Year-Old Mill in Wales That Inspired a Stunning J.M.W. Turner Painting

Beach Erosion Reveals Fragments of a 136-Year-Old Shipwreck That Sank in New Jersey's 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

Dozens of Items That Once Belonged to Nelson Mandela Can Head to Auction, South African Court Rules

Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils, Leading to the First Excavation at One Site in More Than a Century

'Rising Star' of a Prominent Yellowstone Wolf Pack Was Illegally Killed, Sparking a Poaching Investigation

A New App Can Match Footprints to the Dinosaurs That Made Them

Snow Drought Hits the Western United States, Worrying Experts About the Region's Water Supply

'Golden' From 'KPop Demon Hunters' Just Won K-Pop's Very First Grammy

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

A.I. Could Help Doctors Spot Hard-to-Detect Signs of Breast Cancer During Routine Screenings, a Clinical Trial Suggests

You Can Buy Jack Kerouac's Early Draft of 'On the Road,' Which He Typed on a 121-Foot-Long Scroll

Is This Copy of a Long-Lost Northern Renaissance Portrait Actually an Original Albrecht Dürer?

Ron Teasley, Pioneering Baseball Player and One of Two Surviving Negro League Veterans, Dies at 99

See the Beauty of Corals, Beehives, Mushrooms and More in These 11 Images From the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards

What Is a Stoat? Learn Five Fun Facts About the Adorable Weasels Chosen as the Olympic Mascots

Hundreds of Tourists Flock to This Instagram-Famous Italian Church Every Day. Locals Are Pushing Back Against Visitors Who Seek the Perfect Photo 'at All Costs'

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Masked Thieves Steal Statue of British Boxer Teddy Baldock From a London Park, Leaving Only His Boots Behind

Couples Have Been Kissing Under the Lovers' Arch in Italy for Years. On Valentine's Day, It Collapsed Into the Sea

A Man Bought a $13 Camera at a Thrift Shop—and Found 70-Year-Old Film Still Inside. Do You Recognize the Faces in the Photos?

Investigators Unravel $12 Million Ticket-Fraud Scheme at the Louvre

NASA Report Reveals the Failures That Left Two Astronauts 'Stranded' on the International Space Station

See the First Known Footage of an Elusive Southern Sleeper Shark Swimming in Antarctica's Near-Freezing Waters

The Oldest State Park in America Is About to Expand

Rare and Original Watercolor Illustrations of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Go Up for Auction