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Animal RescueWorld’s Oldest Cat Drinks Only Spring Water as She Celebrates 31 Years OldGood News Network · 3 min readAn Englishman says he lives with the world’s oldest cat—a tortoiseshell born in 1995, making her 31 years-old. The puss named Millie was first owned by Leslie Greenhough’s late wife, who took her in as a 3-month-old kitten. Leslie told SWNS news agency that Millie’s long lifespan is a result of giving her only naturalScience and HealthMathematical model devised to protect bacteriophages without hindering their actionPhys.org Biology · 3 min readA study by researchers in the UAB Department of Mathematics and the Center for Mathematical Research (CRM) presents a model describing the behavior of encapsulated bacteriophages within the gastrointestinal tract. Its objective is to better understand the advantages and limitations of encapsulation and determine under what conditions this strategy can contribute to improving treatment efficacy.Good EarthNew Mexico’s clean energy success storyYale Climate Connections · 3 min readIn just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution. It’s hot. Fans and air conditioners are humming in homes, offices, commercial buildings, and factories.Community WinsThe World’s First Giant Anteater Reintroduction Appears to Be Succeeding in BrazilGood News Network · 3 min readIt’s been almost 20 years since Argentina launched what was at the time the world’s first attempt at reintroducing the giant anteater to a landscape it had disappeared from. 19 years later, and the initiative has been nothing if not successful, with the local population growing from 0 to around 200 individuals. La Fundación RewildingScience and HealthHyundai Partners with Healthy Seas to Turn Scourge ‘GhostNets’ into Floor Mats for CarsGood News Network · 3 min readOff the coast of Catalina Island for 15 years, the fishing vessel Midnight Hour has sat on the ocean floor—its sunken wreckage becoming a tangle of abandoned fishing nets, the kind that drift in the current while trapping debris—and marine life. Good News Network joined divers on the water for a mission to collect theGood EarthOn Brink of Extinction, the Vaquita Porpoise is Being Preserved By Digital ImageGood News Network · 3 min readThe elusive vaquita porpoise swims in the wild only in shallow northern waters of Mexico’s Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez)—and it’s one of the rarest and most endangered marine mammals on Earth. With a wild population numbering as low as ten, the vaquita is perilously close to extinction—an outcome causedHuman KindnessGood News in History, July 25Good News Network · 3 min read” Although many folkie-loving ticket-holders in the audience booed, nothing would stop the leather-clad Dylan from becoming one of rock’s rebel geniuses. WATCH the momentHuman KindnessThe Real Way to Save Bees During a Drought: Expert Corrects Sugar–Water MythGood News Network · 3 min readA British bee scientist recently explained that setting up ‘hydration stations’ for bees doesn’t work, as the commonly-proffered mixture of sugar in water doesn’t revive tired bees at all. Bees need our help, says Dr. Richard Comont, the science manager at Bee Conservation Trust, during a time when both sides of the pond are sufferingGood EarthMapping project helps protect coastal world heritage sites from climate threatsPhys.org Earth · 3 min readA major new digital mapping project could help safeguard some of the world's most important and well-known heritage sites from rising seas, flooding and coastal erosion. Researchers led by scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Durham University and the University of Cape Town have created the Global Coastal Heritage (Glo-CoH) dataset, the first comprehensive digital map of UNESCO World Heritage sites located along coastlines less than 20 meters (66 feet) above sea level.Good EarthLongest Undersea Road to Shorten Travel Times by 5 Hours and Feature ‘Great Hall of Lights’Good News Network · 3 min read1,000 feet below the North Sea, blast after blast brings Norwegian engineers closer and closer to completion of the longest undersea road tunnel on Earth. No one better to do it than Norway either, given that their citizens already built the world’s longest undersea road tunnel: the 9-mile-long Ryfylke. The Rogfast—short for Rogaland Fixed Link—willScience and HealthNew study defines conditions for successful long-term biodiversity net gainPhys.org Biology · 3 min readA new study identifying the ecological conditions needed for biodiversity offsetting to achieve conservation goals could provide important guidance for governments and industries as they expand biodiversity net gain (BNG) and nature restoration policies. The research is published in the journal Conservation Biology.Good EarthHumpback Whale Watching Surges in Brazil Where Population Has Grown 27-fold Since Whaling EndedGood News Network · 3 min readThe population of humpback whales around the world continues to climb ever higher, as do the records for numbers of sightings in single whale-watching seasons. In Brazil’s renowned Guanabara Bay, whale watching trips are becoming popular thanks to an increase in the population of humpbacks from 2,000 in 1986, to around 35,000 today. Every year,Science and Health‘Game-Changing’ Saliva Test Can Diagnose Endometriosis in Days Rather Than YearsGood News Network · 3 min readTwo new rapid tests, EndoSure and Endotest, can drastically reduce the wait time for a proper diagnosis of endometriosis—from an average nine-year wait to just days. The saliva test just approved for use by the UK’s national health system, NHS, is being called “game-changing” by experts in the field of endometriosis. Guidance issued this monthScience and HealthScientists Identify Gene at the Center of Muscular Aging – And How Exercise Defeats itGood News Network · 3 min readRespect cardiologist Dr. ” That’s because it prevents our muscular repair systems from weakening with age, a new study has shown. Beginning in middle age, muscle strength and function graduallyGood EarthGood News in History, July 9Good News Network · 3 min readHappy 70th Birthday to actor Tom Hanks. Known for both his dramatic and comedic roles (Big, A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail), he is one of the most popular film stars in the world—and in 2018 became the highest-grossing actor in the US. Hanks collaborated with director Steven SpielbergCreative JoyArtist Transforms Burned Cars From the LA Fires Into Stained Glass SculpturesMy Modern Met · 3 min readArtist Transforms Burned Cars From the LA Fires Into Stained Glass Sculptures While the LA fires in January 2025 reduced tens of thousands of homes to ash, they also left around 6,000 burned-out cars rusting in driveways across the city. Most were eventually towed away and recycled as scrap, but stained glass artist Ben Tuna (of Glass Cowboy Studio) saw something worth saving.Creative JoyOnce-Forgotten Music Notebook by Mozart Was Discovered in Paris After 230 YearsMy Modern Met · 3 min readOnce-Forgotten Music Notebook by Mozart Was Discovered in Paris After 230 Years Embed from Getty Images Deep in the storerooms of France’s National Library in Paris, curators uncovered a small 44-page notebook that would soon reshape part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s early history.Good EarthA new book aims to change your image of protestYale Climate Connections · 3 min read‘Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It,’ connects centuries of protest movements – from abolition to climate activism – and argues democracy depends on protecting dissent.Creative JoyOver 100 Latin American Artists Converge at This Landmark Exhibition in Monterrey, MexicoMy Modern Met · 3 min readOver 100 Latin American Artists Converge at This Landmark Exhibition in Monterrey, Mexico In 1977, the Garza family, a powerful business dynasty from northern Mexico, donated The Cornfield (Dry Maizefield), a painting by artist Gerardo Murillo (best known as Dr. Atl) depicting an unequivocally Mexican landscape. This gesture kickstarted the FEMSA Collection, today one of the most important assortments of Latin American art.Creative JoyAn Archival Discovery Became a Treasure Map Leading a Diver to a 17th-Century Shipwreck Carrying Coins and Gold JewelrySmithsonian Smart News · 3 min readSee artifacts recovered thanks to a clue about the last resting place of a lost captain from an East India Company ship that went down near the Isles of Scilly