Good News Notes: “Being tipped out of a bucket is not the most dignified way to arrive for a hot date. But if you are a toad, frog, or even a newt, it is probably one of the safest. Every year, as the mating season arrives, countless thousands of them dice with death by crossing…
Month: March 2020
‘Deceptively simple’ process could boost plastics recycling
Good News Notes: “Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to use and versatile that the world is awash in plastic waste. Now researchers from the University of Houston have reported a new method of producing polyolefins—made from hydrocarbons and the most common building block of plastics—structured to address one of…
Cleveland Botanical Garden’s Rainforest Adventure opens Saturday
Good News Notes: “If you’d love to feel as though you are wrapped up in the sights, scents, sounds and textures of the world’s rainforests – from lush, layered foliage to exotic butterflies in flight – Cleveland Botanical Garden is making that happen. The Botanical Garden’s Rainforest Adventure, opening Saturday and running through Sunday, April…
SpaceX will take 3 space tourists in a historic mission to the ISS
Good News Notes: “SpaceX is set to send three private citizens on a flight to the International Space Station. The mission, announced last week, will be hosted by Axiom Space, which has an ultimate end goal of building the world’s first commercial space station. The first mission will send three people to the station in the…
Big leaguers keep drinks flowing for charity
Good News Notes: “Billy Hamilton walked into Wasted Grain in Scottsdale, went behind the bar and started to get a lesson from a bartender. However, this wasn’t Hamilton’s first Celebrity Bartender Night. ‘This year, they’re actually showing us how to bartend and giving us a little lesson, and when I went over there, I said, “I’m…
Therapy dogs bring respite to Ukraine war veterans
Good News Notes: “Ricky, a larger than life golden retriever, wags his tail as he nestles his head on Vasyl’s lap. But still, the war veteran looks tense. Then the dog throws his front paws onto the shoulders of the 47-year-old suffering from post-war trauma, and a smile forms across his face. “This is probably…
A dog passed over at a shelter for five years has finally found a home
Good News Notes: “It took a billboard, social media campaign and more than five years of searching. But doggo Merrick finally found his furrever home. The six-year-old pup had lived at the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City for most of his life, and was the longest resident there. The shelter had tried everything to…
Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and Tom Jones put on a rip-roaring performance for cancer charity concert
Good News Notes: “Some of the biggest names in music stepped out on stage to support The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Singers such as Mick Hucknall and Tom Jones, 79, put on a rip-roaring performance to an adoring crowd in aid of the charity, at the Music For The Marsden 2020 concert at the O2 Arena…
Virginia Mandates 100% Clean Power by 2050
Good News notes: “Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. The Clean Economy Act passed Virginia’s House of Delegates by a 51-45…
New species of gecko has been hiding in plain sight
Good News Notes: “One of the new species, named the plain tree gecko Gehyra gemina, is common on road houses and other buildings from Broome to the Queensland border, yet despite being widely found across northern Australia, the species was undescribed by science until now. Queensland Museum Senior Curator and Griffith University researcher Dr. Paul Oliver…