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Archive — Monday, June 22, 2026

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He Was a Shuttle Driver at a Wildlife Refuge. When Three People Got Caught in a Rip Current, He Ran Straight Into the Water.

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Community Wins

30,000 Scottish Fans Descended on Boston for the World Cup. The Videos of What Happened Next Are Going Everywhere. Good News Network

Portland Just Opened a Free Grocery Store the Size of a Small Mall. You Walk In, Pick What Your Family Needs, and Leave. KPTV / Sunshine Division

The 'Civic Hour' Is Changing How People Volunteer — and Cities Are Taking Notice. Reasons to Be Cheerful

Young Women Are Moving Into NYC Convents to Save Money. Rent Is $200 a Week. No Boys After Curfew. Good Good Good

A Community Rallied Around a Woman Stranded in Mexico After She Broke Her Neck. InspireMore

Medical Breakthroughs

A Common Vaccine Has Been Linked to a 24% Lower Risk of Dementia. Researchers Are Already Planning Follow-Up Studies. Science Alert

Geologists Went Digging for Gold. They Found Something the Earth Has Never Shown Us Before. Science Alert

Christian Eriksen's Heart Stopped Again During a Match. A Device the Size of a Matchbox Saved His Life. Science Alert

Around the World

Chile Just Eliminated Leprosy — a Disease That Has Existed Since Ancient Times. PAHO (via r/UpliftingNews)

Twin Boys Born Deaf Heard Their Mother's Voice for the First Time After a Surgery That Had Never Been Done This Way Before. ABC Australia (via r/UpliftingNews)

Conservationists 'ecstatic:' Trail cameras spot one of the world's rarest mammals — with a baby in its pouch Good Good Good

Scientists Just Discovered a Shark That Walks on the Ocean Floor. Nobody Had Ever Seen This Species Before. Good Good Good

Heroes Among Us

Given Just 8 Months to Live, Teen Graduates Cancer-Free 4 Years Later Thanks to Doctor’s Promise Good News Network

Wellbeing

Scientists Found a Way to Read Alzheimer's Risk in a Photo of Your Eye — Years Before Any Symptoms Show. Science Alert

She Wrote This Children's Book Four Decades Ago. This Week, It Finally Hit the Bestseller List. Sunny Skyz

One Brain Chemical May Be the Key to Breaking Any Habit. Scientists Just Identified It. Science Alert

Gallup Asked 2,000 Americans If the People Around Them Are Kind. The Answer May Restore Your Faith. Gallup / Good Good Good

Harvard Tracked 147,000 People for 30 Years. They Found Exactly How Much Exercise Adds Years to Your Life. U.S. News & World Report

Science

The World's Largest Whale Graveyard Is Teeming With Deep-Sea Life — Including Species Nobody Has Ever Named.. Good News Network

A NASA Astronaut Turned the Camera on the Southern Lights From the Space Station. The Footage Stopped People Mid-Scroll. Good News Network / NASA

Butterflies That Eat Pollen Live Dramatically Longer Than Those That Don't. Scientists Want to Know Why. Science Alert

Scientists Mapped the Fungal Networks Under Our Feet and Found 62 Quadrillion Miles Nobody Had Counted. Good News Network

Animals & Pets

A Photographer Just Captured Images of an Animal Scientists Had Written Off as Extinct. InspireMore

Cape Hatteras Is Training Volunteers to Sit With Sea Turtle Nests Through the Night. The Waitlist Is Long. Good Good Good

Scientists Just Counted the Most Right Whale Calves Born in 17 Years. The Number Surprised Everyone. Good News Network

A Sea Turtle Survived the Most Severe Boat Strike Rescuers Had Ever Seen. Then She Made a Full Recovery. Good Good Good

Uplifting Videos

A Bird Started Showing Up at a Woman's Window Every Evening at 5:30 to Sleep Inside Her House. GeoBeats Animals — YouTube

A Military Dad Pulls Off the Best Homecoming Surprise He Was Deployed for a Year. His Kids Had No Idea He Was Coming Home. youtube

Environmental Victories

A Laundry Filter Invented by One Person Is Already Keeping Tons of Microplastics Out of Waterways. Good News Network

Scientists Spent Five Years Without Finding a Single Living White Abalone. Then a Research Team Looked Down. Good News Network

A Phone Case Company Built a Robot That Hunts Plastic Across the Ocean Good News Network

Acts of Kindness

A Stranger Helped Him Survive a Heatstroke a Decade Ago. Now His Convenience Store Signs Are Helping Thousands. Good News Network

Reddit

A Teacher Carried a Paralyzed Student on His Back for an Entire Field Trip So She Wouldn't Miss a Moment. r/BeAmazed

This Dog Quietly Joined the Ice Cream Line and Waited His Turn Like Everyone Else. r/BeAmazed

A German Shepherd Encountered Kittens for the First Time. His Reaction Said Everything. r/MadeMeSmile

Kids Making a Difference

15 Teenagers Were Handed $20,000 and Told to Do Something Good With It. Here's What They Chose. Whig

This Newark High School Has Sent Every Freshman Into the Wilderness for 53 Years Running. Here's Why. CBS News