With all of the chaos in today’s world, many forget that there is a lot of good news.  This article plans to focus on some of the awesome events happening in the world as a reminder that there is still positivity around us.

The first story centers around Erica Hart, a woman in the United Kingdom who tracks down dogs and reunites them with their owners.   Utilizing drones and thermal vision, she has helped find over 330 lost dogs.  Additionally, she insists on doing this work for free.
“I do everything for the love of dogs.  Imagine not seeing your mum for 10 years and then seeing her all of a sudden—it is that feeling,” said Hart in an interview with Good News Network.

“As a dog owner, I think that it’s great that these lost dogs found their homes.  If I lost my dog, I would be very upset.  Luckily, there is someone out there kind enough to help retrieve these dogs who have gone astray,” said junior Tilden Vaezi.

In recent medical news, a study published by researchers found that improving physical fitness with cardio may cut prostate cancer risk by more than a third.  Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in American males.  Around 35,000 men die in the United States from prostate cancer and nearly 300,000 develop the disease each year.   The study’s findings can help save thousands of people worldwide annually.

“ I am on the Port Rowing team and we do a lot of cardio.  It’s good to hear that I am at less of a risk of prostate cancer because of this,” said junior Andrew Swenson.

In other news, a special police unit in Britain has tracked down $27 million in stolen cars including crates full of snagged luxury vehicles.  The Essex-based Stolen Vehicle Intelligence Unit (SVIU) specializes in recovering stolen cars and using the evidence to inform future searches of missing cars.  In December 2023 alone, the team retrieved more than one million euros worth of vehicles, including a Range Rover belonging to a Premier League soccer player.  When the cars are stolen, the thieves can transport them to regions such as Africa or the Middle East, and sell them for double or triple their prices in Europe.

“We have to ensure that thieves never get their way to limit future theft and make the world a better place.  We have to teach these thieves a lesson to change their way of thinking,” said junior Benjamin Ollendorff.

Recently, a video has surfaced on the internet of a black labrador rescuing a drowning fawn.  In the video, it appears that the creature saving the fawn is an alligator.  However, the creature is a labrador retriever who helped the fawn out of the water, saving its life.  

In addition, NASA released 13 beautiful pictures of spiral galaxies taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.   With the help of the James Webb Space Telescopes, the photos were able to even depict infrared light,  a frequency that th ehuman eye cannot detect.  These photos, which were a team effort between over 150 astronomers worldwide, are an amazing representation of how vast space is as well as how beautiful it can be.   

The last segment of good news includes an ancient lake sediment that has built excitement for evidence of life on Mars.  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbitor, also known as the MRO, was an integral part of this discovery.   For the past 20 years, the MRO has been traveling around Mars to find signs of life as well as a safe landing site.   With this new information, it is safe to say that if life ever existed on Mars, then this lake sediment found within the crater could hold traces of this.  

“As an aspiring astrophysicist, it is interesting to see that there is a chance that life on Mars once existed.  I am surprised by this evidence and hope it proves to be true,” said junior Leo Herman.