Today's good news

October 9, 2026

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

A cow-head balloon honors a pilot's late father

Bill Kinser followed his father into ballooning. Now his son

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Cairo, Egypt

A fossil crocodile from Cairo's stone

Researchers renamed a 45-million-year-old gavial from the same rock as

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Playa Veracruz

A hatchery at Playa Veracruz

A community hatchery in Panamá Oeste will take in nests

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Kaliua, Tabora Region

Seedlings for Kaliua forests

Tubes are being filled and seed is going in the

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Seattle, Washington

A paper crane hid a stranger's note

Rika Matsuda kept an origami crane a man folded for

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