Inspirational Profile
For the first time in more than 30 years, black rhinos are back in Zimbabwe's Matusadona National Park — some of them direct descendants of the very animals rangers airlifted out during the 1980s poaching crisis to save the species.
Inspirational Profile
A Bavarian volunteer group used to search meadows on foot for fawns hiding from mowers — finding just 10-15 a year. After adding thermal-imaging drones, they now save 300-350 fawns every single year.
Inspirational Profile
Khari Arnold started taking his infant daughter to their local Atlanta library on a whim — and it grew into "Library Dads," a weekly movement where hundreds of fathers now show up citywide to read with their kids. In under a year it expanded to a second library, with fathers calling it lif
Patriotism
A Riverton, Utah woman filmed a struggling stranger through her airplane window and asked the internet if anyone knew who he was. Nine million views later, Navy veteran James Blair — who kept working the tarmac at John Wayne Airport despite failing knees, to help cover his mother's hospice
Acts of Kindness
Two moon bears and two sun bears, all over 20 years old, spent decades in captivity at a private business in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — until their keeper voluntarily gave them up, no payment asked. Animals Asia carried them 900km to a new sanctuary in Bach Ma National Park and named them
Acts of Kindness
When historic flooding hit Buckhannon, West Virginia, the Whistle Stop Bar & Grille came out untouched. Owner Chantal Ward turned that stroke of luck into a pay-it-forward meal program that's already fed the town thousands of dollars' worth of meals — from a family business her grandparent
Environmental Victories
A creek north of Ukiah, California hadn't seen a baby coho salmon since 1991. Then Pinoleville Pomo Nation water specialist Dakota Perez Gonzalez went snorkeling — and found the first proof in 34 years that the species is coming back.
Children & Education
Sixteen-year-old Elise Raurell noticed her South Florida public school never taught hurricane safety — so she built the class herself. "Storm Smart" is now teaching nearly 500 students how to prepare, all peer-led, student to student.
Scientific Breakthroughs
He spent his childhood in and out of the hospital with sickle cell disease — and got rejected for his pilot's certification because of it. Last month, Daniel Cressy became the first person in the Gulf South functionally cured of the disease through gene therapy, and he's now chasing his pi
Community Heroes
A boat crash threw four people into Montana's Yellowstone River — and left one man being swept downstream. Fourteen-year-old Jory Thomas wasn't a lifeguard or a first responder; he was a ranch kid with a rope, and he caught the man on his first throw.
Scientific Breakthroughs
Mizani, a 12-year-old gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, needed surgery never before performed on a gorilla. Five hours, 20+ specialists, full recovery.
Patriotism
George Klein enlisted in the Navy at 15, right after Pearl Harbor, and served in the Pacific through WWII's worst fighting — but came home to find he'd never been given the medals he earned. Eighty years later, at age 100, his family tracked down their congressman to finally make it right.