Fuck Yeah: Awesome News of 2025
Here are all of the wonderful, wild, and weird news stories that made us say, “Fuck yeah,” in 2025.
This past year, a handful of people proved that humankind isn’t totally fucking awful; nature put its foot down and said, “I’m not done yet, damnit,; and people around the world were arrested for the strangest of behaviors.
Here are all of the wonderful, wild, and weird news stories that made us say, “Fuck yeah,” in 2025.
Wonderful
Some very smart scientists in Deutschland created a way to literally patch a broken heart.
In “Fuck Yeah, Earth!” news, a mountain sacred to the Māori was granted personhood. What the fuck does that mean, you ask? It means it will forever be protected from greedy corporate shitheads.
This is a damn cute meet-cute.
In people-aren’t-so-fucking-horrible-after-all news, a 27-year-old with a heart of gold launched an effort to reunite people with their family photographs lost in natural disasters.
Is there anything cuter than an old couple in love?! Damn right. These adorable love birds didn’t even speak the same language when they fell in love 70 years ago.
We can’t help it; we love old people (it’s not a fetish). The invitations an 87-year-old man named Doug sent out for his baller-ass party made headlines.
The airlines did something not totally shitty for a change. Delta delayed the take-off of a flight for 30 minutes so that a young woman whose connection was delayed could see her dying mother one last time. Delta has moved us to tears before, but certainly not for acts of kindness.
A 23-year-old med student survived two weeks lost in the Australian wilderness. We think that everyone can agree that of all the wilderness to be lost in, Australia’s would be the most fucked.
A grocery store in the Yukon recently added to its signage translations of English words into Hän, the traditional language of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. Fuck yeah for language restoration, and ever more fuck yeah for bringing said language into public spaces.
This absolutely heroic mother fucker saved 15 children from a burning school bus.
A dog was trapped on a frozen Canadian lake for 28 hours when a group of neighbors said, “Not on our watch, damnit!”
A small business owner hanging on in a long-dying but beloved industry closes his doors to everyone except for one customer. Our renowned cleverness failed us when trying to write a zingy line to describe this story, but it might be one of our favorite news stories of all time.
In sometimes-people-really-are-the-fucking-best news, 300 people in a small Michigan town formed an assembly line to help a beloved local bookstore move more than 9,000 books to their new location.
This might be our favorite headline ever: 3-legged mini horse fitted with a custom prosthetic leg in groundbreaking rehab case in Minnesota.
A toddler in Arizona escaped his enclosure and wandered through the night, ending up several miles from home in mountain lion territory. If it weren’t for a good boy named Buford, this story would have ended a lot differently.
As lifelong members of the Naughty Dog Fan Club, we have been following Valerie’s journey closely. This little wiener dog survived 529 days in the fucking Australian wilderness — the most wild of all the wildernesses. She was rescued last week after volunteers spent a total of 1,000 hours searching for her.
What was once the biggest pile of shit in the world will soon be resplendent with 50,000 violets.
These smarty-pants scientists discovered a brand-new color. Just when we thought we had seen it all!
This short-and-sweet piece in The Guardian reminds us that humans are, in fact, not the dog shit scum of the Earth – at least not these typically rowdy teenage boys.
In more surprisingly touching teenage boy news, this poor fucking kid who endured the nightmare of his entire family dying in a fell swoop donated a fuck load of money.
Brazilian runner Pedro Arieta did something really, really, really fucking nice during the Boston Marathon.
If you’ve ever had a speculum shoved inside of you to crank your vagina more open than thought humanly possible, this is very welcome news.
These dudes spent 55 days LOST AT FUCKING SEA. We think every sane person has a healthy and deep-seated fear of the ocean.
The National Institute of Health will no longer be torturing beagles for the sake of science.
A dolphin that became stranded in a South Carolina lagoon got the Free Willy treatment.
This absolute badass 26-year-old Frau survived 11 nights in the wild terror that is the Australian bush after sustaining a fucking concussion. At 26 years old, I could barely survive a night out at the bar.
This is just like that one Jason Statham movie where he has to keep his heart rate at a certain level or else it would explode, but much more heartwarming.
The People’s Princess, Pamela Anderson, is selling pickles made from a family recipe to benefit the California Wildlife Center.
These teenagers proved that not all youth are no good hoodlums who only care about Snapchat and rizz!
Amsterdam is building itty-bitty staircases to help cats from getting stuck in the canals.
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In the cutest news ever: a boy who grew up obsessed with trains is now one of the youngest train drivers in the UK. Get this kid on Love on the Spectrum already!
This deaf cat named Mittens went from being a dumpster baby to having a fan club follow her while she struts around on the beach in an itty-bitty little hat.
We’re suspicious how this contest works, but a big ass congrats is in order, Liverpool!
After spending 40 years on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Area of Concern list – which is exactly what it sounds like — a lake in Michigan has been declared free of toxic waste. Take that, corporate polluting fucks! All it took was four decades and $84 million.
That divorce settlement is burning a hole in MacKenzie Scott’s pocket: the philanthropist just donated $50 million big ones to support Native American college students.
Twenty-three Colombian miners who lived our nightmare of being trapped underground were rescued after being stuck in a collapsed mine for 43 hours.
Ireland is making official a universal income program for artists. Those radical bastards!
This guy in Cornwall is turning discarded fishing nets into food for 3D printers, and he’s making a fortune. Someone, wife this man up now.
Inspired by a video of a man and his dog being reunited in the aftermath of the Palisades fire (watch it and try not to cry so hard you vomit, we dare you!), California passed a new law requiring cities and counties to develop plans for retrieving pets from evacuation zones.
Eleanor and Lyle Gittens, the world’s longest married couple, shared their advice for not killing your spouse for breathing too loudly or chewing with their mouth open.
Australia is killing the solar game so fucking hard, it’s thinking about giving everyone free electricity.
This doggy was just trying to make his morning commute! Thank the gods it turned out how it did, because this video could have looked a lot different.
Stories like this remind us that people aren’t so fucking awful after all: a woman in Louisiana went weeks without electricity and heat due to the power company’s stupid no-payment-plan policy. The community pitched in and paid her bill.
When one airline denies a refund to a victim of a mass stabbing, it’s just an opportunity for another airline to dunk on them.
We love old-people weddings. We love old-people-weddings-in-a-pool even more.
This old biddy from the Midwest said, “Fuck it,” and became the oldest person to hike the entirety of the Appalachian Trail. Absolute fucking legend.
This sounds like a vision your brain would make up while in a horrifying state of sleep paralysis, but it’s actually pretty fucking cool: a woman with Parkinson’s played the clarinet while undergoing brain surgery.
Imagine gradually losing your vision and then BOOM! Scientists come up with this wild shit.
Fresh off the dogs-are-the-fucking-best news desk, this nonprofit that provides doggy best friends for veterans at risk for depression and suicide celebrated its 300th adoption.
Kenya overturned a completely fucked law that threatened farmers with PRISON if they shared or sold indigenous seeds.
This totally dope kayak was repatriated to the Inuvialuit people of the Arctic.
Wild
A super pod of dolphins was spotted off the coast of California. You read that right: A SUPER POD OF DOLPHINS.
Two manatee sisters were released back into the wild waters of the Caribbean after being nursed back to health for five years.
Scientists discovered a new dinosaur that had very creepy hands.
In Tanzania, a badass gang of giant rats might turn the tide on illegal wildlife trafficking.
A planned dam to protect the Klabava River in the Czech Republic had been floundering since 2018 until a family of beavers stepped in, did their damn thing, and saved Czech taxpayers tens of millions.
A newly discovered spider is named after conservation Grandaddy Sir David Attenborough.
Bravo to the surely very satisfied journalist who wrote this headline about a wildlife conservation center raising a damn good sum to restore a destroyed deer shelter.
The absolutely drop-dead fucking gorgeous giant pink slug is in its comeback era.
The Smithsonian Magazine published its top pics for its Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest.
Join us in hysterically crying with joy and sadness and wonder and gaze upon this fucking incredible photo of an intimate moment between a baby polar bear and its mama.
Speaking of hysterically crying, a superpod of 2,000 dolphins was spotted splishing and splashing off the California coast.
Four hundred years after being hunted to extinction, British beavers are like, “We’re back, bitches!”
This beautiful squid that kind of looks like a yassified uterus was filmed in its natural environment for the first time in 100 years.
Sea Turtles are back, bitches, and we couldn’t be happier for them.
An endangered pod of orcas welcomed a new behbeh.
An adorable box turtle named Rockalina, who hadn’t been outside in 50 years, finally got to see the sun. We’re not screaming, crying and throwing up, you are!
In more science news, researchers discovered an old-as-fuck fossil containing an insect called a “hell ant.” Don’t worry, they’re extinct.
Screaming, crying, throwing up: A little baby donkey in Scotland has two moms.
We have major FOMO for missing out on this year’s hit Swedish TV show about moose migrating.
In probably the best “taking one for the team” ever, a badass (psycho?) endured 200 poisonous snake bites and more than 700 injections of venom over two decades to pretty much turn his blood into the most powerful anti-venom known to man.
BABY ANIMALS WITH THEIR MOMMIES. Click it. FUCKING CLICK IT.
Scientists discovered that chimps be chatting.
Twenty-eight toadlets (😭😭😭😭😭) who were released into a national park in the UK in 2021 are now all grown up and making sweet sweet love in a remarkable comeback.
We are cheering for this sneakerhead fox in the Grand Tetons, who is building his collection at the expense of campers.
South Korean activists are lobbying to grant bottlenose dolphins personhood to protect them from humans. All we have to say is, fuck yes.
Indonesian authorities rescued more than 1,000 rare birds from being smuggled out of the country.
Colorado is building the world’s largest wildlife crossing bridge, which leads us to a number of questions:
Will animals get annoyed at traffic the same way people do?
Will stereotypes emerge about which animals can’t navigate the bridge well?
The pressure is on for a Sumatran tiger named Dao to save his species, but researchers are hopeful.
Lynx are sooooo back in Northumberland.
Save the bees indeed! Scientists are working their little booties off developing a superfood that will make the honeybees outlive us all.
Chesapeake Bay is getting lit, and we are here for it.
Yeah, these are cute, but we’re adults and don’t need our food products to look like fucking toys. Good for Australia!
National Geographic re-published legend Jane Goodall’s 1963 article about the chimpanzees of Gombe River Game Reserve. It’s a fucking gorgeous article, might be the best piece of conservation journalism of all time, and you should read it right now. RIP to the baddest to ever do it.
In our next life, we want to be this bear.
The tallest tree in the Amazon is giving pick me energy.
When the green sea turtle was approaching extinction, it said, “psych, motherfuckers!” As of last week, these guys are no longer part of the endangered species club.
This town in Newfoundland is campaigning to relocate 30 beluga whales from the horrific prison of an amusement park to an inlet off of the town’s coast. In the name of Raffi, we urge the Canadian government to allow the transfer.
In more sealife news, much like humans do when trying to save their failing marriages, a pod of orcas that hangs out off the coast of Scilly has possibly added a third to the mix. Unlike humans, this is good news for the future survival of the pod.
A three-legged lion named Jacob is living his best life and we are here for it.
A stunning and rare white Iberian lynx decided to strut its stuff for the luckiest amateur photographer on earth.
Lemurs in Madagascar are banging at unprecedented levels.
There are drugs, and then there’s the feeling of spending five years searching for one of the planet’s rarest whales when one day, two of them swim right by your research boat.
The world’s oldest pygmy hippo had a very appropriately themed 52nd birthday.
Remember last week when we linked a story about a town in Canada that was petitioning the government to approve a whale sanctuary off their coastline for more than 30 beluga whales who have been imprisoned in one of those fucking archaic marine life amusement parks?
Well. Word on the street is that the plan was approved, and these whales are one step closer to escaping their current hell. We’ll be celebrating by bumping Baby Beluga for the rest of the weekend.
In omg-that’s-cute-as-hell-news, a teeny tiny crab and a glow-in-the-dark shark were discovered by a group of Aussie scientists exploring the unplumbed depths of the ocean.
English wild beavers are back, baby.
These damn adorable whales are on the up-and-up.
How fast do you think they were going?
Weird
In Canada, six people were charged in connection to the theft of $60,000 worth of…wait for it… butter. We don’t know about you, but we would like to know more. Is there an underground market for stolen butter? Is it run by a group of crazed Julia Child superfans? Are they eating it?! Rubbing it on their bodies?! Inquiring minds want to know.
Who knew fossilized vomit could be so beautiful?
Scientists in Florida are studying bioluminescent assholes.
In this-is-more-relatable-than-we’d-like-to-admit-news, a possum was rushed to the hospital after it ate an entire sheet cake from Costco.
Unless you’re off-grid ala Ted Kazinsky, you’ve certainly seen news reports of a young man being SWALLOWED AND SPIT OUT BY A FUCKING WHALE, but it bears repeating.
A woman in Fukuoka, Japan, went completely batshit off the fucking rails and did the unthinkable. Fortunately, she was apprehended and swiftly brought to justice.
A Polish general was shit-canned after he lost some fucking explosives that were eventually located in an Ikea. AN IKEA.
The story of these dollar store bandits in Florida fills us with both confusion and admiration.
Imagine being the archaeologist on the team assigned to excavating the dog wang.
A beloved weed dealer known locally as “Gandolf” received an outpouring of support after he was arrested for illegally selling the devil’s lettuce.
An attorney in Bangalore bravely fought against annoyingly long movie trailers and emerged triumphant.
We are here for the energy of this parrot in Sweden, who screamed “fuck you!” at firefighters
who rescued him from a tree he was stuck in.
For some unholy fucking reason, last week, Beijing hosted the first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon.
TW: Quicksand. A Lake Michigan beach tried to eat this man. He walked away with a girlfriend.
A man in England unknowingly bought his own car two months after it was stolen.
The Guardian is doing the lord’s work with this article about two historians debating at length about the number of penises featured in a medieval tapestry.
A college student living in Japan was rescued by helicopter last Tuesday after attempting to climb Mt. Fuji, which is currently closed to the public. It turns out he left his cell phone on the mountain. Oops! He returned five days later to find it, only to be rescued AGAIN. This fucking guy!
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We can’t tell if we love this or hate this, but we do love the shit-eating grin in her mugshot.
Nearly a million dollars in dimes spilled all over a Texas highway after a semi-truck crash.
This sea lion likes to get down to sick disco beats, showing researchers in California that human beings are not the only creatures that like to just fucking dance every once in a while.
A tourist in Rome, Vlad-the-Impalered himself.
Cops in Georgia forgot where they left a convicted killer, and panic ensued.
We’re not sure what’s more shocking: the fact that at 55 years old, this woman is smoking meth and somehow still alive, or that that clearly isn’t the first time that raccoon has gotten a hold of that meth pipe.
This poor woman lived everyone’s nightmare as Amazon delivered hundreds of car seat covers to her house for more than a year.
Chimpanzees are sticking things in their butts for fashion. Can relate.
Two hospital employees in New Zealand ended up in the emergency room after their co-worker brought a dosed cake to a potluck.
We fail to see the problem with this.
In an astonishing feat of athleticism and possible alcoholism, a 30-year-old Canadian just won the prestigious Beer Mile World Championship for the fifth time in a row.
In more booze news, popular energy drink Celsius “accidentally” filled some of their cans with vodka, which is either a delightful and unpleasant surprise for unsuspecting customers.
In one of our favorite cases of a skeleton being dug out of a politician’s closet, a video of the deputy leader of the Green Party has resurfaced, showing him trying to use hypnotherapy on a woman to enlarge her breasts. He’s got our vote.
A surgeon in the UK with an insatiable sexual appetite for missing limbs convinced insurers that he needed BOTH of his legs amputated. Now he has no legs and is serving 32 months in prison for fraud.
Taco Bell drive-thru attendant may be the only job safe from AI.
A teaching assistant in South Carolina was arrested for spending one month secretly spraying fart spray in the high school where he worked. He sprayed so much that several students sought medical attention, and the school incurred more than $55K in damages. This man’s mugshot looks like this is exactly his crime.
In other criminal news, a black swan was removed from a small town in England for trying to drown other birds.
A guy in New Jersey hung socks from his trunk to cover his license plate to avoid paying tolls. A for effort, sir.
Portland said, “fuck you!” to the man and got naked.
The rollercoaster from the headline to the second sentence is a lesson in physics.
As if men couldn’t get more disgusting, a subreddit about maximizing loads has nearly 50,000 members.
Now, everyone’s Dad who thinks music just isn’t the same these days can live out their dreams.
We’re guessing this guy was cleaning out his attic and was like, “Ew. I forgot I had this.”
Next time your flight is delayed, remember that it could always be worse.
An eagle tried to use a cat to final destination a driver in North Carolina.
We applaud this prisoner’s determination to defend his rights to bad taste.
This guy just needed a hand helping his son with math homework, and what he got was a mission to save the world and a mental health crisis.
A young woman in Scotland committed to the bit so hardcore, she faked a full-ass pregnancy, complete with a prosthetic bump, fake scans, and one of those creepy as shit real reborn dolls.
Scientists have discovered that while air comes out of our assholes, it can also go in. The discovery has led to a miracle treatment called “rectal oxygen delivery.”
An AI security system in Baltimore is keeping the people safe from Doritos.
Imagine being the officer assigned to waiting for this man to shit out the Fabergé egg.
We’d put money on many IRS employees already being quite familiar with the content.
This might be our new obsession.