• New HIV infections fell by 40% between 2010 and 2024. WHO.
• Gambia reports 46% drop in malaria cases in a single year. The Voice.
• South Korea cut stroke deaths by more than 80%. The Formula.
• Oklahoma is now the 17th state in the United States to ban child marriage. Oklahoma Voice.
• South Africa’s share of people living below the food poverty line fell from 27.4% in 2006 to 17.6% in 2023. The Citizen.
• China’s transition away from oil has cut PM2.5 concentrations by 23.8% and carbon monoxide by 30.7% across 150 cities, preventing an estimated 262,000 deaths. Nature.
• China added a Germany-sized electricity grid last year. Almost all of it came from low-carbon sources. Our World in Data.
• A modified algae is a ‘little vacuum’ for microplastics. Nebraska Public Media.

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• Colombia’s multidimensional poverty rate has dropped from 29.7% in 2010 to 9.9% last year. Colombia Reports.
• Violent crime rates continue to plunge in America’s big cities. Axios.
• Australia, the first ever country to roll out a national HPV vaccination program, is now seeing zero cervical cancer in women under 25. BBC.
• Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation has successfully achieved rape kit reform in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. People.
• Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began. CarbonBrief.

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• Maternal and neonatal tetanus eliminated in South Sudan and Sudan. Unicef.
• Jamaica’s murder rate dropped 40% compared to the previous year. The Gleaner.
• The worldwide teen pregnancy rate has fallen by over one-third since 2000. Our World in Data.
• European Parliament backs EU-wide conversion therapy ban. Washington Blade.
• India went from 15% to 70% Internet access in a decade, mostly through mobile phones. Our World in Data.
• AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer up to three years before tumors develop. NBC News.

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• Australia becomes the 30th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. WHO.
• In Burkina Faso between 2024 and 2025 malaria cases fell by 32% and malaria‑related deaths by 44% thanks to vaccines. Gavi.
• The rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent thanks to new 988 hotline. The New York Times.
• By reducing electricity prices, solar has saved Europe over €3 billion since March. Euronews.
• CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries. Financial Times.
• High school student’s low-cost teabag solution for millions threatened by arsenic passes peer review. IFL Science.
• New research finds pressurized iron-rich brine beneath Taylor Glacier powers Antarctica’s mysterious Blood Falls. The Science Times.

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• The global suicide rate has fallen 40% since the 1990s. Our World in Data.
• In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month. Canary Media.
• Five “missing” bird species rediscovered in 2025. Mongabay.
• Researchers have found that even a short break from your phone yields substantial benefits: improved attention equivalent to erasing a decade’s worth of age-related cognitive decline and a more significant effect on depression than that produced by antidepressants. The Washington Post.

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