• Four billion people live in a democracy today, up from 106 million in 1945. Our World in Data.
• Six years after the pandemic, we have personalized mRNA vaccines for cancer. New York Times.
• Electricity generation from renewables is set to overtake coal-fired output in 2026. IEA.
• In less than three years, Uganda has provided access to electricity to well over a million people. World Bank.
• Mozambique’s Marracuene district saw its worst flood in living memory in January 2026, yet nobody died thanks to drones. African Development Bank Group.
• The prevalence rate of malaria in Nigeria fell from 42 per cent in 2010 to 15.2 per cent in 2025. The Guardian.
• California’s Senate has voted unanimously to end child marriage. Hoodline.

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• Malaria prevalence in Zanzibar has declined from about 40 per cent to 0.04 per cent over the past 25 years, bringing the islands close to elimination. Daily News.
• In Laos, the national poverty rate fell from 24.6% in 2012 to 15% in 2024. About 500,000 fewer people live in poverty than a decade ago, despite population growth. World Bank Group.
• England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C. BBC.
• 2025 had biggest violent-crime drop in 90 years in the United States. Axios.
• Electric car sales are now expected to reach 29% of total car sales worldwide in 2026. IEA.
• Solar just eclipsed all other electricity sources for the first time ever in Utah. Good Good Good.
• Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh almost single-handedly saved a species of primate, doubling its population since 2013. CNN.

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• Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the month of May 2026 totaled 5.0 billion tons CO₂e. This represents a decrease of 0.1% vs. May 2025. Climate Trace.
• 67,000 people are lifted out of extreme poverty in India every day. The Progress Network.
• FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, which causes 27% fewer flu cases. AP.
• Since 2010, new HIV infections have fallen by 42% and AIDS-related deaths by 57%. WHO.
• First same-sex civil marriage in Bolivia. DW.
• New Mexico flipped the state’s electricity supply from majority fossil fuels to majority renewables in just five years. And electricity prices remained cheaper than average. Yale Climate Connections.
• Americans use less energy than fifty years ago. Visual Capitalist.
• Tigers in India have more than doubled since 1972. Mongabay.

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• The global rate of road traffic deaths declined by 21% between 2011 and 2025. WHO.
• 14 million less people were affected by hunger in 2025 than 2024. World Food Programme.
• Ghana pulled nearly a million people out of poverty in a single year. Citi Newsroom.
• Deaths due to ischemic heart disease — when coronary arteries are blocked — fell by more than half from 1990 to 2023 in the United States. STAT.
• After more than 40 years of planting trees, China has preserved a cumulative afforested area of 320,000 sq km — roughly equivalent to the size of Italy, increasing forest coverage from 5.05 percent in 1977 to 13.57 percent today. China Daily.
• Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026. Mongabay.
• Rooftop solar saved New England ratepayers more than $130 million in electricity costs during the July heat wave. Good Good Good.
• Once endangered, Australia’s numbat is making a hopeful recovery. Mongabay.
• For decades there were rumors of ghost elephants in Angola. This explorer found them. The Journal of African Elephants.

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• 51 million lives in Africa have been saved over the past five decades by vaccination. WHO.
• Since 1987, countries classified as low-income has declined from 30% to 11%. World Bank Blogs.
• The teen birth rate in the United States was 11.7 births per 1,000 girls in 2025. By contrast, the teen birth rate in 1991 was 61.8 births per 1,000. NPR.
• America’s teens are now drinking, smoking, and fighting less. An American teenager today is now about a third less likely than a 1990’s-era teenager to die. Vox.
• Heat pumps may soon outsell air conditioners in US. Canary Media.
• Solar is set to oust coal as the leading generator of electricity within six years. BloombergNEF.
• The humpback whale population in Rio has jumped from around 2,000 to around 35,000 in approximately 40 years, close to their population before whaling. AP.
• A new Gobi Desert plant keeps generating eight hours after sunset, without batteries. Tech Times.
• A scroll sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end. Vesuvius Challenge.
• A second grader wanted to know if his pet caterpillar would remember him. His experiment shocked scientists. Good Good Good.
• Astronomers directly detected an atmosphere around LHS 1140 b, a rocky planet 48 light-years away that sits squarely in its star’s habitable zone: the “Goldilocks” band where liquid water can exist. New York Times.

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• Opioid deaths in Canada dropped 23% in 2025. CBC.
• New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease. WAFB.
• Data collected from 132 countries reveal that global blood collections increased by nearly 19% between 2013 and 2023. Voluntary, unpaid donors accounted for over 85% of the estimated 120 million blood donations received in 2023. Mirage.
• By 1850, Massachusetts had been stripped to perhaps 10% forest; today it is 60% wooded. Perhaps the “greatest forest recovery in the history of the world.” Inside Climate News.
• 35 years ago, fewer than 800 alewives, a type of fish, were making this trip up the Sebasticook River. Last year, they numbered 9 million. Inside Climate News.
• Renewables covered record 58% of German electricity consumption in first half of 2026. Clean Energy Wire.
• This new reactor system converts plastic waste into sustainable jet fuel with promising economics. Tech Radar.

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