• Maternal mortality in Oman has fallen by 53 per cent. Observer.
• An integrated primary health care model in northern Togo cut the risk of death before age five by 29%. Gavi.
• The proportion of girls married before the age of 18 in Cambodia dropped dramatically, from 26.3% to 9.5%, while marriage before age 15 declined from 2.5% to just 0.6% thanks to the Time to Act Project. Asia News Network.
• A record 1 in 3 U.S. workers now have access to paid leave. The 19th.
• In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union. Our World in Data.
• BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute flash charging. Tech Crunch.
• UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low. CarbonBrief.
• After being hunted to local extinction in the early 20th century, bearded vultures have returned to the Alps. BBC.
• Black soldier fly larvae show promise for safe organic waste removal. ACS.

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• The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades. Our World in Data.
• Malaria vaccination reduces hospitalizations, deaths of children in northwestern Nigeria. Gavi.
• Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s. Our World in Data.
• Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to eliminate leprosy. WHO.
• Croatia is officially free of landmines, three decades after the Yugoslav wars. TVP World.
• Renewables generated 26% of the United States’ electricity in 2025, a new record. Bloomberg.
• How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels. The Guardian.
• North Aral Sea regains a third of its water thanks to restoration efforts spearheaded by Kazakhstan. Euronews.
• The kakapo, a flightless New Zealand parrot, was down to 51 individuals in 1995, but has bounced back to a population of 236. The New York Times.

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• Almost all countries have ended large-scale forced labor. Our World in Data.
• WHO validates elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Libya. WHO.
• Denmark becomes first country in the European Union to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. WHO.
• Deforestation has been reversed in Europe, North and Central America, and large parts of Asia. Our World in Data.
• Electric car sales almost double in India in 2025. Bloomberg.
• One of the world’s largest steelmakers is using a battery that harnesses waste heat to curb emissions. Canary Media.
• Costa Rica once had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, but around the turn of the century its forests started growing back. Now, natural forests blanket well over half of Costa Rica, making it one of the few places on Earth that has revived its lost ecosystems. Vox.
• ‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens. Nature.

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• Measles cases in Europe, Central Asia drop 75% in 2025. Reuters.
• Death penalty on the decline in Southeast Asia. DW.
• Ireland made its basic supplementary income for artists scheme permanent after an analysis found that it more than paid for itself in productivity gains and reduced reliance on other forms of welfare. The Guardian.
• India installs record 36.6 GW solar in 2025. PV Magazine.
• The number of animals farmed and killed for fur production plummeted from 140 million in 2014 to just 20.5 million in 2024. Good Good Good.
• This cat with ‘otter-like feet’ went extinct in Thailand nearly 30 years ago. Then trail cameras caught it on film. Good Good Good.
• The first-ever inhaled gene therapy for cancer has been fast-tracked by the FDA. Veritas News.

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• Jamaica’s poverty rate fell to 7.8% in 2024, the lowest level in at least 50 years, down from around 30% in the 1970s. Jamaica Observer.
• In 2000, fewer than 10% of people in Indonesia had access to clean cooking: by 2023 it was 91%. Cleaner stoves mean less fine-particle pollution in homes where families actually breathe, and death rates linked to indoor air pollution have fallen sharply as a result. Our World in Data.
• Armenia adopts universal healthcare insurance. OC Media.
• San Francisco to make childcare free for families earning up to $230,000. The Guardian.
• China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months. Carbon Brief.
• Finland’s last two coal plants were shut down last year. HSY.
• Romania has cut emissions by 75% since 1990, while doubling its economy. The Guardian.
• Nearly one in three cars produced in Germany was purely electric in 2025. Clean Energy Wire.
• Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort. The Guardian.
• Aluminum tubes that float even when punched full of holes are bringing us one step closer to unsinkable ships. ZME Science.

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