• Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured. Our World in Data.
• In the US, drug overdoses killed more than 31,000 people under the age of 35 in 2021. That number plummeted to only 16,690 fatal overdoses in 2024. NPR.
• In the early 1980s, nearly 1,400 out of every 100,000 children under five died of pneumonia every year in Nepal. By 2021, the death rate dropped to only 75 per 100,000. Our World in Data.
• Suriname certified malaria-free. WHO.
• Homicide rates in Italy have dropped by 80% since 1990. Our World in Data.
• After peaking at more than 1.6 million Americans in 2009, the prison population was just more than 1.2 million at the end of 2023, and is on track to fall to about 600,000. The Atlantic.
• So far in 2025, solar power has accounted for 25% of Pakistan’s utility-supplied electricity, which makes it one of fewer than 20 nations globally that have sourced a quarter or more of monthly electricity supplies from solar farms. Reuters.
• In recent months, about 70% of all new passenger vehicles sold in Nepal were electric. Clean Technica.
• Amazonian scorpion venom can kill breast cancer cells. Science Alert.
• New Zealand scientists stumble upon way to reduce cow dung methane emissions by 90%. Bloomberg.

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