• 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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• Homicides in England and Wales at lowest level in nearly 50 years. BBC.
• India has expanded rural tap water access from 16.7% of the population in 2019 to 81% in 2026, connecting 125 million rural households to clean, running water. In sheer numbers, this is the biggest, fastest, and most important sanitation drive in human history. PIB Delhi.
• A century of hair clippings from Utah show exposure to lead has fallen by a factor of more than 100 since the 1960s. Scientific American.
• For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Cato Institute.
• Global trade in plastic waste has fallen by more than two-thirds over the last decade. Our World in Data.
• New worm species discovered in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. It was once thought only two species could survive there. NPR.
• Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Science Daily.
• For the first time in history, scientists have used artificial intelligence to design the genetic code of a brand-new biological organism that destroys killer bacteria. The Times.

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• Guinea Worm Disease Reaches All-Time Low: Only 10 Human Cases Reported in 2025. The Carter Center.
• William Foege dies at 89. He was a key figure in the eradication of Small Pox which killed 300 million people in the 20th century alone. The New York Times.
• US life expectancy jumps to a record 79 years in 2024. Reuters.
• 99% of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind, and storage. electrek.
• The U.S. added a record 18,041 public electric-vehicle fast chargers, expanding fast-charging network by 30% over the course of 2025. Canary Media.
• Poland has cut coal’s share of electricity from 95% in 2000 to about 51% today, one of the fastest declines in Europe. Over the same period, GDP per capita (PPP) rose 143%. Paweł Czyżak.

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