• 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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