• In 2025, slightly fewer than 5.4 infants died for every 1,000 born in the US — down from the 7.5 of 30 years ago. CDC (PDF link).
• Experimental hepatitis B drug might offer ‘functional cure’ for a subset of patients. CNN.
• Young women in the UK now have ‘close to zero’ risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab. BBC.
• Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change. Phys.org.
• In 2019, EVs made up just 1% of new car sales globally. By May 2026, 63% of new cars sold were electric. DW.
• UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year. CarbonBrief.
• A brain implant is helping a man with paralysis to communicate with his family and friends and to use his personal computer at home. Nature.
• A Chinese expedition accidentally found a 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale graveyard. Nature.

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• Breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug nearly doubles survival in trial. USA Today.
• Over 90 per cent of countries have laws guaranteeing the rights of persons with disabilities. UN News.
• A chemo-free treatment was found effective in kids with an aggressive blood cancer. The trial’s survival rate was 99%. Medpage Today.
• The number of global deaths from enteric infectious diseases fell from 3.69 million in 1990 to 1.27 million in 2023. Rotavirus vaccine makes big impact. CIDRAP.
• A study in Italy found that remote work wiped out much of the “motherhood penalty,” the earnings loss that often follows having a child. CEPR.
• Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever. CarbonBrief.
• Used EVs are now the most affordable cars. The Wall Street Journal.
• Lost to science for more than 70 years, the black-lored waxbill was only recently rediscovered in a marshy region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yale Environment 360.
• While buildings in London or New York can take three years to complete, China built a 26-story tower in just five days with 100 workers. IDR.

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• The United States saw a 3.3% drop in homelessness, marking the first decrease since 2016. AP.
• After peaking in 2021, the combined age-adjusted rate of deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide declined by 16 percent in 2024. Trust for America’s Health.
• Electric vehicles cut pollution in China and prevent 260,000 premature deaths. Nature.
• Pakistan imported more Chinese solar panels than any other country on earth in 2025. No subsidy program drove it. No national rooftop scheme. No feed-in tariff. People just did it. Bright Spots.
• The New Zealand orange-fronted parakeet has twice been declared extinct, only to be rediscovered. Now, a pair of super breeders named Nacho and Trixie have produced 55 chicks, making them responsible for more than 10 percent of the total population. France 24.
• New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine. ScienceDaily.

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• A combination of vaccine and immunotherapy for skin cancer helped reduce risk of cancer spreading to another part of the body ​by 59% after five years of follow-up. Reuters.
• Experimental hepatitis B drug may offer functional cure for some patients. AP.
• Papua New Guinea has reduced its malaria death rate from 13 to one per 100,000 over 25 years. The National.
• 58% of the global population now has access to safe sanitation up from only 31% in 2000. Our World in Data.
• One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs has been discovered off the coast of Argentina—and it’s home to dozens of species new to science. Mongabay.
• Once endangered, the IUCN has formally reclassified the green sea turtle as Least Concern. It skipped two classifications entirely, jumping straight from Endangered to Least Concern without pausing at Vulnerable or Near Threatened. Rolf Skeldon.
• West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. After a family of beavers resettled nearby built a dam, the flooding stopped. NPR.

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