• The global rate of road traffic deaths declined by 21% between 2011 and 2025. WHO.
• 14 million less people were affected by hunger in 2025 than 2024. World Food Programme.
• Ghana pulled nearly a million people out of poverty in a single year. Citi Newsroom.
• Deaths due to ischemic heart disease — when coronary arteries are blocked — fell by more than half from 1990 to 2023 in the United States. STAT.
• After more than 40 years of planting trees, China has preserved a cumulative afforested area of 320,000 sq km — roughly equivalent to the size of Italy, increasing forest coverage from 5.05 percent in 1977 to 13.57 percent today. China Daily.
• Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026. Mongabay.
• Rooftop solar saved New England ratepayers more than $130 million in electricity costs during the July heat wave. Good Good Good.
• Once endangered, Australia’s numbat is making a hopeful recovery. Mongabay.
• For decades there were rumors of ghost elephants in Angola. This explorer found them. The Journal of African Elephants.

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