• Chile becomes first country in South America validated for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem. WHO.
• Uzbekistan’s poverty rate dropped from 5.8% to 3.9% in 2026, reducing the number of people in need from 2.2 million to 1.5 million. Republic of Uzbekistan.
• NYPD announces safest summer for shooting incidents, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history. NYPD.
• India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge. Carbon Brief.
• Cumulative solar capacity in the United States is enough to power one-third of all U.S. homes. SEIA.
• Coal-fired electricity generation in the US falls 11% in first half of 2026 as cheaper power sources such as natural gas grow. Financial Times.

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• In nine African countries, average incomes have more than doubled since 1990. Our World in Data.
• Mexico’s murder rate drops by nearly half since 2020. Bloomberg.
• Bhutan eliminates dog-transmitted human rabies. WHO.
• Tajikistan’s access to water in health facilities has more than doubled in five years. UNICEF.
• South Africa’s power-sector emissions fell 19% in 2025, the steepest annual drop ever recorded. BloombergNEF.
• AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds. The Guardian.

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• Africa installs a record 17 GW of solar in 2026. Ember.
• Clean energy additions in the US will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, roughly 25 percent higher than the record set in 2024. Ars Technica.
• China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026. Carbon Brief.
• Delhi now has a metro system that is bigger than New York’s, and built it for a fraction of the price. It’s 33% solar-powered, captures brake energy in batteries, and ran 99.9% on time last year. It keeps an estimated 600,000 vehicles off Delhi’s streets, and every train reserves its first car for women. The New York Times.
• Researchers have rediscovered the spinach pipefish, a relative of the seahorse thought to be extinct, in Papua New Guinea. Yale Environment 360.

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