• The global suicide rate has fallen 40% since the 1990s. Our World in Data.
• In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month. Canary Media.
• Five “missing” bird species rediscovered in 2025. Mongabay.
• Researchers have found that even a short break from your phone yields substantial benefits: improved attention equivalent to erasing a decade’s worth of age-related cognitive decline and a more significant effect on depression than that produced by antidepressants. The Washington Post.

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• Argentina’s poverty rate dropped to just 28% at the end of 2025, down from 53% in early 2024. Semafor.
• Pedestrian deaths in the United States fell 10.9% in the first half of 2025, the biggest recorded drop since national tracking began 15 years ago. GHSA.
• Uruguay built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Forbes.
• Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality. Our World in Data.
• The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, once endangered, has made a big comeback. Mongabay.

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• Since 1990, global under-five deaths have fallen from 13 million to 4.9 million a year thanks to vaccines, oral rehydration, bed nets and safer births. Unicef.
• The youth literacy rate in South Asia has risen from 53% in 1985 to 93% in 2023. Our World in Data.
• Child labor drops 38.5 percent in the Philippines over last two years. Philstar.
• Virginia has passed 25 gun reform laws, including a ban on assault weapons. The Trace.
• After 1,400 years, the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is enthroned. The New York Times.
• Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64% year-over-year. The Guardian.
• Waymo self-driving cars were involved in 92% fewer crashes that cause serious or fatal injuries than human drivers, meaning they’re 13 times safer. Waypoint.
• Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality. Our World in Data.
• China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first. Nature.

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• 6.2 million fewer people are experiencing hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2020. PAHO.
• Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest level on record. The Conversation.
• 1.5 million people moved above the poverty line in Uzbekistan in 2025. Euro News.
• In Malawi, between 2016 and 2024, and maternal mortality declined from 439 to 224 deaths per 100,000 live births. Afro Barometer.
• Fentanyl-related overdose deaths fell by nearly 30 per cent in the space of a year in the US. NewScientist.
• A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today, the economy of the country has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with more than $1 trillion in annual output. AP.
• The Quapaw Nation brought one of America’s most contaminated mining landscapes back to life. The Guardian.
• Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% since 2010. The Guardian.
• India’s second largest state is rolling out free rooftop solar for its poorest citizens. India TV.
• The whooping crane population has climbed from barely more than 20 individuals worldwide in 1941 to roughly 800 today after decades of habitat protection and captive breeding and release programs. The New York Times.
• Scientists discover how to turn plastic waste into vinegar. Good Good Good.

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• Maternal mortality in Oman has fallen by 53 per cent. Observer.
• An integrated primary health care model in northern Togo cut the risk of death before age five by 29%. Gavi.
• The proportion of girls married before the age of 18 in Cambodia dropped dramatically, from 26.3% to 9.5%, while marriage before age 15 declined from 2.5% to just 0.6% thanks to the Time to Act Project. Asia News Network.
• A record 1 in 3 U.S. workers now have access to paid leave. The 19th.
• In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union. Our World in Data.
• BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute flash charging. Tech Crunch.
• UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low. CarbonBrief.
• After being hunted to local extinction in the early 20th century, bearded vultures have returned to the Alps. BBC.
• Black soldier fly larvae show promise for safe organic waste removal. ACS.

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• The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades. Our World in Data.
• Malaria vaccination reduces hospitalizations, deaths of children in northwestern Nigeria. Gavi.
• Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s. Our World in Data.
• Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to eliminate leprosy. WHO.
• Croatia is officially free of landmines, three decades after the Yugoslav wars. TVP World.
• Renewables generated 26% of the United States’ electricity in 2025, a new record. Bloomberg.
• How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels. The Guardian.
• North Aral Sea regains a third of its water thanks to restoration efforts spearheaded by Kazakhstan. Euronews.
• The kakapo, a flightless New Zealand parrot, was down to 51 individuals in 1995, but has bounced back to a population of 236. The New York Times.

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• Almost all countries have ended large-scale forced labor. Our World in Data.
• WHO validates elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Libya. WHO.
• Denmark becomes first country in the European Union to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. WHO.
• Deforestation has been reversed in Europe, North and Central America, and large parts of Asia. Our World in Data.
• Electric car sales almost double in India in 2025. Bloomberg.
• One of the world’s largest steelmakers is using a battery that harnesses waste heat to curb emissions. Canary Media.
• Costa Rica once had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, but around the turn of the century its forests started growing back. Now, natural forests blanket well over half of Costa Rica, making it one of the few places on Earth that has revived its lost ecosystems. Vox.
• ‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens. Nature.

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• 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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