• Timor-Leste certified malaria-free. WHO.
• COVID vaccines saved 2.5 million lives globally. Science Daily.
• The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global. New Atlas.
• Murder in the US dropped by 14.9% in 2024. Jeff-alytics.
• Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives. STAT News.
• Illinois public schools will offer 3rd through 12th-grade students a free, optional mental health screening once a year. Chicago Tribune.
• Solar power now is 41% cheaper and wind power is 53% cheaper globally than the lowest-cost fossil fuel. AP.
• Scientists just found a coral species they thought had gone extinct 24 years ago. Smithsonian Magazine.
• In 2014, over 140 million animals around the world were farmed and killed for their fur. By 2024, that number plummeted to just 20.5 million. Vox.
• ‘Big-butt starfish,’ ‘little sweet potato’ and dozens of never-before-seen species recorded during deep-sea expedition off Argentina. Live Science.
• How Android phones became an earthquake warning system. Ars Technica.
• Australian researchers used AI to design a new protein that kills drug-resistant E. coli. Science News Today.

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• Emergency vaccinations cut outbreak deaths by nearly 60% preventing millions of infections and saving billions of dollars in economic losses. Gavi.
• Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma. WHO.
• New Orleans recorded fewer murders through June 2025 than any year since 1970. New York City has only recorded fewer murders once through June since 1960. Philadelphia recorded the fewest murders since 1969, Los Angeles since 1966, Baltimore since 1965, Detroit since 1964, and San Francisco had the fewest ever recorded. Jeff-alytics.
• Ozzy Osbourne’s final show was the highest-grossing charity concert of all time, raising more than $190 million for three charities. Billboard.
• Divorce in decline: only about 40% of today’s marriages will end in divorce. Institute for Family Studies.
• Since 2010, there has been a 65% decline in the amount of coal used by the power sector in the United States and there’s been six times more coal power plants retired than constructed this century. Reuters.
• How persistence and dedication brought a rare bat species back from the brink. Conservation Optimism.
• Baltic ringed seal numbers increase five fold since the toxic ’70s. Oceanographic.
• Electric cars are so fast that a Ferrari can’t catch a Kia now. Inside EVs.
• AI helps prevent medical errors in real-world clinics. Time.

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• Republicans scrap plan to cut $400 million from PEPFAR, an anti-AIDS program that has saved 25 million lives since 2003. Time.
• The rate of children aged 5 to 14 living in multidimensional poverty in Rwanda has more than halved from 25.3 per cent in 2016/17 to 11.9 per cent in 2023/24. The New Times.
• London’s low-traffic zones cut deaths and injuries by more than a third. The Guardian.
• Missouri becomes 31st state to end luxury tax on menstrual products and diapers. stlpr.
• Smart brain-zapping implants could revolutionize Parkinson’s treatment. Nature.

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• Mexican first responders arrive in Texas to support flood relief efforts. Good Good Good.
• Baltimore has had its fewest homicides in 50 years. Fox Baltimore.
• Burundi eliminates trachoma as a public health problem. WHO.
• People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours. The New Yorker.
• India hits 50% non-fossil power milestone five years ahead of schedule. Reuters.
• In an historic first, solar power generated more electricity than any other source in the EU last month. Euronews.
• A secret population of one of the most endangered animals in South America was just discovered in Chile. Good Good Good.
• Paris reopens Seine River to public swimming for first time in a hundred years after clean up program. The Guardian.
• Robot performs 1st realistic surgery without human help. EurekAlert!

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• In 1987, 30% of countries were classified as low-income and 25% as high-income. By 2024, these ratios shifted to 12% low-income and 40% high-income. World Bank.
• In the US, deaths attributable to heart attacks plummeted by 89 percent between 1970 and 2022. Journal of the American Heart Association.
• New York City recorded its fewest number of shooting victims in three decades — and the second-lowest murder rate — in the first half of 2025. NY Daily News.
• Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time. Financial Times.
• Norway offered residents a chance to win a $1,000 prize for recycling; now 97% of all plastic bottles are returned. Good Good Good.
• Flint replaces most lead pipes 10 years after the Michigan water crisis. NBC News.
• About 1,000 lost pets are being found each month thanks to AI-powered facial recognition software. CNET.

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• Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured. Our World in Data.
• In the US, drug overdoses killed more than 31,000 people under the age of 35 in 2021. That number plummeted to only 16,690 fatal overdoses in 2024. NPR.
• In the early 1980s, nearly 1,400 out of every 100,000 children under five died of pneumonia every year in Nepal. By 2021, the death rate dropped to only 75 per 100,000. Our World in Data.
• Suriname certified malaria-free. WHO.
• Homicide rates in Italy have dropped by 80% since 1990. Our World in Data.
• After peaking at more than 1.6 million Americans in 2009, the prison population was just more than 1.2 million at the end of 2023, and is on track to fall to about 600,000. The Atlantic.
• So far in 2025, solar power has accounted for 25% of Pakistan’s utility-supplied electricity, which makes it one of fewer than 20 nations globally that have sourced a quarter or more of monthly electricity supplies from solar farms. Reuters.
• In recent months, about 70% of all new passenger vehicles sold in Nepal were electric. Clean Technica.
• Amazonian scorpion venom can kill breast cancer cells. Science Alert.
• New Zealand scientists stumble upon way to reduce cow dung methane emissions by 90%. Bloomberg.

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• Ireland is Europe’s sixth country to end coal power generation. Irish Examiner.
• A cutting-edge cancer therapy offers hope for patients with lupus. The New York Times.
• Mexico’s conservation efforts spur dramatic recoveries for 20+ species of seabirds. All About Birds.
• Colombia declares child marriage unconstitutional. Co1ombia.

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• There are over 100 million fewer children in child labor today than in 2000, even as the child population increased by 230 million over the same period. UNICEF.
• Jamaica records significant decline in murders: 42 percent year-on-year reduction. NY Carib News.
• $105M reparations plan for descendants of 1921 Tulsa race massacre unveiled by mayor. ABC News.
• In the first quarter of 2025, the United States added 8.6 GW of solar manufacturing capacity, led by factories in Texas, Ohio, and Arizona. Wood Mackenzie.
• Once thought extinct, Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has been rediscovered. Nature.

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• India’s extreme poverty rate has dropped from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting nearly 270 million people out of extreme poverty. Times of India.
• In 2001, an estimated 1.7 million girls were ‘missing’ from birth registries each year due to sex-selective abortions, mainly in South and East Asia. Today, that number has fallen to around 200,000. The Economist.
• UK cancer survival rate doubles since 1970s. The Guardian.
• Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Baltimore each reported fewer murders through May than any year since the 1960s, and New York City reported the fewest murders ever reported through May 2025. Jeff-alytics.
• Colombia reports 33% drop in deforestation in early 2025, with major progress in Amazon parks. AP.
• Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body. The Guardian.
• FDA clears Wildtype’s cell-cultivated salmon for US debut. AgFunder.

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• New mosquito nets saved an estimated 25,000 lives from 2019 to 2022. Gates Foundation.
• Since 1979, Bangladesh has reduced under-five mortality by 85% and increased life expectancy from 47 to nearly 74 years. Gavi.
• Poland’s GDP per capita has more than doubled since it joined the European Union in 2004. Our World in Data.
• Jamaica’s poverty rate for 2023 was estimated at 8.2 per cent, a decline from 16.7 per cent in 2021. Magnetic Media.
• Colorado cactus removed from endangered species list after nearly 50 years. KDVR.
• Vatican City has joined Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to become one of just eight countries in the world to generate 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. Clean Technica.
• South America sets historic benchmark: zero new coal plants planned. Clean Technica.
• Just over a decade ago, almost half of Greece’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%. Our World in Data.
• California has nearly 50% more public EV chargers than gas nozzles. Green Car Reports.
• Infrared contact lens lets humans see in the dark. DW.

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