Five times fewer HIV-infected children, India hits 50% non-fossil power milestone, mind convenience stores
Eastern Europe’s solar energy boom, France’s €1 train, Europe’s largest floating solar farm goes live
Solar tops EU power mix for first time, community patrolling reduces eco-crime, thriving gardens on arid land
World’s first malaria treatment for newborns, Sri Lanka’s suicide rates plummet, Kerala’s rainforest gardeners
Italy’s homicide rate drops by 80%, long-distance robotic tele-surgery, Poland’s clean energy overtakes coal
Best of June: Ireland ends coal power, the world’s largest marine protected area, violent crime plummets in the US
World’s largest national parks system, Council of Europe establishes Ukraine war tribunal, copyrighting faces
Ireland closes last coal-fired power plant, Vietnam abolishes death penalty for eight crimes, Vatican City goes green
Plastic bag bans curb US shoreline litter, world-first climate change visa, most important emotion for meaningful life
World’s largest CO2 capture project, Australia lifts blood donation ban for gay men, ducks against pesticides
World’s largest marine protected area, England to decriminalise rough sleeping, beavers against wildfires
Poverty rates halve in Jamaica and Morocco, HIV research breakthrough, India makes clean energy gains
Kyrgyzstan’s 800,000 hectare eco-corridor, UK’s disposable vape ban comes into effect, first aid kit for birds
Best of May: sinking emissions in China, less litter across EU coastlines, “No Mow May” all year long
Spain strengthens LGBTQ+ workplace rights, EU court protects marine zones, new sepsis test shows 90% accuracy
Offline meetups for young adults, game changing brain tumour test, penguin poop to mitigate climate change
Denmark bans influencer-promoted junk food ads, removing PFAS from water supplies, EU’s first national park city
Land bank prevents gentrification, FDA approves first blood test for Alzheimer’s, dream maps against climate change
Mexico’s guerrilla fish refuges, doctors rewrite DNA of infant with genetic disorder, helping Chile’s stolen children
Indigenous self-government in Colombia, world’s largest electric ship, Malaysia’s first monkey bridge
Florida’s evolution to solar superpower, free rent for companionship, the newspaper run by homeless people
3D-printed wheelchair for kids, sterile mosquitoes curb disease, Ghana’s safe house for trafficking survivors
Best of April: First global CO2 tax for ships, European countries test social prescribing, cuddle parties
Renewables surpass coal in China, workers become owners in bakery chain, cuddle parties against loneliness
First global CO2 tax for ships, New Mexico makes childcare free, four countries reversing democratic decline
Happiness grows with basic income, first national park city in North America, mental health programme for farmers
New record in global renewables, first birth after womb transplant in UK, football for women prisoners
Less plastic on Australia’s coast, landmark ruling protects rainforest, fossil fuels drop below 50% in US
EU countries test social prescribing, Thailand bans smacking of minors, Afghanistan’s secret schools for girls
70% drop in Indian child mortality, fewer swallowed object surgeries in UK children, stir sticks to detect spiking
Landmark territory protects uncontacted tribes, towns give away free chickens, better health through storytelling
Paris votes to pedestrianise 500 streets, Black-owned alternatives to Amazon, the towns that invent their own money
UK to plant new national forest, landmark ruling takes hit at big oil, healing the most eroded place on earth
Mexico City’s ‘bloodless bullfighting’, Britain’s most bike-friendly town, homeless voices on the airwaves
Historic peace deals in Syria and Azerbaijan, NZ’s largest ever restoration project, video game detects dementia
Man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world first, US fentanyl crisis eases, Cuba’s first solar park
Island reclaimed by descendants of enslaved peoples, California permits cultural burning, tennis ball houses
First English river granted legal rights, ocean liner becomes world’s largest artificial reef, hotel for cows
UN reaches global nature funding deal, abandoned mines as energy storage, first disabled astronaut for ISS mission
50 US States introduce right to repair, 3D-printed houses for the homeless, Denmark to ban phones in schools
Child mortality falls sharply across Asia, downward trend in air accidents, Vienna’s refugee-run hotel
Welsh Senedd to expel lying politicians, gene therapy restores sight in blind children, combustion car sales drop
Cash incentives raise vaccination rates in Nigeria, Norway bans fur farming, new tech uses jet wind for energy
Detroit on pace for fewest killings since 1965, New York to track 25 million trees, global solar power speeds up
The Global South’s cleantech revolution, guaranteed income for ex-inmates, oystercatcher population nearly doubles
Life satisfaction in England rises, foldable emergency shelters, 80,000 school kids recycle cooking oil
Baltic states join EU power grid, AI improves breast cancer detection, restaurant staffed by homeless people
Emptying NY youth prisons led to huge drop in crime, new nonopioid painkiller, Brazil’s ‘scholarship mums’
NZ mountain granted legal personhood, women-led ridesharing, bumblebee population increases 116 times over
200 UK companies introduce four-day working week, New York’s largest solar farm, vacant office as indoor farms
Former rivals team up to find Colombia’s disappeared, open-source alternatives to TikTok, helping foster kids go to college
DRC to create world’s biggest protected tropical forest reserve, free transit prescriptions, milestone for EU energy
Ecuador gives coastal ecosystems rights, Bangladesh’s universal access to electricity, world’s first feminist beer
New York makes polluters fund climate costs, ‘solar mamas’ bring solar power to Zanzibar, eco-friendly surfboards
Danish city rewards coffee cup recycling, surplus fund for food banks, endometriosis blood test in sight
Indonesia launches free meals scheme, Spanish airlines test eco biofuel, National Trust restoration project
Lowering tuberculosis rates with cash, Bank Black & Green, record year for renewable energy in Poland
Iceland’s female-majority government, Belgium bans disposable vapes, El Salvador homicide rate plummets
Belgrade to make public transport free, spiking drinks to become criminal offense, Brazilian poverty declines
Spain’s bill against disinformation, balanced near-east education at schools, volunteers plant 750,000 trees
China’s 3000km green belt, green power overtakes fossil fuels in the UK, Zimbabwe votes to end death penalty
Syria celebrates end of Assad dictatorship, Ghana elects first female vice president, poetry pharmacies
Pakistan’s solar revolution, US cervical cancer deaths plummet by 60%, Argentine jail ends recidivism
Car fuel from seaweed, invisible fences protecting wildlife, school plays unlocking student potential
UK launches cash trial for homeless, Mexico’s civilian-led cartel strategy, deforestation’s health impact in Brazil
Denmark to plant one billion trees, Minnesota’s largest coal plant switches to solar, ending corporal punishment
World’s largest offshore solar farm, Latin American poverty hits 33-year low, AI model spots overlooked tumours
