Young people sue 32 nations for climate inaction, writers strike victory, madrassa for transgender community
Landmark high seas treaty takes shape, Bhutan’s snow leopard boom, video documentaries for court defendants
Historic women’s quota bill in India, protecting Brazil’s Indigenous communities, high school for dropouts
Denmark launches world’s first green container ship, robot reef restoration, UK sees butterfly population boom
Peer-to-peer lending transforms lives, Florida’s first hurricane-proof town, preventing gun violence with basketball
African Union becomes member of G20, Scottish civil service to trial four-day week, world’s largest rhino farm saved by NGO
Europe’s e-bike boom, universal free school meals in Massachusetts, France to end printing of paper receipts
Solar saves Europe in heatwave, African teams succeed at Women’s World Cup, AI takes on deadliest disease
Ancient water channels revived in drought-ridden Spain, Barcelona fights overtourism, political fashion
Doulas for newly disabled people, new data on poverty-reduction success, using floods to fight drought in California
California’s free prison calls heal relationships, happiness and profits from four-day workweek, Scotland’s giant water battery
‘Degrowth’ moving in from Europe’s policy fringes, study links autism to dysbiosis, new superconductor
More countries decriminalise suicide, ring of trees around London, wildfire prevention with bison and horses
Electric vehicles overtake diesel sales in EU for first time, desert vegetable farms, teaching Afghan women judo
Italy’s sustainable “textile town”, Britain’s first heat pump village, travelling dark room for refugees
Revolutionising hiring with prison workforce programme, France’s “make do and mend”, Homeless World Cup
Agreement for climate-neutral shipping, first malaria vaccine for 12 African countries, Ukraine’s hospital train
Amazon deforestation plummets in first half of 2023, 1000km battery transforms green travel, heat-resistant drones
Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health, NZ bans single-use produce bags, Wales halts use of snares
Kenya launches Africa’s largest school food program, world’s largest wooden city, Canada bans animal testing
Blue whales make a comeback in California, lifesaving school-based free clinics, free bus rides for women in India
Estonia legalises same-sex marriage, historic ocean protection deal, Serbia gun amnesty collects 13,500 weapons
EU lawmakers pass AI regulation in world first, antidote for modern slavery, fighting white supremacy with MDMA
Climate activists take Montana to trial, Danish tech network for refugee women, sharing Jewish-Palestinian perspectives
Women-centric social search engine, England trials universal basic income, endometriosis breakthrough
New Zealand’s biggest-ever emissions reduction project, France bans short-haul flights, anti-wildfire tech
Spain moves towards 100% renewable energy, world’s first native bee sanctuary, Bali’s sign language village
Illinois bans book bans, India to stop building new coal plants, Colorado to make prison phone calls free
New York’s historic climate win, First Nation self-declares marine protected area, fighting the Taliban with art
Debt-for-nature swap saves Galapagos Islands, Japan to ban ‘upskirting’, porch culture fights loneliness
Global decline in child marriages, detecting cancer with AI, Barefoot College reinvents rural education
Mayor’s youth climate action councils, US smoking rate hits new all-time low, beating anorexia through boxing
World’s first robotic lung transplant, legal rights for criminal defendants, supporting the children of sex workers
Trafficking survivors fight modern slavery, mental health alert system, Europe’s longest cycle tunnel
Malaysia ends mandatory death penalty, free e-cigarettes for British smokers, ‘world-changer’ malaria vaccine
Swiss seniors sue over climate change, first cheetahs born in India since 1952, club for lonely girls
Education for 10 million Indian school dropouts, voting rights in prison, more country pubs owned by locals
Quicker way to tutor kids in reading, solar panels between railway tracks, heattech saving swimming pools
Europe’s first wild river national park, Britain expands free childcare, Puerto Rico’s first solar town
Turning oil permits into conservation projects, Scotland restricts hunting with dogs, paid leave ‘for any reason’
Eight countries eliminate tropical diseases, first US state to ban shark fishing, cancer test using urine
Free school meals under Minnesota house bill, proposal to dim London lights, 10,000 women save India’s rarest stork
White mailboxes to stop child abuse, third graders as engineers, London’s first queer retirement community
Fighting fire with fire, turning office spaces into urban farms, Australia approves psychedelics as medicines
