Breast cancer vaccine, recovery high school, retiring on campus, buildings made of mushrooms

26 stories of solutions and progress from January 2023

Cheetahs relocate to India, ‘bubble barriers’ stop plastic pollution, free beer for sober teens

Co-buying real estate, cabs for people with disabilities, Gaza’s first women’s boxing club

Pocket forests in Paris, Niger halves blood-loss deaths at clinics, red squirrels on the rise in Scotland

Saving prairies by selling them, three leverage points for climate protection, Hawaii starts free preschools

A ‘ring of blossom’ around Birmingham, boost in 988 Lifeline use, “smart” tampons to screen for cervical cancer

Drug testing without animals, six solutions to food waste, decolonising American cuisine

US cancer death rate falls 33%, Saudi Arabia’s first international women’s football tournament

Green jobs boom, name-your-price produce, reviving dead languages

Zero traffic deaths in Jersey City, legal protection for formerly incarcerated people, literary treasure hunts

New York injection sites save lives, tobacco companies forced to clean up cigarette butts, batteries from trees

Zambia ends death penalty, zero-interest loans for Black homebuyers, cellular glue healing wounds

Brazil’s Indigenous minister, fast-food revolution, crackdown on ‘puppy mills’

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33 stories on progress and solutions from 2022

Jobs ending homelessness, US Postal Service going all-electric, imagination library

Spain supports cut in working hours, Denver’s ebike voucher programme, grannies fixing the world

Biodiversity protection agreement, dollars for guns, vaccine against fentanyl

First Black president at Harvard University, mRNA cancer vaccine, Spain to expand menstrual leave

New Zealand bans tobacco, ‘green banks’ go national in U.S., leather created from cactus and orange peels

LA bans new oil wells, landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage, random acts of kindness

Pakistan’s feminist comedians, free condoms in France, world’s largest ‘dark sky nation’

Degrees for homeless students, fighting racial profiling, guaranteed income pilots become policies

New Mexico’s child care guarantee, exchanging plastics for learning, chickens raised on surplus food

First Black party leader in U.S. Congress, preschool on wheels, French village for people with dementia

Microloans against food insecurity, ‘solar punks’ introducing community power

100 UK companies choose four-day week, participatory budgets, Indian giant squirrel

Connecting low-income kids with nature, fighting digital colonialism, pizza party for mental health

Football solving problems, floating offshore wind farms, pay-what-you-can grocery store

Second skin for buildings, shark protection treaty, zero food waste in South Korea

Brazilian kids fighting dengue fever, Kingston’s historic rent reduction, mobile oral surgeon

Sustainable bamboo buildings, self-charging trains, Afghanistan’s only female guide

Mental health training for barbers, hempcrete buildings, Britain’s most ambitious rewilding project

‘Mansion tax’ for affordable housing, effective meth addiction treatment, flying robot saving plants

Sydney’s upcycled highrise, green energy hub on NYC jail complex, 3D-printed homes for Indigenous community

Children and youth at climate summit, three-in-one facility for students, Barcelona’s bicibús

California to ban plastic produce bags, Czech Republic to legalise cannabis, wind turbines capturing CO2

Children’s hospital treating social-economic wellness, Toronto’s bike mayor, Albatrosses detecting illegal fishing

France to plant 1 billion trees, Black urban forest school, India’s first solar-powered village

Germany to legalise recreational cannabis, robotic falcon protecting birds, Miami Beach bans hairstyle discrimination

Bike libraries, cellular therapies easing organ shortage, Asian innovators fighting online hate

Top U.S. spots for Black life quality, compostable clothing, ‘first gay imam’

Tiny farming, drop in military suicides, first African nation to approve HIV prevention drug

Green spaces reduce urban crime, historic decline in poverty in India, wild horses return to eastern Spain

First floating city, urban reforestation with fruit trees, art easing hospital visits

Open source seeds, mental health hotline for farmers, Saudi women’s football league

Dads preventing school violence, Greece on 100% green energy, red squirrels make comeback in the UK

Voluntary gun laws, sustainable universities, saving ‘ugly’ animals with memes

Gen Zers snub alcohol, Biden pardons marijuana users, Delaware cuts fines and fees

Zero girls in Hawaii’s prison, helping moms to become MPs, first US diplomat for plants and animals

Global push for 15-Minute Cities, tackling generational poverty, therapy sailing ship

Mental health recovery for police, upcycled clothing line, and peer recovery for addiction treatment

Museum visits on prescription, the return of public banking, South Africa’s solar-powered train

Denmark to pay for climate damage, UK firms to make four-day week permanent, gardens on bus shelters

Free public transit, cyborg roaches saving lives, carbon-free ferry between England and France

Constant priority for pedestrians, basic income for Dever’s homeless, cooling without air con

Doggy memes fighting misinformation, Dutch zero-emissions car, Japan’s zero waste village

Patagonia founder donates company, São Paulo without cars, Humor for Humanity

Blood test detects 50 types of cancer, new approach to treat obesity, guaranteed income programme for immigrants

‘Farm dust’ pill against asthma and allergies, Japan’s victory in ‘traffic war,’ Germany’s ‘edible city’

Europe’s next-generation night trains, new cheap Malaria vaccine, mural art reducing recidivism

Life expectancy in Africa rises sharply, Dutch city to ban meat adverts, empathy through disagreement

England’s historic restoration scheme, green amendments, LGBTQ-friendly seniors building

Overcoming polarisation, krill-inspired buildings, extinct butterfly makes a comeback

Baltic nations to multiply wind energy, eradicating invasive species, mental health walking groups for ‘blokes’

Strategies against eviction, California to ban fossil fuel cars, guerrilla gardening

World’s first hydrogen-powered trains, duck ‘soldiers’ protecting vineyards, wiping out medical debt

Street art saving lives, Cairo metro employs first women, former enemies replant forests

‘Heat Officers’ in LA and Miami, cooling without global warming, re-discovering extinct species

Rwanda to wipe out cervical cancer, flood control going green, restoring degragated landscapes

Climate litigation on the rise, Botswana’s Elephant Express, carbon-negative methane

Free period products in Scotland, Stuttgart’s ventilation corridors, special training for immigrant female workers

Special edition: New ways to promote mental health

Indigenous groups join forces to protect rainforest, ‘Transformation Schools’, ‘self-learning’ braille device

Four-day workweek trial changes lifes, ‘walking’ forest transforms Dutch city​, UK sports clubs boost biodiversity

Record coral recovery on Great Barrier Reef, Nepal’s tiger population triples, basic income in Brazilian town

AR glasses with subtitles for deaf people, Chile to ban single-use products, teaching Boko Haram’s children

Clean environment becomes a human right, world’s largest underground cooling system, hi-tech fire detection

World’s tallest building made from hemp, airport terminal made of wood, wild bison return to UK

US to plant 1 billion trees, cheetah reintroduction brings back vultures, bank accounts for homeless people

Circular economy island, a proven way to reduce violence, pairing seniors with young mothers

Botswana to break mother-baby HIV cycle, free trains in Spain, ‘adopting’ trees in Kenya

Solutions to extreme heat, Pakistan to reintroduce crocodiles, world’s largest timber neighbourhood

A 911 for mental health, wildlife revival in Wellington, ‘republic of good neighbours’

World’s largest seagrass project, free public transport in Luxembourg, peace parks

Special edition: Restoring biodiversity

Cities cut meat consumption, #MeToo in Uganda, sand battery

Sustainable mud cities, return of the fin whales, human hair fighting oil spills

Maryland removes degree requirement, the benefits of public banks, refugees in seized Mafia properties

India bans single-use plastics, Australia’s first hydrogen-fuelled plane, improving rock bottom graduation rates

Green energy jobs on the rise, free college tuition for Native students, Hawaii’s ancient food forests

Gothenburg’s climate drive, houses replace parking lots, roadside advertising repairs potholes

Seville pioneers heatwave measures, anti-poaching technology, Black Tech Talent

EU to halve use of pesticides, plastic-eating robo-fish, dogs sniffing out Covid at school

200 ‘Dark Sky’ cities, first worker-owned franchise in the US, Rotterdam’s green roofs

City centre without cars, photoimmunotherapy, libraries preventing detention

Public schools going net zero, breaking the cycle between jail and homelessness, cafeterias without trays

Indian student plants 300,000 trees, using radio to save the environment, wind turbine towers made of wood

Less plastic pollution on Australia’s coast, Puerto Rico’s solar rooftops, former loggers now defend forests

Thailand legalises marijuana, mental health classes in US schools, music against dementia

100 Million trees for Borneo, “magical” cycling cities, algae-based cement

Africa’s social apps, newspapers for refugees, Europe’s largest national park

Canada to stop handgun sales, female anti-poaching squad, Carabinieri using bees

Australia’s first Indigenous supreme court judge, vegetables on supermarket roofs, 19 ways to help stop gun violence

Street design preventing violence, low-income kids’ success in wealthy schools, circular economy for trees

Modular timber tower, lotteries changing behaviour positively, 200 million new trees in Niger

Fighting wildfires with fire, cigarette butt recycling scheme, mandatory solar panels on new EU buildings

Everlasting wheat, farmstays for women after prison, solar lending for marginalised families

India’s open prisons, emotion coaching for children, chess in slums

Football meets therapy, bakery employs ex-inmates, success against drug-resistant infections

Playfulness as a skill, training for sustainable pasture, Indian nurses on e-scooters

Standup comedy course against depression, first Black woman on Fed board, food security through Millets

Seed-firing drones to plant millions of trees, ‘solar boxes’ electrify communities, US cities abolish fines and fees

Tasmania goes carbon negative, first black White House press secretary, goats against poaching

California runs on 100% clean energy, Iceland supports ecocide law, Qatar’s first male fashion designer

100 EU cities to go climate neutral by 2030, Japan’s green railway, Airbnb allows remote work forever

New scheme to improve literacy, education for students in detention, renewable energy in tribal nations

Internships for adults, Captain Fanplastic, African elephants capturing carbon

World’s tallest timber residential tower, UK boom in retrofitting buildings, mobile classrooms in refugee camps

One million children protected against malaria, diversity targets for UK companies, reforestation healing divides

Latvian “Elves” fight Russian disinformation, tribeswomen protect forest with bows and arrows

Indonesia bans forced marriage, real estate without racial barriers, plastic recycling in the Sahara

Scotland’s forests and brown bear population in Pyrenees at historic highs, Iraq’s first green projects

First Black woman on US supreme court, Somalia’s first women-led media house, Garbage without landfills

Binational park on Texas-Mexico border, Future Generations Commissioner, Tunisia’s traditional welfare system

World climate report, first openly gay head of state, bus shelter made of plastic waste

Amazon workers form union, global green finance rises 100 fold, wild animals receive legal rights

Forestry instead of opium production, EU to rebuild solar energy manufacturing, healthier hospitals

NFTs preserving rainforest, farmers fertilise with human waste, Asia’s first plant-based butcher

Climate early warning systems, forests on Mexican desert landscape, Austria’s repair bonus

‘Magical’ reforestation, Arab women defying odds with sportswear, doctors with climate training

Tiny heroes, world’s biggest tropical crop bank, India’s first electric-mobility bank

Conservationists buy fishing licence in Great Barrier Reef, 10-point plan to reduce global oil demand, Call Russia campaign

Four-day working week, clean energy in China’s deserts, free meals for food-insecure families

The Nordic case against bullying, Kyiv’s independent voice, drones saving lives

World’s largest floating hydro-solar farm, early screening tool for autism, WHO Africa’s first woman leader

Solar-powered cribs against jaundice, food truck serving invasive species, saving bongos from extinction

Girls’ movement fighting child marriage, prison voicemail app, Guinness going green

Unprecedented stimulus for renewables, free sanitary products in New South Wales, Dutch care farms

‘Historic’ treaty on plastic waste, legal rights for nature, bikes as anti-poverty machines

Free train rides for refugees, Hollywood stars praise Ukraine, first airline to use fuel made from sunlight

Worldwide solidarity with Ukraine, Russian scientists speak out against war

Ways to help Ukraine, forensic spray against violence, first ‘cow-free’ milk

Treating financial trauma, reviving The Emancipator, the world’s edible cities

$10 radios help in fight against FGM, highest percentage of female CEOs, a million more trees for NYC

Tokens for the homeless, health groups support diabetics, first woman cured of HIV

First US neighborhood microgrid, solar panels above irrigation canals, nations take action to save oceans

Edible cutlery, “poop posts” in Japan, blood test for mental conditions

Paralysed man walks again, British cranes make historic comeback, world’s largest wild-life bridge

Three-month paid leave, millions of trees to protect salmon, free bus travel for under-22s in Scotland

A city owned by locals, Dolce&Gabbana ditches fur, Venezuela’s Indigenous forest business

Nepal’s vulture restaurants, crows picking up litter, Afghan universitiy reopens

World’s “best new building”, UK’s first ever student-written bill, US colleges ban caste discrimination

Fighting fake health news, supermarkets ban Amazon-killing beef, therapy with animals

Outdoor school boom in Asia, Zambia’s smart conservation park, openly queer Catholic priests

Newspaper takeover through nonprofit, world’s first hydrogen ship, tax on workplace parking

Austria’s vaccination lottery, protest becomes more professional, green city of Freiburg

102 millionaires call to be taxed, degrees for homeless people, free test kits for spiked drinks

Swedish agency to combat fake news, tequila fish saved from extinction, supermarket tackling domestic abuse

Tech unicorn introduces four-day workweek, first Black woman on US quarter, 10000 free nights in Japan

Probiotics diet for coral reefs, first female supreme court judge in Pakistan, definitive Covid-19 vaccine

Free cows change lives, litter lottery, tiny tents protecting wildlife

Lending app boosts female founders, $15 billion for Canada’s indigenous people, libraries hire social workers

Basic income in US cities, top chefs offer vegan menus, super poo treating diseases

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Christmas greetings from Squirrel News

E-motorbikes stopping poachers, gorillas making comeback in Rwanda, wild bison return to UK

South Africa’s mRNA vaccine, Emirates end movie censorship, saving forests with Twitter

Nepal’s tiger population doubles, female Hindu priests, Togo’s unconditional payments

Afghan online university, saving infants’ eyesights, smart fishing nets

New Zealand’s plan to end smoking, cleanups reducing gun violence, volunteers preventing wildfires

UAE announces 4.5-day workweek, man-made coral reefs, return of the Mexican jaguar

Citizen observers prevent violence, Wales gives away trees, Portugal quits coal

Special edition: religion and innovation

Supervised illegal drug use, medieval flood prevention, first Black woman in Pantheon

Political progress in Germany, economic theory saving coral, preventing crime with skateboards

Ethiopia’s speed schools, driver-owned ride hailing app, retirement home for elephants

LA’s female imams, roundabouts saving lives, tiny satellites helping the world

England and Wales ban child marriage, $70,000 minimum wage, cow’s milk without cows

Community internet in Africa, California fighting plastic waste, policing without officers

Special edition: Ending homelessness

Cloning the world’s oldest trees, COP26 climate agreement, exchange programme across states

Transparent salaries in Finland, blending nature with urban living, hemp sequestering CO2

North America’s first whale sanctuary, changing lives by phone, US Navy ship named after Harvey Milk

Fishing-free corridor in Pacific, gene sequencing fights childhood cancer, ATMs distribute green fuel

Pledges to quit coal and reduce methane, vaccine against cervical cancer, school without grades

Owls replacing pesticides, dogs saving koalas, eyesight for blind teacher

Restoring and returning land to locals, virtual reality empathy machine, airport pig patrol

BioNTech’s African mRNA factory, one billion COVID-19 shots in India, turtle population explodes

Special edition: Solutions for children

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Egypt’s first female judges, Colombia’s anti-machismo hotline, alpaca therapy for the elderly

Ireland pilots basic income scheme for artists, green social prescribing, Philly bans minor traffic stops

Cancer treatment breakthrough, clean environment declared human right, world’s fastest EV charger

US tackles overfishing, Mongolia to plant one billion trees, Japan harnesses typhoon power

Refugees reforest desert, returning state park to its Indigenous roots, regenerative ocean farming

World’s first malaria vaccine, Philadelphia’s tree ambassadors, saving Hawaiian Sign Language

Rehabilitation through dogs, NYC public libraries waive late fees, Alternative Nobel Prize

Prison-based book clubs, trans women win seats in German parliament, school mental health sick days

Paying addicts to stop using, restoring vision through gene therapy, self-defense for grandmothers

Rainforest returned to Aboriginal people, 50 million-tree forest, rethinking retirement communities

New York protects delivery workers, China to stop coal plants abroad, Swiss vote for same-sex marriage

Boosting Black athletes in medicine, saving journalists through photography, India’s familial forestry

Influencers prevent conflicts, city for the blind, feminist farmers in West Africa

Parental leave for US fathers, banning alcohol to quell domestic violence, new treatment for ovarian cancer

Equal pay in U.S. Soccer, toilet training cows, problem-solving courts

Self-governing street vendors in New York, tiny homes on rooftops, world’s first transgender bishop

Transforming the lives of beggars, free birth control under 25 in France, de-policing university campus

Gunshot intervention saving lives, Mexico decriminalises abortion, Denmark’s human library

Global effort to curb plastic pollution, street art for refugee integration, Tinder for homeless pets

Medellin becomes eco-city, mooncakes destigmatize mental health issues, London’s bicycle library

Paris’ 30 kph speed limit, “Peevolution” on French farms, oysters preventing floods

Eradicating malaria, employer-paid babysitting, cleaning rivers through bubbles and AI

Web game teaching responsibility, China steps up reforestation, law professor tutors slum children

First US state to teach news literacy, highlighting the voices of SA women, Germany’s Bikeygees

Artificial reef museum, reducing eviction rates, quota for trans people in public sector jobs

Pakistan to plant 10 billion trees, Congo’s children swap mining for education, social prescriptions

Afghanistan’s female journalist collective, building equity for students, cow-inspired sanitation solution

Serbia’s anti-corruption whistleblowers, ancient farming techniques return, townships reclaim jazz

Reviving Manchester’s peatlands, community fridge network, tax exemptions for non-car commuters

Millions of trees in old coal mines, Germany’s basic income lottery, free train tickets for abuse survivors

Oysters cleaning oceans, faith-based vaccine outreach, free pianos for St. Louis children

Maharashtra’s vultures return, world’s first underwater farm, Wales announces national forest plan

Restoring the ocean with seagrass, rebuilding Beirut sustainably, playground microclimate bubble

African wild dogs return to Malawi, Europe’s first solar-powered restaurant, autism-friendly toy shop

Sierra Leone abolishes death penalty, prioritising pedestrians, cigarette-hunting beach buggy

Kinetic energy powers street lights, ATM bioethanol in Kenya, tattoos saving the saker falcon

Nurturing South Africa’s young readers, equal pay for Paralympians, summer camp for prison daughters

Growing tiny forest movement, free school meals in California, LatAm’s first non-binary ID cards

Coral reef insurance, California’s guaranteed income plan, Madrid’s urban forest

India plants 250 million trees, goats fighting wildfires, Maine shifts recycling responsibility

No jail time for misdemeanours, flooded coal mines heat homes, beavers to flush deserts

Montana’s mobile mental health response, prison without fences, Sweden’s one-minute city

Redefining masculinity in Australia, crowdfunding streetlights, refugee integration scheme

Iceland’s four-day working week, world’s first elephant rewilding project, gun owners require liability insurance

Rewilding the seas, ex-inmates employed as probation officers, 250 million trees in India

Teen develops speaking-aid app, Turkish platform tackling femicide, first US menstrual hub

Mexico permits recreational marijuana use, turning prisoners into fitness entrepreneurs, US apple hunter

Manchester viaduct becomes urban oasis, Kenya’s solar panel boom, Mr. Trash Wheel cleans up Baltimore

Connecting El Salvador’s students, online tool reports nude photos, barbers promoting mental health

Prisoners changing justice system, first openly gay NFL player, Japan proposes four-day working week

Saving women from sextortion, “safety first” drug education, local food delivery platforms

Canada’s first POC Supreme Court nominee, fighting police brutality with jiu-jitsu, sea eagle returns to the UK

State financed imam training in Germany, Pacific state fish stock alliance, sheep live among solar panels

Car-free suburb in Germany, replacing pesticides with insects, 24/7 mental health support app

Glasgow to plant 18 million trees, Israel bans fur sales, multibillion-dollar plan to eradicate polio

Cheetahs return to India, cocoa power plant, anti-FGM radio

Global minimum tax rate for businesses, Kenya’s coral nursery, the Dutch pig whisperer

Turning the desert green, eco-jobs as an alternative to gangs, Colorado bans legacy admissions

Kenya’s pro-LGBT+ religious leaders, landmark climate ruling, gendered budgets in France

South Korea’s food recycling success, Chile bans single-use plastics, hairdressers fighting ocean oil spills

Berlin’s multi-faith worship centre, union recognition for Uber drivers, Tasmanian devils return to mainland

Menopause-friendly workplaces, youth breast cancer campaign, saving mangroves with microcredits

Ethiopia to plant 6 billion trees, crowdfunding French journalism, aging-friendly cities

Food delivery co-ops, reducing road accidents in Spain, supporting New York’s LGBT youth

Wales trials universal basic income, Paris bans city centre traffic, bisons fighting wildfires

Movement to clean up the world’s most toxic sites, turning oil platforms into reefs, nature on prescription

German Catholics bless LGBT couples, UK strengthens animal rights, $12 billion for California’s homeless

Whooping cranes make a comeback, high school student develops low-cost seismometer, food forests

Canadian startup reviving local news, electric suit for neurological patients, seabird robot scarecrow

Democratic salaries, US cities embrace guaranteed income, consumers turned into conservationists

Fighting homelessness through alternative policing, mental health crisis response team, zero-waste food bus

Bogota swaps trucks for cargo bikes, Spain’s first solar energy pavement, eradicating tropical diseases

Jails without guns and wardens, Japan’s ministry of loneliness, Afghanistan’s first special needs school

Malaria vaccine breakthrough, woman of colour makes Oscar history, fighting Black hair discrimination

Queer-led land access model, understanding India’s laws, The Gambia eliminates trachoma

Affordable housing in Atlanta, an alliance to save the ocean, prisoners serving haute cuisine

First reserve for Peru’s Indigenous peoples, Texas city ends homelessness, banning for-profit jails

Clubhouse boosts free speech in Iran, mushrooms against depression, super-rich taxing themselves

Violence interrupters in Minneapolis, France approaches short-haul flight ban, “Sea rice” captures carbon

US suicide rates plummet, New York’s urban beehives, Africa’s Wikipedia editors write their own history

Milk Tea Alliance, Alabama’s student homeowners, 17,000km bee motorway

Saving the world’s biggest seed, school for kids and parents, 3D printed net zero neighbourhood

Easter Recap: Argentina’s jaguars return, first woman to lead the WTO, Senegal’s male doulas

Easter greetings from Squirrel News

California condor returns, bees detect landmines, trackable reusable food container system

Bald eagle population quadruples, satellite-based financial aid, Middle Eastern peacebuilding trio

New York to legalise marijuana, tackling drought with recycled water, NZ approves paid miscarriage leave

Housing reparations in Chicago, langur population quadruples, Kenya’s women-only village

Pakistan’s first transgender madrasa, vaxi taxi, reducing cow emissions with seaweed

Flower-powered Ganges cleanup, vaccinating Manchester’s homeless, world’s first vegan hospital

Spain to test four-day workweek, hygiene hub for homeless people, librarians saving Syria’s books

Nepal’s earthquake-proof homes, Afghanistan’s female tech entrepreneurs, shop window concerts

Doctors prescribe time in nature, tackling domestic violence with theatre, cancer screening capsules

No more prison for Malaysia’s addicts, female anti-poaching squad, greenhouse oasis in Somaliland

Saving Uyghur culture, school for female shepards, local farmers reforesting Timor-Leste

Coffee shop run by homeless youth, fighting isolation in seniors, saving the world’s smallest pig

Uganda’s holistic eco-village, LGBT+ retirement home, Afghanistan’s first female animator

Fake online store fights domestic violence, Colombia’s door-to-door midwives, bilingual story time

Somalia’s female taxi driver boom, robot dog fights crime, Mexico’s femicide detective

Reviving wetlands in India and Australia, Seville’s orange-based energy, building trust with tiny houses

Mediation instead of eviction, new-style heart transplants, London’s floating green walkway

Japanese AI predicts tsunamis, free period products in New Zealand schools, koala prostheses

Zimbabwe’s sustainable mango surplus, digitally preserving Urdu, children bridging Middle Eastern divides

African women embrace birth control, treetop logging sensors, goats against garden weeds

Kenya’s Tiwi Turtle Police, Colombia’s landmark refugee ruling, ranchers go vegan

Opportunities for India’s neurodiverse people, animals reseed Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ecological living in Wales

Zero rhino poaching deaths in Kenya, Cuba expands private business permits, first Black woman to lead the WTO

Freedom of expression for Indonesian schoolchildren, citizens decide police budget, returning Chicago’s stolen cars

California’s porpoise population rebounds, tiny forest boom, Calabria’s anti-mafia cooking school

Brooklyn’s new approach to sex work, Black churches preach mental health care, major victory for Nigerian farmers

Outdoor therapy for veterans, Sri Lanka provides free period products, spacesuits saving mothers’ lives

Finishing the work of murdered journalists, renewables overtake fossil fuels in EU, only country led by women

Unprecedented protests in Russia, Indigenous leaders sue Bolsonaro, Germany bans killing of chicks

Jaguars return to Argentina, anti-malaria medical breakthrough, fighting child marriage with Taekwondo

Male doulas in Senegal, Zoom reunions for prisoners, simple fishing gear saves birds

Brooklyn’s progressive policing model, student-run refugee law clinics, the solutions whisperer

Sumatran rhino conservation, rewilding Britain with reptiles, New York’s plastic pollution superheroes

Juvenile criminal justice reform, peer respites as psychiatric support, toy subscription service

Community ownership of Africa’s rainforest, 6,000 km U.S. bike trail, Champs-Élysées’ green transformation

Four-day working week boom, successful police de-escalation training, electric car sales record in Norway

African free trade area, Buddhist monk battles human trafficking, Mexico City bans single-use plastics

Fighting FGM in Sierra Leone, Australia changes its national anthem, train carriage for Moscow’s stray pets

A recap of 2020 – Part 2: first female vice-president, Belarus’s historic uprising, Mexico to legalise marijuana

Argentina legalises abortion, UK’s first non-binary refugee, creative protesting in Belarus

Hungary’s opposition unites, tree mortgage scheme, climate change warning stickers

A recap of 2020 – Part 1: Falling suicide rates after gay marriage legalisation, Dengue breakthrough, $7,500 for the homeless

Christmas greetings from Squirrel News

Rewilding London, emergency maternal transport in Northern Nigeria, bathing water status initiative

Vehicle-to-grid school buses, Sesame Street’s Rohingya characters, hospital designed by children

Hospital prescribes free nutritious food, Native American interior secretary, USA’s largest wildlife crossing

Alternative palm oil, mobile greenhouses in conflict zones, support for undocumented students

Bowhead whales rebound in the Arctic, AR glasses for firefighters, Bhutan decriminalises homosexuality

Sniffer dogs protecting orcas, sleeper train revival, investing in women’s startups in Africa

Fishermen offer suicide prevention services, AI garage rewards non-drivers, biodegradable clay cups in India

Tasmania runs on 100% renewable energy, sharing geothermal power in Paris, bionic gloves for injured pianist

Free listening movement, Canada’s energy-efficient homes drive, ocean gardeners creating kelp burgers

First success in youth activists’ climate lawsuit, slavery survivors turn leaders, cooperatives tackle violence

Saving Syria’s seeds, $1 houses in Italy, tiny house villages for the homeless

Sustainable wooden cargo ships, at-home breast cancer testing kit, mud-and-bamboo community centre

Scotland to provide free period products, pro-democracy rubber ducks, fighting wildlife trade via WhatsApp

Southern Brazil’s shrimp explosion, Paris chooses parks over cars, historic female boardroom quota in Germany

Mexico to legalise marijuana, poaching detection technology, India’s first female surfer

Eliminating food deserts, social mobility for ex-prisoners, all-female Bangladeshi police team

World’s fourth biggest marine sanctuary, Malawi eliminates elephantiasis, illegal trawling app

Protecting whales with speed cameras, ghost kitchens, replacing homework with acts of kindness

COVID-19 vaccine, saving rural hospitals, three-word emergency locator system

US citizens choose democracy, first female vice president, dolphin rescue scheme

Record numbers of Native American women in Congress, LGBTQ+ protections in Italy, renaming Rhode Island

Oregon decriminalises hard drug possession, first transgender senator, NYPD’s first Black female chief

Rural broadband co-ops, first indigenous female foreign minister, the return of the lynx

L.A.’s largest wildlife bridge in the world, wind-powered cargo ships, racial equity roundtable

Treetop bridges for gibbons, Madagascar’s new biofuel, rooftop farms in Jordan

New constitution for Chile, eradicating harassment on farms, citizens’ assemblies

Pope endorses same sex partnerships, sustainable radio for Indian fishermen, female presidential candidates in Iran

Drone reforestation in Madagascar, Egypt’s desert forest plans, wireless on wheels

Underwater reef music, preventing domestic homicides, hedgehog highways

First Ebola treatment, jail ballots, AI predicted homelessness

Early warning device against epileptic seizures, mothers adapting to post prison life, all-women repair service

$7,500 for Canada’s homeless, 30% of California reserved for conservation, one million new trees in Singapore

Reducing street violence in Chicago, rediscovering “extinct” species, Finland’s 16-year-old PM

Colorado pardons marijuana convictions, saving turtles with decoy eggs, Belgium’s transgender deputy PM

Lowering suicide rates of gun owners, gay men hijack #proudboys hashtag, Amazon conservation from your couch

Koala backyard sanctuaries, LA’s free mental health centre, reimagining Atlanta’s jail

Cheetah population doubles, non-violent policing in LA, UK’s first social supermarket

$1 hearing aid, rat receives gold medal, honeybees as sniffer dogs

Tackling child marriage through football, replanting Australia’s forests, preserving a rare Indigenous language

Botswana women to become landowners, diversity update for NZ schools, free period products in France

Iran’s #MeToo movement, Coral transplants in Turkey, AI to protect elephants and humans

Portland housing reform, Sudan separates religion from the state, Bangladeshi floating gardens

Surfing scientists, electricity-free oxygen dispensers, schools where children are in charge

Ex-inmates as firefighters, public speaking for refugees, telehealth in Nigeria

Protecting rhinos in Namibia, water harvesting to help rural farmers, haircuts for all in India

Youth activists sue 33 countries over climate change, Ghana’s bamboo bikes, fighting water poverty in Nigeria

Burmese turtle revival, free Parisian transit for under 18s, musical liberation for Australia’s refugees

Basic income in Kenya, equal pay in Brazil’s football, the guerilla rewilder in Britain

Seaweed as food and fuel, Amazonian co-fishing, Senegal’s first female professional surfer

Dengue breakthrough, U.S. plastic pact, televised Mexican classrooms

Sri Lanka to be landmine-free by 2025, artificial terracotta coral reefs, shared English gardens

Africa declared free of wild polio, US schools revamp curricula, reef protection in Belize

Mexico’s climate win, female warriors of the forest, 3D-printed concrete

Universal basic income trial in Germany, braille Lego bricks, renaming streets after star pupils in Mumbai slums

AI coral production lines, mapped out chimpanzee origins, reinstated indigenous names

Belarus’s historic uprising, Bogota’s bike revolution, P&G’s sustainability vow

Creating farmland from desert, the rise of Egypt’s female motorcyclists, inter-religious football in Iraq

Platform for Indigenous stories, refugees bring Spanish villages to life, kitchen farming in the US

Danish seaweed dwellings, Vatican council female quota, decolonizing Nigerian architecture

Redefining obesity in Canada, the Great Green Wall of Africa, turning beer into renewable energy

White supremacist conversion, Polylepis tree restoration, Eurasian tiger preservation

Nuclear fusion project gets go-ahead, E-highways proposal, the power of female rap in Morocco

Water irrigation in Nepal, India’s bicycle boom, Vietnamese wildlife trade ban

Welsh language gets a scientific boost, drones tackling plastic pollution, ultra-thin solar panels

Fish food made from CO2, device making seawater drinkable, rise of animal-assisted therapies

World’s most sustainable furniture factory, pollination-friendly solar farms, platform for non-stolen second hand bikes

3 million new trees for Uganda, robot dolphins, Washington Redskins change name

Farmers returning land to nature, how fintech helps refugees, NYC’s reflective rooftops

Basic income pilot program in 15 US cities, 150,000 hectares for bees in the UK, Sudan ends FGM

Seven-year-old raises thousands, LGBT+ rights in Dutch constitution, modular housing for formerly homeless

Dutch IDs to remove sex, Scotland adds LGBTQ+ to curriculum, former child soldiers battle COVID-19

Bogota restricts bullfighting, a sculpture saving corals, wastewater as a resource

Sydney switches to 100% renewable energy, bald eagle conservation success, fatherhood classes in Rwanda

Irish Traveller makes political history, Kyrgyz app tackles bride kidnapping, redefining rape in Sweden

Brazil newspaper’s pro-democracy campaign, rainbow flags on Moscow embassies, wild ass making history

Black in Fashion Council, Afghanistan’s green stimulus, Mãori voices centred on topic of colonisation

Africa unites against COVID-19, e-learning phones for Lagos children, the university only hiring women

Protection of immigrants in the US, suicide prevention initiative in Brazil, conservation by counting lions

Tinder for trees, refugees running language courses, robotic sloths monitoring the environment

LGBT workers backed by Supreme Court, alternatives to policing in the US, Diego the libidinous tortoise

Zero deforestation agreement in the Amazon, sailboat-powered coffee beans, biodiverse mini-forests

Saving the world’s pangolins, smart farming app rescuing crops, coral reef satellite protection

Ethiopia to plant 5 billion trees, New York legislates for police accountability, Britain goes coal-free

Minneapolis plans to abolish police, anti-discrimination law in Berlin, bees and butterflies on Irish farms

Far-right hashtags drowned with K-pop content, Germany boosts electric car charging, working without bosses

Minneapolis schools cut police ties, eco-friendly cow burps, friendship benches in Zimbabwe

Surfing therapy in Cape Town, turtle hatchling initiative, empowering women through sustainable travel

World’s rarest primate escapes extinction, France’s first transgender mayor, ‘miniature rewilding’ in UK

Opt-out organ donation, malaria vaccines, collaboration between doctors and traditional healers

Desert transformed into forest in China, Barbie protests the male gaze in art, stork chicks hatch in UK

Plant-based bottles, video games teaching children about COVID, database helps conservation efforts

Domestic violence facilities in Brazil, Scottish schools look outdoors, grime and drill offers sound advice

Finnish basic income scheme success, Germany bans conversion therapy, hands-free sanitising stations

Malaria-resistant microbe discovered, chalking up forgotten flora, Uzbekistan recognises stateless citizens

Wildlife given citizenship, planting 10 billion trees, assault weapons banned in Canada

FGM criminalisation in Sudan, LED lights save fish trapped in nets, end of coal power in Sweden and Austria

Vilnius becomes giant open-air cafe, Chile’s fishing net recycling mission, helping women into work in Pakistan

Ocean plastic-hunting satellites, rooftop wind power boost, the UK’s first openly HIV-positive mayor

Milan plans radically greener future, Olaf the IVF toad is born, indigenous detainees in US given voice

Carbon capturing artificial jellyfish, laptops for online lessons, largest ever online mobilisation for Earth Day

War veteran’s fundraising efforts, blood donation accessibility for gay men, LGBT+ protection in Virginia

Concrete penguins, India’s postal service becomes lifeline, phantoms enforcing lockdown in Indonesia

Bionic coral to save reefs around the world, urine tests to prevent malnutrition, the COVID tracing app

WWF’s ocean cleanup initiative, end of dog meat consumption, sustainable Nepalese hospital

Amsterdam’s planet-first economic model, mating pandas, indigenous rights in Brazil

Domestic violence support in the Yukon, solar panel driveways, deterring youth gang crime in El Salvador

Saving fish populations, natural flood solutions, carbon-negative hand sanitiser

Syrian refugee’s super-seeds, largest ever arts crowdfund, 3D printers rallying for face shields

Migrants in Portugal granted rights, Scottish islands pioneering hydrogen power, and AI that can read minds

Andorra legalises same-sex marriage, plastic-eating bug discovered, reforesting ancient US woodlands

Pablo Escobar’s hippo legacy, beauty parlour for female heroin users, the school of Minecraft

The educational videos improving maternal health, population rise in endangered rhinos, stores run by AI

Locust invasion solutions, supermarket staff given emergency worker status, water conservation in India

Road safety records in Oslo and Helsinki, lifesaving HIV medicine, LGBT visibility in Argentina

Canada bans conversion therapy, man cured of HIV for 30 months, Minecraft publishes uncensored journalism

Free transport in Luxembourg, Coventry drivers paid to take public transport, Kenyan donkey trade banned

Gardens made from recycled mattresses, Swiss LGBT legislation, zero-waste grocery delivery service

The microbes saving bees, preventing maternal deaths, protective UV contact lenses

Cacao tree economics, coronavirus vaccine efforts, walking sharks

Rescuing Dinosaur Trees, helping older renters and free sanitary products for students

Australian vegetable airdrop, days off for nonsmokers, carbon footprint labelling

Return of English beavers, predicting water conflict, rental solar power

Wales tackles period poverty, AI joins fight against cancer, and Duolingo sparks Gaelic resurgence

Sex education in Tunisia, Game-changing HIV drug in South Africa, Qualifications Passport for refugees

Affordable renting legislation, democratic victory in Hong Kong, gender violence protests across Spain

Living root bridges, deafblind sign language, first hurricane-proof country

Suicides fall as gay marriage is legalised, rediscovery of lost mouse-deers, successful four-day working week trial