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