All the latest stories of social progress from around the world. Climate action. Social justice. Poverty alleviation. Real democracy. Conscious organizations. Public health.
In just six short months since instituting a ban, the city has eliminated the use of plastic bags by more than 90%, a total of roughly half a million bags every day.
Abu Dhabi reduces single-use plastic bag use by 90% Read more
Initially launched in 2008 by the Brazilian government, in recent years the Fund has been effectively frozen by the country’s far-right president Jair Bolsanaro.
Brazil’s supreme court reactivates $620 million fund to protect the Amazon Read more
The study found that after ten years 80% of patients were still alive. Typically, only roughly 50% of people in similar conditions would be expected to survive over that span.
Groundbreaking experimental breast cancer vaccine passes first human trials Read more
These massive conservation efforts will not only serve to preserve ancestral Indigenous lands and ways of life, but ecosystems that promote biodiversity, help sequester carbon, and keep polluting resources out of the air.
The city intends to start work on the 43.3-gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm on the Taiwan Strait before 2025, according to the city’s five-year plan.
Chaozhou, China to build world’s largest offshore wind farm Read more
This precipitous drop – likely a result of concerted investments in sanitation, nutrition, education, electricity, and more – means that now only 16% of Indians are experiencing poverty compared to over 50% in 2005.
More than 400 million people in India left multidimensional poverty between 2005 and 2020 Read more
Protesters have gathered in cities around the world in a show of solidarity with women in Iran who have been bravely protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country’s morality police.
The treaty, supported by the Vatican and the World Health Organization, has so far been backed by more than 65 cities and governments internationally.
Vanuatu becomes world’s first nation to call for global treaty to phase out fossil fuels Read more
The five-year overall survival rate has increased from 49% to 70% since the 1970s. Because of this improved rate of survival, an estimated 3.5 million lives have been saved since 1991.
Cancer death rates fall steadily in the U.S., with more survivors than ever Read more
Some 5.2% of children were in poverty last year, down from 9.7% the year before, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit.
The child poverty rate in the U.S. fell by nearly 50% in 2021 Read more
