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The world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news.
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We are building the world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news. Change is not only possible, it has happened consistently throughout human history.
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2022 C.E.
October 20 Marine protected areas can do more than guard what's inside their borders — and Papahānaumokuākea is proving it. This vast Hawaiian reserve, spanning over 580,000 square miles, was created to protect biodiversity and culturally sacred Indigenous sites, not to boost commercial fishing. Yet catch rates for yellowfin tuna in surrounding waters rose 54%, a spillover effect driven by the monument's sheer scale. The findings strengthen the global case for ambitious ocean protection, arriving just...
2022 C.E.
October 20 Zimbabwe just became the first country in Africa to approve cabotegravir, a long-acting HIV prevention injection given once every two months — joining only Australia and the United States. For young women and girls especially, that change is huge: a single shot replaces the daily pill regimen that stigma, privacy concerns, and patchy healthcare often make hard to sustain. It builds on a remarkable turnaround, with AIDS-related deaths in Zimbabwe falling from roughly 130,000...
2022 C.E.
October 19 Germany's new program will support Afghans suffering persecution at the hands of the Taliban, including women's and human rights advocates and people who have persecuted because of their religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
2022 C.E.
October 19 In 2022, firms have announced 61 new CCS projects, bringing the total number of commercial facilities in the pipeline to 196, including 30 currently in operation, 11 under construction, and 153 in development, a Global CCS Institute report found.
2022 C.E.
October 18 Irish company OceanEnergy has signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize he OE35, billed as the world's largest capacity floating wave energy device, off the coast of Orkney, Scotland.
2022 C.E.
October 18 Dubbed Hollywood's first Asian American movie star, Wong championed the need for more representation and less stereotypical roles for Asian Americans on screen.
2022 C.E.
October 17 In a 50 to 16 vote, the largest state in Mexico has legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the 29th of 32 Mexican states to do so.
2022 C.E.
October 17 The German reinsurance group Munich Re will no longer invest in or insure the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gasfields, new oil-fired power plants or developments in “midstream” oil infrastructure, beginning in April 2023.
2022 C.E.
October 11 California has just become the fifth state in the US to legalize the composting of human bodies, a planet-friendly alternative to the toxic process of cremation.
2022 C.E.
October 11 Spina bifida causes nerve damage that accumulates in the womb, and until now, medicine could only respond after that damage was done. A clinical trial at UC Davis Health is changing that window, applying a stem cell patch directly to a fetus's spine during pregnancy to support repair before birth. The first baby treated was expected to arrive with leg paralysis — instead, she was kicking and wiggling her toes. If results hold across...
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