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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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2023 C.E.
September 13 Koala protection in New South Wales just took a meaningful step forward, with the state government banning logging across core habitat that conservationists call the densest concentration of koalas remaining in the world. The protected land is designed to anchor a much larger planned national park that could give the species a genuine path back from endangered status — no small thing given the dramatic population declines recorded over recent decades. Still, conservation groups...
2023 C.E.
September 11 Bengal tigers are quietly reclaiming ground in Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest — and the prey recovery driving that rebound is just as striking. Spotted deer, which make up roughly 79% of tigers' diet here, have grown to more than 141,000, while protected land has more than doubled to cover 52% of Bangladesh's share of the forest. Community response teams have helped eliminate human-tiger conflict incidents for five years, treating local people...
2023 C.E.
September 10 Seeing just two humpbacks in Puget Sound was noteworthy in the 1980s. Today, the number of humpbacks has grown by an order of magnitude from about 500 on the West Coast to more than 5,000, including about 2,000 in Washington and southern B.C. waters.
2023 C.E.
September 9 The G20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 sovereign countries, along with the EU, addressing major global economic issues. The African Union now has the same status as the EU offering a greater voice to African perspectives and interests.
2023 C.E.
September 8 More than 2,000 white rhinos — roughly 15% of the wild southern white rhino population — are heading back to the wild, thanks to a landmark purchase by African Parks. The conservation NGO bought the entire Platinum Rhino herd and plans to release the animals across protected sites in southern Africa over the next decade. The rhinos lived in semi-wild conditions on the ranch, and experts believe they'll adapt quickly to true wilderness, drawing...
2023 C.E.
September 7 The new vaccine developed by the International Vaccine Institute, Gotovax, and Valneva Sweden is low-cost, lasts longer than alternatives, and is easier and cheaper to deliver around the globe. Cholera kills more than 100,000 people worldwide every year.
2023 C.E.
September 7 Human kidney tissue has been grown inside a pig embryo for the first time, with roughly half the cells in the developing kidney being human. Researchers in Guangzhou reprogrammed adult human cells, then injected them into pig embryos engineered to leave a "gap" where their own kidneys would form. The human cells moved in and self-organized into an early-stage kidney structure over 28 days of gestation. It's not a transplantable organ, and real ethical...
2023 C.E.
September 7 Liquid hydrogen is a giant pain to handle, but it's one of the few technologies with a genuine chance of decarbonizing long-range flight.
2023 C.E.
September 7 The Biden administration also announced proposed rules aimed at providing stronger protections against new leasing and development in portions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that are designated as special areas for their wildlife, subsistence, scenic or other values.
2023 C.E.
September 6 Mexico's Supreme Court's unanimous ruling gives millions of people the legal protection to access abortion care at federal health facilities nationwide — a landmark shift driven by years of feminist organizing and legal strategy by groups like GIRE. It follows similar wins in Argentina and Colombia, reflecting a genuine regional momentum. Still, Congress must formally remove abortion from the federal penal code, and the marijuana precedent shows that process can stall for years. Legal...
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