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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.
February 9 Trans people in Hong Kong won a major legal victory when the city's highest court unanimously ruled that requiring full gender reassignment surgery just to update an ID card violates the right to bodily integrity. For the trans men who brought the case, it means something as basic as using a public restroom without fear. The ruling strikes down the old requirement but leaves the replacement standard undefined, so advocates will be watching closely....
2023 C.E.
February 8 Wind and solar together generated 22.3% of the European Union's electricity in 2022, edging past nuclear and gas to become the bloc's largest power source for the first time ever. What makes this remarkable is the year it happened — Europe was navigating war-driven gas shortages, a once-in-500-year drought that crippled hydropower, and unexpected nuclear outages. Clean energy quietly absorbed most of the shock, with solar alone climbing 24% and twenty countries setting national...
2023 C.E.
February 8 Australia's Great Barrier Reef just got a powerful new defender: for the first time ever, a federal environment minister has blocked a coal mine using national environmental law. The proposed open-cut mine would have operated for about 20 years just 10 kilometers from the reef, with sediment and runoff likely to harm its already fragile waters. Public response was overwhelming — more than 9,000 submissions poured in during a 10-day comment window, most urging...
2023 C.E.
February 8 Unlike for most other medical benefits, veterans do not have to be enrolled in the VA system to be eligible. More than 18 million veterans in the U.S. could be eligible.
2023 C.E.
February 8 The new laws mean transgender people aged 18 and older can legally change their gender by a process of self-declaration, and no longer have to go through an onerous medical and psychiatric approval process first.
2023 C.E.
February 6 University of Adelaide researchers claim to have made clean hydrogen fuel from seawater without pre-treatment. Their findings could eventually provide cheaper green energy production from a near-limitless source to coastal areas.
2023 C.E.
February 6 A painful, parasitic disease that once infected 3.5 million people per year is tantalizingly In 2022, just 12 cases were record worldwide.
2023 C.E.
February 3 California's push to electrify transportation is tackling the real bottleneck — not cars, but the places to charge them. More than half the funding targets commercial trucks and transit buses, vehicles that contribute disproportionately to urban air pollution yet have been the hardest to clean up. The investment also fits a nationwide effort, with the federal government approving EV infrastructure plans across all 50 states. Still, hitting the state's 250,000-charger goal by 2025 demands...
2023 C.E.
February 3 Psychedelic medicine just crossed a historic threshold — Australia is now the first country to give psychiatrists a legal pathway to prescribe psilocybin and MDMA as regulated treatments for PTSD and treatment-resistant depression. For patients who have cycled through every available option without relief, that's a genuinely new door opening. The decision followed thousands of public submissions and a growing body of clinical evidence, including a landmark New Zealand Journal of Medicine study on...
2023 C.E.
February 2 Fungal infections kill an estimated 1.6 million people every year, yet until now no vaccine has ever existed for any of the major culprits. Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a single shot that trains the immune system to recognize all three deadliest fungal genera simultaneously — a feat never before demonstrated in peer-reviewed research. Crucially, it reduced illness and death in immunocompromised animals, the very people most at risk. For a...
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