This archive spans one of the most eventful periods in recent history, from 2017 through 2025. Browse more than 4,100 articles documenting scientific breakthroughs, policy wins, social progress, and human ingenuity from the present era. Each story highlights what people and communities around the world are building, solving, and achieving right now.
Australia’s parliament has passed the country’s most significant emissions reduction legislation in more than a decade. It requires that total emissions from major industrial facilities must come down, not just be offset.
Ecuador launched a plan that would effectively wipe out roughly $1 billion of interest on part of its debt in exchange for its protection of the Galápagos Islands.
“In our first treated case, we were thrilled to see that the aggressive decline usually seen after birth simply did not appear,” said lead author Professor Darren Orbach of Boston Children’s Hospital.
Wind power just crossed a historic line in the U.K., supplying 32.4% of the country’s electricity in the first quarter of 2023 — narrowly beating gas at 31.7%. It’s the first time on record that wind farms have outpaced gas plants over a full quarter, and renewables together delivered nearly 42% of Britain’s power. Decades of offshore wind investment, falling turbine costs, and the urgency triggered by Europe’s 2022 energy shock all helped get the country here. The lead researcher called it a “genuine milestone,” and rightly so. For climate movements everywhere, it’s quiet proof that energy transitions, however slow and contested, really do arrive — and once the turbines are built, the wind keeps blowing for free.
The provincial government is providing $1.1 billion while the federal government will contribute $780 million, making it North America’s largest-ever electric bus acquisition.
The mayors of Orlando, Miami Beach, Tampa, Tallahassee, and four other Florida cities have released proclamations declaring that their communities are safe and affirming places for LGBTQ+ Floridians in defiance of new state policies.
Oregon regulators announced on April 18 that they have approved the nation’s first state-licensed psilocybin facilitators to administer the psychedelic to adults at regulated facilities.
5 million businesses were founded in the U.S. in 2022. 47% of those new businesses were founded by women. Before the pandemic, just 29% of American entrepreneurs were women.
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalize homosexuality in a move hailed as a “historic development” by campaigners.
“While other states are dead set on ripping away reproductive rights and attempting to erase the existence of trans and nonbinary individuals, we’re doing the opposite: We’re making Maryland a state that is welcoming, inclusive, and that safeguards the rights of all people.”
