Nigerian mom designs solar-powered cribs that put an end to baby jaundice disease
The Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. It has already been used on 300,000 babies.
Today (2017 C.E. - 2025 C.E.)
This archive spans the years 2017 through 2025, a period marked by rapid advances in clean energy, medicine, technology, and social equity. It collects documented breakthroughs, policy wins, and scientific achievements from the present era. If you want evidence that progress is real and ongoing, this is where to look.
Solar projects transform abandoned coal mines in Virginia
The Nature Conservancy hopes to bring clean energy jobs to the overwhelmingly rural and Republican area in Virginia that has lost more than 27,000 people since 2010.
New cancer therapy destroys advanced ovarian and colorectal tumors in mice in 6 days
Clinical trials at Rice University are expected to begin in the next few months, after results on mice were described as “very exciting.”
Giant floating solar panel flowers replace coal in Korea become a tourist destination
The solar project on the 17-mile-long reservoir in Hapcheon is able to generate 41.5 megawatts, enough to provide power for 60,000 people more than the total population of the county.
U.S. Congress passes bill named after Emmett Till to make lynching a hate crime
The bill would make it possible to prosecute a crime as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury.
World’s largest green H2 hub, Hydrogen City, to open in Texas in 2026
Green hydrogen is getting a serious proving ground in South Texas, where Green Hydrogen International just broke ground on Hydrogen City — a facility designed to produce more than 2.5 billion kilograms of clean hydrogen each year at full build-out. The trick is storage: massive salt caverns beneath the Piedras Pintas salt dome will hold the energy, smoothing out the natural ebbs of solar and wind. From there, pipelines will carry hydrogen to Gulf Coast ports to make greener fertilizer and sustainable aviation fuel. Phase one comes online in 2026, an early real-world test of whether green hydrogen can finally scale up to decarbonize the industries batteries can’t reach.
Scientists develop a new method for recycling industrial plastic at room temperature in 20 minutes
The researchers at the University of Bath hope the new process will help recycling become less energy intensive, and thus more economically viable.
The Philippines raises the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16
Prior to the new law, the Philippines had the second lowest age for sexual consent worldwide, next to Nigeria’s age of 11, according to Child Rights Network.
U.S. officially enacts Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault Act into law
The law is retroactive, freeing individuals who have been bound by arbitration language to pursue legal action against their harassers.
Nearly 200 countries pass historic resolutions linking animal welfare and the environmental crisis
The crucial resolution will help develop a better understanding of the relationship between improving animal welfare and tackling the drivers of wildlife loss, climate change, pollution and pandemic diseases.