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.
Although the country’s official policy since 1987 has been to not engage in any contact, a federal law passed in July 2020 allows religious missionaries to remain inside reserves with isolated #Indigenous groups.
The day, which honors the lost children and survivors of Indigenous schools, comes after more than 1,000 unmarked graves were discovered at former schools this year.
Tessa Ganserer and Nyke Slawik from the Greens part have made history in Germany as the first transgender women to win parliamentary seats in the recent national election.
Turkey’s parliamentarians on Wednesday unanimously approved the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
For nearly 40 years, women in Iran have been forced to cover their hair and wear long, loose garments.
The world’s first malaria vaccine just cleared its biggest hurdle: after pilot programs delivered more than 2.3 million doses across Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi, the World Health Organization has recommended RTS,S for broad use in sub-Saharan Africa. The shot targets the deadliest malaria parasite and prevented roughly four in ten cases in trials — modest-sounding, but a genuine triumph after a century of scientific effort. WHO leaders say it could save tens of thousands of young lives each year, working alongside bed nets, drugs, and mosquito control rather than replacing them. For a disease that has shaped childhood across the continent for generations, this is a real turning point — and a reminder that the slow, stubborn work of global health science can still change the world.
The City Council voted unanimously to decriminalize the non-commercial possession and cultivation of many psychedelics for “religious, spiritual, healing, or personal growth practices.”
The goal is to create a legal environment in which at least 1% of Mongolia’s GDP to be spent annually on combating climate change and desertification, and on increasing environmentally friendly and green facilities.
“Long-duration energy storage, like this iron-flow battery, [is] key to adding more renewables to the grid,” Venkat Viswanathan, a battery expert and associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Compact calls on nations to halt the construction of unabated coal-fired power generation projects by the end of this year. Initial signatories include Sri Lanka, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Montenegro, France, and the U.K.
