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.
Global investment in new capacity for renewable energy is on course to reach $2.6 trillion by the end of this decade, more than triple the amount of the previous decade, the UN says.
Malaria research has taken a genuinely hopeful turn, with Kenyan scientists at KEMRI identifying a bacterial derivative that kills Plasmodium falciparum through a mechanism the parasite hasn’t yet learned to resist — a critical advantage as drug resistance spreads. Building on earlier trials showing ivermectin-treated patients had blood lethal to mosquitoes, this research opens a new line of attack, originated by African scientists and designed around pregnant women and children from the start. Human trials still lie ahead, and that path is long — but the science points toward tools the world urgently needs.
Located in northwest Canada, Yukon’s Peel watershed covers 67,431 square kilometres of wilderness that is rich in biodiversity. Eighty-three percent will now be preserved as Conservation Areas.
Shanghai-based energy technology manufacturer Envision has joined the global RE100 initiative committing to be powered by 100% electricity by 2025.
India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on Oct. 2, in its most sweeping measure yet to stamp out single-use plastics.
The Irish government has announced an ambitious plan to fight climate change, setting a planting target of 440 million trees by 2040.
Growth in the U.K. offshore wind industry is transforming the U.K.’s coastal towns from empty ports to bustling industry with thousands of skilled job opportunities.
It has been three years since the continent’s last reported case of the virus.
Tennessee’s fourth largest city, Chattanooga, became the first American airport to be 100% solar powered — and joins only a handful of airports who claim the same across the world.
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has argued the country should decriminalize all drugs in order to take power away from the cartels and criminal gangs.
