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.
The court’s decision requires Galveston County to redraw its 2021 map by October 20. The revised lines must include at least one district with a majority of Black and Latino people among the four districts that elect representatives to the county’s commissioners’ court.
The seed collector networks are the base of the ecological restoration chain and will play an essential role in enabling Brazil to reach its goal of restoring 12.5 million hectares (30.9 million acres) of native vegetation by 2030 — vital in the fight to avoid climate breakdown.
Using data from 2002-2021, the Governors Highway Safety Association says that fatal crashes involving a young driver in the U.S. fell by 38%, while deaths of young drivers dropped even more, by about 45%.
A $3.46 billion federal investment is rewiring America’s electric grid, spreading across 58 projects in 44 states to make power more reliable and ready for clean energy. The projects are designed to bring more than 35 gigawatts of new renewable energy online — roughly half the country’s utility-scale solar capacity as of 2022. They’ll also fund 400 microgrids, giving hospitals, neighborhoods, and rural communities a way to keep the lights on when storms take down the main grid. Each project had to direct benefits toward communities historically hit hardest by outages and pollution. For a clean energy future to actually reach everyone, the wires connecting it all matter just as much as the panels and turbines — and this is what modernizing with equity in mind looks like.
Hong Kong’s Court of Appeals ruled in favor of two same-sex couples in separate cases involving their rights to own and rent public housing. While same-sex marriage is not legal in the city, the rulings follow other decisions that have firmly established same-sex couples’ rights to equal treatment under the law.
For centuries, this disease has afflicted millions of people worldwide, causing pain, severe disability and social stigmatization. It is now the second neglected tropical disease (NTD) that the Southeast Asian country has eliminated following the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in 2017.
Green ammonia is about to be made on a working farm for the first time anywhere, at a macadamia operation outside Nairobi producing one ton per day. The plant runs on solar power, splitting water for hydrogen and pulling nitrogen from the air — skipping the natural gas that fertilizer production has depended on for over a century. That matters because the average bag of fertilizer in sub-Saharan Africa travels 10,000 kilometers to reach a farm, leaving growers exposed to every global price shock. Built by U.S. startup Talus Renewables, the system is small enough for a single farm and designed for places where supply chains are long and fragile. If it works, it offers a glimpse of food systems that are both cleaner and more self-reliant.
Senate Bill 673 will create the “Ebony Alert” system for missing Black children and young women. When activated, the proposed system – similar to Amber or Silver alerts — would inform people of missing Black children and young women between the ages of 12 to 25.
Now, half of the world’s economy has already reached peak gasoline and diesel demand while electric vehicle deliveries in every segment are shooting through the roof.
More than a century ago, two dams were placed on the Elwha, blocking almost 90 miles of the river and its tributaries in Washington State. The dams were removed in August of 2014. Now, for the first time in more than a hundred years, members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe are fishing for coho salmon on the free-flowing river.
