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.
In addition, all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100% recycled tin soldering and 100% recycled gold plating by 2025, and magnets in its devices will be made completely of recycled rare earth materials.
The bipartisan “Clean Slate” legislation, as advocates call it, wipes clean a range of convictions from people’s records after a defined waiting period.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order preventing people in the state from being extradited for providing, receiving, or facilitating gender-affirming care.
The number of motorists has fallen by 64% since 1999, while the number of climate-friendly cyclists has increased by 386%.
Ghana’s approval of the R21 malaria vaccine — the first anywhere in the world — clears the way for children as young as five months to be protected against a disease that kills roughly 620,000 people every year, mostly young kids in Africa. Developed at Oxford’s Jenner Institute, R21 showed up to 80% effectiveness in early trials and is expected to cost just a couple of dollars per dose. The Serum Institute of India is preparing to produce up to 200 million doses a year, with a factory rising in Accra so supply stays close to home. After a century of scientific near-misses, an African regulator stepped forward and said: this one is ready.
Wind energy just hit a historic milestone: the world’s installed wind capacity has crossed one terawatt, equivalent to the combined output of roughly 500 large nuclear plants running at once. What took more than four decades to build is now expected to double within just eight years, according to Wood Mackenzie. Offshore wind is leading the surge, projected to grow sevenfold by 2032 and reach 30 countries, while emerging markets from Uzbekistan to North Africa are joining the boom. Behind the numbers are decades of engineers, policymakers, and workers steadily making turbines taller, cheaper, and more powerful. It’s a reminder that the clean energy transition, once dismissed as wishful thinking, is now a cornerstone of how the world keeps the lights on.
With the Crimes Amendment Bill, the group of 15 islands located in the South Pacific has rescinded a 1969 law that said men who have sex with men could be jailed for up to five years.
With planned tenders for 250 GW over the next five years, India’s renewable energy capacity could reach close to 550 GW by 2030. The world currently has just over 3000 GW of renewable energy capacity total.
A 10-milliliter vial of insulin will be available for no more than $30, cutting costs by 90% for many.
A single dose of this radioimmunotherapy was found to eliminate tumor cells and extend the life of mice injected with cancerous cells for more than 221 days (the trial endpoint), compared to just 19 days in untreated control mice.
