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Busy Chicago street, for article on U.S. homicide rate

2026 C.E. June 4

U.S. homicides dropped 21% in 2025, to likely the lowest rate in 125 years

Homicides in the U.S. fell faster in 2025 than any single year on record, and researchers say the rate may now be the lowest since 1900 — a remarkable marker in a decades-long arc toward safer cities. The drop touched nearly every major crime category and 27 of 35 cities studied, from Richmond to Los Angeles. Experts point to community intervention programs, stronger social fabric rebuilt after pandemic disruption, and courts finally functioning again....

Someone holding a Chilean flag, for article on leprosy elimination

2026 C.E. June 3

Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to eliminate leprosy, WHO verifies

After more than three decades without a locally acquired case, Chile has become just the second country in the world — after Jordan — to be officially verified by the World Health Organization as having eliminated leprosy. The verification, announced jointly by WHO and the Pan American Health Organization, marks the end of a long arc. Chile's last locally acquired case was reported in 1993, originating on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where the disease first...

plastic pellets, aka nurdles, on a beach, for article on plastic pellet pollution law

2026 C.E. June 2

Illinois becomes first Great Lakes state to pass plastic pellet pollution law

In a watershed moment for tackling industrial pollution at its source, Illinois has become the first Great Lakes state to hold plastic pellet makers legally accountable for spills. These lentil-sized beads, called nurdles, escape during production and shipping, poison waterways, and get mistaken for food by fish and birds; an estimated 22 million pounds of plastic waste enters the Great Lakes yearly. The new law classifies nurdles as pollutants, requires spill-prevention plans from producers,...

River through a valley with houses on the riverside, for article on river barrier removals

2026 C.E. June 1

Europe removed a record 603 river barriers in 2025, freeing 2,324 miles of river

Europe's rivers are breaking free of their industrial past at a pace never seen before, as a continent-wide movement to tear out obsolete dams gathers momentum. Most barriers coming down are small — under 6.5 feet tall — and long past their purpose, relics that still block migrating fish. The effort is spreading, too: Sweden cleared more than any nation, while Iceland and North Macedonia removed their first barriers ever. Against a goal of...

Coral underwater, for article on marine protected area

2026 C.E. May 31

Papua New Guinea announces one of the world’s largest no-take marine reserves

Papua New Guinea just pledged to protect roughly 200,000 square kilometers of Pacific Ocean — an expanse nearly the size of the United Kingdom. The proposed Western Manus Marine Protected Area sits inside the Coral Triangle, often called the Amazon of the seas, and a 2024 National Geographic Pristine Seas expedition there documented deep-sea species never before recorded in PNG waters — including the elusive yokozuna slickhead. Researchers also noticed fewer large predators than...

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