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November 8 Sudan's malaria vaccine rollout is reaching more than 148,000 children under 12 months in its opening phase, making it the first country in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region to launch the shot nationally. That's remarkable on its own, but consider the backdrop: hospitals shuttered, health workers unpaid for months, and a war reshaping daily life. Even so, the Federal Ministry of Health worked with UNICEF, WHO, and Gavi to train staff, build cold chain...
November 8 Women in New Mexico just made history: voters sent 60 women to the 112-seat state Legislature, the largest female legislative majority by seat count any U.S. state has ever seen. The new class crosses party lines and includes Heather Berghmans, who campaigned on housing while raising an infant daughter, and Republican Nicole Chavez, the first Latina legislator-elect in her Albuquerque district. Many credit training programs like Emerge with building a pipeline that turns first-time...
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November 8 Brazil's new restoration plan sets out to revive 12 million hectares of degraded land — about half the size of the United Kingdom — by 2030. Launched at the COP16 biodiversity summit, Planaveg 2.0 leans on a hopeful reality: 5.6 million hectares in the Amazon are already regrowing on their own, simply because clearing has stopped. The rest will take real work, including planting and stronger compliance from private landowners, who hold roughly three-quarters...
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November 5 LignoSat, a 10-centimeter cube of magnolia wood, is now circling Earth as the world's first wooden satellite — a small experiment with big implications. Built by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, a company with 350 years of timber expertise, it was delivered to the International Space Station in November 2024. The idea is beautifully simple: when aluminum satellites burn up on reentry, they leave behind metallic particles drifting in the upper atmosphere, but wood...
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November 5 Sarah McBride won Delaware's only U.S. House seat by nearly 15 points in November 2024, becoming the first openly transgender person elected to Congress in its 235-year history. At 34, she arrives with a record of firsts already behind her, including a Delaware state senate seat she won in 2020 and successfully defended two years later. She campaigned on healthcare costs, reproductive freedom, and workers' rights — the issues her constituents named first —...
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