As temperatures drop in Sweden, Stockholm is using commercial advertisements to help people get to warmth and shelter; Lego has pledged $100 million to the nonprofit behind Sesame Street...
Peru will end the production, distribution, and consumption of single-use plastic bags; a new law in Niger protects people fleeing violence, natural disasters, and famine; and Victoria’s new cabinet...
Researchers have found a way to use iron for the production of solar panels, replacing so-called rare-earth metals; a network of local credit unions is helping marginalized in the...
Ever since major supermarket chains phased out plastic bags, Australians have used an estimated 1.5 billion fewer bags; an Indonesian NGO is helping poachers stop their illegal trade instead...
Chile will now allow people over the age of 14 to officially change their name and gender; Madrid bans polluting vehicles from the city centre; and the Swedish mall...
A pop-up shop set up by Help Refugees and Glimpse allows Londoners to buy Christmas gifts for refugees; an agroforestry system gives cocoa farmers in Brasil more autonomy and...
The world’s wealthiest countries are set to raise $100 billion to aid vulnerable states in their fight against climate change; new waterless toilets attempt to tackle the overuse of...
South African platform ForGood works like an online dating platform, but matches skills and services for the NGO sector; medical supervision in so-called ‘fixing rooms’ is saving lives by...
46 million women from the 69 poorest countries have been getting access to contraception over the past six years; UNESCO has praised Chad and Uganda for providing education to...
Same-sex couples in Costa Risa will be allowed to get married by mid-2020; an app helping farmers identify poor quality seeds could save African farmers hundreds of millions of...
Wind power met 98% of Scotland’s electricity demand in October and also surpassed national demand on over half of the days; scientists have found a bacteria that can pull...
Researchers from Duke University have developed a technology that can generate clean, reusable water from poop as an alternative to the current costly off-site biological treatment; Spain will add...
Paris’s regional transport agency will offer rentals of 10,000 e-bikes in September 2019, with plans to expand the program to 20,000; braving frostbite and the Taliban, Hanifa Yousoufi scaled...
More than 100 women are projected to join the US House and Senate following the US midterm elections; Flood-proof clean energy; the worst floods in a century hit Kerala...
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