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...
Thanks to the Montreal Protocol of 1987, the ozone layer will fully heal by 2050; philanthropists and 10 governments pledged $1 billion for newborn and childhood nutrition, access to...
Thanks to a new technique using electrical stimulation, three paralyzed patients have been able to walk again; Palau becomes the first country to ban the sunscreen chemicals damaging coral...
With the help of microloans millions of marginalized families in India have started and expanded businesses, purchased essentials during emergencies, and supported their children’s education; Alabama’s Auburn University is...
250 organizations such as PepsiCo, Unilever, and H&M have made a pledge to fight plastic waste and work with governments in order to increase recycling; from just 23 left...
Members of parliament elected Sahle-Work Zewde to become Ethiopia’s first female head of state; the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to ban common single-use plastics; and researchers found a social...
The Isle of Man is showing the world how working together as a community can result in eliminating plastic from local beaches in just a decade; coffee company Change...
The city Winchester, Virginia, has built a reputation for coming together as a community as a response to addiction; research by the UN Population Fund attributes the dropping unplanned...
A new scheme has resulted in a 50% drop in violence against women in Tajikistan; Jamaica will introduce a ban on single-use plastic bags, straws, and styrofoam starting next...
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