All Points of Progress
- Points of Progress: Seabirds take off in Namibia, and moreIn good news this week: Fishermen and conservationists have saved thousands of seabirds over the past decade聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Moscow hires first female metro drivers since 鈥80sIn good news this week: In a change to laws barring women from certain jobs, Moscow hired women to drive metro trains 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: FIFA guarantees maternity leave, and moreIn good news this week: The world's largest soccer organization ensures female players will receive聽maternity leave 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Denmark ends hunt for oil deposits, and moreIn good news this week: Denmark will no longer search for new oil deposits as part of its emissions reduction goals 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Bolivia recognizes same-sex civil union, and moreIn good news this week: After a two-year legal battle,聽David Aruquipa and Guido Monta帽o can now register聽their union聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- The other 2020: 274 ways the world got better this yearIt might not feel like it, but in 2020聽every single continent saw incredible progress, in areas ranging from聽conservation to human rights.
- Points of Progress: Urban farming takes off in Seattle, and moreIn good news this week: Community leaders are seeing payoffs in the fight to help urban farmers succeed 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Solar power use boosts teacher pay, and moreIn good news this week: Savvy school administrators saved money with solar power, then gave teachers a pay bump 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Norway updates hate speech laws, and moreIn good news this week: Norway鈥檚 parliament approved new legal protections for聽transgender and bisexual聽people聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Personal freedoms increase in UAE, and moreIn good news this week: Legal reforms in the United Arab Emirates have given citizens have more personal liberty 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Lynxes make a comeback, and moreIn good news this week: Iberian lynxes nearly disappeared in the early 2000s, but they鈥檙e on their way to recovery聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Humane shark attack prevention, and moreIn good news this week: Scientists used magnets disguised as kelp forests to stop shark attacks in South Africa 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: New Zealand elects diverse gov鈥檛, and moreIn good news this week: New Zealand welcomes its most diverse parliament and violent crime drops in the United States聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Tasmanian devils back in Australia, and moreIn good news this week: Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: US Navy honors Doris Miller, and moreIn good news this week: Togo has a record number of women ministers and France expanded animal welfare laws聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Progress WatchPoints of Progress: States ban shark fin trafficking, and moreIn good news this week: Florida became the latest state to ban the trafficking of shark fins聽鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Progress WatchPoints of Progress: Dozens of species saved from extinctionIn good news this week: The Booker Prize finalist list is more diverse than ever, conservation efforts save 48 species 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Zimbabwe bans mining in parks, and moreIn good news this week: Coal mining companies can no longer extract resources from聽Zimbabwe鈥檚 largest nature reserve 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Reforestation project smashes goal, and moreIn good news this week: A decade-long project aimed at helping countries restore degraded forests has seen big returns 鈥 plus more positive headlines.
- Points of Progress: Building a recycled highway, and moreIn good news this week: California partnered with an聽engineering startup to pave a highway with recycled plastic 鈥 plus more positive stories.