All Points of Progress
Small towns, big change: How Sardinians and Colombians shook things upIn our progress roundup, communities around the globe improved the lives of their own residents. But the positive impact of their self-improvement often reaches beyond.
Trees for a desert and fish for a sea: Repairs from Oaxaca to Abu DhabiProgress roundup: deliberate care, slow handiwork, and patience are improving environments on land, in the water, and in cities.
From Zambia to Wales, the people power of bikes and wind turbinesProgress roundup: A nonprofit that gives away bikes in rural areas and a consumer-owned wind farm are highlights this week.
The power of steel, bamboo, and the game of chessProgress roundup: Bangladeshi architect designs a modular home for climate resiliency, and a Nigerian entrepreneur encourages kids to stay in school.
The regulated future of plastic, and one small plan for coalProgress roundup: The U.N. is writing a treaty to govern the life cycle of plastic, the world鈥檚 largest coal port scales back to survive, and more.
Home again: Bison in Oklahoma and anteaters in ArgentinaOur progress briefs include species reintroductions, restitution for Latvian Jewish communities, and an overturned anti-transgender law in Kuwait.
Small actions add up to benefit ocean habitats and animalsProgress roundup: Women in Indonesia are replanting mangrove forests, fishers in Baja California tested LEDs on nets to reduce bycatch, and more news.
Where the scales tipped toward women, LGBTQ, and Indigenous peopleProgress roundup: South Africa passes laws against gender violence, France bans 鈥渃onversion therapy,鈥� and Ecuador鈥檚 courts rule for more Indigenous control.
From a redwood forest to 鈥榁enezuela鈥檚 lungs,鈥� lands in Indigenous handsIn our roundup, progress is reinforcing roots for Indigenous peoples in California and Venezuela, renters in Beirut, giraffes in Africa, and whales near the bottom of the Earth.
Coping technologies, from 鈥榣iquid trees鈥� to smart white canesProgress roundup: Disability sector blossoms in Africa, a photobioreactor gives hope for city air quality, and stories about education and new laws.
French drains, barrels for rain, and a wind-energy bullet trainProgress roundup: New Orleans聽citizens build聽green infrastructure,聽plus wind-fueled trains in Morocco and a win for coal-mine cleanup in India.
Lowering burdens: Overdraft fees in US, plastic packaging in FranceProgress roundup: Some U.S. banks end a practice that affects low-income people the most, France continues phasing out single-use plastics, and more.
Shut the door, and stay out of the way: Strategies to help wild animalsProgress roundup: Hong Kong bans ivory trade, Costa Rica鈥檚 camera traps prove success of habitat protections, and the new 鈥淕reat Blue Wall鈥� of the Indian Ocean.
City or country, policies that green the landscapeProgress briefs: Planted spaces yield benefits beyond the expected, from urban farms in Argentina to tree growth in Australia enabling species spread.
Animal crossings, and other networks for safetyProgress roundup: A Canadian highway features paths that protect animals and people. In Bangladesh, cyclone preparation means layers of warning. 聽
Moms in school: From teens in Tanzania to college students in USFrom teens in Tanzania to community college students in the U.S., mothers are getting more encouragement and help to stay in school.聽
From around the world, a year鈥檚 worth of high notesOur weekly roundups covered 257 moments of progress in 2021, evidence that humanity is capable of working together to advance a common good.
Amid species loss, the 鈥榦h my鈥� mammals that are doing betterProgress roundup: Amid species loss, conservation and human attitude shifts are bringing back high-profile animals like mountain gorillas and jaguars.
Workers鈥� well-being: Workweek laws and co-ops boost fairnessProgress notes: Workers鈥� quality of life improves as they gain control. For hourly earners, predictable schedules are increasingly a legislated right.
Low-level traffic stops decrease; Saudi women in the workplace increaseProgress roundup: Governments are giving more freedom to those who鈥檝e been denied it, from women in Saudi Arabia to Black drivers in U.S. cities.
