All Points of Progress
The changing face of justice, from Illinois to EcuadorProgress roundup: Stories of representation 鈥� from a Black female judge on a state鈥檚 high court to the Indigenous activists who won a Goldman Prize.
Care strategies: Every animal in a rainforest, every wave of an oceanProgress roundup: Australia diversifies government, a nonprofit farm helps former prison inmates, and a photo database may help protect the Amazon.
Nature takes over: Kenyan wastewater, US toxic dump turned wetlandProgress roundup: Time and ingenuity produce a hydroponic waste treatment system in Kenya, and a Superfund site becomes a wetland in Ohio.
Generosity for children, from wartime schooling to music educationProgress roundup: Generosity toward kids is seen in schools lacking the arts, and in a Warsaw school created for children who escaped the war in Ukraine.
Easing daily life for families, from Morocco to VietnamProgress roundup: Poverty reduction, parental leave, and how governments and big institutions can effect positive change for societies.
Tree stumps and old phones as solutions, not throwawaysProgress roundup: Farmers who let trees regenerate in their fields improved crops. And to reduce e-waste, one country subsidizes electronics repairs.聽
Beach and river cleanups: Strange finds, and fish fertilizer for saleIn our progress roundup, volunteers are cleaning up river trash by the ton, and others are making something useful out of the waste left by fishers cleaning their catch.
Green energy from sewage, and furniture from plastic wasteProgress roundup: An Oregon county funds cogeneration water plant, Dutch open-source nonprofit helps refugees make new plastics from old, and more.
Fault, justice, and firsts in court, nature, and the newsroomIn our progress roundup: no-fault divorce spreads in the U.K., data on exonerations aids advocates, Nepal and British Columbia preserve species, and more.
Ocean surprises: Get out your microscope and headphonesIn our progress roundup, scientists used sound to confirm a healthy coral reef, found two new phytoplankton, and tested an anti-malaria mosquito net.
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.
