Progress roundup: Animals learn to detect bombs, shipping companies turn to wind energy, and Bolivians cooperate to protect their water, upstream and down.
Progress roundup: Land use adaptations produce results. Timber harvests coexist with restoration, and farmers are finding good yields in former paddies.
Progress roundup: Hong Kongers are protecting reefs, Indigenous Canadians are conserving millions of acres of land and water, and more.
Progress roundup: The Dutch improved their food supply, and then shared it. And around the globe, better mangrove protection is increasing carbon sequestration.
Progress roundup: Both when trust is returned to locals, and when government protects nature from overutilization, disparate interests can make change.
Progress roundup: Belize frees conservation funds with 鈥渂lue bonds,鈥� African refugee teaches himself solar-powered internet, gecko species recovers.
Progress roundup: South Korea collects food waste from residents; the quiet conservation efforts in Haiti; first-ever decline in smoking rates worldwide.
Points of Progress writer Erika Page reflects on lessons learned during her year on the Monitor's progress beat.
Responsibility, equality, dignity, ingenuity, cooperation 鈥� five values that drove progress around the world in 2022.
Progress roundup: Dutch engineers create a simple solution to corral trash on waterways; conservationists create hope for Africa鈥檚 endangered penguin.
Effective altruism has gained a wide following. In the fall of FTX, some critics see a need for rethinking how to put generosity into practice.
Progress roundup: Tradition improves U.S. job training, and bringing back buckwheat as a Dutch crop pays off in biodiversity 鈥� and old-fashioned pancakes.
Progress roundup: Care for the environment doesn鈥檛 always require the newest technology. Citizens in Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Greece are making strides.
Progress roundup: Big problems can require multipronged solutions. In Japan, better train service and tiny cars helped bring down traffic fatalities.
Progress roundup: Governments fuel the dignity of people with wider labor protections, free lunch in more U.S. schools, and the lowering of poverty in China.
Inflation is top of Americans鈥� minds heading into the midterm elections, and economic pain in the household wallet may translate into trouble for Democrats at the ballot.
Progress roundup: New laws plus volunteers are cleaning up Australia鈥檚 beaches. And in the Western U.S., incarcerated people are helping save a habitat.
Progress roundup: Daunting goals that are being achieved include eliminating traffic deaths in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the healing of the ozone layer.
Progress roundup: Colleges that help students gain economic mobility, the digitized history of centuries of Timbuktu scholarship, and sex selection for boys falls in India.
