Progress notes: Workers鈥� quality of life improves as they gain control. For hourly earners, predictable schedules are increasingly a legislated right.
Progress 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.
Progress roundup: legal protection for forest inhabitants in northern Thailand; and in the U.S., better park accessibility for people with autism.
Our progress roundup highlights getting new voices into the conversation, from men who are calling hotlines to boardrooms increasing in diversity.
Progress roundup: In Brazil, a court condemns a past dictatorship鈥檚 crimes. In the U.S., red flag laws are removing guns from hands deemed dangerous.
Progress roundup: Australia returns land to Indigenous residents, and in U.S. cities, aggregated data helps citizens curb urban blight and evictions.
What does the global popularity of the violent Netflix series 鈥淪quid Game鈥� say about the current cultural zeitgeist?
Progress roundup: Young adults aging out of foster care and repeat offenders needing treatment are two different groups targeted with more services.
In our progress roundup, conservation measures are looking after an Italian tree with connections to St. Francis, and tunas fished around the world.
Animal gains: Our progress roundup includes a healthier marsupial, an animal-testing ban in Mexico, and a new UNESCO, five-nation biosphere reserve.
Progress roundup: Clean energy and air are featured in three briefs this week. In Iceland, the world鈥檚 largest carbon capture plant is up and running.
The Daughters of the American Revolution has broadened its membership and historical research, leading to a more accurate, inclusive view of history.
Progress roundup: A preschooler鈥檚 mom who braided her son鈥檚 hair and the family of a Jazz Age icon both made their cases for respect 鈥� and won.
In our progress roundup, Arizona includes intellectual disabilities in its Silver Alerts, and Namibia recognizes native tongues in its driver鈥檚 test.
In our progress roundup, Newark replaces its lead pipes and an Indonesian court grants villagers the right to speak up against a factory spewing waste.
In our progress briefs, eight small countries are together selling fishing rights to foreign fleets, improving their own economies and sustainability.
To honor earlier cultures, communities are protecting more African American burial sites. Two U.S. art collections have returned antiquities to Iraq.
Our progress roundup highlights a Brooklyn museum鈥檚 return of artifacts to Costa Rica, and an effort from academia to help Iraq preserve its history.
In our progress roundup, engineers address environmental concerns mere decades old: air conditioning鈥檚 climate impact and aging wind turbine blades.
Our progress briefs highlight the fostering and preservation of marginalized cultures, from Indigenous Australians to refugees who鈥檝e lost homelands.
