All Points of Progress
Bright spots: Dark sky in China, and TV lessons for Afghan girlsProgress roundup: The BBC creates educational TV shows for Afghan girls stuck at home; a Chinese community gets certified by the Dark-Sky Association.
Reunited: Stolen art goes home, and why lonely habitats need companyProgress roundup: New York's Antiquities Traffic Unit returns hundreds of objects, the Amazon's isolated habitats grow stronger when linked, and more.
Meeting unique needs: From sign language TV to teen pregnancy preventionProgress roundup: Meeting the needs of different sectors of society requires unique solutions, in Liberia, the UK, and a new U.S. national monument.
Keeping it wild: Tokyo farms and Europe鈥檚 last undammed riverProgress roundup: There's balance in growing food among skyscrapers, keeping Europe's last wild river unbounded, and bringing back an endangered feline.
Double lives: From glass back to sand, and how solar panels can save waterProgress roundup: Tests show recycled glass aids Louisiana marshlands, floating PV panels slow evaporation, non-invasive imaging uncovers mysteries in Giza.
Erasing stigmas: Women workers鈥� unique right, and an inclusive censusProgress roundup: Spain passes Europe鈥檚 first menstrual leave law, Chile鈥檚 fishers sacrifice catch for marine refuges, Singapore makes a High Line.聽
From bird hunting in EU to poaching of pangolins, curbs on harmProgress roundup: Lead shot is banned near EU wetlands, a broad new program to save pangolins, and women's firsts in Bolivia and the Navajo Nation.
Laws with teeth: Slowing shark loss and new coal minesProgress roundup: Quotas boost ranks of female legislators, more shark protections in Costa Rica, and how a law averted a new coal mine in Australia.
Burn to preserve, and other forest practices, from Ecuador to CaliforniaProgress roundup: Indigenous peoples and governments are working together to preserve forests with controlled burns, protection from logging, and more.
Library thrives in a Pakistan gun town; and the olfactory superpower of AIProgress roundup: Books inspire readers in a village known for black-market guns, AI and a desert bug combine for a powerful nose, and more.
Gaming as serious work for students, and trees that celebrate girlsProgress roundup: Gaming sparks kids鈥� civic interest, an Indian village that greened spaces to honor girls, Sierra Leone鈥檚 new laws elevate women.
Cargo ships鈥� new age of sail, and rats trained to find bombsProgress roundup: Animals learn to detect bombs, shipping companies turn to wind energy, and Bolivians cooperate to protect their water, upstream and down.
New harvests: Skinny trees in the Amazon, tomatoes instead of riceProgress roundup: Land use adaptations produce results. Timber harvests coexist with restoration, and farmers are finding good yields in former paddies.
Protecting urban oysters and Canadian wildsProgress roundup: Hong Kongers are protecting reefs, Indigenous Canadians are conserving millions of acres of land and water, and more.
From self-interest to doing a world of good, in food tech and mangrovesProgress roundup: The Dutch improved their food supply, and then shared it. And around the globe, better mangrove protection is increasing carbon sequestration.
Good intentions, good results: People pull together for forests and a fishProgress roundup: Both when trust is returned to locals, and when government protects nature from overutilization, disparate interests can make change.
Power unlocked: Debt funds conservation, refugee brings solar to his campProgress roundup: Belize frees conservation funds with 鈥渂lue bonds,鈥� African refugee teaches himself solar-powered internet, gecko species recovers.聽
Keeping food out of landfill in South Korea, and nursing Haiti鈥檚 forestsProgress roundup: South Korea collects food waste from residents; the quiet conservation efforts in Haiti; first-ever decline in smoking rates worldwide.
The values that led humanity forward this yearResponsibility, equality, dignity, ingenuity, cooperation 鈥� five values that drove progress around the world in 2022.聽
Bubbles that fight trash, and a penguin chick surpriseProgress roundup: Dutch engineers create a simple solution to corral trash on waterways; conservationists create hope for Africa鈥檚 endangered penguin.