All Points of Progress

A 2016 survey by the International Cooperation Committee of Animal Welfare found that two thirds of Chinese shoppers would pay more for pork that had been treated well. 

In 2017, 39 percent of Americans said interracial marriage was a good thing for society, up from 24 percent in 2010.

Mayor Marty Walsh's push to eliminate the Boston's net trash output is a key component of the city's goal to become carbon neutral by 2050.

Hospitals in the US are setting up food banks, and medical schools are putting cooking classes on the curriculum – part of a shift in focus away from simply treating disease toward caring for the whole person.

Harsh prison sentences for juveniles are a legacy of the get-tough-on-crime laws of the 1990s. New York's move to take 16- and 17-year-olds out of the adult system leaves North Carolina as the only state that considers 16-year-old offenders adults by default.

It won't immediately solve our energy woes, but does increase our control over light-induced chemical reactions.

The American Lung Association, which tracks air quality in the United States, says the Clean Air Act is working.

Largely overshadowed by the emotional protests demanding police reforms, a wave of legislation and executive orders has been enacted at the state level in the past two years.

In the Southwest and beyond, irrigation technology and other steps such as planting 'cover crops' to enrich the soil are making a difference.

As states passed marriage equality laws, the passage of these laws led to a 7 percent drop in teen suicide attempts, a new study finds. That figure climbed to 14 percent for LGB teens.

Public sector employment has long been the holy grail of Spanish employment, thanks to the stability such jobs offered. But in today's more uncertain, post-crisis atmosphere, entrepreneurs are finding new success.

Analysis: Somalis celebrated a small but important success in a halting fight for normalcy, as Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was elected president Wednesday. He confronts massive corruption and insecurity.

A new Philadelphia law bars employers from asking job applicants to provide their salary history, a move equal pay advocates say could help close the wage gap that often begins as soon as women graduate from college.

In 2016, the NYPD reported 998 shootings – the fewest since the city started tracking them. New York's sustained drop in crime stands in contrast to other US cities, and its policing innovations could offer solutions.

A new study by Brookings found increases in natural gas and nuclear energy for electricity generation have allowed parts of the US to 'decouple,' with states reducing their carbon dioxide emissions but seeing their economies grow. 

517 companies earned a perfect score in the 2017 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, marking a record high for the annual list. 

On Monday, Mexico established 160 million acres in biological reserves, surpassing UN targets three years early.

The rare weasel species is making a comeback in Washington state, thanks to the coordinated conservation efforts of government and tribal groups.

By letting refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere into its work training programs, Germany can help its shorthanded enterprises – and enable the new workers to get on with their lives in a sustainable way.

More communities are focusing on providing their chronic homeless populations permanent, supportive residences. Experts say that's the path to take to in order to put a roof over every citizen's head.