All Points of Progress
- From jaguars in Mexico to snow leopards in Bhutan, wilderness beckons
Progress roundup: Making space for jaguars and snow leopards to roam and call more places home is increasing their populations.
- Tools for new readers, from Braille Lego to a Somali phone app
Progress roundup: To unlock the power of reading, Lego now sells bricks with Braille, and an app is helping 350,000 people in their native tongue.
- From Netherlands to Indonesia, solutions for safer and snugger homes
Progress roundup: GPS on elephants reduces conflict with humans in Indonesia, and a Dutch technology for energy retrofits is a face-lift for homes.
- The power of togetherness: Sharing knowledge, and a meal
Progress roundup: Science gives a woman speech synthesized from her brain signals, and a Paris arrondissement works hard to build community.
- Schooling the teachers, from California to Cambodia
Progress roundup: A pipeline for early childhood education teachers is boosting ranks. In Cambodia, a World Bank program impacted 450,000 students.
- For safer drinking water, the ingenuity of simple solutions
Progress roundup: Researchers develop an elegantly simple filter for microplastics, and a nonprofit is giving access to potable water to millions in East Africa.
- Signaling what matters: Indigenous representation, free school lunch
Progress roundup: Brazil’s census finds more Indigenous people with new counting methods. And Africa’s largest school meals program aims to fight hunger.
- Progress WatchHotlines, foreign policy, and monkeys: Where empathy drives progress
Progress roundup: Chile makes gender a part of its foreign policy, and scientists in China are using butterfly-inspired nanofilms to cool objects.
- Solar panels get a reputation boost, and a green container ship sails
Progress roundup: A cargo ship runs on biomethanol, and solar power lowers demand on a grid, allowing the third-largest power plant in New England to be safely retired.
- The power of mending, from African ecosystems to self-repairing metals
In our roundup of progress worldwide, researchers discover metals that repair themselves, and vultures help scientists protect big cats in Africa.
- Knowledge sharers: Guatemalan farms, tech firms mapping illegal fishing
Progress roundup: In Guatemala, farmers go to school to teach each other. And tech firms are cooperating on open-source maps to spot illegal fishing.
- Preserving hope, for juveniles in US prisons and soldiers in Israel
Progress roundup: A look at data led to new ideas for lowering the suicide rate for Israeli troops, and an end to life in prison for juveniles in three U.S. states.
- Environment watch: From Indigenous lands to water recycling at the office
Progress roundup: Water recycling goes extreme and in-house for San Francisco’s biggest buildings. And worldwide, Indigenous peoples control more lands.
- Children of adoption: How families from Chile to Taiwan are made whole
Progress roundup: Adults “stolen” from Chile during dictatorship are finding birth families. And in Taiwan, LGBTQ+ couples are granted adoption rights.
- Snakes, bats, and rocks, anyone? New species and a deep dig into Earth.
Progress roundup: Scientists delve below the ocean floor and across the terrestrial hot spots of Southeast Asia, using words like “dream” and “wonder.”
- Island hopping: LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean, climate funds in Indonesia
Progress roundup: More Caribbean nations decriminalize same-sex relations. And Indigenous Indonesians have new funds to take climate control into their own hands.
- Fairy circles and electricity from air: Inclusive and innovative science
Progress roundup: In Australia, a research collaboration incorporated Indigenous expertise. In the U.S., engineers found a secret to harvesting energy from air – nanopores.
- For children in east Africa, the dignity of hairstyles and better health
Progress roundup: Rastafarians end hair discrimination in Malawi, and an opponent of female genital mutilation wins the Templeton Prize in Somaliland.
- Greek beaches and Moroccan holidays: Two signals of acceptance
Progress roundup: In Greece, wheelchair users have an easier way to enjoy the ocean. And in Morocco, a holiday recognizes the Berbers, 40% of the population.
- Boosting jobs: From coding camps to streamlining for startups
Progress roundup: From Argentina to Benin, governments and industry boost employment with free education and by smoothing the path to entrepreneurship. And, we highlight a discovery for the future of electricity