All Points of Progress
Tiger births and Benin Bronzes: Restorations of nature and artIn our progress roundup, a return to the old, plus new ways of making food and fuel: more tigers in Nepal, the Smithsonian on returning artifacts, world’s largest vertical farm, and more.
History uncovered: Fossils older than dinosaurs, and a religious refugeProgress roundup: Discoveries in both Brazil and Turkey were so vast that paleontologists and archaeologists have a wealth of opportunities to learn.
Bouncing back: Cheese in Bosnia, trees around the worldProgress roundup: Bosnian cheesemakers revive their craft after the war, 36 countries count gains in tree coverage, plus briefs from Kenya, India, and the U.S.
What a view: More starlit skies and a mapped ocean floorProgress roundup: Cooperation across groups achieves goals such as understanding the geography of the seafloor and eliminating light pollution.
Roofs and rights – protecting homeless people and migrant workersProgress roundup: In Houston, many different organizations worked together to help vulnerable people. In Indonesia, a lawsuit forced the government to act.
The changing face of justice, from Illinois to EcuadorProgress roundup: Stories of representation – from a Black female judge on a state’s high court to the Indigenous activists who won a Goldman Prize.
Care strategies: Every animal in a rainforest, every wave of an oceanProgress roundup: Australia diversifies government, a nonprofit farm helps former prison inmates, and a photo database may help protect the Amazon.
Nature takes over: Kenyan wastewater, US toxic dump turned wetlandProgress roundup: Time and ingenuity produce a hydroponic waste treatment system in Kenya, and a Superfund site becomes a wetland in Ohio.
Generosity for children, from wartime schooling to music educationProgress roundup: Generosity toward kids is seen in schools lacking the arts, and in a Warsaw school created for children who escaped the war in Ukraine.
Easing daily life for families, from Morocco to VietnamProgress roundup: Poverty reduction, parental leave, and how governments and big institutions can effect positive change for societies.
Tree stumps and old phones as solutions, not throwawaysProgress roundup: Farmers who let trees regenerate in their fields improved crops. And to reduce e-waste, one country subsidizes electronics repairs.
Beach and river cleanups: Strange finds, and fish fertilizer for saleIn our progress roundup, volunteers are cleaning up river trash by the ton, and others are making something useful out of the waste left by fishers cleaning their catch.
Green energy from sewage, and furniture from plastic wasteProgress roundup: An Oregon county funds cogeneration water plant, Dutch open-source nonprofit helps refugees make new plastics from old, and more.
Fault, justice, and firsts in court, nature, and the newsroomIn our progress roundup: no-fault divorce spreads in the U.K., data on exonerations aids advocates, Nepal and British Columbia preserve species, and more.
Ocean surprises: Get out your microscope and headphonesIn our progress roundup, scientists used sound to confirm a healthy coral reef, found two new phytoplankton, and tested an anti-malaria mosquito net.
Small towns, big change: How Sardinians and Colombians shook things upIn our progress roundup, communities around the globe improved the lives of their own residents. But the positive impact of their self-improvement often reaches beyond.
Trees for a desert and fish for a sea: Repairs from Oaxaca to Abu DhabiProgress roundup: deliberate care, slow handiwork, and patience are improving environments on land, in the water, and in cities.
From Zambia to Wales, the people power of bikes and wind turbinesProgress roundup: A nonprofit that gives away bikes in rural areas and a consumer-owned wind farm are highlights this week.
The power of steel, bamboo, and the game of chessProgress roundup: Bangladeshi architect designs a modular home for climate resiliency, and a Nigerian entrepreneur encourages kids to stay in school.
The regulated future of plastic, and one small plan for coalProgress roundup: The U.N. is writing a treaty to govern the life cycle of plastic, the world’s largest coal port scales back to survive, and more.
