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27. October 2022

30,000 square kilometers of ocean in the Kattegatt, a sea area between Denmark and Sweden, is now protected by a total ban on bottom trawling.

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24. October 2022

$ 266 was pledged by Australia to the Global Fund towards ending HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.

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21. October 2022

2070 is the year, around which the ozone hole over Antarctica will have closed, as new research predicts.

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19. October 2022

8.6% decline in under-five mortality in India between 2019 and 2020 and a 6.7% decline in infant mortality at the same time.

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17. October 2022

14% decrease in child marriage in Nigeria, from 44% of girls married before their 18th birthday in 2016 to 30% in 2021.

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13. October 2022

68% increase in the size of the global middle class since 2011 amid the growing prosperity of emerging economies.

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10. October 2022

87 sensitive zones in the Atlantic are now closed to bottom trawling, putting 16,419 km2 of EU waters below 400 m off limits.

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7. October 2022

552,000 tonnes of packaging were collected for recycling in 2021 in Sweden, an increase of 6% since 2020 and a new recycling record.

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6. October 2022

42.5% decrease in new leprosy cases globally in the past decade.

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3. October 2022

56% decline in the number of Youth arrests for violent crimes in the U.S. between 2010 and 2020.

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