Once on the brink of collapse, U.S. fisheries have rebounded thanks to an unexpected partnership between commercial fishermen and environmental advocates that turned scarcity into sustainability and profit.
In Ecuador, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has successfully prevented mining, logging and oil activities across 40,000 hectares of rainforest for generations, using a community-led guardian programme.
Researchers in Israel have now identified five million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, using artificial intelligence to recover names once thought lost to time.
California has returned 17,000 acres of ancestral foothill habitat to the Tule River Indian Tribe, where Tule elk have now been reintroduced for the first time in decades.
Nigeria has rebuilt and expanded schooling for millions of students through a nationwide girls’ education programme that is transforming access to safe, modern classrooms.
Physicists in Canada have mathematically demonstrated that the universe cannot be a computer simulation, showing that reality operates beyond the capabilities of any computational system.
The Czech Republic has taken a landmark step for children’s rights by entirely banning all corporal punishment from January 2026, setting a clear legal standard that protects nearly two million children from violence.
In Australia, the Federal Court of Australia has formally recognised nearly 1 million hectares of land in Cape York as belonging to Indigenous peoples.
In Mozambique, nearly 3 million girls aged 12–18 have now received the HPV vaccine across all 11 provinces, marking a major step forward in cervical cancer prevention.
In Ethiopia, the near-completion of the Modjo–Hawassa Expressway is transforming travel for more than 1.5 million people, with the new 202-kilometre route expected to cut journey times by up to 40%.
