A UN-backed initiative is showing strong results in reducing adolescent pregnancies in the Philippines, by empowering young people to take part in local decision-making.
Amid threats from loggers, miners and armed groups, Indigenous communities across Colombia’s Amazon have formed unarmed patrols to defend their forest — guided not by weapons, but by ancestral wisdom and unity.
Hundreds of Australian bagpipers joined forces in Melbourne to play AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll),” setting a new record for the world’s largest bagpipe ensemble.
The number of people without official identification has fallen to 800 million worldwide — down from 1 billion in 2017 — according to the World Bank’s latest Identification for Development report.
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.
