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Over three years, Tamil Nadu's forest department and roughly 10,000 villagers from 16 fishing communities revived 2,057 hectares of the state's largest mangrove forest at Muthupet, replanting native trees, re-cutting 380 km of clogged tidal canals and bringing back the birds and fish that depend on the wetland.
On 24 July 2025, WHO certified Timor-Leste as malaria-free after the young nation drove cases from more than 223,000 in 2006 to zero by 2022, with no malaria deaths since 2015.
The Amur leopard, once down to around 25 animals, has rebounded to roughly 130 individuals in Russia, with monitoring in 2024-2025 revealing the highest density ever recorded. Decades of protection at Land of the Leopard National Park drove the recovery of the world’s rarest big cat.
From record TV deals to new professional leagues, women's sports experienced unprecedented growth with billions in new investment during 2024-2025.
At its 47th session in Paris, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed 26 new cultural and natural sites across five continents, bringing the global list to 1,248 properties in 170 countries.
RMIT University engineers developed electrodes that capture metals from wastewater to form catalysts for splitting water into green hydrogen, using carbon made from agricultural waste and tackling pollution and water scarcity at once.
Denmark introduced a world-first bill making it illegal to share deepfake images, videos and audio based on a real person, giving citizens copyright over their own faces.
China's carbon dioxide emissions dropped for the first time during economic growth, as electricity from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal-power output even as demand surged.
In July 2025, the WHO recommended twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir as a new pre-exposure option for HIV prevention, after trials showed it prevented nearly all infections among people at risk.
The International Court of Justice ruled that governments can be held legally accountable for climate emissions, in what was described as a once-in-a-generation moment for climate justice.
When fire and smoke trapped two mothers and four children in a Paris apartment, 39-year-old school caretaker Fousseynou Cissé climbed onto a narrow sixth-floor ledge and pulled all six to safety, one by one.
At a lake near Everett, Washington, 13-year-old Gauge Bryant dove about ten feet under a dock, found an unresponsive 11-year-old who had been submerged for minutes, and brought him to the surface in time for rescuers to revive him.
In 2012 a young couple in Newfoundland sealed a love note in a bottle and threw it off Bell Island. Thirteen years and roughly 3,000 kilometres later, strangers found it on an Irish beach—and tracked the now-married couple down.
University of Houston archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase identified the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the founding ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol in Belize, complete with a jade mosaic death mask and richly decorated pottery.
For the first time in a century, swimming areas have opened in the River Seine near the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame, following a massive cleanup effort.
