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A landmark deal to protect the high seas has become a reality, with 79 nations ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty — far beyond the 60 required — potentially creating the largest network of ocean sanctuaries in history.
In Atlanta's historic Vine City, the new Rodney Cook Sr. Park was built to flood on purpose. During Hurricane Helene it absorbed 9 million gallons of water — draining within 72 hours — sparing neighbors' homes and turning a chronic flooding problem into a beloved community park.
In a historic medical breakthrough, gene therapy has been used to significantly slow Huntington's disease for the first time.
Researchers at the University of Florida developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that supercharges the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, paving the way for a potential universal cancer treatment.
Following the cathedral’s 2024 reopening, the towers of Notre-Dame de Paris welcomed visitors again in 2025, alongside the completion of the restored spire, returned statues, and a new record-setting oak staircase.
The Healthy Minds Study found that depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts among US college students declined for a third straight year, offering a hopeful counter-narrative on youth mental health.
Community gardens in major US cities saw a 40% increase in participation in 2025, providing fresh food to underserved neighborhoods and becoming vital social gathering spaces.
The Finnish capital achieved zero traffic deaths for an entire year by lowering speed limits to 30 km/h, narrowing lanes, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists.
A growing global movement of parents, schools, and governments embraced smartphone-free childhoods in 2025, with multiple countries implementing age restrictions on social media.
The saiga antelope, an Ice Age survivor with a distinctive trunk-like nose, has rebounded from roughly 48,000 individuals in 2005 to about 1.9 million today. The dramatic recovery, driven largely by conservation in Kazakhstan, led the IUCN to move the species from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened.
In the small towns of southwest Colorado, ordinary residents — including some 40 mostly white, retirement-age neighbors — are turning up for Know Your Rights trainings and building rapid-response networks to support immigrant families, proving solidarity can take root far from any big city.
A first-of-its-kind study finds that pupils' grades are significantly better in classrooms that ban smartphones, fueling a global movement to protect childhood from digital distraction.
Popi, a female Bornean orangutan rescued from illegal captivity as an eight-week-old infant, has been released into East Borneo’s Busang Ecosystem after nearly nine years of rehabilitation. On arrival she climbed straight into the canopy and reunited with two previously released females.
Chinook salmon were spotted swimming in the Chiloquin Basin in Oregon for the first time in a century, a remarkable sign of ecosystem recovery after dam removals and habitat restoration.
Common cranes have made a remarkable comeback in Scotland, returning to breed in areas where they were hunted to extinction centuries ago.
Researchers recovered microbial DNA more than a million years old from mammoth remains, identifying bacteria that lived alongside the animals and offering a new window into ancient health.
The critically endangered Amur leopard, once down to around 25 animals, has rebounded to roughly 130 individuals in Russia’s Far East. The recovery — the highest density recorded in a decade of monitoring — is credited to the Land of the Leopard National Park, anti-poaching efforts and prey recovery.
At Children’s of Alabama, bone marrow donor Charlie Smith met for the first time the toddler whose life he saved, two-year-old Anders Golden, born with a rare genetic disorder.
