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'Houston, those labels aren't in English.' Plus, global suicide rates are down, a massive new ecological corridor in Kyrgyzstan, a quiet victory for LGBTQ rights in Lithuania, and a ton of bad news for the coal industry.
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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." Plus, the end of one of the world's oldest conflicts, a turning point for China's emissions, some surprising news on mass shootings in the US, Colombia leads the way for indigenous rights, and some nifty engineering on Voyager.
Your yoga teacher is gonna love this. Plus, the JWST's most ambitious project yet, good news on the TB vaccine, China transforms its monoculture forests, local ocean protection in Mexico, US oil production set to decline, and amazing health care workers.
New metal band name unlocked. Plus, our latest charity partner, Tanzania's incredible electrification drive, oil majors abandon the playing field, the first Southeast Asian country to ban corporal punishment, and did someone just say LAZERS?
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A remarkable milestone. Plus, the White Helmets return, Uganda defeats Ebola, a massive new national park in Argentina, Europe commits to ending addiction to Russian gas, and more evidence for the healing effects of psychedelics.
He was a 'countercultural blaze of possibility in a dark time.' Plus, a title for our malaria podcast, US cancer death rates down, good news for flamingoes in India and penguins in Argentina, a tipping point for coal in China, and one of the great conservation success stories of the century.
That's enough for one day. Plus, extraterrestrial life? A strain of flu disappears, global social services reach historic high, insane mouse brain, deforestation in the Amazon declines (again) and upside down rhinos FTW.
Plus, Thailand bans smacking kids, solar canals, India's super highways, and good news on dementia in the United States, wildlife crossings in Colorado, and Finland going coal-free ahead of schedule.
Plus, holding vigil on Mare Crisium, the Mothers of Light, and good news on solar powered vaccine fridges, poverty in Nepal, and conservation in Kazakhstan.
"The villagers’ lives will become more prosperous too." Plus, young Americans are happier, great news on HIV prevention drug, the world's longest underwater tunnel, sociogenomics, and Donald Trump versus market forces.
Fundamental principles across different scales of reality. Plus, primordial water, super lasers, Right to Repair, and good news on childcare in Canada, vaccinations in Zimbabwe, de-mining in Cambodia, and re-wilding in New Zealand.
To see the web of the world, and the warp and the weft of that web. Plus, an astonishingly good year for clean energy, child marriage declines in Malaysia, poverty falling in Thailand, the return of big carnivores in Europe, and the most powerful AI biology tool ever created.
A planet straight out of science fiction. Plus, one year of malaria vaccines, California's MPAs are working, child mortality down in Asian countries, garden cities in the Amazon, cleaning up the Arctic, and fuel demand levels off in China.
"Consensual reality is significantly flawed." Plus, good news on high school graduation rates, two breakthroughs for rice-farming, labour reform in Spain, fur production plummets, and Baltics ditch Russian energy.
Plus, some big wins for gender rights, peak air pollution, a new fusion record, and good news on youth crime in America, forest protection in the Amazon Basin and central Africa, and plummeting emissions in Europe.
Plus, vortex lances, why life is more than an engineering problem, and good news on global wage inequality, sanitation in Cambodia, conservation in Bolivia, and peak oil in China.
Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.
