PROGRESS
Nearly 12,000 Californians used a new EV rebate in ten weeks.
The instant discount is reaching first-time electric-car buyers at the dealership.
SOURCECalifornia Energy Commission
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SCIENCE
Ghana cut malaria deaths 98%.
Reported malaria deaths fell from 3,259 in 2011 to 52 in 2025.
SOURCEGhana Health Service
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SCIENCE
EU regulators backed a new pancreatic-cancer pill.
An EMA committee recommended a once-daily oral RAS inhibitor for eligible adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
SOURCEEuropean Medicines Agency
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SCIENCE
A tiny sensor gave people with type 2 diabetes five more hours in range.
A randomized trial found continuous glucose monitoring added about five hours a day in the target range—even without insulin.
SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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SCIENCE
A Swedish CAR-T trial saw complete responses in 8 of 12 patients.
Eight complete responses. Twelve patients.
SOURCEElicera Therapeutics
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SCIENCE
Vaccines prevented 2.2 million future deaths in one year.
The future changed 2.2 million times.
SOURCEGavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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PROGRESS
California will offer electrification cash instead of some gas-line replacements.
A pipe budget can become a heat pump.
SOURCECalifornia Legislature / AB 2313
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PROGRESS
Teenagers are unplastifying 400+ schools.
A school challenge has engaged 3,500+ young people in 23 countries to redesign everyday plastic use.
SOURCEUnplastify / Reasons to Be Cheerful
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PROGRESS
Hungary is reusing fish-farm water on drought-hit land.
Post-harvest pond water is getting a second job on farms and wetlands.
SOURCEReuters
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SCIENCE
Patient feedback cut an epilepsy monitor’s false alarms by about 80%.
A monitor improved when patients could explain what its sensors got wrong.
SOURCENational Institutes of Health / Nature Medicine
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SCIENCE
An experimental drug shielded celiac patients during a gluten challenge.
A 32-person study found less injury and fewer symptoms—but it is still early.
SOURCEReuters / AnaptysBio
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SCIENCE
River blindness transmission is gone from 11 of 13 Americas foci.
A new WHO review says transmission now remains only in the remote cross-border Yanomami Focus Area shared by Brazil and Venezuela.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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SCIENCE
A rare-disease drug reported zero new bone lesions through 84 weeks.
In the OPTIMA extension, adults who stayed on Pasatru had no new lesions detected between weeks 56 and 84; the placebo group had nine.
SOURCERegeneron / The Lancet
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PROGRESS
Old buildings made room for 21,934 homes.
Nine hundred thirty-nine completed rehabilitations turned underused historic buildings back into homes, businesses, workplaces and community spaces while supporting an estimated 163,000 jobs.
SOURCENational Park Service
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PROGRESS
Australian homes installed 276,011 batteries in six months.
Battery installations jumped 52% from the previous half-year while households added a record 1,894 MW of rooftop solar.
SOURCERenewEconomy / Clean Energy Council
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SCIENCE
Taiwan reached a 92.7% Hepatitis C treatment rate.
More than 7.86 million people have been screened. Diagnosis reached 92.4%, treatment 92.7%, and treatment in key high-risk groups 95%.
SOURCECommercial Times (Taiwan)
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SCIENCE
A phase 3 lung-fibrosis drug preserved breathing better than placebo.
The lower dose met the trial’s main goal over 52 weeks. The higher dose did not, and the detailed results are not yet published.
SOURCEReuters / Bristol Myers Squibb
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PROGRESS
Texas’ grid had a boring summer.
Demand broke records. The emergency alerts did not arrive. Since 2023, Texas added 19.5 GW of solar and 16 GW of battery storage.
SOURCEU.S. Energy Information Administration / ERCOT
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SCIENCE
An mRNA vaccine formulation kept working after two months at body-heat temperatures.
A preclinical formulation held onto its biological activity for more than two months at 37°C—and matched fresh material in mouse immune-response tests.
SOURCENature Biotechnology
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PROGRESS
Hot rock is now feeding a commercial power grid.
The first 33-megawatt block is earning revenue under a power-purchase agreement. Two more blocks are due to complete the 100-megawatt first phase.
SOURCEFervo Energy
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PROGRESS
10 NYC food carts just went quiet.
A six-month pilot will replace gasoline generators with batteries, cutting fumes and noise while gathering real-world data for thousands of street vendors.
SOURCENYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice
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PROGRESS
California legalized plug-in balcony solar.
SB 868 treats certified portable solar more like a household appliance: utilities may require a simple online registration, but not prior approval.
SOURCECalifornia Legislative Information — SB 868
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SCIENCE
Latvia’s new alcohol rules were followed by a 27% drop in alcohol-specific deaths.
WHO/Europe calls the result an early signal: the evaluation covers five months and independent peer review is pending.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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PROGRESS
Australia’s high court made coal planners account for overseas emissions.
The 3–2 ruling invalidated an expansion approval after the planning commission focused on only 2% of projected emissions and did not consider conditions for the other 98%.
SOURCEHigh Court of Australia
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