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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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 3 of 7.
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
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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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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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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ANIMALS
Georgia counted a record 4,292 loggerhead nests.
The 2026 count was the highest in Georgia’s statewide record. The long-run nesting trend has risen about 4% a year since the early 1990s.
SOURCEThe Current / Georgia DNR
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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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NATURE
Togo’s cotton yields rose from 570 kg to over a tonne per hectare.
The national average rose above one tonne per hectare in 2025–26; some farmer-field-school groups reached 1.4 to 2 tonnes while cutting pest treatments.
SOURCEBird Story Agency via AllAfrica
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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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ANIMALS
Eight orangutans were moved from fire-threatened forest to a protected home.
Three mother-and-young pairs and two adolescent males passed health checks before being released into a protected 23,000-hectare forest.
SOURCEANTARA News / YIARI
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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
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
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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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
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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NATURE
$18 million will help ranchers keep great plains grassland intact.
The fund starts with $9 million from Walmart Foundation and $9 million in aligned investment from McDonald’s USA and suppliers.
SOURCENational Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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ANIMALS
Thailand counted 210 wild tigers.
The national estimate is up from 148–189 in 2022. A monitored tigress has raised three litters—nine cubs—and one daughter is already breeding.
SOURCEWorld Wildlife Fund
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NATURE
Of 285 large UK rewilding projects, one was hit by fire this year.
The advocacy-group analysis also found burned areas from 2016–2026 were concentrated in acid grassland, heather, bog and other simplified landscapes rather than restored habitat.
SOURCERewilding Britain
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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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SCIENCE
Six people with advanced retinal disease became measurably more sensitive to light.
In a 10-person safety trial, an experimental optogenetic treatment produced clinically meaningful light-sensitivity gains in six participants. It did not restore normal sight.
SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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ANIMALS
Two Great Indian Bustards are back in the wild.
Two captive-bred males are now walking free in the Thar Desert. The release is a test, not a declaration of recovery.
SOURCEPress Information Bureau of India / Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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ANIMALS
One of North America’s tiniest mammals just got a third new population.
More than 500 pocket mice have been released over 20 years. North San Mateo is now the third reintroduced population.
SOURCESan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
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