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THAILAND JUST KNOCKED RUBELLA OFF THE PUBLIC-HEALTH LIST
Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.
7,500 ACRES JUST SWITCHED SIDES
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
ONE WEIRD BIRD HELPED BUILD 19 NATURE RESERVES
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
THEY BUILT A HIGH-RISE OUT OF STONE. LIKE, STRUCTURALLY
The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.
WE DRAINED THE SWAMP. NOW WE’RE UN-DRAINING IT
A 23-square-mile tract of drained North Carolina peatland is being rewetted, replanted and restored to hold water, reduce fire risk, rebuild habitat and stop releasing so much stored carbon. Sometimes progress is admitting the ditch was a bad idea.
A WHOLE REGION JUST KNOCKED TRACHOMA OFF THE PUBLIC-HEALTH LIST
WHO has validated Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. Because it was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region where the disease was still suspected to be a public-health problem, the entire region has now cleared that threshold.
BHUTAN JUST KICKED DOG-TRANSMITTED RABIES OFF THE PUBLIC-HEALTH LIST
WHO has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem — the first country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to reach the milestone. Bhutan has gone more than two years without a human death from dog-transmitted rabies. Vaccines, surveillance and people showing up worked.