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Richard Pulley was still working delivery shifts at 78. After a doorbell camera clip touched the internet, a fundraiser snowballed to $965,868.
With the area too dangerous for people, a rescue team sent a drone instead — and brought two animals home.
Twenty-three calves were spotted this season — a hopeful sign for one of the world's most endangered whales.
In 1987 every last condor was in captivity. Today over half of them fly free.
One experimental drug doubled the odds of being alive after a year; another let patients live three to four times longer without the disease progressing.
An infant with a rare metabolic disorder received a CRISPR treatment designed specifically for him, start to finish, in record time.
A new 'agentic' system diagnoses rare diseases with reasoning doctors can actually follow and check.
With the dams gone, the Vindel River is flowing wild again — and crayfish and trout are already coming back.
Once down to fewer than 500 breeding pairs, the national bird has rebounded to roughly 14,000.
The Earth Species Project is using machine learning to map the calls of whales, crows and zebras — and build the first 'dictionaries' of animal communication.
The news moves fast; progress moves slowly. Zoom out, and the long trends are some of the best good news there is.
Share of the world living on less than ~$2.15/day. About half the world was in extreme poverty in 1950; today it's fewer than one in ten.
Share of children who die before their fifth birthday. It has fallen in every decade since 1950 — from nearly 1 in 4 to fewer than 1 in 25.
Source: UN IGME / World Bank
Share of adults who can read and write. It has climbed from roughly a third of the world in 1950 to nearly nine in ten today.
Source: UNESCO / Our World in Data
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