📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🧭 New study: Morality not in decline
Most people believe morality is on the decline. But data shows no change in everyday morality over several decades. It might even be the opposite.
🐒 Monkeypox no longer a global health scare
Almost 90 percent fewer cases were recorded in the last three months compared to the previous three-month period.
📊 Facts change people's beliefs about terrorism - that is a fact
Americans' overinflated fear of terrorism has long driven policy responses that may not align with the actual risks. A recent study offers hope that this can change.
🗳️ Support for democracy is very high - and increasing over time
Democracy is important to the citizens of all 53 countries in the survey, both democracies and non-democracies.
💰 "First I'm going to finish my children's book: Human Progress for Beginners"
Tony Morley is a progress studies writer specializing in the historical trends in global living standards and the forces that drive human progress.
🐬 Critically endangered porpoise on the road to recovery
The population of this critically endangered cetacean has risen from 1,012 to 1,249 over the past five years, marking a 23% increase.
🦟 World's largest mosquito factory to fight dengue in Brazil
Massive facility to produce billions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes.
🐯 Investigation: There is no sixth mass extinction going on
"We are entering a sixth mass extinction," says Paul Ehrlich in an interview with Warp News. He is not alone in believing this. But our investigation shows that is wrong. However, there is no shortage of problems with species extinction. But, by and large, we have now learned to manage them.
🐠 Untouched coral reef discovered in the Galápagos Islands
A previously unknown and untouched coral reef teeming with marine life has been discovered off the coast of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands.