📈 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.
🐅 Jaguars back in Argentina's wetlands after 70 years
A new effort to deploy jaguars in protected areas where locals welcome them will help Argentina save its jaguar population.
🌳 Landmarks in Paris become “greener”
Paris will become a greener city by surrounding landmarks with fantastic parks and gardens.
💡 We enlighten the Members of Parliament about a world that's getting better and better
Most of human history has been miserable. The beginning of the end of misery came with the Enlightenment. In politics, problems are exaggerated and a different perspective is needed. That is why we are sending 100 books to 100 Members of Parliament about how, and why, the world has progressed.
☠️ Doomsdays That Never Happened
Humanity does seem to have a soft spot for the thought of its imminent destruction. Fortunately, we have beaten the odds of doom and gloom more than once...
🧜♀️ MERMAID, the future saviour of coral reefs?
MERMAID is a platform on which scientists can upload data about different coral reefs and share it with other scientists. New upgrades to MERMAID can turn coral reef data into conservation action.
🌄 50 countries work together to protect 30 percent of the earth's oceans and land
A number of both rich and poor countries have joined forces to try to preserve a large part of the earth as wilderness.
🛒 The app that shows carbon footprints from your purchases
This app tracks your carbon footprint after every purchase, showing you how you can become more environmentally friendly.
🦟 A new dawn for malaria control in Southern Africa
A new application system uses artificial intelligence to detect the presence of malaria parasites in the blood cell of a patient, by just submitting a picture of the patient’s blood cell.
📀 A backup on the moon for all human knowledge
A foundation wants to create an archive of human knowledge and store it around the solar system on quartz disks that retain the information for billions of years.