Progress in conservation, reforestation, clean energy, and the people working to protect our planet.
Bhutan has commissioned the Sephu Solar Power Project, the country's first utility-scale solar plant designed and built entirely by Bhutanese engineers, with the government already approving an expansion to 22.38 megawatts.
Laos has designated a 217,400-hectare national park in the Annamite Mountains, protecting habitat for the critically endangered saola and several other species found almost nowhere else on Earth.
Polish scientists have published the first complete lab protocol for mass-producing Groenlandia densa, a critically endangered aquatic plant, turning a handful of tissue fragments into thousands of new plants for river restoration.
Harvard and Stanford scientists engineered marine bacteria that speed up natural rock weathering, a process that traps atmospheric carbon dioxide in seawater, achieving a 2.6-fold increase in mineral dissolution in early pilot tests.
A massive solar and battery facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now delivering reliable renewable power around the clock to one of Africa’s largest copper mining complexes.
A critically endangered Galápagos plant has made a remarkable comeback, growing from just six known survivors into a recovering wild population after decades of dedicated conservation work.