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😬Words like "de-extinction" and "cloning" are often associated with dystopian science fiction stories, but reality tells a more hopeful tale.
☀️🇩🇪The Daily Dose via @yalee360.bsky.social ☀️🇩🇪 For the first time ever, Germany generated more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.
🦾 A new type of robotic mastectomy that better preserves skin and nipple sensation has been performed in the US for the first time outside of clinical trials. 📎The required incision is smaller, too—the length of a paperclip. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...
Bay Area woman among first in U.S. to undergo groundbreaking breast cancer surgery
For Bay Area breast cancer patient Vicky Pan, this new robotic surgery offered a hopeful step — and an easier recovery — in her “really long journey.”
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✒️ Maori facial tattoos are making a “jubilant comeback” in New Zealand after a colonial-era ban suppressed the Indigenous practice for a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/w...
A Once Outlawed Māori Art Form Is Alive and in the Flesh
Young Māori in New Zealand are embracing tā moko, the ritual tattoos that were banned under British colonial rule and became an act of protest in the 1970s.
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🇨🇳📉The Daily Dose via @reasonstobecheerful.world 🇨🇳📉 Beijing's air pollution has been almost cut in half between 2010 and 2024.
🚑Dutch students have created the world’s first solar-powered ambulance.
A baby with a birth defect that causes their intestines to grow externally, has had it corrected while still in the womb. He was the third baby in the world to benefit from the first-of-its-kind clinical trial. Theo is now five months old and thriving.
Woman has pioneering surgery for unborn baby with intestines outside its body
Theo became the first British baby to be operated on in the womb to correct complex gastroschisis, as part of a pioneering clinical trial.
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🦈After decades of facing severe overfishing, global shark populations are finally rebounding thanks to strict new international trade bans and expanding marine sanctuaries. 🎧TPN exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas, shares how much our view of sharks have shifted over the last century.
Global Shark Conservation Sees Historic Regulatory Breakthroughs
After decades of facing severe overfishing and cultural stigma, global shark populations are finally rebounding thanks to strict new international trade bans and expanding marine sanctuaries. Emma Var...
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🦠🇦🇺The Daily Dose via @theguardian.com 🦠🇦🇺 500 new bacterial species and more than 360,000 distinct viruses have been discovered by mapping the Great Barrier Reef's microbiome.
"What exactly are we talking about when we talk about the economy? Is it a specific and real thing, or just a story or collection of stories that we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives?" writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell.
😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 📉 Global hunger declined on every continent last year. 🌲 The area burned in Brazil’s Amazon dropped significantly between 2024 and 2025.
🇺🇸📉The Daily Dose via @apnews.com 🇺🇸📉 Data collected from 30 American cities showed an 18% decrease in the homicide rate from 2025 compared to the same period in 2026.
🦈In honor of Shark Week, we are talking about conservation in our newsletter. 🫶Since 2009, when Palau declared all the waters under its jurisdiction a sanctuary for sharks, 16 other shark sanctuaries have been created. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/the-tide-t...
The Tide Turns for Sharks
The world’s most feared fish is finally getting serious protection.
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🚑 Dutch students have created the world’s first solar-powered ambulance, a prototype soon to be tested in rural Kenya. www.africanews.com/2026/07/24/h...
🇧🇷📉The Daily Dose via @yalee360.bsky.social 🇧🇷📉 In 2025, Brazil's deforestation rate fell by 31.3 million acres compared with 2024, according to analysis from the monitoring group @mapbiomas.bsky.social .
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The Progress Network@progressntwrk.bsky.social · last wk.🌏🍜The Daily Dose via UN 🌏🍜 Global hunger has declined for the third consecutive year, according to a new report issued by the UN. Between 2022 and 2025, 43 million fewer people are facing hunger.
🤝Gabon and Equatorial Guinea have squashed a 50-year beef over a border dispute. 🥊They have been squabbling over the islands of Mbanie, Cocotiers, and Conga since the early 1970s. www.africanews.com/2026/07/29/e...
🤔Why is there a massive chasm between what official data tells us about the financial landscape and how average Americans actually feel? 🎙️Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's, joins TPN founder Zachary Karabell on What Could Go Right? to break down why this disconnect exists.
Why the Economic Numbers Don't Match How You Feel | With Mark Zandi
There is a massive chasm between what official data tells us about the financial landscape and how average Americans actually experience their daily lives. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's, join...
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🌏🍜The Daily Dose via UN 🌏🍜 Global hunger has declined for the third consecutive year, according to a new report issued by the UN. Between 2022 and 2025, 43 million fewer people are facing hunger.
😮 UCLA biologists have thought up a new way of raising money for scientific research.
Projeto Reconecta is building rope bridges over roads in Brazil to prevent wildlife from getting squished. So far they have secured 150,000 crossings and the government is looking to expand the program nationally. news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...
Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings
For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.
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🇫🇮In Finland, 2,000 metric tons of crushed soapstone is being used to store clean energy in the form of heat. ⏳This sand battery can provide the 5,000 residents of the small town of Pornainen with nearly one month of heat demand through the summer and roughly one week of demand in the winter.
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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😮Globally road traffic fatalities have fallen by a 21% between 2010 and 2021! 🤔Why? 🎙️Exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas, has the scoop on this week's Progress Report. play.megaphone.fm/vksaogw7shoi...
“If you’re not structuring your attention, then it’s being structured for you," says our guest, author @davidepstein.bsky.social. He shares his own personal strategies for managing an overwhelming world in his conversation with TPN founder Zachary Karabell on What Could Go Right?
The Case for Embracing Limits | with David Epstein
We live in an era of limitless options, but infinite choice might actually be paralyzing our ability to make decisions and find satisfaction. David Epstein, bestselling author of Range and the new boo...
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