Community & Society

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Policy & Governance

Pittsburgh nurses won 12 weeks of paid leave for a whole county

Allegheny County signed 12 weeks of paid parental leave, the first county law of its kind in the US. Nurses at a Pittsburgh maternity hospital started it. Employers pay. It is not in force yet.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 28, 2026

Bolivia designated about 715,000 acres along the Iténez. A brush stopped more toddler cavities than a placebo. Ten UK lenders opened a heat-pump loan.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 27, 2026

Kenya released the first 20 contacts of its Bundibugyo cluster after 21 days. 98 people are still inside. Oxford Street closed to buses.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 26, 2026

Gadis was cut out of a boar snare in Kalimantan. Her baby was still on her. A lung-cancer pill beat the pills already in clinic.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 25, 2026

Ebro Ahmed stopped a St. Paul school bus. A melanoma vaccine kept more people clear at two years. Survival is not shown yet.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 21, 2026

A pronghorn crossed a new grass bridge over Interstate 25, the first in decades. A Sydney study says one in four severe depressions may be a body clock.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 20, 2026

Jake Lawy swam the River Tone as a salmon and came out wanting the streetlights off. Brazil's Senate voted 75 to 1 to end the six-day week without cutting pay.

River Tone

The Salmon Swim

Eighteen volunteers in Somerset lived a day as a salmon, a deer, or an earthworm, then wrote a 30-year plan for the River Tone.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 19, 2026

Fillongley knitted an RAF man to slow the cars. He was stolen before breakfast. Antarctic ice cliffs fell faster than the models, then stopped.

Community & Society

The Walk to the Bank

Nyaradzo Hoto, one of Akashinga's first sixteen women rangers, now reads the patrol data. Women are still an estimated 3 to 11 percent of rangers worldwide.

Community & Society

The Woolly Speed Gun

Fillongley knitters put a woollen RAF man with a speed gun beside a dangerous junction. He was stolen between 07:10 and 08:05. The traffic lights are still not built.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 18, 2026

Helga Duffy landed at Rendcomb with a Guinness certificate. The 101 crossing has a December date. Indonesia's extreme-poverty share fell from 86 percent to under 4.

Community & Society

She Asked for the Wing

Helga Duffy, 99, landed at Rendcomb with a Guinness certificate. The outlets do not agree on the day or the previous holder.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 16, 2026

Congress sent 1,082.63 Elwha acres to the President's desk. Five bleached coral fragments recovered after contact with a clone. Australia logged 5,358 megawatts of wind and solar decisions.

libraries

Fifty-Five Cards Have Opened a Minnesota Library 800 Times

Fifty-five cardholders have opened the Wyoming, Minnesota, library more than 800 times this year during unstaffed hours. The system has not funded a second branch.

Ukraine

Chornomorsk Will Teach Repair in a Shelter

Organisers in Chornomorsk moved a 16 October repair festival into a shelter after the college room used for repair cafes was bombed.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — October 14, 2026

A nurse in Congo Town, a lead-shot vote in Strasbourg, and New Zealand's heaviest insect with four wild generations.

DRC

A Homegrown Group Will Co-Manage Itombwe Nature Reserve

Strong Roots Congo will co-manage Itombwe Nature Reserve with the national wildlife authority, a first for a homegrown NGO in the modern DRC.

Right Livelihood

Right Livelihood Award Goes to Women Challenging Authoritarians, Land Grabs and AI Power

The 2026 Right Livelihood Award honours Jalila Haider, the Rural Women's Assembly, Georgian lawyers and AI researcher Timnit Gebru.

trees

London Is Drawing a 200 Kilometre Ring of Trees Around the City

CPRE London is launching a 25-year plan for a 200 kilometre ring of trees and habitat around the capital, with ten sites already planted.

literacy

UNESCO Honours Six Literacy Programmes Changing Lives From Beirut to Nigeria

A Syrian refugee who could not read at 12 is preparing a psychology degree; a boy in a conflict zone wrote Book and Peace.

Daily Digest

Daily Digest — May 25, 2026

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Daily Digest — May 12, 2026

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Community & Society

New Mexico Enacts Groundbreaking Universal Childcare Law

In a significant move for family and social policy, New Mexico has enacted a comprehensive universal childcare law. This legislation marks a structural shift in how the state supports early childhood development and working families. What sets the New Mexico model apart is its broad, inclusive scope. The law not

Community & Society

Finland on Track to Eradicate Long-Term Homelessness by 2027

Finland's Housing First policy has reduced long-term homelessness by 35% and aims for complete eradication by 2027, proving homelessness is solvable.