Beautiful News RSS Feed https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews Unseen trends, uplifting stats — a new chart every day. en-us 185 Countries Have Signed & Ratified the Paris Climate Agreement https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/2-185-countries-paris-agreement https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/2-185-countries-paris-agreement Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Paris Climate Agreement is humankind’s best chance of stopping runaway climate breakdown by 2050. This international treaty, negotiated over several years and agreed in Paris in 2015, was a feat of collaboration and diplomacy. Over 180 countries promised to plan ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - and report regularly on their progress. Despite the United States’ headline-grabbing plans to withdraw from the agreement, many parts of the USA - individual states, counties and cities - have pledged that they’re “still in”.]]> Eco & Climate Belize's Barrier Reef Is No Longer at Risk https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/4-belize-barrier-reef https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/4-belize-barrier-reef Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Bangladesh Has Flourished Since Independence https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/5-bangladesh-flourishing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/5-bangladesh-flourishing Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Women & Girls Female Genital Mutilation is Declining Across Most of Africa https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/6-fgm-declining-africa https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/6-fgm-declining-africa Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls More People Live Under Freedom of Information Laws Than Ever Before https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/7-freedom-of-information https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/7-freedom-of-information Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful sustainable development goals. The number of countries with FOI laws has soared from 28 to 119 since 1999.]]> Quality of Life Vaccines are a great economic investment https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/8-vaccines-investment https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/8-vaccines-investment Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Algeria, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uzbekistan are now malaria-free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/9-algeria-malaria-free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/9-algeria-malaria-free Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Renewable Energy Superstars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/10-renewable-energy-stars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/10-renewable-energy-stars Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Even Texas Is 32% Carbon Free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/14-texas-energy-mix https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/14-texas-energy-mix Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Renewables Are Rapidly Outpacing Coal https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/15-renewables-outpacing-coal https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/15-renewables-outpacing-coal Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Germany Leads in Production of Biogas https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/16-germany-biogas https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/16-germany-biogas Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The world will add 70,000 solar panels every hour in the next 5 years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/17-world-solar-panels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/17-world-solar-panels Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy India's Solar Power Capacity Quadruples https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/18-india-solar-capacity https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/18-india-solar-capacity Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Atmospheric Acidity Is Back to Normal https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/19-atmospheric-acidity https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/19-atmospheric-acidity Sun, 22 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Zero Emissions Pledges Are Stacking Up Across the World https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/20-zero-emissions-pledges https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/20-zero-emissions-pledges Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Armies Everywhere Are Shrinking https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/24-armies-shrinking https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/24-armies-shrinking Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Violent Crime Has Almost Halved in the US Since 1995 https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/26-violent-crime-halved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/26-violent-crime-halved Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Discriminatory Policies Against Ethnic Minorities Have Fallen by Two Thirds https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/32-minority-discrimination https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/32-minority-discrimination Sun, 08 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community India declares freedom of sexual orientation a fundamental right https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/33-india-lgbt-rights https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/33-india-lgbt-rights Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Suicide Attempts Among LGBT Teens Fell After Same-Sex Marriage Was Legalised https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/34-LGBT-suicides-down https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/34-LGBT-suicides-down Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Health Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage - the first Asian country to do so https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/35-taiwan-marriage-equality https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/35-taiwan-marriage-equality Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Clinical trials have granted US cancer patients 3.34 million years of extra life https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/37-clinical-trials https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/37-clinical-trials Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Child Deaths in Rwanda Have Plummeted https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/39-rwanda-infant-mortality https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/39-rwanda-infant-mortality Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Infant Deaths Have More Than Halved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/40-infant-mortality-halved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/40-infant-mortality-halved Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful death rate of babies under the age of one has fallen hard in the last few decades. It's now probably at its lowest ever rate in human history. That’s thanks to many modern public health victories: better sanitation, more access to clean drinking water, enhanced nutrition, and the improved education of women.]]> Health Everyone, Everywhere Is Living Longer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/41-everyone-everywhere-is-living-longer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/41-everyone-everywhere-is-living-longer Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful life expectancy. In 1960, the average life span was 52.6 years. Today it’s an impressive 72 years. The reasons are simple: improvements in child survival, expanded access to healthcare (including widespread vaccination), and people being lifted out of extreme, grinding poverty. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll dive into more detail on all of these topics.]]> Health Fewer Pregnant Women Are Dying https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/42-fewer-maternal-deaths https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/42-fewer-maternal-deaths Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful dying every time they gave birth. What changed? Basic sanitation and antiseptics were a key first step, and blood transfusions and antibiotics brought us the rest of the way.]]> Health Women & Girls Life Expectancy in Africa is Soaring https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/46-africa-life-expectancy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/46-africa-life-expectancy Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Oral rehydration therapy has saved millions of lives around the world https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/47-oral-rehydration-therapy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/47-oral-rehydration-therapy Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health We've Almost Eradicated Polio https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/48-almost-eliminated-polio https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/48-almost-eliminated-polio Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful disease just twice in history - smallpox in the middle of the 20th century, and rinderpest (an agricultural disease affecting cattle) in the early 21st century. But polio is likely to be the third. Today, the disease exists in the wild in just two countries - Afghanistan and Pakistan.]]> Health Smoking is Falling Fast in Japan https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/49-japan-smoking https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/49-japan-smoking Sun, 01 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The HPV vaccine has slashed infections https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/52-hpv-vaccine https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/52-hpv-vaccine Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Women & Girls Fewer Children Are Dying From Malaria https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/53-fewer-children-dying-malaria https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/53-fewer-children-dying-malaria Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful health problems, and largely affects the poorest populations in lower-income countries. But over the last decade or so, the number of children dying from malaria has more than halved, thanks to a huge increase in funding and resources for malaria control around the world. If this trend continues, it should be possible to eliminate malaria in most of the world, or even the whole world, by 2050. Correction: In a previous version of this graphic, the squares were sized by length, not area. We've updated the image above with the correct sizings.]]> Health Every Single Country Has Seen a Reduction in Child Deaths (since 1950) https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/55-reduced-child-deaths https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/55-reduced-child-deaths Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Zika Disappearing From The Americas https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/58-zika-almost-gone https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/58-zika-almost-gone Thu, 21 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Slavery is Illegal Almost Everywhere https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/59-slavery-illegal https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/59-slavery-illegal Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Uzbek and Turkmen cotton industries are also dependent on forced labour. Boycotts are ongoing, and are having an effect. Slavery should have no place in this world.]]> Conflict & Crime Not a single Mali desert elephant has been lost to poachers since a brigade to protect them was established https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/60-mali-desert-elephants https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/60-mali-desert-elephants Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals The Humpback Whale Is Recovering https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/61-humpback-whales https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/61-humpback-whales Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals The Number of Wild Tigers is Rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/62-wild-tigers-rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/62-wild-tigers-rising Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Billions More People Are Now Online https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/64-billions-more-internet-access https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/64-billions-more-internet-access Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful connectivity to billions.]]> Quality of Life More Than Half the World Now Lives in a Democracy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/65-living-in-democracy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/65-living-in-democracy Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life World Poverty is Lower Than You Think https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/66-world-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/66-world-poverty Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Global Literacy is Increasing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/69-global-literacy-up https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/69-global-literacy-up Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Billions More Can Now Drink Safely https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/70-billions-drink-safely https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/70-billions-drink-safely Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful health. It massively decreases the risk of outbreaks of diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, polio and other major diseases. Thirty years ago, only about 75% of the world had access to drinkable water. Today that number is at least 90% - thanks to concerted action from charities and governments. ]]> Quality of Life Health Over a Billion Fewer People are Living in Poverty Worldwide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/71-billion-out-of-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/71-billion-out-of-poverty Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Extreme Poverty Is Almost Eradicated in the East Asia and Pacific Region https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/72-poverty-east-asia https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/72-poverty-east-asia Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Famine Deaths Have Plummeted Globally https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/73-famine-deaths-global https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/73-famine-deaths-global Thu, 26 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Africa Leads the World in Mobile Money Accounts https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/75-mobile-money https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/75-mobile-money Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The World Has Gained a Fourth Type of Chocolate Outside of Dark, Milk & White – RUBY https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/76-ruby-chocolate https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/76-ruby-chocolate Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Misc Air Travel Has Never Been Safer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/77-air-travel-safer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/77-air-travel-safer Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The American People Are Very Generous https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/78-american-people-generous https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/78-american-people-generous Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful incredibly generous, giving over $322 billion per year to charitable causes - an average of around $1,000 per person per year. Religious organisations receive about a third of these funds. The rest is split between education, health, arts and culture, and environmental charities.]]> Society & Community Black incarceration rates are finally falling in the US https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/79-black-incarceration https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/79-black-incarceration Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Foreign Aid Has Exploded https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/80-foreign-aid https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/80-foreign-aid Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Arab Women and Men Both Believe Women Should Have Equal Legal Rights https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/82-women-equal-rights https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/82-women-equal-rights Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Iceland is the first country to legally mandate equal pay for men and women in the same role https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/83-iceland-pay-equality https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/83-iceland-pay-equality Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Women Can Finally Vote Everywhere https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/84-women-vote-everywhere https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/84-women-vote-everywhere Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful is elected - by the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church, which women cannot join. Brunei has a parliament, but hasn't held national elections since 1962. Both men and women aged 18 or older can vote in local elections for village leaders. Aside from that, every other woman in the world can now vote. If that’s not beautiful news, what is? Correction: This graphic previously listed Vatican City alone as the only country where women cannot vote. After some consideration, we've added Brunei due to the length of time since it last held national elections where women could vote. ]]> Women & Girls Female and Male Literacy Rates Have Almost Equalised https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/86-literacy-rates-equal https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/86-literacy-rates-equal Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Quality of Life The US Gender Pay Gap Is Shrinking https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/87-gender-pay-gap-us https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/87-gender-pay-gap-us Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful women being paid less on average than men - for the same work. This gender pay gap is shrinking. Gradually. It should be zero, of course — and it will be one day. In the meantime, it’s going in the right direction. ]]> Women & Girls It's Tougher Than Ever To Escape Justice For Rape https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/88-justice-for-rape https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/88-justice-for-rape Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Conflict & Crime Most Women Have Some Legal Access to Abortion https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/90-abortion-access https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/90-abortion-access Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Women & Girls Drones Have Revolutionised Medical Deliveries in Rwanda https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/91-drones-medical-deliveries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/91-drones-medical-deliveries Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Curbing Illegal Logging Has Saved Millions of Butterflies https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/106-butterflies-saved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/106-butterflies-saved Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals 183 countries have resolved to block the trade of endangered animals https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/115-trade-endangered-animals https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/115-trade-endangered-animals Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals European Countries Are Banning Fur Farming https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/118-fur-farming-bans https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/118-fur-farming-bans Sat, 21 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Major Fashion Brands Are Going Fur-Free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/122-fur-free-fashion https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/122-fur-free-fashion Sat, 08 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Numerous countries are banning the use of wild animals in circuses https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/124-animals-in-circuses https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/124-animals-in-circuses Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals 21 Places Have Bans on the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/125-captive-whales-dolphins https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/125-captive-whales-dolphins Fri, 03 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals More Populations of Large Sea Turtles are Improving vs. Declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/127-sea-turtles https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/127-sea-turtles Sun, 07 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals The EU Has Banned Bee-Harming Pesticides https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/143-bee-harming-pesticides https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/143-bee-harming-pesticides Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Biodiversity Is Flourishing in the River Thames https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/144-biodiversity-river-thames https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/144-biodiversity-river-thames Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Fewer US Women Are Dying of Breast Cancer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/149-breast-cancer-deaths https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/149-breast-cancer-deaths Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health US Cancer Survival Rates Are Rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/150-us-cancer-deaths https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/150-us-cancer-deaths Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Fewer Young Children in Egypt Are Dying https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/166-egypt-child-mortality https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/166-egypt-child-mortality Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The UK Is Cutting Coal Use, Fast https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/172-uk-coal-use https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/172-uk-coal-use Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Dutch Prisons Are Closing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/184-dutch-prisons-closing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/184-dutch-prisons-closing Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Europe's Economy Is Growing While Emissions Are Falling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/185-europe-economic-growth https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/185-europe-economic-growth Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Death Penalty is Disappearing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/189-death-penalty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/189-death-penalty Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime The Response to the 2009 Flu Pandemic Was the Fastest in History https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/200-H1N1-response https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/200-H1N1-response Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health US Hospitals have Formed their Own Non-profit Drug Company https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/213-nonprofit-drug-company https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/213-nonprofit-drug-company Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Health Electric Vehicle Sales Are Soaring in Europe https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/221-electric-vehicle-sales https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/221-electric-vehicle-sales Wed, 27 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Clean Energy Global Health Expenditure Per-Person Has Never Been Higher https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/235-health-spending https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/235-health-spending Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health 30 countries could be 100% geothermal powered https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/255-geothermal-electricity https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/255-geothermal-electricity Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy More Women Are in Parliaments Around The World https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/263-women-mps https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/263-women-mps Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Nations Agree to Protect 2.8m sqkm of Arctic Ocean https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/275-protect-arctic-ocean https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/275-protect-arctic-ocean Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Homelessness Amongst US Veterans is Down by Over a Third https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/286-us-veteran-homeless https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/286-us-veteran-homeless Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Chronic Homelessness is Declining in Most US States https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/289-homelessness-declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/289-homelessness-declining Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Fewer Kids Are Dying from Malnutrition https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/292-malnutrition-deaths https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/292-malnutrition-deaths Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Quality of Life Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria & Mozambique Have Halved Malnutrition https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/295-malnutrition-rates https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/295-malnutrition-rates Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Fewer Children Are Experiencing Stunted Growth https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/299-stunted-growth https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/299-stunted-growth Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health 30 Million US Schoolkids Get Healthy Lunches https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/301-kids-healthy-lunches https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/301-kids-healthy-lunches Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health World Hunger Reached Its Lowest Point in 25 years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/302-world-hunger https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/302-world-hunger Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health Here's One Way We Are Savings Kids from HIV https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/310-averted-HIV-infections https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/310-averted-HIV-infections Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Leprosy Is on the Way Out https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/311-leprosy-declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/311-leprosy-declining Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health We're Eliminating Trachoma https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/313-eliminating-trachoma https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/313-eliminating-trachoma Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Global Investment in Renewable Energy Is Rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/319-renewables-investment https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/319-renewables-investment Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Afghanistan Built 16,000 Schools in 12 Years and Literacy is Up https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/333-afghanistan-schools https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/333-afghanistan-schools Sun, 03 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Cruelty Free Plant-based Foods & Products Are Blooming https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/344-biofabrication-leaps https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/344-biofabrication-leaps Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Eco & Climate The US Could Massively Reduce Emissions Just by Swapping Beef for Beans https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/348-swapping-beef-for-beans https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/348-swapping-beef-for-beans Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Stockholm Launched the World’s First Mental Health Ambulance https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/349-stockholm-mental-health-ambulance https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/349-stockholm-mental-health-ambulance Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful health problems to get proper care and treatment - especially in emergencies. Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, has launched an emergency response team solely for people in severe mental health or behavioural distress - situations which were traditionally handled by the police. The vehicle is staffed by two specialised psychiatric nurses and a paramedic from 3pm to 1am every day. In its first year of operation, the ambulance responded to 1,580 callouts. Treating mental health problems in the same way as physical health problems reduces stigmatisation of psychiatric illnesses, and helps people to reach out if they are suffering. ]]> Health The New African Union Passport Allows Visa-Free Travel Between 55 Countries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/353-new-african-passport https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/353-new-african-passport Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Australia's Homicide Rate Has Never Been Lower https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/359-australia-homicide-rate https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/359-australia-homicide-rate Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Homicides are down worldwide Australia is no exception. Campaigns to stop domestic violence have had an effect. Greater firearms controls have seen a reduction in gun-related killings. Helping people out of poverty helps, too. ]]> Conflict & Crime Fewer People are Suffering from Neglected Tropical Diseases https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/362-neglected-tropical-diseases https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/362-neglected-tropical-diseases Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health World vegetable intake almost doubled between 1990 & 2013. https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/374-vegetable-intake https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/374-vegetable-intake Sun, 09 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Quality of Life Laws to Protect Animals and Pets are Becoming More Widespread https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/387-banned-puppy-sales https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/387-banned-puppy-sales Tue, 26 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals The citizens of Mumbai conducted the largest beach clean-up in human history, removing more than 4000 tonnes of rubbish. Turtles born on beach in Mumbai for first time in 20 years. https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/406-mumbai-beach-cleanup https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/406-mumbai-beach-cleanup Sat, 23 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Nature & Animals Plastic Microbead Bans Are Spreading https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/412-microbead-bans-spreading https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/412-microbead-bans-spreading Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate The Bangladesh population living in extreme poverty has dropped from 40% to 14%. https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/425-bangladesh-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/425-bangladesh-poverty Sat, 18 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life China Is Eradicating Extreme Poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/427-china-extreme-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/427-china-extreme-poverty Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The US Child Poverty Rate Reached an All-Time Low https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/428-us-child-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/428-us-child-poverty Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The Cost of UK Offshore Wind Has Fallen by Two Thirds in Four Years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/432-uk-offshore-wind https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/432-uk-offshore-wind Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Nearly 15% of land is now protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/441-land-protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/441-land-protected Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals These Countries are Crushing it at Recycling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/451-crushing-recycling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/451-crushing-recycling Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Some EU States Are Recovering Almost All Plastic Packaging https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/452-europe-plastic-recovery https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/452-europe-plastic-recovery Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful recovered into new products, rather than being buried as landfill. If you’re wondering why Sweden’s rate is so low, given the country’s famed environmental record, it’s because the country incinerates a lot of plastic for heat and energy - a different kind of recycling, and one which doesn’t get counted in these statistics. Correction: We've updated this graphic to be clearer that it refers to *recovery* not recycling. Small, but important difference.]]> Eco & Climate Almost Half of California's Electricity Now Comes From Renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/455-california-energy-mix https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/455-california-energy-mix Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Newborn Deaths Have Halved Worldwide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/459-newborn-deaths-halved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/459-newborn-deaths-halved Mon, 25 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Over Two Billion People Gained Access to Improved Sanitation https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/464-improved-sanitation https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/464-improved-sanitation Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The South East Asian Toilet Revolution! https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/468-south-asia-toilet-use https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/468-south-asia-toilet-use Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Smoking Bans Have Improved Health https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/473-smoking-bans-health https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/473-smoking-bans-health Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health India's Solar-Paneled Trains https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/477-india-solar-train https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/477-india-solar-train Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Ukraine's First Solar Power Plant Has Opened at the Site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/479-solar-plant-chernobyl https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/479-solar-plant-chernobyl Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy More Indonesians than Ever Have Access to Clean, Safe Cooking Fuel https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/486-clean-cook-fuel https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/486-clean-cook-fuel Sun, 10 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Eco & Climate More US Women Are Moving Into Science, Tech, Engineering & Math Occupations https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/493-us-women-stem https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/493-us-women-stem Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Suicides in Russia Are at a 50-Year Low https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/495-russia-suicides-down https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/495-russia-suicides-down Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health UK Teen Pregnancies Hit a Record Low https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/497-uk-teen-pregnancy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/497-uk-teen-pregnancy Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The WHO Has Taken Trans Identities Off Its List of Mental Health Disorders https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/501-trans-identities https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/501-trans-identities Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Transgender Rights Are Expanding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/502-transgender-rights https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/502-transgender-rights Thu, 28 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Millions of lives have been saved by vaccines in the last 25 years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/515-lives-saved-vaccines https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/515-lives-saved-vaccines Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Tuberculosis Deaths Are Falling Worldwide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/517-tuberculosis-deaths-falling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/517-tuberculosis-deaths-falling Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease and accounts for about 20% of adult deaths in lower-income countries. But that number is falling fast. Vaccines have been key to this achievement - combined with early diagnosis, improved medicines, supportive social systems, and intensified research into treatments. Since 2000, these strategies have worked impressively. So much so, that the World Health Organization believes that tuberculosis can be eradicated entirely by 2035. ]]> Health Tons of New Vaccines Are in the Pipeline https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/524-new-vaccines https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/524-new-vaccines Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful vaccines are now underway around the world - a massive investment for the future. ]]> Health The Cholera Vaccine is Reaching More People than Ever https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/525-cholera-vaccine https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/525-cholera-vaccine Mon, 18 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health 476 Million More East & South East Asians Have Access to Clean Drinking Water https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/535-access-to-safer-water https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/535-access-to-safer-water Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health We Have Decommissioned 85% of the World's Nuclear Warheads https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/541-nuclear-warheads https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/541-nuclear-warheads Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime It’s Legal to Be Homosexual in the Majority of World Countries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/558-legal-homosexuality https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/558-legal-homosexuality Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful homosexual.]]> Society & Community Every Year We're Adding More and More Solar Power https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/562-adding-more-solar-power https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/562-adding-more-solar-power Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Are Losing Investors https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/563-divesting-fossil-fuels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/563-divesting-fossil-fuels Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy One in Five Australian Homes Now Has Solar Panels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/565-australian-solar-panels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/565-australian-solar-panels Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Spain Leads in Concentrated Solar Power https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/573-spain-csp https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/573-spain-csp Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Best Things in Life Really Are Free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/575-best-things-free https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/575-best-things-free Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The US is Steadily Adopting Renewable Energy Goals https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/576-us-renewables-pledges https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/576-us-renewables-pledges Wed, 20 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful ‘We Are Still In’ have galvanized climate change commitments across the USA. The Ready For 100 movement goes even further. Its vision: a country running entirely on clean, renewable energy by 2050. It’s slowly happening, from the ground up. Students, volunteers, parents, mayors, CEOs, all getting involved. More than 100 cities have adopted the goal so far. Six have already hit the target. ]]> Clean Energy Eco & Climate Nordic Countries Are the Happiest https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/578-happiest-countries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/578-happiest-countries Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Wind Power Now Supplies 5% of the World's Energy, and Growing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/579-wind-power-world-energy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/579-wind-power-world-energy Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The USA Could Meet its Electricity Needs 9x Over With Wind Power Alone https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/584-us-wind-power https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/584-us-wind-power Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Cost of Renewables Is Falling Fast https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/586-cost-renewables-falling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/586-cost-renewables-falling Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful new technology are rapidly driving down the price of green energy. Today, solar and wind energy are already cost-competitive with fossil fuels, and they’re getting cheaper every year. If the trend continues, coal, oil and gas will be dead within a decade. That’s beautiful. ]]> Clean Energy Almost 4,500 Microgrids Are Planned or Installed Globally https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/590-microgrids-global https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/590-microgrids-global Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Millions of Children's Lives Have Been Saved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/595-childrens-lives-saved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/595-childrens-lives-saved Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Sweden Sends Almost No Trash to Landfill https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/600-sweden-trash-landfill https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/600-sweden-trash-landfill Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful trash up in huge heaps, or they bury it. But Sweden? Only one in every 200 tonnes ends up at a landfill site. The rest gets either recycled, turned into biogas, or poured into “district heating” plants that provide hot water and electricity to the biggest cities. Sweden’s need for trash is so large, in fact, that it imports hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year from neighbouring countries. Similar district heating systems are growing in popularity worldwide because they save money, reduce emissions, cut down on landfill and lower the need for fossil fuel imports. Beautiful. ]]> Eco & Climate LED Bulbs Use Less Energy to Generate the Same Amount of Light https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/606-led-bulbs-less-energy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/606-led-bulbs-less-energy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Replacing All Your Lightbulbs With LEDs Saves Energy and Money https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/607-replace-lightbulbs-LED https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/607-replace-lightbulbs-LED Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful technology can produce bright light without wasting energy as heat like incandescent bulbs. LEDs are cheaper and last longer too, so there’s no good reason not to switch.]]> Clean Energy Zero Energy Buildings Are Taking Off in North America https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/612-zero-energy-buildings https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/612-zero-energy-buildings Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Clean Energy Cycling to work is on the up https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/614-cycling-to-work https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/614-cycling-to-work Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Increasing Numbers of Women are in Parliament Around the World https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/618-women-parliament https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/618-women-parliament Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls New Buildings in San Francisco Must Have Solar or Green Roofs https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/619-solar-green-roofs https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/619-solar-green-roofs Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Clean Energy Rice Production Is Improving https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/623-improved-rice-production https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/623-improved-rice-production Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Rice Can Now Be Grown in Salty Water https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/624-rice-salty-water https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/624-rice-salty-water Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health Eco & Climate Hugely Successful Initiative Helps Women Farmers in Africa https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/626-rural-women-initiative https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/626-rural-women-initiative Sat, 22 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Australia's Mobile Shower and Laundry Service for the Homeless https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/632-mobile-service-homeless https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/632-mobile-service-homeless Sun, 24 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Paper Recycling in Europe Has Almost Doubled Over 25 Years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/635-paper-recycling-europe https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/635-paper-recycling-europe Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Phasing Out HFCs Will Cut Climate Change by 0.5°C https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/636-phasing-out-hfcs https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/636-phasing-out-hfcs Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate 86 Nations Agreed To Curb Aviation Emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/639-curb-aviation-emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/639-curb-aviation-emissions Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Indigenous Communities Are Safeguarding the World's Forests https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/642-indigenous-safe-forests https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/642-indigenous-safe-forests Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Eco & Climate 50 Countries Have Reduced Their Use of Harmful Fertilizers https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/673-synthetic-fertilizer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/673-synthetic-fertilizer Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Despite US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement... https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/676-paris-agreement https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/676-paris-agreement Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Healthy Life Expectancy Has Increased in Almost Every Country Since 2000 https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/680-healthy-life-expectancy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/680-healthy-life-expectancy Wed, 06 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Homicides Are Falling Around the World https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/695-homicides-falling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/695-homicides-falling Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Road travel in the US is safer than ever https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/696-road-travel-safer https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/696-road-travel-safer Sun, 19 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life The Average US Citizen Now Lives 15 Years Beyond Retirement https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/705-life-beyond-retirement https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/705-life-beyond-retirement Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Health Yearly Hours Spent on Housework Have Plummeted in the US https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/709-hours-on-housework https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/709-hours-on-housework Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Women & Girls Early Detection of Cervical Cancer Has Never Been So Accurate https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/723-cervical-cancer-test https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/723-cervical-cancer-test Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Women & Girls California is Driving the EV Revolution https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/724-california-ev-cars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/724-california-ev-cars Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate A Global Effort to Restore 350m Hectares of Land is on Track to Succeed https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/731-350-hectares-land https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/731-350-hectares-land Fri, 01 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Nature & Animals Germany's Renewables Are Pushing Back Coal and Nuclear https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/742-germany-renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/742-germany-renewables Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy How Denmark Plans to be Carbon Neutral by 2050 https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/743-denmark-carbon-neutral https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/743-denmark-carbon-neutral Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate More and more people are gaining access to electricity https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/744-electricity-access https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/744-electricity-access Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Most One-Year-Olds Are Now Vaccinated Against Three Lethal Diseases https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/748-one-year-olds-vaccinated https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/748-one-year-olds-vaccinated Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health More Nepalese Kids Are Going to Preprimary School Than Ever https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/758-nepalese-kids-school https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/758-nepalese-kids-school Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life More Afghan Girls Are Being Educated https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/764-afghan-girls https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/764-afghan-girls Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Educating girls is probably the single most impactful thing we can do to make the world a better place. Women who spend longer in school have fewer, healthier and better-fed children, are less likely to die in childbirth, contribute more towards a country’s economy, participate more in politics, and are less likely to marry young or against their will.]]> Women & Girls Quality of Life There are already more than 34,000km of plastic roads in India https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/770-india-plastic-roads https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/770-india-plastic-roads Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Far More Unites Us Than Divides Us https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/781-far-more-unites-us https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/781-far-more-unites-us Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Demand for Ivory Is Falling in China https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/793-demand-for-ivory https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/793-demand-for-ivory Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Mountain Gorilla Populations Are Rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/803-gorilla-populations-rising https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/803-gorilla-populations-rising Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Canada Created the Largest Protected Coniferous Forest on the Planet https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/804-canada-boreal-forest https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/804-canada-boreal-forest Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Eco & Climate European Teens Are Drinking Less Alcohol https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/808-europe-teen-drinking https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/808-europe-teen-drinking Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health South Africa is Cutting HIV Infections https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/812-south-africa-hiv https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/812-south-africa-hiv Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Worm-related diseases have fallen drastically in Kenya https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/813-worm-diseases-kenya https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/813-worm-diseases-kenya Sat, 09 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Over Two Thirds of Refugees in Germany Are in Work after Five Years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/821-germany-refugees https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/821-germany-refugees Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Quality of Life A Quarter of the World Now Has Tax-Free Menstrual Products https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/823-tampon-tax https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/823-tampon-tax Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Health 59 Countries Have Completely Banned Corporal Punishment https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/829-corporal-punishment-bans https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/829-corporal-punishment-bans Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Global Suicide Rates Have Fallen by a Third https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/831-global-suicide-rates https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/831-global-suicide-rates Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Dramatic drops worldwide since 1994. Particularly steep declines in Russia, China and Japan. There’s no single reason for this. But social changes, along with restrictions on the sale of alcohol, painkillers and poisons, are helping to prevent suicide.]]> Health The Cost of Solar and Wind Energy is Plunging https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/839-cost-solar-wind https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/839-cost-solar-wind Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Africa’s Longest War Is Finally Over: Ethiopia and Eritrea Make Peace After Decades of Conflict https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/853-africa-longest-war-over https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/853-africa-longest-war-over Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful war over territory. However, in September 2018, the countries allowed certain land crossings to reopen. Embassies have reopened. Flights and phone calls can be made across the border. Since then Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia have signed a joint pledge to restore peace and stability. Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Things are looking up in the region.]]> Conflict & Crime China is Winning Its War on Air Pollution https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/857-china-war-pollution https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/857-china-war-pollution Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Health California's Teens Are Behaving Better https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/861-california-teens https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/861-california-teens Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Countries are starting to ban fossil fuel vehicles https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/865-banning-fossil-fuel-cars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/865-banning-fossil-fuel-cars Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The US is Boosting Alzheimer's Funding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/875-us-alzheimers-funding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/875-us-alzheimers-funding Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Global Tree Cover Is Expanding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/877-global-tree-cover https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/877-global-tree-cover Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful greening of China, India, Europe and North America. This doesn’t mean, unfortunately, that we can relax. Global tree cover is still far below where it was before humans came along. We need to halt tropical deforestation, as tropical forests hold loads of carbon and about half the world’s animal and plant species. ]]> Eco & Climate Nature & Animals Giant Panda Numbers Are Rebounding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/880-giant-pandas-rebounding https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/880-giant-pandas-rebounding Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful giant panda bears low for many decades. But things are getting better for this rare and beloved creature. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has reclassified the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable”. (That’s an upgrade, by the way.)]]> Nature & Animals The UK's carbon emissions are falling fast https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/893-uk-carbon-emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/893-uk-carbon-emissions Sat, 07 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate South Africa is Defending its Rhinos https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/949-south-africa-rhinos https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/949-south-africa-rhinos Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals When Submarine Internet Cables Arrived in Africa... https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/950-submarine-internet https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/950-submarine-internet Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life A 100% Biodegradable, Comfortable Sanitary Pad Has Been Developed https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/958-biodegradable-pad https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/958-biodegradable-pad Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful produced a pad that’s slim, plastic-free and breaks down in a matter of months. Greener to make, greener to dispose of. It’s a win-win.]]> Eco & Climate Women & Girls Guinea Worm Disease Is Almost Eradicated https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/959-guinea-worm-eradicated https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/959-guinea-worm-eradicated Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The 'Built for Zero' Campaign is Eliminating Chronic US Homelessness https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/968-built-for-zero https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/968-built-for-zero Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community US Smoking Rates Are The Lowest Ever https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/973-us-smoking-rates https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/973-us-smoking-rates Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Natural Disasters Are Far Less Deadly https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/975-natural-disasters-less-deadly https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/975-natural-disasters-less-deadly Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful population, and a rising number of natural disasters around the world, fewer and fewer people are dying from them. That means that our ability as a species to protect people from disaster has never been better.]]> Quality of Life US States Are Raking in Marijuana Taxes https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/978-marijuana-taxes https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/978-marijuana-taxes Sat, 19 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful cannabis in several US states has raised considerable amounts of tax money, often 10-37% more than local sales taxes. This money is going largely towards social programmes and improving public services and schools. Win win. ]]> Misc There's finally a vaccine for Ebola and it Really Works https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/989-ebola-vaccine https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/989-ebola-vaccine Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Even More AIDS Sufferers Are Being Treated & Infections Continue to Decline https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1000-new-aids-infections-cease https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1000-new-aids-infections-cease Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health 186 countries agreed on a law to reduce plastic waste https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1006-plastic-waste-framework https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1006-plastic-waste-framework Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate 100 Countries Have Banned Plastic Bags https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1008-countries-ban-plastic-bags https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1008-countries-ban-plastic-bags Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Plastic bags are banned outright in a handful of lower-income countries, while a much larger group have implemented taxes and partial bans. In a few years, with luck and determination, environmentalists will have bagged another victory. ]]> Eco & Climate UK Gives Landmark Sum for Contraceptive Access https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1011-landmark-sum-contraception https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1011-landmark-sum-contraception Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health US Teen Pregnancies Have Halved https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1015-us-teen-pregnancy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1015-us-teen-pregnancy Sun, 02 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Women & Girls Visionary Mexican Program Improves Health, Education, and Nutrition https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1016-visionary-mexican-program https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1016-visionary-mexican-program Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls US Prisoner Numbers Are Finally Declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1017-us-prisoner-numbers https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1017-us-prisoner-numbers Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Conflict & Crime Some of the World’s Poorest Nations Are Also the Most Generous https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1025-generous-countries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1025-generous-countries Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Renewable energy is untapped energy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1029-untapped-renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1029-untapped-renewables Mon, 04 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Potential of Solar Power Is Amazing! https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1030-solar-power-amazing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1030-solar-power-amazing Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful sun beams down enough energy to supply the entire world’s electricity needs more than six times over. Why not go straight to the source?]]> Clean Energy 27 million km2 of ocean is now protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1031-ocean-protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1031-ocean-protected Tue, 05 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Eco & Climate Extreme Poverty Is Decreasing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1032-extreme-poverty-decreasing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1032-extreme-poverty-decreasing Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Nearly 8% of the Ocean Is Now Protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1033-ocean-protected https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1033-ocean-protected Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful oceans face multiple threats - rising temperatures, agricultural run-off, overfishing and plastic pollution. But the good news is that more and more of the planet’s seas are being designated as protected areas, where marine ecosystems can thrive with minimal disruption. Nearly 17,000 different protected areas now collectively cover 28 million square kilometres. That’s a ten-fold increase since 2000. ]]> Eco & Climate Nature & Animals Soy & Oat Milk are Most Sustainable https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1040-soy-oat-milk https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1040-soy-oat-milk Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Norway Recycles Almost All of its Plastic Bottles https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1041-norway-plastic-bottles https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1041-norway-plastic-bottles Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Vaccines Work! https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1048-vaccines-work https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1048-vaccines-work Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The World's Economy Has Grown Almost 45x in Fifty Years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1055-world-economy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1055-world-economy Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Misc We're Investing Twice as Much in Renewables vs Fossil Fuels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1059-renewables-investment https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1059-renewables-investment Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The First Commercial, All-Electric, Passenger Aircraft Has Landed https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1063-all-electric-plane https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1063-all-electric-plane Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Protests Engaging 3.5% of a Population Rarely Fail https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1067-protests-engaging https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1067-protests-engaging Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Society & Community Almost Half of New Cars Sold in Norway Are Electric https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1069-norway-electric-cars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1069-norway-electric-cars Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate The Dutch City of Utrecht Has Covered 300 Bus Stops With Plants & Vegetation https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1074-bus-stop-plants https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1074-bus-stop-plants Sun, 23 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Scotland Generates Enough Wind Energy to Power All Its Homes https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1076-scotland-wind-energy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1076-scotland-wind-energy Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Just $4.5 Trillion Would Transform the US Power Grid to 100% Renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1079-us-power-grid https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1079-us-power-grid Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy China could generate half its power from renewables by 2040 https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1085-china-renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1085-china-renewables Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Simple Bed Nets Have Prevented Half a Billion Malaria Infections https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1093-simple-bed-nets https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1093-simple-bed-nets Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Ecosia, the Search Engine That Plants Trees... https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1105-ecosia-plants-trees https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1105-ecosia-plants-trees Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate In the USA, Wind Power Is Now Cheaper than Burning Natural Gas https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1108-wind-cheaper-than-fossil https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1108-wind-cheaper-than-fossil Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Deadliest Form of Tuberculosis Is Now Curable https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1110-tb-curable https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1110-tb-curable Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Europe Could Power The Entire World With Wind https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1111-europe-wind-power https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1111-europe-wind-power Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Recycling 30 plastic bottles gets you a free trip on the Rome metro https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1112-rome-plastic-bottles https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1112-rome-plastic-bottles Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate 15 States & NYC Have Passed New Laws to Protect Women After #MeToo https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1113-me-too-changed-laws https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1113-me-too-changed-laws Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls Conflict & Crime At Least 100 Cities Get Most of Their Energy From Renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1118-100-cities-renewables https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1118-100-cities-renewables Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Everything That Kills Children Is Declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1121-children-diseases-declining https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1121-children-diseases-declining Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health African Countries Have Agreed a Huge New Free Trade Bloc https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1122-african-trade-bloc https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1122-african-trade-bloc Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Misc The Potential of Wind Power is Amazing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1130-wind-power-potential https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1130-wind-power-potential Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Potential of Geothermal Power is Amazing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1131-geothermal-potential https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1131-geothermal-potential Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy The Potential of Tidal Power is Amazing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1132-tidal-power-potential https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1132-tidal-power-potential Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Livestock Fed Seaweed Emit Less Methane https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1133-livestock-fed-seaweed https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1133-livestock-fed-seaweed Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Using Sunlight To Pull Drinkable Water From the Air with HydroPanels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1134-sunlight-drinkable-water https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1134-sunlight-drinkable-water Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Batteries Are Getting Better and Better https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1136-batteries-better https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1136-batteries-better Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Fairphone 3 Is a Sustainable Alternative to Polluting Smartphones https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1142-sustainable-smartphone https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1142-sustainable-smartphone Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Most of the World Can Now Afford Mobile Internet https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1148-afford-mobile-internet https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1148-afford-mobile-internet Fri, 22 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Plastic-Eating Worms Could Tackle Trash https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1150-plastic-eating-worms https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1150-plastic-eating-worms Tue, 19 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Home Methane Digesters Can Replace Inefficient Cookstoves https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1151-home-methane-digesters https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1151-home-methane-digesters Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate In-Stream Hydro Generates Zero-Carbon Power Without Environmental Damage https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1152-in-stream-hydro https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1152-in-stream-hydro Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Clean Energy New Cookstoves Are Safer, Last Longer, and Reduce Emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1153-improved-cookstoves https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1153-improved-cookstoves Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Hacking Photosynthesis to Feed a Growing Population https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1156-hacking-photosynthesis https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1156-hacking-photosynthesis Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Quality of Life Health Roads Can Be Made From Plastic Waste https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1157-plastic-roads https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1157-plastic-roads Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate An Australian Company Has Invented a Bee-Friendly Insecticide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1159-bee-friendly-insecticide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1159-bee-friendly-insecticide Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Coral-Like Bioconcrete Generates No Emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1160-zero-emission-concrete https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1160-zero-emission-concrete Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate A New Device Uses Ocean Forces to Clean Plastic from our Seas https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1163-ocean-cleanup https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1163-ocean-cleanup Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Nature & Animals A natural substance could compete with the herbicide glyphosate https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1164-glyphosate-alternative https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1164-glyphosate-alternative Thu, 07 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Nature & Animals Biofortified Cassava Is Set to Transform the Health of Millions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1165-cassava-nutrition https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1165-cassava-nutrition Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Quality of Life Ingenious Concrete-Filled Trains Act as Giant Batteries https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1166-concrete-filled-trains https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1166-concrete-filled-trains Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Iceland Is Injecting Carbon Emissions Deep Underground https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1167-iceland-carbon-rocks https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1167-iceland-carbon-rocks Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Coating Solar Panels with Carbon Nanotubes Can Triple Efficiency https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1170-solar-nanotubes https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1170-solar-nanotubes Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate We Can Generate Light from Darkness https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1171-light-from-darkness https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1171-light-from-darkness Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate African Countries Are Squashing Malaria https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1172-africa-squashing-malaria https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1172-africa-squashing-malaria Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Eighteen Countries And Territories Have Eliminated Lymphatic Filariasis https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1173-lymphatic-filariasis https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1173-lymphatic-filariasis Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health US Recycling Rates Are Finally Picking Up https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1181-us-recycling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1181-us-recycling Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Most of the World’s Population Is Protected by Domestic Violence Laws https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1182-domestic-violence https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1182-domestic-violence Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Women & Girls US Will Halve Food Waste By 2030 https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1190-cut-food-waste https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1190-cut-food-waste Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Japan is designing wooden cars to cut carbon emissions https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1194-japan-wooden-cars https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1194-japan-wooden-cars Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Six Organic, Biodegradeable Alternatives to Single-Use Plastics https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1207-plastic-substitutes https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1207-plastic-substitutes Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Fewer Children Are Dying https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1208-fewer-children-dying https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1208-fewer-children-dying Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Offshore Wind Can Meet Electricity Demand in the US, EU, China and India https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1209-offshore-wind-demand https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1209-offshore-wind-demand Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Bio-Fortified Golden Rice Could Reduce Vitamin A Deficiency, Saving Lives https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1212-golden-rice https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1212-golden-rice Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health We Can Make Biodegradable Straws From Tequila By-Products https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1213-tequila-byproduct-straws https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1213-tequila-byproduct-straws Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate A New Global Plan Aims To Cut Emissions from International Shipping https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1214-shipping-emissions-plan https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1214-shipping-emissions-plan Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate The EU will require key electronic appliances to be easier to repair https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1218-easier-to-repair https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1218-easier-to-repair Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate HIV Is Cured in a Second Patient https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1223-hiv-cured-second-patient https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1223-hiv-cured-second-patient Fri, 29 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Fewer Children Are Dying Of Pneumonia https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1228-children-pneumonia https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1228-children-pneumonia Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health The Population Covered by Essential Healthcare Services is Growing https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1230-universal-healthcare https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1230-universal-healthcare Sat, 30 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Finland Is Teaching its Schoolkids to Identify Fake News https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1232-finland-fake-news https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1232-finland-fake-news Sat, 02 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Land Devoted to Producing Meat & Milk Is Beginning To Shrink https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1236-peak-pasture-reached https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1236-peak-pasture-reached Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Biologists in Finland Develop a Vaccine to Protect Bees https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1240-vaccine-for-bees https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1240-vaccine-for-bees Fri, 03 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals South Korea is Solving its Food Waste Problem https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1241-south-korea-food-waste https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1241-south-korea-food-waste Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate Capturing Baby African Elephants for Zoos & Circuses BANNED https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1242-captive-elephants-banned https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1242-captive-elephants-banned Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Biologists Have Found a Way to Convert All Donated Blood to Type 'O' https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1245-convert-blood-types https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1245-convert-blood-types Sat, 20 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Poverty Among Black and Hispanic Men Is Falling https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1246-black-men-poverty https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1246-black-men-poverty Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Quality of Life Society & Community Rivers Could Generate Thousands of Nuclear Power Plants Worth Of Energy https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1252-rivers-blue-membrane https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1252-rivers-blue-membrane Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy We're Eliminating Malaria Worldwide https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1253-eliminating-malaria https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1253-eliminating-malaria Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health HIV/AIDS Is In Remission, Globally https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1254-hiv-aids-remission https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1254-hiv-aids-remission Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health A New Device Can Harness Electricity from Raindrops https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1255-electricity-raindrops https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1255-electricity-raindrops Fri, 08 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Clean Energy Japanese Suicide Rate Lowest for 46 Years https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1259-japan-suicides-down https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1259-japan-suicides-down Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Health Britain’s Woodland Cover Has Returned to Medieval Levels https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1260-britain-woodland-cover https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1260-britain-woodland-cover Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Nature & Animals Eco & Climate Reusing a Plastic Bag is Probably Best https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1261-plastic-bag-alternatives https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1261-plastic-bag-alternatives Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:00:00 GMT Information is Beautiful Eco & Climate ‘Global Green New Deal’ could eliminate 99.7% CO2 emissions 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