Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo
Progress is happening every day, just not always with fireworks 🎉 or trending hashtags #️⃣. It's like the slow-cooker version: steady, quiet, but cooking up something good. So if the world looks like eww 🤮, it’s really more like whoa 🤯, but in slow-mo.
- A federal judge just ruled that the #SunriseWind offshore #wind project off New York can start building again after being paused by the government 🛠️🌬️. That decision means all five big wind projects on the #EastCoast that were stopped are now back in action ⚖️ ⚡
- #YaleUniversity just announced it will waive #tuition and most costs for new students from families earning under $100,000 a year starting this fall 📚🎓. Families making less than $200,000 will also get big financial help, so more people could afford to go there 💸✨.
- 🇵🇱 Poland’s government has approved a bill introducing “cohabitation contracts” for couples 👩❤️👩 living together regardless of gender. It's the first nationwide legal recognition of #queer relationships. The bill, which covers health, housing and tax rights, stops short of marriage. 💒
- Since 2015 India 🇮🇳, the world’s most populous country, has cut #malaria incidence 🦟 by 80%, #tuberculosis 😷 by 21% and maternal #mortality from 130 to 88 per 100,000 live births 👶. Infant 🍼 and under-five deaths have also fallen. The government emphasizes that primary-care and treatment is priority.
- A manufacturer in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 will launch a generic version of the #CysticFibrosis drug #Trikafta 💊 in spring of 2026. It cuts costs from about $370K to $12.8K for adults and $6.4K for children 🧒👧. This is challenging monopoly pricing that left 3/4 of the world’s 190K CF patients without access 🚫.
- 🇨🇦 Canadian farmers are harvesting record spring wheat and canola crops 🌾🌻, driven largely by widespread no-till and zero-till farming 🚜 that locks in soil moisture 💧 and cuts erosion 🌱. Longer term, yields are up 77% for wheat and nearly double for canola since the mid-1990s ⏳🔥.
- As the world’s largest canola exporter 🌍 and a top five wheat producer, Canada’s gains are easing global food supply pressures 🍞 even as climate volatility intensifies 🌡️.
- Global #EV sales hit 20.7 million in 2025, up 20% year on year 🚗⚡, according to #BenchmarkMineralIntelligence. 🇪🇺 Europe surged ahead of 🇨🇳 China as the fastest-growing major market. Sales outside China, the EU, and N America jumped 48% 🌍🚀. It comes to show how global the EV transition has become.
- After 20 years of negotiations, the #HighSeasTreaty finally entered into force in January 🌍🌊. It creates the first-ever legal framework to protect #biodiversity across the 64% of the #ocean that lies beyond national borders, helping safeguard marine life where no single country has jurisdiction 🐋🐠.
- Global #wind 💨 and #solar ☀️ installations passed 800 GW last year, triple the pace of 2021. Falling #battery 🔋 costs have enabled grid-scale storage just as #renewable penetration deepens and grids are learning how to handle it better 🧠⚡
- 🇬🇧 The UK and nine other 🇪🇺 European countries just agreed to build a huge offshore #wind power grid in the #NorthSea. 🌊They want to create 100 GW of wind energy by around 2040. That’s enough electricity for about 143 million homes. This plan will link lots of wind farms with undersea cables.🔌
