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Saudi Girls Get Gym Classes for the First Time (And Other Advances)

Saudi Arabia is changing slowly, but advances for women since 2005, including new gym classes in public schools for girls, portend a future with even more equality.

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World Bank Doubles Funding to $200 Billion to Fight Climate Change

The impressive sum is actually double its original 5-year financial investment plan that it set in 2015.

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Country With Notorious Traffic Congestion Becomes First in the World to Offer Free Public Transportation for All

This European nation suffers from some of the worst traffic congestion in the world—which is why the new prime minister opened up public transit free to all.

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Abandoned Coal Mines May Soon Be Transformed into Perfectly Efficient Indoor Farms

Coal mine farming is becoming a groundbreaking new way of simultaneously fighting unemployment, hunger, climate change, and deforestation.

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She Heard a Child's Plea in Liberia, and it Turned into Schools for 1,500 Girls

All it took was an 11-year-old asking for help to change the lives of Katie Meyler -and thousands of other girls in need.

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Florida Everglades Off the Danger List of World Heritage Sites

The World Heritage Committee announced that significant improvements in the preservation of the Everglades National Park in Florida and Rí­o Plátano Biosphere Reserve in Honduras were sufficient to warrant their removal from UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage Sites.

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Sale of Sugar Company Land Turning Point for Everglades Restoration

Florida's governor last week announced the details of the largest environmental acquisition in state history, a $1.7 billion buyout of 187,000 acres of farmland from the nation's biggest sugar grower described as the "missing link" in the stalled effort to restore the Everglades. "I can envision no better gift to the Everglades, or the people […]

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Mission Accomplished: Antarctic Voyagers Rescued

All 52 passengers who were stranded aboard an ice-locked ship in Antarctica for more than a week were rescued by helicopter early Thursday, officials said.