📈 Human Progress

In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

🗳️ Support for democracy is very high - and increasing over time

Democracy is important to the citizens of all 53 countries in the survey, both democracies and non-democracies.

Mathias Sundin 5 min read

💰 "First I'm going to finish my children's book: Human Progress for Beginners"

Tony Morley is a progress studies writer specializing in the historical trends in global living standards and the forces that drive human progress.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🐬 Critically endangered porpoise on the road to recovery

The population of this critically endangered cetacean has risen from 1,012 to 1,249 over the past five years, marking a 23% increase.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🦟 World's largest mosquito factory to fight dengue in Brazil

Massive facility to produce billions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes.

Anders Bolling 29 min read

🐯 Investigation: There is no sixth mass extinction going on

"We are entering a sixth mass extinction," says Paul Ehrlich in an interview with Warp News. He is not alone in believing this. But our investigation shows that is wrong. However, there is no shortage of problems with species extinction. But, by and large, we have now learned to manage them.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🐠 Untouched coral reef discovered in the Galápagos Islands

A previously unknown and untouched coral reef teeming with marine life has been discovered off the coast of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands.

WALL-Y 2 min read

💉 Hope in the fight against malaria: groundbreaking vaccines take center stage

New vaccines are proving highly effective against malaria, and now there is hope that the end of the disease is within reach.

Warp Editorial Staff 1 min read

💉 Fewer child deaths, thanks to new vaccine

In the past three years, the number of children hospitalized and deaths due to malaria has decreased significantly in Kenya, thanks to the launch of the world's first malaria vaccine.

Warp Editorial Staff 1 min read

🍆 Stanford study: Penises have gotten longer

The average penis has become 24 percent longer since 1992. However, the growth is not evenly distributed across the globe...