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2022 C.E. March 23
Indigenous communities in Oaxaca restore more than 20,000 hectares of land depleted by overgrazing
Many sites have been transformed into burgeoning forests. The communities now have more options for forest-based livelihood, such as agroforestry or even selling carbon credits.
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2022 C.E. March 22
Humanity has now installed more than 1 terawatt of solar capacity worldwide
A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts. One gigawatt is roughly the equivalent of energy produced by 3 million solar panels.
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2022 C.E. March 22
Barcelona cemetery has a new 100% biodegradable burial area
The new 8,600 square-meter park and cemetery is planted with pines and oaks, ready to host 1,500 new, more environmentally-friendly graves.
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2022 C.E. March 22
GE produces world’s largest recyclable wind turbine blade
One University of Cambridge study suggests that there will be 43 million tonnes of blade waste around the world by 2050.
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2022 C.E. March 21
World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia
The Future Seeds facility will not only safeguard tropical crop biodiversity, but also serve as a living laboratory for some of the world's most advanced agricultural technologies.
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2022 C.E. March 21
Wales bans smacking and slapping children
The Welsh government has hailed the policy change as a ‘historic moment’ for children’s rights amid calls for England to follow suit.
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2022 C.E. March 20
Light-duty plug-in electric vehicle sales in the United States nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021
The rapid growth in plug-in electric vehicle sales from 2020 to 2021 is remarkable in the context of overall light-duty vehicle sales, which increased by only 3% during the same period.
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2022 C.E. March 18
Sion solar electric car begins pre-production validation and certification
German startup Sono Motors has announced that 37 prototypes are being produced to take its solar EV family through validation and certification, ahead of planned production in 2023.
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2022 C.E. March 18
World’s first CO2 emissions tariff to be introduced in the E.U. by 2026
The EU wants to introduce CO2 emissions costs on imports of steel, cement, fertilizers, aluminum and electricity, from 2026.
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2022 C.E. March 18
Climate-resilient corals offer viable options for reef restoration, new study shows
In the longest coral resilience experiment ever, researchers found that two coral species cope well with changing ocean conditions and could be used for reef restoration.
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2022 C.E. April 14
Greece builds Europe’s largest double-sided solar farm
The installation of this bifacial solar farm is part of Greece’s aim to double its installed capacity from renewables to approximately 19 gigawatts by 2030.
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2022 C.E. April 13
New York enacts first-in-nation plan to electrify all state school buses
The historic legislation aims for all new school bus purchases to be zero emission by 2027, while requiring that all buses in operation are electric by 2035.
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2022 C.E. April 13
Stanford University researchers invent groundbreaking solar panels that work at night
The setup is inexpensive and, in principle, could be incorporated within existing solar cells. It is also simple, so construction in remote locations with limited resources is feasible.
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2022 C.E. April 12
Reswirl creates world’s first zero-waste, fully recyclable toothbrush
The company offers these brushes through a subscription service. Used brushes are returned in provided pre-paid packaging to be recycled.
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2022 C.E. April 12
Gabon announces immediate end to the logging of the Massaha ancestral forest
This is a precedent-setting case in the country’s management of forests, representing the first time an area will be declared protected at the request of the resident community.
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2022 C.E. April 11
New technique uses plastic waste to capture CO2 emissions
The scientists from Rice University developing the technique estimate that the cost to remove CO2 from flue gas streams would be about US$21 a ton, a significant improvement over existing alternatives.
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2022 C.E. April 111
Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years
The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 percent a century ago to around 18 percent today.
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2022 C.E. April 11
Ecuador’s Pastaza province and Indigenous groups collaborate on $52 million sustainable development plan
The plan relies on curtailing dependence on oil and mining projects for economic development and implementing ancestral agroforestry systems and conservation projects.
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2022 C.E. April 10
Opium production down as one thousand families in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to agroforestry
The project has helped lift the Tamazula municipality, where the four communities are located, off the state’s poverty list, raise their income above the minimum wage and contain narcotrafficking.
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2022 C.E. April 9
Psilocybin therapy changes brain wiring in depressed people, new study finds
The new study led by researchers from Imperial College London found that people also reported a reduction in their depression symptoms alongside these brain changes.