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2021 C.E. January 8
Boston Red Sox hire first Black woman to coach in MLB history
Bianca Smith will serve as a minor league coach at the club’s player development facility in Fort Myers, Florida.
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2021 C.E. January 7
Raphael Warnock wins election to become Georgia’s first Black senator
As the New York Times eloquently pointed out, the election in Georgia “was also a rare chance for one Senate barrier breaker to pass the torch to another.”
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2021 C.E. January 7
DPA is installing electric vehicle charging stations across Zimbabwe
60 kW DC fast chargers will be rolled out in major cities, and then scaled up to the country’s major highways.
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2021 C.E. January 7
Plastic straws and single-use bags vanish from China as ban kicks in
In China, 2020 was bid farewell with a flurry of fireworks and the scratching off of 200 million metric tonnes of plastic straws from the nation’s pollution inventory.
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2021 C.E. January 6
31 countries, states, and cities now have gas/diesel car bans in place
At the start of 2021, there are 31 national and local governments that have announced bans on the sale of some forms of transportation powered by internal combustion engines.
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2021 C.E. January 6
No Newark police officers fired a weapon while on duty in 2020
Newark police and city officials say their de-escalation training program is working, with not one officer firing his or her weapon while on duty in 2020.
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2021 C.E. January 6
Subscriptions to satellite alerts linked to decreased deforestation in Africa
Deforestation dropped 18% in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new satellite service.
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2021 C.E. January 5
The U.S. is building a bike trail that runs coast-to-coast across 12 states
The Great American Rail-Trail will be almost 6,000km when complete, and will serve 50 million people within 80km of the route.
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2021 C.E. January 5
China will open its huge FAST telescope to scientists globally
The “Sky Eye” parabolic dish is the world’s largest Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) used for spotting pulsars and other energetic astronomical targets.
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2021 C.E. January 5
Researchers develop technology that instantly converts CO2 into jet fuel
The invention of an onboard system for carbon-neutral flight would represent a massive step towards addressing the climate crisis.
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2021 C.E. February 4
Italy’s electric car market tripled in 2020
With over 32,000 full electric cars sold, the Italian BEV market tripled in 2020, surging to 2.3% market share.
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2021 C.E. February 4
United States commits to protect 30% of its land and ocean areas by 2030
Currently, only 12 percent of the nation’s land and 23 percent of its ocean are protected, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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2021 C.E. February 4
VW opens a recycling plant for batteries at the end of their lives
Volkswagen expects this process to yield the raw materials needed for new battery production, such as copper, aluminum, lithium, manganese, cobalt and graphite.
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2021 C.E. February 4
Court makes “historic” ruling that France is responsible for climate inaction
The court gave the French government two months to take appropriate steps before ordering it to lower emissions or compensating for the effects of its inaction, The New York Times reported.
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2021 C.E. February 4
Anthill Creations builds hundreds of playgrounds in India’s slums out of local waste
Anthill Creations specializes in affordable play spaces that are sustainably constructed with a combination of local waste materials and materials donated from companies such as Michelin and Apollo Tire.
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2021 C.E. February 4
53 WTO members commit to ease restrictions on humanitarian food aid
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries initially restricted food exports, raising concerns that poor consumers in net food-importing countries would face difficulties in accessing food.
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2021 C.E. February 3
Trash trap gets to work removing plastic waste from Vietnam’s Red River
The trash traps have already collected more than 18 tons of floating waste. Now, thanks to additional funding, more are being rolled out Nam Dinh province over the next two years.
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2021 C.E. February 3
U.S. counties with more cannabis dispensaries are suffering fewer opioid deaths
A new study out of UC Davis suggests that increased access to cannabis stores that legally sell medical and recreational cannabis may help to reduce opioid-related deaths.
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2021 C.E. February 3
New prostate cancer test makes diagnosis in 20 minutes with near 100% accuracy
The breakthrough, developed by Korean scientists, is likely to revolutionize testing as existing methods are not only inaccurate but can result in over-diagnosis and necessitate invasive biopsies.
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2021 C.E. February 2
Pete Buttigieg becomes America’s first out Cabinet member
Buttigieg was confirmed as the Secretary of Transportation by a bipartisan vote.