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2019 C.E. July 15
Turkey will declare a holiday dedicated to planting trees
A tweet from a citizen attracted the attention of a member of the Turkish government, who vowed to establish his 'National Tree Planting Day.'
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2019 C.E. July 15
Rare sea turtles smash nesting records in Georgia, Carolinas
Researchers and volunteers have cataloged more than 12,200 nests left by loggerheads, a threatened species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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2019 C.E. July 15
Ethiopia begins planting 4 billion trees to fight deforestation
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are needed for the planting and bedding in of the four billion saplings.
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2019 C.E. July 15
California becomes first state in the U.S. to ban racial discrimination against natural hair
The CROWN Act updates the state's anti-discrimination law so that "race" includes "traits historically associated with race," such as afros and braids.
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2019 C.E. July 11
Endangered rhino numbers ‘soar by 1,000%’ in Tanzania after crackdown on poaching gangs
The number of endangered rhinos in Tanzania has risen from just 15 to over 150 after a government crackdown on industrial-scale poaching, officials claim.
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2019 C.E. July 11
E.ON transitions all of its 3.3 million U.K. customers to 100% renewable electricity
German electric utility E.ON has transitioned all of its 3.3 million residential customers in Britain to 100% renewable electricity at no extra cost.
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2019 C.E. July 10
Hawaii becomes 26th U.S. state to decriminalize marijuana
The new law removes the possibility of jail time as a penalty for up to three grams of marijuana, but maintains a $130 fine.
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2019 C.E. July 10
France to implement new ‘ecotax’ on plane tickets from 2020
France will introduce a new charge on plane tickets from next year, with revenue used to fund environment-friendly alternatives.
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2019 C.E. July 9
Maine passes 2 bills to reduce ‘welfare cliff’
The bills aim to keep families transitioning from welfare to work from losing health, financial, and education benefits until they are earning enough to fully support themselves.
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2019 C.E. July 9
German court allows Peruvian farmer to sue RWE over climate crisis
The lawsuit alleges that since RWE has produced an roughly 0.47% of GHG emitted by industry, it should be liable to pay an equivalent of the costs.
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2019 C.E. September 3
Iceland Supermarket’s ‘reverse vending machines’ reach one million plastic bottles recycled
Iceland supermarkets have recycled over one million plastic bottles in just over a year, thanks to a trial of 'reverse vending machines' in five of its U.K. stores.
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2019 C.E. September 3
India bans six single-use plastic products
India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on Oct. 2, in its most sweeping measure yet to stamp out single-use plastics.
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2019 C.E. September 3
Ireland to plant 440 million trees over the next 20 years
The Irish government has announced an ambitious plan to fight climate change, setting a planting target of 440 million trees by 2040.
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2019 C.E. September 3
Offshore wind boom is transforming U.K.’s coastal town economy
Growth in the U.K. offshore wind industry is transforming the U.K.'s coastal towns from empty ports to bustling industry with thousands of skilled job opportunities.
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2019 C.E. August 22
Africa is on track to be declared polio-free
It has been three years since the continent's last reported case of the virus.
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2019 C.E. August 22
Nepal bans single-use plastics in Everest region
Nepal will make the Everest region a plastic-free zone by 2020 by banning single-use plastics. The new rule will come into effect from January 1, 2020.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Chattanooga becomes first 100% solar-powered airport in U.S.
Tennessee's fourth largest city, Chattanooga, became the first American airport to be 100% solar powered -- and joins only a handful of airports who claim the same across the world.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Hasbro to cut all plastic packaging by 2022
The toy maker will stop using plastic bags, elastic bands, and the shrink wrap that's usually found around Monopoly, Scrabble and other board games.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Mexican judge approves recreational cocaine use in historic step to ending country’s “War on Drugs”
Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has argued the country should decriminalize all drugs in order to take power away from the cartels and criminal gangs.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Peru passes “momentous” ban on palm oil deforestation
Peru has just become the second South American country to commit to ending palm oil driven deforestation by 2021.