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2018 C.E. February 6
Half of the world’s public buses will be electric by 2025
Nearly half of the world's bus fleet will be electric by 2025, according to a new Bloomberg report. China will be a major player in this global trend.
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2018 C.E. February 5
Chile adds 10 million acres of parkland in historic first
At a ceremony on Monday, Chilean president Michelle Bachelet officially declared a major expansion of Chile's parklands, creating two new national parks and protecting vast swaths of the country's rainforests, grasslands, and other wild terrains.
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2018 C.E. February 2
Electric vehicle charging shatters records in the U.S. in 2017
EVgo, the nation's largest public network of electric vehicle (EV) DC Fast charging stations, experienced a record year in 2017. Its network of chargers provided 40 million miles of emissions-free electric driving, a dramatic year-over-year increase compared to the 22 million EV miles charged in 2016*.
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2018 C.E. February 2
Cancer vaccine eliminates tumors in mouse study
Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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2018 C.E. February 1
New Zealand creates first climate change refugee visa program
Faced with the looming prospect of entire islands disappearing under rising sea levels, New Zealand is designing the world's first climate change refugee visa program.
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2018 C.E. February 1
Gambia’s river basin to be protected against climate change impacts
A new $25.5 million project from UN Environment and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will protect Gambia's natural landscape from the increasingly damaging effects of climate change.
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2018 C.E. January 31
Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all
In a country where a third of people have sight problems, specialist nurses have visited all 15,000 villages as part of a life-changing project
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2018 C.E. January 31
Canada’s British Columbia submits new rules to restrict oil shipments
The government of British Columbia has proposed new regulations restricting the transportation of oil through the western Canadian province in what is expected to be a major setback for a planned pipeline expansion project.
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2018 C.E. January 30
Families of those killed by police to get attorneys in King County inquests regardless of financial status
Legislation passed by the Metropolitan King County Council on Monday calls for the county's Department of Public Defense to provide attorneys to families participating in inquests no matter their financial status.
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2018 C.E. January 30
Cleveland Indians will stop using Chief Wahoo logo on uniforms in 2019
The smiling red-faced logo which has for years been criticized as racist by the Native American community and others will be removed from the team's jersey sleeves and caps starting in the 2019 season, the MLB announced Monday.
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2018 C.E. April 9
Scottish wind power enjoys record-breaking start to 2018
Onshore wind turbines in Scotland are set for another bumper year of generation, with figures for the first three months of 2018 revealing a 44 per cent uptick in wind power output compared to the same time last year.
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2018 C.E. April 8
Alaskans reject anti-transgender ‘bathroom bill’
Fifty-three percent of voters in Anchorage, Alaska voted on Prop 1 a citizen initiative that would have required transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificates
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2018 C.E. April 8
U.K. department store Selfridges to stop selling single-use plastic bottles
The department store has not stocked single-use water bottles for almost two years and it hopes the latest plan will encourage its clientele to stop using throwaway plastic and instead look to purchase aluminium cans or glass.
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2018 C.E. April 4
German diesel car sales plunge steepens in March
A decline in diesel-car sales in Germany accelerated in March, the first month after a court ruled that cities can ban vehicles to tackle pollution.
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2018 C.E. April 4
Portugal entirely powered by renewable energy for the month of March
Renewable energy accounted for 103.6% of Portugal's electricity consumption last month.
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2018 C.E. April 3
Saudi Arabia and SoftBank plan $200 billion solar project, the world’s largest
The plan envisions 200GW of solar capacity in Saudi Arabia by 2030. The venture may cost $200 billion and add 100,000 jobs. -
2018 C.E. April 2
China meets 2020 carbon target ahead of schedule
China, the world's biggest energy consumer, cut its 2005 carbon intensity level, or the amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide it produces per unit of economic growth, by 46 percent in 2017, Xie told a forum in Shanghai on Tuesday.
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2018 C.E. March 29
“Love, Simon” becomes first studio teen film to feature gay protagonist
The new film from director Greg Berlanti - showrunner of The Flash and Riverdale - has outpaced expectation in the US where Variety reports it's expected to take approximately $10-12m (£7-8.6m) on its opening weekend alone against a budget of $17m (£12m).
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2018 C.E. March 29
Fossil fuels squeezed by plunge in cost of renewables, BNEF says
The economics of generating electricity from fossil fuels are deteriorating rapidly as renewable energy technology plunges in costs.
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2018 C.E. March 28
French state-owned utility EDF to invest 8 billion euros in power storage business
"With storage we can smooth out the intermittence of renewable energy and guarantee the balancing of power grids," EDF chief executive Jean-Bernard Levy told reporters.