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2022 C.E. July 20
Rwanda’s mountain gorillas make strong comeback in conservation win
When American naturalist Dian Fossey moved to Rwanda half a century ago to study mountain gorillas, their numbers were dwindling, down to just 254 individuals, but today they're up to over 600.
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2022 C.E. July 19
Australian Capitol Territory becomes first state in Australia to ban conventional cars
The sale of new cars and light trucks with internal combustion engines within the ACT will be prohibited beginning in 2035.
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2022 C.E. July 19
Botswana reduces mother-baby HIV transmission rates from 40% to below 1% since 1999
Botswana has became the first high-burden country to receive the WHO’s silver tier award for its efforts to cut child transmission rates.
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2022 C.E. July 19
35 faith institutions from seven countries announce multimillion-dollar fossil fuel divestment
The group, organized by the World Council of Churches, Operation Noah, Laudato Si’ Movement, Green Anglicans, and GreenFaith, has more than $1.2 billion in combined assets under management.
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2022 C.E. July 18
California becomes first U.S. state to move back school start times
In 2019, California legislators passed a first-of-its-kind law requiring that all public high schools begin classes no earlier than 8:30 a.m. and that middle schools start no earlier than 8 a.m. The law officially went into effect on July 1.
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2022 C.E. July 18
Colombia launches $245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas
Heritage Colombia is a $245-million initiative to support the creation, expansion and improvement of 32 million hectares (nearly 80 million acres) of protected land and marine areas in the country over the next decade.
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2022 C.E. July 14
The Netherlands bans exotic mammalian pets
The government will present a list of mammals allowed as pets and hobby animals. All other mammals are banned.
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2022 C.E. July 14
New Jersey governor signs bills protecting out-of-state abortion seekers and reproductive health care providers
The bills, A3974 and A3975, shield health care providers from other state's inquiries and prohibit the extradition of any person who comes to New Jersey seeking legal abortion services.
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2022 C.E. July 14
Mississippi expands solar net metering rules
The new rules expand the state’s net metering program by raising the participation cap for rooftop solar and prioritizing solar adoption for low-to-moderate income (LMI) customers, among other steps.
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2022 C.E. July 13
China installs massive 17 GB of offshore wind power in 2021
China now has 26 GW of offshore wind power installed, the most of any nation and nearly half of the world’s cumulative capacity.
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2022 C.E. July 27
The Ocean Cleanup removes first 100,000kg of plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Since deployment in August 2021, System 002 (or “Jenny”) has now collected 101,353 kg of plastic over 45 extractions, sweeping an area of over 3000km2 – comparable to the size of Rhode Island.
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2022 C.E. July 27
U.S. to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
The Forest Service plans over the next couple years to scale up work from about 60,000 acres replanted last year to about 400,000 acres annually.
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2022 C.E. July 26
Swiss scientists invent system that produces jet fuel from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight
The amount of CO2 emitted during kerosene combustion in a jet engine equals that consumed during its production in the solar plant.
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2022 C.E. July 26
Andorra becomes the 33rd country with marriage equality
The tiny nation's new law also creates a system for transgender people to update the name and gender marker on legal documents without providing proof of medical care.
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2022 C.E. July 26
Greece bans genital surgery on non-consenting intersex babies
The surgeries are often unnecessary for the health of the child and are performed so that adults feel better about how the child’s genitalia look, even though the child often cannot consent to the procedures.
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2022 C.E. July 25
Nuclear fusion recieves $2.8 billion in investments over last year, more than entire past decade
The solution produces clean energy by fusing together atomic nuclei. Unlike nuclear fission, there is also no risk of radioactive waste and reactor materials can be recycled within 100 to 300 years.
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2022 C.E. July 25
Droupadi Murmu becomes India’s first tribal president
Murmu is also the country’s second female president after Pratibha Patil, who held the position for five years from 2007.
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2022 C.E. July 25
Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies
Four species of critically endangered vulture have returned to a park in southern Malawi from which they disappeared more than 20 years ago, due to the reintroduction of cheetahs, lions, and the carcasses they left behind.
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2022 C.E. July 22
China’s mammoth 2022 solar installations double those of 2021
By the end of this year, China is expected to install 108 GW of solar capacity, the most it has ever installed in one year.
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2022 C.E. July 21
New fund helps Black farmers in Detroit purchase land
Created in 2020, the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund aims to address the historical racial land ownership disparity that has affected Black farmers across the country.