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2022 C.E.
March 24 Marital rape laws in India took a meaningful step forward when Karnataka's High Court ruled that marriage gives a husband no special privilege to assault his wife. The court's language was striking: "A man is a man; an act is an act; rape is a rape." A national exception in Indian law still excludes marital rape from the formal definition of rape, so this ruling applies to one case and doesn't resolve the broader...
2022 C.E.
March 23 Starting in 2023, anyone driving a vehicle with high tailpipe emissions within London city limits will have to pay the £12.50 a day.
2022 C.E.
March 23 The new law could have major implications for Panama’s land and energy development policies, which are now required to respect and protect the natural world’s new rights.
2022 C.E.
March 23 Indigenous-led land restoration in Oaxaca's Mixteca Alta is proving what's possible when communities with deep local knowledge take the lead. Twenty-five communities have rebuilt a landscape that centuries of colonial grazing had reduced to bare limestone rock, restoring an area equivalent to at least three Manhattans. Crucially, the forests have brought water back — hillside collection systems now supply drinking water to communities that had nearly run dry. Their success, recognized internationally at the...
2022 C.E.
March 22 Solar capacity crossing one terawatt marks a genuine turning point — a technology that barely registered two decades ago now powers homes and businesses on every inhabited continent. The most recent 100 gigawatts were added in under a year, reflecting how fast the pace of growth has compounded. Solar costs have fallen more than 90% over the past two decades, making it the cheapest source of new electricity in most of the world. Still,...
2022 C.E.
March 22 Wind energy's long-standing waste problem may finally have a real engineering answer. Almost all turbine blades in service today are buried in landfills at end of life — and with 43 million tons of blade waste projected by 2050, that contradiction at the heart of clean energy needed solving. GE's ZEBRA Project consortium has now built a full-scale recyclable prototype using thermoplastic resin that can be chemically broken down and remade into new blades....
2022 C.E.
March 21 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.
2022 C.E.
March 21 The Welsh government has hailed the policy change as a ‘historic moment’ for children’s rights amid calls for England to follow suit.
2022 C.E.
March 21 Plug-in electric vehicle sales are gaining real momentum in America, and 2021 showed what that can look like in practice. While the broader car market grew just 3%, plug-in sales — both all-electric and hybrid models — nearly doubled, approaching the market-share threshold researchers associate with faster, self-reinforcing adoption. Charging infrastructure remained uneven, with rural and lower-income communities still underserved, so gains weren't shared equally. Still, when consumer preference shifts this clearly against a...
2022 C.E.
March 18 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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