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2021 C.E.
January 27 With 96 separate provisions for the river system spread across nine chapters of legislation, it is the largest environmental protection bill the rivers of China have ever seen, and will enter into force on March 1.
2021 C.E.
January 27 Eighty members of the public have been selected through a lottery to join the country’s first climate assembly in Washington. The assembly is constituted to deliberate on environmental issues.
2021 C.E.
January 26 Renewable energy's breakthrough across Europe signals that a full continental grid transformation is not just possible — it's already underway. Wind and solar nearly doubled their share of European electricity between 2015 and 2020, driven by falling costs rather than pandemic-related demand drops, making this a genuine structural shift. Analysts note that coal's decline is only the beginning, with wind and solar now expected to phase out gas and power the rise of electric...
2021 C.E.
January 26 “President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the White House said in an emailed statement.
2021 C.E.
January 26 German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals.
2021 C.E.
January 25 Indigenous land rights in Panama just took a major step forward, with the Naso people winning formal stewardship over one of Central America's most ecologically critical rainforests. Their comarca designation grants shared legal authority over forests they've protected for generations, and their own deforestation data — showing lower forest loss inside their territory than in surrounding areas — helped make the case. The ruling signals that Indigenous communities are conservation partners, not merely inhabitants....
2021 C.E.
January 25 Wind power's clean energy surge in 2020 showed just how fast a determined country can move — China's single-year renewable additions surpassed the previous all-time annual record by roughly 50 GW. Much of the buildout was driven by developers racing to meet subsidy deadlines, and coal capacity kept growing that same year, meaning new renewables are still largely meeting rising demand rather than replacing fossil fuels. Even so, China's manufacturing scale continues pushing down...
2021 C.E.
January 25 The monthly injection treatment replaces the need for some to take daily pills. The company says the price of the injections is comparable to the cost of the pill versions.
2021 C.E.
January 22 The 1,700-mile pipeline was planned to carry roughly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
2021 C.E.
January 22 The developers hope to make the city one of the world’s largest-scale testing grounds for zero-emission technologies. If the initiative works as proposed, Gothenburg Green City Zone will implement 100% emission-free transport modes by 2030.
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