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2020 C.E.
January 14 Seventy-eight of the U.K.’s 154 public universities have joined the divestment campaign, either divesting or pledging to divest hundreds of millions from the fossil fuel industry.
2020 C.E.
January 13 From Monday, same-sex couples will be able to register to marry, meaning the first ceremonies will take place in February.
2020 C.E.
January 10 The Taliba N’Diaye wind farm, West Africa's largest, will be completed by mid this year and will supply 158MW of clean energy and increase the country’s energy supply by 15%.
2020 C.E.
January 10 Between 1990 and 2015, the number of homicides per 100,000 people fell by 46%, with countries in Oceania experiencing a 22% drop over the same period, and 36% in Asia.
2020 C.E.
January 9 The Lexilife team tested the light’s efficiency on 300 people with dyslexia—and 90% of participants said that they could “effortlessly read a text illuminated by the lamp.”
2020 C.E.
January 9 Researchers from the University of California - San Diego found that tens of thousands of deaths had been avoided between 2005 and 2016 by replacing coal plants.
2020 C.E.
January 8 Cancer death rates in the U.S. have now fallen for 26 consecutive years, and the pace is quickening. The biggest force behind the trend is lung cancer, which kills more Americans each year than breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers combined — making its accelerating decline ripple across the entire cancer landscape. Decades of smoking-cessation policy, expanding screening, and faster treatment advances are all compounding at once. Yet fewer than 5% of eligible patients receive...
2020 C.E.
January 8 The new law went into effect January 1. By 2021, the same law will ban handing out plastic straws, spoons, coffee capsules and other single-use items.
2020 C.E.
January 7 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are on a meaningful structural downward trend, and 2019 offered one of the clearest data points yet: coal generation fell to its lowest level since 1975, driven by cheaper natural gas and growing wind and solar capacity squeezing coal out of the grid. The Rhodium Group confirmed this wasn't a recession effect — it was a genuine energy transition signal. Natural gas still produces significant emissions and carries methane leakage...
2019 C.E.
January 6 The incentives are up to $9,500 towards the purchase of a new or used plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, fully battery electric vehicle, or fuel cell electric vehicle and will be prioritized for low-income families.
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