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Cargo ship from above, for article on Baltic Sea wastewater ban

2024 C.E. December 12

Finland becomes world’s first country to ban cargo ships from dumping wastewater

Finland just became the first country in the world to ban cargo ships from dumping wastewater in its coastal waters, extending a rule that previously only applied to passenger ferries. The Baltic Sea desperately needs the help: it's shallow, slow to refresh, and roughly 2,000 ships cross it every day, each carrying enough crew to rival a small town's worth of sewage. Years of patient work by the Baltic Sea Action Group helped move...

Good news for British climate action, for article on acts of union 1707, for article on U.K. renewable energy

2024 C.E. December 11

Renewable power set to overtake fossil fuels in the U.K. this year for the first time

U.K. renewables made history in 2024, generating 37 percent of the country's electricity and edging out fossil fuels for the first full calendar year on record. The shift has been remarkably fast — as recently as 2021, fossil fuels still produced nearly half of Britain's power. Wind led the charge, with onshore generation jumping 23 percent in the first nine months of the year after England lifted its longstanding planning ban. The same year,...

Damascus Cityscape, for article on Syrian political prisoners

2024 C.E. December 8

‘Disappeared’ Syrian dissidents emerge from Assad’s prisons after regime collapse

Syria's prison doors swung open in December 2024, and among those who walked out was Raghad al-Tatary — a pilot held for 43 years after refusing to bomb the city of Hama. He is one of potentially tens of thousands freed from facilities like Sednaya, where families had spent years searching for any word of loved ones swept up during the war. Footage from Damascus captured mothers embracing sons they had not seen since...

Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, for article on Namibia first female president, for article on female president

2024 C.E. December 3

Namibia elects Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as its first female president

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has become Namibia's first female president, winning 57% of the vote in November 2024 — enough to clinch the race in a single round. At 72, she brings a half-century of public life to the role, from her work in the underground liberation movement of the 1970s to her years as foreign minister and, most recently, vice-president. Known as a steady, diplomatic presence largely untouched by the scandals that have shadowed others...

Green plant sprout in cracked soil, for article on Great Green Wall

2024 C.E. November 29

China completes historic 1,800-mile “Great Green Wall”

China's Great Green Wall has helped lift forest cover from under 10% in 1949 to nearly a quarter of the country's land today, across roughly 1,800 miles of arid north. In dunes near Hongshui village, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang and his family have spent four decades planting sweetvetch shrubs in tidy squares — a technique locals call "holding down the sand" — alongside pines and blue spruces that now shield their fields. Tens of...

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