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2024 C.E. November 28

Australia passes social media ban for children under 16

Australia's social media ban for kids under 16 puts the responsibility squarely on platforms, with fines reaching AUD $50 million for companies that repeatedly let underage users slip through. Passed in late 2024 with strong cross-party support, the law gives Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and others a year to build age-verification systems before enforcement kicks in. It's a real shift: instead of asking parents to police algorithms designed by billion-dollar companies, the law asks the...

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November 27

Injection beats steroids for asthma and COPD attacks in first major advance in 50 years

Asthma and COPD treatment may be on the verge of its biggest advance in 50 years, after a clinical trial found that a single injection of benralizumab outperformed standard steroid tablets for treating acute attacks. The study, published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, showed four times fewer treatment failures at three months and 30% fewer follow-up interventions among patients receiving the injection. The trial targeted eosinophilic flare-ups, the biological subtype behind roughly half of all...

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2024 C.E. November 22

Rappahannock Tribe first in U.S. to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

The Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia just became the first tribal nation in the U.S. to enshrine the rights of nature directly into its constitution, granting the Rappahannock River nine specific rights — including the right to flourish, regenerate, and flow with clean, unpolluted water. Both the tribe and its citizens can now go to court on the river's behalf, treating it as a living entity rather than a resource. Chief Anne Richardson called the...

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2024 C.E. November 20

Australia to invest $125m in Pacific island off-grid and community scale renewables

Pacific renewable energy just got a $125 million boost from Australia, with $75 million earmarked specifically for off-grid solar and community-scale systems in remote villages. That means real things: a health clinic that can refrigerate vaccines, a school that can stay open after dark, a fishing cooperative that can keep its catch cold. The remaining funding supports grid planning and local expertise, so the transition outlasts any single project. For island nations who've contributed...

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2024 C.E. November 16

China activates world’s largest offshore floating solar installation

Offshore floating solar just reached gigawatt scale: a fleet of 2,934 steel-truss platforms now sits eight kilometers off China's Shandong coast, generating enough electricity each year to power roughly 2.6 million urban residents. Activated in November 2024, the Dongying farm is the largest installation of its kind ever built, anchored to withstand storms and saltwater in the Bohai Sea. Moving panels out to sea sidesteps the fierce competition for land that solar faces nearly...

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