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2019 C.E. April 22
World Surf League will now award equal pay to men and women athletes
17-year-old Caroline Marks became the first woman to win the same $100,000 prize as her male counterparts earlier this week when she won the first competition of the 2019 World Surf League's Championship Tour.
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2019 C.E. April 22
Canada iZEV electric car incentive program begins May 1
Canada will provide a $5,000 rebate to electric and plug-in hybrid car buyers called iZEV and goes into effect on May 1.
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2019 C.E. April 19
Navajo Nation embraces renewable energy as era of coal power ends
The Navajo Nation voted not to pursue the plan to operate the coal-powered Navajo Generating Station itself, but rather to create a new local economy based on renewable energy.
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2019 C.E. April 19
European wind energy industry invested €65 billion in 2018
"Wind energy got 60% of all the new investments in power generation capacity in Europe last year," said WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.
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2019 C.E. April 18
New research suggests MDMA lets PTSD victims form new bonds and memories to overcome trauma
Research from Johns Hopkins University finds that MDMA seems to re-open a window of opportunity for social bonding and rewiring trauma-related faulty connections in the brain.
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2019 C.E. April 18
Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates to replace Confederate and Jim Crow era statues on Capitol Hill
The likenesses of music legend Johnny Cash and civil rights icon Daisy Lee Gatson Bates will appear in the hallways of the U.S. Capitol in marble form, replacing two Confederate figures from the Civil War.
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2019 C.E. April 17
Inexpensive ‘first-of-its-kind’ device can generate electricity from snowfall
UCLA researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind device that can generate electricity from falling snow. The inexpensive device scientists is small, thin, and flexible like a sheet of plastic.
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2019 C.E. April 17
Arbor Day Foundation launches 100 million tree-planting initiative
The Arbor Day Foundation recently announced its Time for Trees initiative, which aims to plant 100 million trees by 2022.
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2019 C.E. April 16
Morehouse College, the nation’s only black all-male college, will begin admitting transgender students in 2020
"In a rapidly changing world that includes a better understanding of gender identity, we're proud to expand our admissions policy to consider trans men who want to be part of an institution that has produced some of the greatest leaders in social justice, politics, business, and the arts for more than 150 years,"
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2019 C.E. April 16
Global cost of batteries drops 35% in 2018, paving the way for faster transition to low-carbon energy
The benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, for lithium-ion batteries has fallen 35% to $187 per megawatt-hour since the first half of 2018.
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2019 C.E. June 4
Mexico City drops gender-specific school uniforms
"Boys can wear skirts if they want and girls can wear trousers if they want," Mexico City Mayor Claudia Mayor Sheinbaum said.
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2019 C.E. June 4
The world’s largest offshore wind farm just came online off the shores of Britain
The massive wind farm now has 50 of 174 turbines spinning. When completed, the project will have more than double the capacity of the current largest offshore installation.
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2019 C.E. June 3
Democratic Republic of Congo completes its first peaceful transfer of power
Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in as the president of the DRC, in the vast central African country's first transfer of power through an election in 59 years of independence.
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2019 C.E. June 3
Finland commits to be carbon neutral by 2035
Finland will go carbon neutral by 2035, under a coalition deal published on Monday, setting one of the world's earliest timelines for reaching that mark.
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2019 C.E. June 1
Illinois to legalize marijuana sales, expunge criminal records for pot crimes
State lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Friday and Gov. JB Pritzker said he will sign the measure, which make Illinois the first state to legalize marijuana sales via its legislature.
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2019 C.E. May 31
‘Humanity’ added as a religion option on Kolkata college admissions forms
Bethune College, has decided to do away with the heterogeneous clubbing of different religions together under 'other' and introduced another 'Humanity' for all people who feel restricted by the limited options.
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2019 C.E. May 31
U.K. creates “Blue Belt” marine protected area twice the size of England
An area nearly twice the size of England will become a "blue belt" of protected waters after the government created 41 new marine conservation zones.
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2019 C.E. May 30
E.U. and Bill Gates launch €100m clean energy innovation fund
The European Commission, European Investment Bank and Breakthrough Energy Ventures have launched 'Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe': a €100m fund to support investments in clean energy.
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2019 C.E. May 30
New Zealand ‘wellbeing’ budget focuses resources on vulnerable populations
New Zealand's Labour coalition government has unveiled its "world-first" well-being budget which offers billions for mental health services, child poverty, and family violence.
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2019 C.E. May 29
Colorado governor signs bill defelonizing single-use drug possession
Under the newly passed law, those caught with small amounts of drugs would face a misdemeanor instead of a felony charge.