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2022 C.E. June 7
Rectal cancer immunotherapy trials deliver ‘unheard of’ remission in all 14 patients
In every case, the rectal cancer disappeared after immunotherapy and the cancer has not returned in any of the patients, who have been cancer-free for up to two years.
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2022 C.E. June 6
Three oil companies pull out of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Indigenous and environmental groups led a campaign against drilling in the refuge, and 29 banks and 14 insurers now say they won’t fund drilling in the refuge.
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2022 C.E. June 2
Vietnam develops ‘world’s first’ African swine fever vaccine for commercial use
African swine fever, one of the most devastating livestock diseases, was first detected in Vietnam in February 2019 and forced the country to cull around 20% of its hog herd last year.
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2022 C.E. June 2
British Columbia becomes first Canadian province to remove criminal penalties for possession of some hard drugs
“By decriminalizing people who use drugs, we will break down the stigma that stops people from accessing life-saving support and services.”
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2022 C.E. June 1
Fastest carbon dioxide catcher heralds new age for direct air capture
The Tokyo Metropolitan University team’s new technology promises unprecedented performance and robustness in direct air capture systems.
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2022 C.E. June 1
Japan’s first carbon capture and storage facility to be live by 2030
According to Japan’s Industry Ministry, the country will store 120 to 240 million tons of CO2 in the year 2050.
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2022 C.E. June 1
First-of-a-kind blood test paves way for early Parkinson’s diagnosis
With no way of completely curing the condition, earlier diagnosis of Parkinson's disease can have profound impacts on treatment options and a patient's quality of life.
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2022 C.E. June 1
Activision Blizzard workers vote in video game industry’s first union
A group of quality-assurance testers in Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software division, which developed the popular Call of Duty Game, voted 19-3 in favor of unionizing.
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2022 C.E. May 31
Germany returns stolen colonial treasures to Namibia
The decision is part of reparations for a period of colonial rule during which Germany committed a genocide against the Namibian people.
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2022 C.E. May 31
Lincoln Crowley appointed Australia’s first Indigenous supreme court justice
Colleagues said Crowley, a well-regarded barrister and former crown prosecutor who was made Queen’s Counsel in 2018, had broken a significant barrier for First Nations people.
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2022 C.E. June 17
Australia reduces plastic litter on its beaches by 30 percent in less than a decade
The study by Australia’s CSIRO involved 563 on-the-ground inspections and multiple interviews with waste managers in 32 municipalities.
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2022 C.E. June 17
Microsoft to begin disclosing salaries, drops non-compete clauses
The new salary disclosure policy makes Microsoft the first “Big Tech” company to take this approach.
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2022 C.E. June 17
Korean scientists develop “nanomachines” that can penetrate and kill cancer cells
This new method directly kills cancer cells via mechanical movements without anticancer medication, in contrast to the capsule-type nanocarriers that deliver therapeutic drugs.
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2022 C.E. June 17
Comoros to create five new national parks
The new parks will model a co-management system that prioritizes the biological, economic, cultural, and political concerns of local communities.
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2022 C.E. June 16
Western Australia to retire all government-owned coal-fired power stations by 2030
They will then invest an estimated $3.8 billion by 2030 into a generation of renewables and storage, mostly wind and batteries, to ensure Western Australia has affordable and reliable power into the future.
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2022 C.E. June 16
University of Montreal to divest from fossil fuels by end of 2025
The total value of the Fund was an estimated $420 million at December 31, 2021, with fossil fuel investments accounting for four per cent of its portfolio.
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2022 C.E. June 16
China builds world-first full-function space solar verification tower
Xidian University in Xi'an has built a 75 meter-tall ground verification system to perform and test all phases of space-based solar power generation and transmission.
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2022 C.E. June 15
Joe Biden issues executive order to fight conversion therapy & LGBTQ fostering discrimination
The executive order tells the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue rules that ban the use of federal funds for programs that offer conversion therapy.
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2022 C.E. June 15
Virginia joins 20 other U.S. states banning ticket quotas for traffic cops
The National Motorists Association says that “a speed trap exists wherever traffic enforcement is focused on extracting revenue from drivers instead of improving safety.”
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2022 C.E. June 15
After long decline, eastern monarch butterflies show signs of recovery in Mexico
Eastern monarch butterflies covered 35% more ground in the mountain forests of central Mexico this past winter than they did the year before, according to a World Wildlife Fund survey.