The European Union plans on banning new non-electric cars starting in 2035. This big shift in the international auto market is part of an effort to reduce new vehicular carbon emissions to reduce the impacts of climate change. As Yale Environment 360 explained, droughts that bring...
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Peruvian President Dina Boluarte offered to hold early elections in two years in an effort to quell the deadly protests that broke out following the ousting of her predecessor, Pedro Castillo, last week, the Wall Street Journal reported. Boluarte said Monday that she would send a...
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Iran executed a 23-year-old man this week, the second execution related to the anti-government protests that have been sweeping the Islamic Republic for months, the BBC reported. Officials said Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged Monday in the city of Mashhad after a court convicted him of “enmity...
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New Zealand passed a law Tuesday that would impose a lifetime ban on the young from buying cigarettes, a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking in the country, the Associated Press reported. The bill says that tobacco can never be sold to anyone born after...
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Scientists successfully synthesized cocaine from a genetically-engineered tobacco plant, Mashable South East Asia reported. The stimulant drug – labeled as a tropane alkaloid – has only been naturally created from the coca plants predominately found in South America. While the chemistry behind the synthesis remains a mystery,...
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