High Court Blocks Mount Pleasant + El Salvador Eliminates Trachoma | Bright Side Daily
Australia's High Court has blocked a 22-year coal mine extension after a Hunter Valley community group forced planners to count emissions from coal burned overseas. Also today: El Salvador eliminates trachoma, and the medicine Nobel honours a light switch for nerve cells.
Australia's top court has blocked the Mount Pleasant coal expansion. El Salvador has eliminated trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness. The medicine Nobel goes to the scientists who turned a light-seeking alga into a switch for single nerve cells. And London is drawing a 200 kilometre ring of trees that is not finished yet.
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