China has reached its 2020 solar power target three years ahead of schedule, after installed capacity topped well over its 105GW target.
A project planned for super sunny South Australia will be the world's largest single solar thermal tower power plant when it's completed in 2020.
California, US legislators are considering a bill that would allow state funeral homes to start dissolving bodies in a chemical bath by 2020.
The agency is considering how to conduct science experiments on the Deep Space Gateway station, even while no crew members are on board.
Oklahoma will soon be home to the largest wind farm in the US, the Wind Catcher project, which will have a capacity of 2,000-MW.
US is experimenting with roadways that create their own clean, renewable energy, drive-thru automated tire safety stations and sensor-embedded highways that transmit data about their condition.
The non-profit organisation is joining forces with the Body Shop to launch Forever Against Animal Testing, a campaign to enforce a global ban by 2020. They plan to take the campaign all the way to the United Nations.
The move to initiate the reform passed easily with a 58.2% vote, shutting down any talk of investment in nuclear energy.
An Italian neuroscientist who says he’s planning to perform the world’s first head transplant later this year has told a German magazine that he intends to thaw a cryogenically preserved brain and transplant it in a donor body within three years.
To counter the impact of unsustainable palm oil production, such as deforestation and habitat degradation, the European Parliament has approved a resolution to phase out the use of vegetable oils that drive deforestation by 2020.
Eurelectric, an industry body which represents 3,500 European utilities announced that its members will not invest in new-build coal-fired power plants after 2020.
Seven European countries announced a joint initiative to acquire and deploy world-class high-performance computers. EuroHPCEuroHPC aims to deploy so-called exascale computers that are capable of at least 10 to the 18th power calculations per second.
Over 17 percent of energy in Italy comes from renewable sources. The figure had reached 17.5 percent by the end of 2015, putting the country ahead of its target for 2020 five years early.
Halifax-based Maritime Launch Services has confirmed its plans to build a $148-million rocket spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia. Scheduled for completion in 2020, it’ll be Canada’s first and only site where rockets can be launched into orbit.
At the beginning of the decade, Cape Verde authorities set a goal of getting 25% of its power from renewables by 2011 and 50% by 2020. To accomplish that goal, it established Project Cabeólica.
