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UPDATE (12/1): The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced on Wednesday it will suspend all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong, CNN reports. “In good conscience, I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly …

Greenhouse gas levels reached a record high in 2020 despite much of the world spending at least part of the year under lockdown or working from home, a United Nations agency announced Monday. Although fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions fell by 5.6 percent due to the pandemic-slowing economic activity, greenhouse gas …