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Activists with Extinction Rebellion (XR) were occupying a bridge over the Seine to demand the French government declare a climate emergency and take necessary action to avert planetary catastrophe.
We need to civilly disrupt because, otherwise, nothing is going to be done," a British woman who took part in the protest told Euronews.
Video shows the police teargassing the protesters at a close range and then forcibly trying to remove them from the scene.
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of weather events. Preliminary assessment of June's European heat wave.
The record-breaking heatwave that struck France and other European nations in June was made at least five – and possibly 100 – times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists have calculated.
Such heatwaves are also about 4C hotter than a century ago, the researchers said. Furthermore, the heatwaves hitting Europe are more frequent and more severe than climate models have predicted, they said.
Dr Friederike Otto, at the University of Oxford, one of the scientists behind the new analysis, said: “This is a strong reminder again that climate change is happening here and now. It is not a problem for our kids only.”
Why do two obscenely wealthy old geezers want to kill electric cars? I guess when your fortune comes primarily from a host of extraction industries, including lots of oil companies, then EVs are the enemy. It also helps when you own many, many politicians.
Senator Barrasso's bill is just one example of how the Koch brothers and their Big Oil allies are working to decelerate the country's transition to electric cars. "The Koch network is opposing pro-EV policies at all levels of government, in public utility commissions, state legislatures, and the US Congress," says David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen's climate program. "The campaign is classic Koch—a mix of front groups, campaign cash, corporate cronyism, and deception."
Hamburgers or the Brazilian rainforest? Appears the world's meat eaters have chosen to go with the beef.
Work by Stockholm-based NGO Trase, seen exclusively by our team, this week reveals the extent to which the international demand for beef is driving deforestation, with thousands of hectares of Amazon being felled every year to provide meat for world markets.
The only way to stop illegal poaching is to systematically go after the international criminal operations that profit from it. Easier said than done, but......
On June 12, Moazu Kromah, a Liberian citizen codenamed “Kampala Man,” was arrested in Uganda. The very next day, Kromah found himself standing in a federal courthouse in New York City as a judge read the charges against him--among them, conspiracy to sell rhino horns and elephant ivory valued at $7.4 million.
We’re not reacting to a seizure or a tip on an incident, we’re identifying criminal networks and proactively going after them,” says David Hubbard, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) special agent in charge of the international operations unit. “I think this is truly a game changer for the wildlife trafficking world.”
Some people question the purpose and value of zoos. The great zoos aren't collections of animals, they are engines for the preservation of wild species.
Both zoos are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and are participants in the association’s Species Survival Plan programs. According to the Birmingham Zoo, the transfer of the two elephants was made at the behest of the African Elephant Species Survival Plan.
“Our vision to conserve wildlife and wild places is what fuels our dedication to preserving endangered and vulnerable species,” Birmingham Zoo President and CEO Chris Pfefferkorn said. “We take pride in being a part of the global elephant conservation effort by AZA accredited zoos to ensure these magnificent animals will survive into the future.”
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