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Sacred Native American burial sites are being blown up for Trump’s border wall, lawmaker says
Construction crews began blasting sites within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument as part of the construction of President Trump’s border barrier, and the affected areas include sites sacred to Native American groups, according to a congressman from Arizona and advocates.
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Man released from detention as High Court rules Aboriginal people cannot be deported
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Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of ‘climate chaos’
Moreover, several once-common species have disappeared from many areas they were once found, becoming locally extinct in those places. For example, the rusty patched bumblebee, which used to flourish in Ontario, is no longer found in all of Canada—in the U.S., it’s endangered.
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Half of Us Face Obesity, Dire Projections Show
A prestigious team of medical scientists has projected that by 2030, nearly one in two adults will be obese, and nearly one in four will be severely obese. The estimates are thought to be particularly reliable, as the team corrected for current underestimates of weight given by individuals in na…
Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in the Arctic
It’s perhaps the best known and more worrisome of climate feedback loops: As the planet warms, permafrost—landscapes of frozen soil and rock—begins to thaw. And when it does, microbes consume organic matter, releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, leading to more warming, more thawing, an…
Study: To slow an epidemic, focus on handwashing
Based on their study, the authors found that focusing efforts to increase handwashing rates at just 10 airports chosen based on the location of the outbreak could significantly reduce disease spread. In these maps, they show the airports that would be targeted for outbreaks originating near Hono…
Doomsday vault: Cherokee Nation becomes first U.S. tribe to preserve culturally important seeds in Svalbard Global Seed Vault
For more than a decade, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — also known as the "doomsday" vault — has collected and maintained the world's largest collection of diverse crops. This week, the Cherokee Nation became the first tribe in the United States to be invited to deposit samples in the vault. …
Mongooses Stink Less, Have Bigger Balls After Invading Islands
Over the last 150 years, the males of certain invasive mongooses have undergone some serious tweaks to their sexual anatomy. New research suggests that the mongooses’ anal pads—which produce a scent that is apparently very alluring to female mongooses—have become comparatively shrunken, while th…
FBI director says foreign disinformation campaigns 'never stopped' after 2016 elections | TheHill
“That is in some ways an even more challenging area, not the least because it never stopped. It happened in 2016 and it’s been continuing ever since then. It may have an uptick during an election cycle, but it’s a 24/7, 365-days-a-year threat,” Wray said of disinformation campaigns.
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Coronavirus declared global health emergency
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Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. “Surveillance on UK council websites”, a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companies’ surveillance of UK citizens when they seek help for addiction, disability, and…
How to Green the World
Our world is defined as much by what we forget, as what we remember. The billions of memories lost to time distort our perceptions with their absence. Add a healthy dose of lies and half-truths, and the past becomes a murky place, the truth almost indecipherable.
It isn’t just a problem …
'This doesn't sound right': Mastercard's CEO ditched Facebook's Libra after multiple red flags
Mastercard's CEO withdrew from Facebook's Libra over concerns about compliance, making money, and wallets, he told the Financial Times.
Ajay Banga dropped out because Libra's leaders wouldn't commit to observing laws, he couldn't see how the digital currency would make money, and he was sh…
Charges dropped against climate protesters who delayed Harvard-Yale game
The protesters who took to the field of the Yale and Harvard football game did so as a means to encourage the Ivy League universities to divest from fossil fuels, delaying the game for nearly an hour. After their display, they were charged with disorderly conduct.
The official Twitter ac…
Can Exercise Improve Video Game Performance?
Time spent playing video games is often seen as time stolen from physical activities. Research has shown that exercise has many physical and cognitive benefits. But what if exercise could benefit video game performance as well? A new study led by neuroscientist Dr. Marc Roig and his research tea…
The US government claims I'm a 'domestic terrorist'. Am I? | Ken Ward
I was acting as part of the “Valve Turners” direct action against climate change. Five of us, in locations across four states, succeeded in shutting down all five pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil into the US for a day. We were careful, transparent, civil and nonviolent. We put a premium…
Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children
For many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given government research has found that 82% of all advertised openings require some level of digital skills.
U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data
According to data released this week by the United States Courts, family farmers filed 595 Chapter 12 bankruptcies in 2019, up from 498 filings a year earlier. The data also shows that such filings - known as “family farmer” bankruptcies - have steadily increased every year for the past five yea…
How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Last August, during the second-hottest year on record, while the fires in the Amazon rainforest were raging, the ice sheet in Greenland was melting, and Greta Thunberg was being greeted by adoring crowds across the U.S., something else happened that was of great relevance to the climate movement…
Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking | TheHill
Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Memo: Trump tries to steal Democrats' thunder in Iowa Democrats make closing arguments to Iowa voters Trump mocks 2020 Democrats during Iowa campaign rally MORE (I-Vt.) this week introduced a bill that aims to ban hydraulic fracking.
Sanders has call…
Novacyt shares jump 32% on launch of coronavirus test
The test has been developed as a direct response to the recent outbreak of the new strain of coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has now spread worldwide, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency.
The death toll has now h…
Disabled teenager in China dies at home alone after relatives quarantined
A 17-year-old boy with cerebral palsy from a rural village in China’s Hubei province has died because his relatives were unable to care for him after being quarantined as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, the state-run Beijing Youth Daily newspaper has reported.
The boy, Yan Cheng, w…
China coronavirus: Hong Kong researchers have already developed vaccine but need time to test it, expert...
First published in 1903, South China Morning Post is Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper and has the city’s most affluent and influential readership. With a reputation for authoritative, influential and independent reporting on Hong Kong and China. The newspaper is supported with its …
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Oversight Board May Kill His Political Ad Policy
No example proves this more than his stance on political advertising. Per his command, Facebook allows politicians to say anything in ads short of illegalities. They can lie with impunity. It’s a controversial, maybe indefensible stand. Employees have begged him to reconsider. Legislators threat…
Coronavirus: Chinese Government Shutting Down Dropshipping Functions
The best way to prepare for this kind of issue is to adopt the drop surfing strategy. It means having multiple suppliers in your contact from different regions. There are numbers of dropshipping suppliers in US that you can contact, which will eventually help you as it would shorten the shipping…
Weightlifting better at reducing heart fat than aerobic exercise
In the small study, researchers determined that a certain type of heart fat, pericardial adipose tissue, was reduced in patients who did weight lifting, but not in those who worked on increasing their endurance with aerobic exercise, according to a report published in JAMA Cardiology. Both forms…
How sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics
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In an earlier post, I outlined our main weapons against infectious disease, including vaccines, antibiotics, antiseptics, pest control, sanitation, and general hygiene. These technologies (in a broad sense, even h…
Bottled Water Company Admits Dumping Deadly Arsenic Into CA’s Ecosystem—Nobody Goes To Jail
Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water’s bottled parent company, CG Roxane, LLC, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful storage of hazardous waste and one count of unlawful transportation of hazardous material on January 9th. Yet, to date, not one person has spent one night in jail for rele…
Coronavirus offers more proof why China needs to shut down live wild animal markets for good
Wild animal markets in China, where raccoon dogs, civets, pangolins, rabbits, boars, deer, bats, rats, turtles, snakes, frogs and dozens of other types of animals are bought and sold, have often acted as petri dishes for the germination and spread of d…
Venezuela is considering privatization in the oil sector
Facing economic collapse and severe sanctions, Venezuela’s socialist government proposes to provide a majority stake and control over its oil industry to large international corporations. The privatization of the sector will mark the end of decades of state control.
The government of Pre…
Huawei denies German report it colluded with Chinese intelligence
Huawei [HWT.UL], the leading maker of telecoms network equipment, denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that alleged the German government was in possession of evidence that it had cooperated with Chinese intelligence.
France moves to ban mass live-shredding of male chicks
Guillaume said he hoped a method would be found soon that would allow farmers to determine the gender of a chicken embryo in the egg before it hatched. Researchers have been working on devising a viable method for years, but to date, the science requires each egg to be pierced to take samples – …