On the evening of May 9, 2019, conservationist and teacher Itakwu Innocent narrowly survived an assassination attempt outside his home in Kubong-Bette, a small farming village in the southeastern Nigerian state of Cross River. “Daddy! Gun! ” Innocent recalls his son screaming seconds before a shot was fired.
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There are few contemporary intellectuals who can claim to have an official FBI warning to their name; Andreas Malm, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, is the subject of at least thirty-five such missives. When Malm’s best-selling pamphlet How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire was
Male bonobos are larger and stronger than females, so researchers have found it puzzling that the female apes enjoy high status in bonobo society. After analyzing three decades of behavioral data, researchers recently shared a study that pinpoints their source of power: female alliances and coalitions.
Roughly five years since Kim Stanley Robinson’s groundbreaking climate fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, hit shelves and The New York Times bestseller list, there’s little he says he’d change about the book, were it to be published again, he tells Mongabay’s podcast.
Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration, ” the Earth’s largest-known land mammal migration across South Sudan and Ethiopia. The maps chart the seasonal movements of two antelope species, the white-eared kob and the tiang .
The World Bank promotes expansion of private land ownership and title to improve efficient land use and recently announced billions of dollars to support these policies, claiming it will also facilitate carbon projects including offsets and afforestation.
The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups teaming up to try to crush left-wing congressional candidates and challengers. Now that same strategy is rearing its head way down ballot: in the New York City Council elections.
An interview with two people involved in George Floyd Square, at the time an 'autonomous' zone at the intersection where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Originally posted: August 27, 2020 at Workers Defense Alliance