Dramatic cuts to USAID funding earlier this year have slammed conservation organizations around the world. But some NGOs, like World Neighbors, have been able to continue their conservation projects with little disruption — thanks in part to their reliance on private rather than government funding.
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Food Sovereignty In the current situation, it is difficult to imagine the existence of agriculture and production in Gaza, where there is no security, peace, and much less arable land. After 20 months of violent attacks, more than 56,000 people have been killed. In the West Bank, however, agriculture is still a reality.
In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she wondered why people paid thousands of euros for little-known reptiles whose trade wasn’t regulated by CITES, the international agreement on wildlife trade.
Although the movement's actions are based on local struggles, it is part of a broader post-capitalist and post-development struggle. The movement aims to abolish the patriarchal, colonial, racist, and extractivist growth regime while building a new world here and now.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, started spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories this week. It’s not the first time something like this has happened — and a reminder that LLMs aren’t truth-telling machines but aggregators of undifferentiated online scribblings.
KAFUE NATIONAL PARK, Zambia – Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to a wooden pole and draws it toward him. In the net are several small silver fish.
A federal court in Brazil has blocked the start of planned explosions along a 35-kilometer rock formation called Pedral do Lourenço in the Tocantins River, pausing a major infrastructure project until a judge can inspect the site.
Trump’s budget reconciliation bill will put $170 billion toward the war on immigrants. There are still weak points in the Far Right’s anti-immigrant agenda, and opportunities to strengthen the movement for immigrant rights.