WUHAN, China — A dozen sleek grey Yangtze finless porpoises glide inside a vast pool at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan as scientists find ways to protect and breed the rare mammals in China’s longest river. The Yangtze River is one of the busiest inland waterways in the world with 16 major ports.
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It was “by no means our intention” to cut power to households, says communiqué, but to “turn off the juice to the military-industrial complex” ~ Juju Alerta ~ Anarchists have taken responsibility for a major power outage in southeast Berlin early Tuesday, after two high-voltage pylons were set on fire in Johannisthal, Treptow-Köpenick. The attack,
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across France on September 10, led by students, workers organizations, and the Left. The target of their anger is yet another austerity bill from the government that has already led to the ouster of the prime minister.
He taught mathematics in a small state school on Flores and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose. In recent years, he also helped mobilize opposition to plans to tap the island’s restless geology for power. On Sept.
A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle has found that methods used by companies in the rush to extract the mineral in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has led to an “irreversible” and “unrecoverable” loss of water.
Exclusive: A leaked email shows that the BBC ignored an internal request to correct reporting that smeared Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, killed by Israel in August, as a Hamas operative. Harriet Williamson reports.
For more than 15 years, members of Atacama and Kolla Indigenous communities near Argentina’s abundant lithium reserves say, their rights to a healthy environment and self-determination have been ignored.
When headline after headline highlights tons of pangolin scale seizures in Nigeria, it’s easy to presume that most pangolin poaching in the country is driven by the international demand for the scales.