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Grassroots organizations are helping rebuild North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene.

 

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Despite the conservation importance of documenting temporal population trends of African elephants, we lack a comprehensive assessment of recent changes in the world’s largest terrestrial mammal. This assessment summarizes site-level trends in density over five decades from hundreds of surveys conducted across Africa on the forest and savannah elephant species. Both species have experienced substantial declines at the majority of survey sites. Forest elephant sites have declined on average by 90%, whereas savanna elephant sites have declined by 70% over the study period. However, savannah elephants have also demonstrated some increases, indicating that the threats and challenges elephants face are not the same everywhere. From the successes, we can learn how to better protect elephants across their range.

 

Oil and gas company had challenged 2021 ruling that it must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030

 

The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from the IRA. There's no stopping the inevitable.

 

According to the European Union's climate agency, 2024 is also the first year to breach the 1.5 degree Celsius climate threshold.

 
  • The recent killing of a jaguar by hunters increases the species’ risk of extinction in Argentina’s Gran Chaco landscape, where no more than 10 of the big cats are thought remain.

  • Images of this particular jaguar were captured by camera trap twice this year as it traveled through a biological corridor; the next time it was photographed was on social media, where hunters posed with its carcass and its pelt.

  • A tradition of hunting, lack of public awareness, persistent deforestation, and absence of female jaguars — there’s only one, recently rewilded into the area — are the biggest obstacles to the jaguar’s survival in the Argentine Gran Chaco.

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The pamphlet can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-federation-revolutionary-women

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The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing, says climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg

 

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[–] solo 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I understand what you mean, but I see things quite differently.

The problem on this planet is this specific form of capitalism we live under.

Humans are the solution to this systemic problem.

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago

Great you mentioned this, so I just edited the title so the point is clear.

[–] solo 3 points 2 months ago

Just finished the first episode and I find it very interesting. Crossposting it to Podcasts.

[–] solo 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Partially archived link of the article

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago

So you choose to ignore that Israel for almost a year has been committing Genocide towards Palestinians. That this Genocide takes place in OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), occupied by Zionists that is, for over 75 years. You choose to ignore that a huge part of this Zionist society is totally supporting the Genocide, and many of them even make fun of it on podcasts and social media while plenty of Israeli support this material.

Instead, you want to shift the topic from Genocide and the support it gets, to Hamas.

Please, don't overestimate the power of Hasbara / Zionist propaganda.

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good point, I changed the title.

[–] solo 1 points 2 months ago

This article does use more specific language than "southern hemisphere", so not too sure what you mean. It also includes several links for further reading in relation to this topic.

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for pointing me towards the right direction, so I found the following link:

Precise, gentle and efficient - The cleanup system has been specially designed and tailored for this purpose. It is four meters deep and designed as a funnel with an opening at the bottom to ensure that fish and other marine life are not trapped when trawling for marine plastic.

[–] solo 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you for pointing that out, this part really does not make any sense. Not to sure what I had in mind, so I thought of making an edit with a strikethrough so that the sentence does make sense.

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I don't know who's in the right here, ...

The way I see things, it's pretty clear. In the global south are the countries that suffer the most from the economic activities (to say the least) that come from the global north. Giving these badges to the global south NGOs is important as an effort to balance out how underrepresented these part of the world typically are, even tho they are most affected by actions of others ~~,namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there~~. Admittedly, I don't expect too much out of this specific climate conference due to the intense lobbying that takes place there. I'd love to be wrong on this one and be pleasantly surprised, for sure.

...but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I believe it is important to accept that all media is biased, even if they try to portray themselves as neutral or objective (an easy example would be fox's fair and balanced sloggan). So I don't think that bias is a problem by itself, but performing impartiality totally is, and mainstream media do that for several reasons.

Still, I think a journalist or an outlet can be trustworthy, and this relies on their processes. They need to be honest and meticulous in their research (and perhaps something else that I didn't think of right now).

Edit: The strikethrough

[–] solo 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This looks like a very interesting project but I'm not sure I understand how the net works so it catches only plastics and not fish. Or are fish caught as well in this process?

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