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Death of a Sri Lankan icon highlights surge in elephant electrocutions

Death of a Sri Lankan icon highlights surge in elephant electrocutions

Posted on April 30, 2021 by dilrukshi | 0 Comments
COLOMBO — He may have had short tusks, but at nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, Revatha was the dominant bull in his home range of Walawewa in Sri Lanka’s North Central province. Other bull elephants that challenged him for…
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A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Genevieve Belmaker | 0 Comments
It started as an ordinary morning in Ecuador’s eastern Orellana province. Abel Jipa’s sons, Byron and Johnny, and his son-in-law, Gibson, set out on the Coca River to go fishing in their canoe before sunrise. The morning of April 8,…
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German Court Orders Revisions To Climate Law, Citing ‘Major Burdens’ On Youth

German Court Orders Revisions To Climate Law, Citing ‘Major Burdens’ On Youth

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Rachel Treisman | 0 Comments
From NPR Germany’s top court rejected some of the activists’ arguments, but agreed that the country’s climate act violates their fundamental rights by not specifying emissions reduction targets after 2030. (Image credit: Christoph Schmidt/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images) Read the…
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Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Glenn Scherer | 0 Comments
Today, bowhead whales still transit the fringes of Arctic waters. Polar bears hunt blubbery ringed seals from rafts of ice. And ivory gulls ride gale force winds, plucking juvenile polar cod from the roiling sea. But for how much longer?…
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A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Rebecca Kessler | 0 Comments
Residents of the Gambian coastal town of Sanyang say life has gotten harder since a fishmeal plant set up production in 2017. Growing tensions over unresolved disputes with the factory reached a flashpoint on March 15, when hundreds of people…
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Malaysian firm bidding to clear Papua forest loses land bid, but deforestation persists

Malaysian firm bidding to clear Papua forest loses land bid, but deforestation persists

Posted on April 29, 2021 by mongabayauthor | 0 Comments
This article was co-published with The Gecko Project.  A court in the Indonesian city of Jayapura has ruled against a Malaysian logging and property conglomerate in its bid to retain control of the rights to clear some of the world’s…
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Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft

Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Hans Nicholas Jong | 0 Comments
JAKARTA — On March 10, Suande, a member of the Dayak Indigenous community in Indonesian Borneo, said goodbye to his family before leaving his village for the police station in the nearby district of Nunukan. He had been called in…
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Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Isabel Esterman | 0 Comments
The outlook is bleak for Sumatran rhinos. Decades of poaching and habitat loss have precipitated a steep population decline. Once found across Southeast Asia, from the Himalayan foothills to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the critically endangered species, Dicerorhinus…
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Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Posted on April 29, 2021 by elizabethalberts | 0 Comments
Female putty-nosed monkeys know what to do when they detect a leopard. They chirp out an alarm call to the males, essentially recruiting them to be their “hired guns.” In response, the males approach the group while making “pyow” sounds,…
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China launches first module of new space station

China launches first module of new space station

Posted on April 29, 2021 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments
From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightGetty Images China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing’s increasingly ambitious space program. The Tianhe module – which contains living quarters for crew…
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