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PM’s research budget to make UK ‘science superpower’

Posted on June 20, 2021 by By Jennifer Meierhans | 0 Comments

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightGetty Images The prime minister has set out plans to cement the UK’s place as a “science superpower”. Boris Johnson announced how increases in the research budget would be spent. He will…

Sri Lankans find a digital helping hand for baby birds fallen from nests

Posted on June 20, 2021 by dilrukshi | 0 Comments

COLOMBO — Folklore has it that babies were delivered by storks, who carried them in slings from their beaks and left them at the door of unsuspecting couples. But the script was flipped for Premathilaka Peramuna, who opened his door…

Extreme Drought Hits Farmers Hard In Central Oregon County

Posted on June 19, 2021 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From NPR An historic drought is hitting the western U.S. Phil Chang, a commissioner for Deschutes County, Oregon tells NPR’s Sarah McCammon about how his community is coping. Read the full article from NPR

Will history repeat in a dry Klamath Basin this summer?

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Anna V. Smith | 0 Comments

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In mid-May, Klamath Tribal members and supporters stood at Sugarman’s Corner in downtown Klamath Falls, Oregon, holding signs like “Ecocide…

The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Eric Westervelt | 0 Comments

From NPR From the Great Plains to the California coast, a powerful “heat dome” is setting records. This one is stronger, bigger and appearing earlier than normal. (Image credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) Read the full article from…

Slick caught on satellite image around sunken ship not fuel oil, Sri Lanka says

Posted on June 19, 2021 by dilrukshi | 0 Comments

COLOMBO — Satellite images have captured a silvery slick spreading on the surface of the sea from the burnt-out wreck of a cargo ship that sank off Colombo earlier this month, but authorities deny there’s been a much-feared fuel oil…

Can old traditions and tech help Singapore reach zero waste?

Posted on June 18, 2021 by By Peter Hoskins | 0 Comments

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing You can hear Madam Ng trundling down the road long before you see her. In the quiet of the early morning, the low rumble of her heavily laden trolley reverberates through the streets…

It’s Juneteenth, but these American companies are still profiting from slavery (commentary)

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Rhett Butler | 0 Comments

Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 where an estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were freed, marking the official end of slavery in the Confederacy – two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and six months before the 13th Amendment to…

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Morgan Erickson-Davis | 0 Comments

Virunga National Park’s forests are some the most biodiverse in Africa and among the last bastions of mountain gorillas, okapis, Ruwenzori duikers and many other endangered species. Guarded by some of the highest, most inaccessible mountains on the continent, as…

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Karla Mendes | 0 Comments

As lawmakers tussle over the future of Indigenous land rights in Brazil’s capital, Indigenous people in a municipality in Rio de Janeiro state are fighting off attacks and threats by settlers who reject their ancestral land rights over a territory…