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We loved this story from @thexylom on how the 200,000 trees planted by Ecosia and the Jane Goodall Institute in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor of Uganda are changing lives.
Environmental activists sue Norway over seabed mineral plan
OSLO, May 24 (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners have filed a lawsuit at an Oslo court challenging Norway's plan for seabed mineral exploration, citing insufficient impact assessment of the mining, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and its lawyer said on Friday
Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, the intergovernmental body that regulates fishing for tuna and tuna-like species in the region, met May 13-17 in Bangkok.
Although a decision on reining in catches of yellowfin tuna, which has been declared overfished for the past nine years, was perhaps the most anticipated move of the meeting, delegates failed to reach any such agreement.
So the Environmental Agency, is embarrassed to reveal the true state of our environment...
They find it difficult to answer prescient questions from NGOs with significant expertise (the implications being, better informed that the EA staff) & (it would seem) would like the NGO's Q.s to be more simply put to help EA staff offer better answers?
If you wanted a picture of a failing regulatory agency this would be it....
Mexico is struggling amid record-high temperatures and a severe drought. Water is being trucked into service hospitals and essential services.
85% of the country will experience high temps of 40 C (104 F) this week.
1/3 of the country will reach 45C (113 F) or more.
40% of dams are below 20% capacity.
Another 40% are between 20–50% capacity.
Power blackouts are occurring due to insufficient water to run hydroelectric power generators.
By May 9th, nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records (Ciudad clocked out at 47 C (117 F))
In protest of “intolerable” working conditions and lack of water in their barracks, the police themselves manned a protest blockade and blocked traffic.
Meanwhile, in other species, a large number of Howler Monkeys were found dead or dying from dehydration after literally falling out of the trees “like apples” in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco1.
A local biologist attributed the deaths to a combination of factors including high temps, drought, forest fires and logging of their shade and food trees. ↩︎
#Senate#Democrats opened an investigation on Thurs into #Trump’s meeting w/ #oil & #gas execs last month to determine whether Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” [#bribe ] when he asked for $1B for his 2024 campaign so he could retake the White House & delete #POTUS#Biden’s #climate#regulations.
The investigation is the 2nd congressional inquiry into the April 11 fund-raising dinner…. Trump told ~20 oil & gas execs that they would save far more than $1B in avoided #taxes & #legal fees after he repealed #environmental regulations….