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The US's only barrier reef

lundi 28 mars 2016 à 02:00

There's a plan to dredge the US's only barrier reef in order to improve access to the port of Fort Lauderdale.

Fort Lauderdale is less than 3 meters above sea level — about two feet higher than Miami, which already floods regularly. If James Hansen is right about projected sea level rise, Fort Lauderdale won't even be there for much longer. Any investment in it is folly.

Radovan Karadžić sentenced for genocide

lundi 28 mars 2016 à 02:00

Radovan Karadžić Sentenced to 40 Years for Genocide at Srebrenica.

Enslavement of workers in Qatar

lundi 28 mars 2016 à 02:00

The International Labor Organisation is moving, slowly, against Qatar for encouraging enslavement of workers.

Jailed over two hot dogs

lundi 28 mars 2016 à 02:00

Texas Mothers Jailed Five Days in Louisiana over Two Hot Dogs (which they say they didn't take).

Just because they pled not-guilty, they were going to be jailed for two months. The prosecutor defended this pointless harm by saying they do it all the time.

Divestment from fossil fuels

lundi 28 mars 2016 à 02:00

Most investment has moved from fossil fuels to clean energy.

We can call this the end of the beginning. Alas, the world has so much fossil fuel generating capacity already, pumping out so much CO2 each day, that we need to get rid of most of it in order to be safe.

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