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Overfishing of bluefin tuna

mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 13:00

Bluefin tuna are so overfished that most of the fish caught are juveniles.

Stockpile of confiscated ivory destroyed

mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 13:00

China has destroyed a large stockpile of confiscated ivory to campaign against buying ivory.

I can't understand the mentality of a person who would buy something totally frivolous at the cost of rushing a species to extinction.

Judging who to hire based on Facebook pages

mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 13:00

Judging who to hire based on Facebook pages seems to be completely ineffective. (As well as an invasion of privacy.)

Building a house near the coast

mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 13:00

New South Wales gave permission to build a house near the coast, on condition it be demolished in 20 years if sea level rises as expected.

It is a kind of foresight — at least it does not ignore the issue — but it seems wasteful and foolish to build a house that will need to be demolished in 20 years.

What the court appears to have done is much more foolish: permission with no foresight at all.

Thousands of bats killed by heat wave in Australia

mardi 7 janvier 2014 à 13:00

A heat wave killed thousands of bats in an area of Australia.

In a couple of decades, none of those bats will live anywhere near.