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Climate Change, Inspired By Banksy

Climate Change, Inspired By Banksy

Banksy, who infamously shredded his “Girl With Balloon” painting at an auction on Friday, has inspired people to whip up their own versions of the artwork. The images are centered around a timely and poignant theme: climate change. https://twitter.com/BridgeMuir/statuses/1049532444238475264 caption=”” photo_credit=”” On Sunday, the United Nations’ scientific panel issued a dire report that the world […]

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    EPA Shakeup: Wheeler Gives First Address as Top Pruitt Aides Step Down

    EPA Shakeup: Wheeler Gives First Address as Top Pruitt Aides Step Down

    Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler addressed his new employees for the first time Wednesday, setting the tone and agenda for his leadership, Pacific Standard reported. Wheeler broke with ex-EPA head Scott Pruitt in style, but not in substance, vowing to be more transparent and listen to career staffers while also upholding President […]

    London Schoolgirl’s Death Linked to Illegal Levels of Air Pollution

    London Schoolgirl’s Death Linked to Illegal Levels of Air Pollution

    A 9-year-old girl’s death from asthma has been linked to illegal levels of air pollution in the UK, the first such reported fatality. Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived just 80 feet from London’s busy and highly polluted South Circular Road, died in February 2013 after suffering three years of seizures and nearly 30 admissions to the […]

    Big Game Hunter Criticized for Posing With Dead Giraffe

    Big Game Hunter Criticized for Posing With Dead Giraffe

    Tess Thompson Talley of Kentucky has sparked public outcry after photos of her proudly posing with a black giraffe she killed in South Africa last year went viral. The big game hunter posted images of the June 2017 hunt onto her social media page. Then last month, the South Africa-based news outlet Africland tweeted out […]

    GOP Senator Seeks Major Overhaul of Endangered Species Act

    GOP Senator Seeks Major Overhaul of Endangered Species Act

    Sen. John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, released draft legislation Monday to significantly overhaul the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Under Barrasso’s proposal, individual states would be given key authority over the federal program to conserve threatened and endangered species. “When it comes to the Endangered Species Act, the status quo is not good enough,” the Environment […]

    Showdown Expected as Japan Plans to Resume For-Profit Whaling

    Showdown Expected as Japan Plans to Resume For-Profit Whaling

    For years, the Japanese government has hunted whales under the name of “scientific research.” Now officials are angling to resume commercial whaling at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting this September in Brazil. At the meeting, officials “will propose setting a catch quota for species whose stocks are recognized as healthy by the IWC scientific […]

    A Coder and a YouTuber Provide DIY Power for Puerto Rico

    A Coder and a YouTuber Provide DIY Power for Puerto Rico

    By Tom Cassauwers Before the hurricane came, I was a software engineer. I’d graduated with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and animation, but here in Puerto Rico there weren’t many jobs in that field, so I taught myself how to code. When I began, I didn’t even know how to make “hello world” appear. […]

    World’s First Offshore Wind Battery Installed at Floating Farm

    World’s First Offshore Wind Battery Installed at Floating Farm

    A revolutionary battery has been successfully installed at the Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm located about 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast. With the 1.2-megawatt storage system known as “Batwind” in operation, it will be possible for the first time to store energy produced from an offshore wind farm, developers Masdar […]