Trump Blames Puerto Rico for Inconveniencing Him With Another Potential Hurricane -
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How Drawings & Zines Led to Me Being Labeled a "Terrorist" - It's Going Down -
Whelp. Here we go.
Careful crossing the borders, fellow zinesters.
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One million trees for Brazil -
Ecosia, a search engine similar to Google, has committed to planting 1 million additional trees - in Brazil.
As a response to Bolsonaro’s policies, Ecosia, which plants trees with every internet search, has announced its commitment to plant more trees than it usually does over the next six months in Brazil.
According to this article by the Ecosia blog, since Bolsonaro’s rise to power six months ago, deforestation in Brazil has increased by a staggering 84%. Supporting the country’s ruralistas, Brazil’s current government is strengthening the agricultural sector, even in legally protected areas.
“With these additional one million trees in Brazil, we are setting a sign: another world is possible and we will not back down in our efforts to make it a reality”, says Ecosia CEO, Christian Kroll.
Ecosia are expanding an “already successful” partnership with PACTO Mata Atlântica for this project.
“The Atlantic Forest is a unique biodiversity hotspot that Ecosia wants to protect and help regenerate”, says Pieter van Midwoud, Tree-Planting Officer at Ecosia.
“I trust PACTO and all the organizations therein to continue doing great work”, says Pieter. More than 10 separate groups will come together to plant the million additional trees.
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Orwellian Surveillance of Tohono O'odham Nation - A Test Case for Entire US Border? -
The ability to monitor every aspect of our lives, seeing every moment in minute detail, is something out of Orwell’s futuristic warnings, but it’s being played out on our own borders, on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in Arizona on the US-Mexico border. And it’s being carried out with Israeli technology, was honed on its own separation wall, and is being used by the Customs and Border Protection agency. It’s known by its acronym CPB and it watches not just the border, but even our own American citizens.
In an extensive study published by The Intercept, Will Parrish reveals how the Israeli company Elbit Systems developed technologies, which were then procured by CPB to invade the privacy of the Tohono O’odham people themselves. Media outlets like PBS, ABC News, CBS, others, often report on the Tohono O’odham Reservation as a weak point in the US-Mexico border where some of the forces and the focus seems to be on blaming members of the Tohono O’odham Nation for smuggling drugs into the United States.
They do extensive reports and interview Customs and Border Protection people all the time, but rarely do they bother to interview any of the people on the res themselves. Here’s a rare interview on PBS with Francisco Valenzuela, who’s a member of that nation.
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Photo by @pthompson1989 This elusive leopard was sleeping under a tree and within 1 minute of pulling up next to her she began her entertaining hunt, stalk, kill. Although the brave warthog did put up a resistance it was no match for the leopard in the end. Leaping over her meal several times before ending the play and coming down on top of the warthog in this picture. #wild #africa #tree #nature #leopard #wildlife #animals #igs_africa #wildeyesa #flyingleopard #warthog
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The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by humans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.
