“These new tracks
are just one centimetre in length, which means the dinosaur that made
them was an animal you could have easily held in your hand.They are the world’s smallest dinosaur tracks.”
Labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of a £100m fund allocated in 2015 to support clean air projects.
Jeremy Corbyn’s party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5°C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching “net zero” before 2050.
The move will place Conservative MPs under pressure to back the plan, or explain why they refuse to do so, now fears over the combined problems of air pollution and climate change have risen to the top of the political agenda. …
On this day, 28 April 1969, students and workers took to the streets of Tokyo, engaging in running battles with police and erecting barricades, creating an 800-metre area which they dubbed the ‘Ginza Liberated Area’. This is a great history of Japan’s radical movement at that time: http://bit.ly/2n20cTPhttp://bit.ly/2DDjqFt
