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16 Apr 2018, 4:14 pm
The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 8:35 am
Reported the UK Guardian, "HSBC continued to operate hundreds of accounts with suspected links to Mexican drug cartels, even after ... executives were told by regulators that HSBC was one of the worst banks for money laundering. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:15 pm
News & developments:"Australia Takes the Most Refugees Since Start of Humanitarian Program," The Guardian, 10 Feb. 2018 [text]"Dozens of Refugee Resettlement Offices to Close as Trump Downsizes Program," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 14 Feb. 2018 [text]"Fourth Group of Refugees Set to Leave Nauru for the US," The Guardian, 10 Feb. 2018 [text]"Majority of Australians Support Refugee Resettlement in NZ," Stuff NZ, 29 Jan. 2018… [read post]
22 May 2019, 7:42 pm
The Guardian – Democrats ranked global heating as the third most important issue on their list, while Republican voters ranked it last in a Yale poll: “Surging concern among Americans about an overheating planet has done little to shift a political polarization that has now reached a stunning extreme: climate breakdown divides Democrats and Republicans even more than abortion does. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 7:34 pm
The Guardian: “One million lorries of sand a day are being extracted from the world’s oceans, posing a “significant” threat to marine life and coastal communities facing rising sea levels and storms, according to the first-ever global data platform to monitor the industry. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 3:52 pm
The Guardian: “Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next four years, coal and gas-fired power plants must close in the next decade and lifestyle and behavioural changes will be needed to avoid climate breakdown, according to the leaked draft of a report from the world’s leading authority on climate science. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 11:58 pm
But they are swimming against the tide.Research group Global Financial Integrity puts the figure for illicit financial outflows from developing countries at $1tn a year and growing.No wonder then that some world leaders are now taking a stand.In June 2013, at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, promised to fight the “scourge of tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance”, with transparency, in particular “transparency about who… [read post]
18 May 2021, 9:45 am
The Guardian – Plastic Waste Makers index identifies those driving climate crisis with virgin polymer production. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 3:18 pm
But if he had been taken alive this would have hung over the processes of reconciliation and transition,” David Hartwell, a senior Middle Eastern analyst with IHS Global Insight, told the Guardian. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 4:48 pm
This newsletter is reproduced with the permission of Global Freedom of Expression. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 8:20 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)After 279 years, Lloyd's List, which covers the global shipping industry and boasts of being the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, will become digital-only by year's end, according to owner Informa.Lloyd's List debuted in 1734 as a notice pinned on the wall of a London coffee shop, according to an article in today's The Guardian. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 11:00 am
There are no uniform data at the national level that provide us with a global picture of the prevalence and incidence of abuse and maltreatment of people who are severely disabled. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 11:38 am
The Guardian online reports that the American Enterprise Institute, funded by a generous grant from Exxon and from the Mobil Oil Corporation, has begun offering $10,000 to scientists who are willing to write essays that call into question the findings on a recently released UN report on global warming.Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise… [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 4:00 pm
Asylum Seekers on Manus Island Should Be Made Aware of Legal Rights, Court Told," The Guardian, 30 Jan. 2014 [text]Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Program 2014-15: Community Views on Current Challenges and Future Directions (Refugee Council of Australia, Feb. 2014) [text]- See also previous submissions.Letters from Nauru (Border Criminologies, Jan. 2014) [text]Web sites:Crossborder Operational Matters [access]- "This website focuses on five crucial aspects of the Australian… [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 4:55 am
This newsletter is reproduced with the permission of Global Freedom of Expression. [read post]
18 Mar 2018, 3:14 pm
The New York Times, the Guardian and the Observer provide investigative reporting, and it adds up to a monumental issue for FB, for social media, for Americans, the global community, and for democracy. [read post]
21 May 2021, 4:21 pm
” Critics argue that the bill is “largely concerned with pushing social networks to take down more content, not less,” the Guardian reports. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 12:02 pm
Yet the Guardian should not be considered unique in this respect. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 4:06 am
From the Guardian:The Guardian has learned that of 105 freedom of information requests to the university concerning the climatic research unit (CRU), which Jones headed up to the end of December, only 10 had been released in full.The temperature data from the Chinese weather stations measured the warming there over the past half century and appeared in a 1990 paper in the prestigious journal Nature, which was cited by the IPCC's latest report in 2007.Climate change sceptics asked the… [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 4:36 pm
Community Highlights and Recent News ● Upcoming Event: “Who is the Guardian of Free Speech? [read post]
