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Scientists adding human brain genes to monkeys — it’s the kind of thing you’d see in a movie like Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But Chinese researchers have done just that, improving the short-term memories of the monkeys in a study published in March in the Chinese journal National Science Review. While some …
Two titan climate campaigners, Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough, join forces to push politicians and businesses to step up action on climate change after a year in which schoolchildren took to the world’s streets in protest. Source: Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough unite to call for climate change action at next UN summit – …
In a year marred by tragedy both at home and abroad, it can be easy to think of the news cycle as little more than doom and gloom. But beneath the sombre headlines were stories of hope and optimism that are bound to have even the most pessimistic among us struggling to stifle a smile. …
Source: The 15 most ridiculous things media said about climate change in 2019 | Media Matters for America
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom hit Lithuania’s Hill of Crosses, where Chinese tourists desecreated and vandalized crosses in support of country. Source: Chinese Tourists Vandalize Pro-Hong Kong Crosses at Lithuania’s Hill of Crosses – The Resurgent
Five decades of satellite imagery are helping scientists track how glaciers are changing with the climate. Source: Satellites Show Glaciers Rapidly Shrinking from Climate Change | Space
Scandal after scandal tarnished the banks in 2019, which began with a royal commission and ended with allegations of enabling paedophilia Source: Australian banking ends a year from hell as ‘the face of unconscionable greed’ | Australia news | The Guardian
From corporate disgrace to government inaction on climate change, a helplessness pervades public life. But citizens mustn’t be despondent. Source: The year of living feebly: how did we all become so pathetic? Get off your couch and go protest!
Welcome to ABC Indigenous – ABC’s new portal for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Indigenous portal replaces and upgrades the pre-existing Message Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with the ABC’s Indigenous Programs Unit and with members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Source: Place Names – Indigenous – Indigenous
One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper’s Magazine. Source: Report: Nixon aide says war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies – CNNPolitics
The red giant Betelgeuse is the dimmest seen in years, prompting some speculation that the star is about to explode. Here’s what we know. Source: Betelgeuse is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing 100,00 years from now.
Around 480 million animals are feared to have died in the bushfires sweeping Australia, including nearly a third of the koalas in New South Wales’s main habitat. Source: Nearly 500 million animals killed in Australian bushfires, experts fear | London Evening Standard
Assange’s extradition hearing is due to begin at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on 24 February. RSF is concerned by reports that Assange has had insufficient opportunity to prepare for this hearing, and that his lawyers do not have adequate access to him in prison. Both of these measures violate his fundamental rights. RSF …
exacerbated by a regrettable lack of leadership from the prime minister, Scott Morrison. Beyond Australia’s shores, his government stands as a reproach to any leaders tempted to follow its lamentable response to the deepening threat of climate change. Source: The Financial Times has published a brutal editorial on the Australian government’s ‘lamentable’ response to the …