Across Germany, right-wing organizations are using anti-Islam rhetoric to further their ideas — and finding a receptive audience. Now legal experts are debating whether it’s time for a new kind of hate-crime legislation.
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Four Lion Cubs Born at National Zoo in DC [VIDEO]
Four lion cubs were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C., the zoo announced Tuesday.
Costly plan to reduce Somerset floods
Protecting Somerset Levels to cost tens of millions
The price of gold: winners and losers in Latin America’s mining industry
On a Friday afternoon in June, the Plaza de Armas in Cajamarca is pulsing with life. It’s winter here, and although thick white clouds hover low in the distance, the sun in this northern Peruvian city is warm. Couples sit on benches facing one another. Kids run in the grass between flowerbeds. Men in suits […]
Clean Water Act protects Bristol Bay
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that it is initiating a process under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to identify appropriate options to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska, from the potentially destructive impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine!
Ukraine Crisis: EU Concerned about Cost of Sanctions on Russia
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has set off plenty of bluster and aggressive rhetoric in Europe. But many EU member states are skittish about the potential dangers of imposing punitive economic measures on Moscow.
Bank Oversight: Europe Stressed by Approaching Stress Tests
Thousands of ECB auditors have begun examining the balance sheets of euro-zone banks. Stress tests are coming soon. With the European Central Bank in charge of oversight, many hope the EU’s financial industry will return to health. But there are risks.
Biologists Use Tracking Devices to Uncover Early Life of Florida’s Loggerhead Turtles
Biologists have used small, solar powered tracking devices to find how Florida’s loggerhead turtles spend the first few years of their life. The study challenges few commonly held notions about the turtles’ infancy.
Good news for Nepal’s wildlife after another year of no poaching
After Nepal making a commitment to protect the future of its magnificent and highly endangered species, it has once again succeeded and between February 2013 and February 2014, no rhino, tigers or elephants were poached in the country. Nepal has a history of success in the prevention of poaching, and another poaching-free year occurred in […]
VIDEO: Australia’s ‘Big Dry’ a mounting crisis
Emergency relief is being provided for drought-hit famers in eastern Australia, as Phil Mercer reports.
