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Orangutan

The thin green line: Scientists must do more to limit the toll of burgeoning infrastructure on nature and society

This blog was originally published in The Ecological Citizen Given its wide-ranging and transformative impacts, the global explosion of built infrastructure is arguably the most urgent environmental threat today (Laurance et al., 2014; Laurance and Arrea, 2…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Geely

smart to pull out of US, Canada amid declining sales

The recent joint venture between Daimler and Geely may be giving smart a new lease of life, but that doesn’t mean it is out of trouble. TechCrunch reported that the micro car brand is pulling out of United States and Canada, and the company has since confirme…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Trump admin promotes study that calls for long-term detention of migrant families

The Trump administration is promoting the work of an external advisory committee that recommends the president issue an "emergency regulation" to allow the long-term detention of families arriving at the border. Interested in Immigration? Add Immigration as…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Paris

Perkbox, the employee experience platform, raises £13.5M

Perkbox, the London-based startup now calling itself an “employee experience platform,” has raised a further £13.5 million in funding. The round is led by existing investor Draper Esprit, alongside a number of previous Perkbox angels. Prior to this, the compa…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Iran Liberalism

Iranian Mullahs in the Mirror of History

By ending more than 6 weeks of a devastating flood that hit 2/3 of Irans cities and villages, still, the Iranian Government is inactive. There have been three rounds of flood strikes hitting on the Iranian Cities. Still not any real action to relieve the peop…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Geely

It’s over: Smart confirms it’s leaving America after disastrous EV shift

Cops in Manhattan will need to find new patrol vehicles, because the endless rumors that pointed to the Smart brand’s demise weren’t 100% false. While parent company Daimler saved its spunky city car division at the last minute by selling half of it to a Chin…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Silk Road

‘One Belt, One Road, One Million’: Rail chief plans to connect Europe to China

The ‘New Silk Road’ has the potential to make trade between China and Europe more competitive by rail than by sea. EURACTIV Germany spoke to transport boss Alexey Grom about the development of the Eurasian railway project, the ‘New Silk Road’ and its expansio…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Solar Storm

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

Those tree rings also showed that during six decades, from 1568 until 1634, there was, because of natural climate variation, six decades of expansion of the subtropics, which pushed desert climates north. Because of expanding zones of hot and dry weather, the…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Elon Musk

Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Elon Musk has been trolling the Ethereum ETH cryptocurrency and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter. The Tesla founder simply tweeted the word Ethereum early this morning, but shortly later took it back (hehe). jk Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 201…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

Chinese Expansionism

Just How Bad a South China Sea War Could Get

Thus, China began its war for the South China Sea. Chinas claims of South China Sea (SCS) ownership are illegal, but Beijings hyper-nationalistic officials increasingly encourage its forces to attack U.S. Navy ships operating lawfully there. The Peoples Rep…

bubmagApril 30, 2019

The thin green line: Scientists must do more to limit the toll of burgeoning infrastructure on nature and society

smart to pull out of US, Canada amid declining sales

Trump admin promotes study that calls for long-term detention of migrant families

Perkbox, the employee experience platform, raises £13.5M

Iranian Mullahs in the Mirror of History

It’s over: Smart confirms it’s leaving America after disastrous EV shift

‘One Belt, One Road, One Million’: Rail chief plans to connect Europe to China

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Just How Bad a South China Sea War Could Get

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