IPCC climate report: 5 Things to Know
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:24:25 +0000
The landmark report has been called “an atlas of human suffering” by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres
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Google Is Letting People Find Invites to Some Private WhatsApp Groups
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:16:03 +0000
With particular Google searches, anyone can discover and join hundreds of thousands of WhatsApp groups.
Read moreAgainst the odds, Canadian woman granted asylum in U.S. under UN Torture Convention
Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:00:04 +0000
Her abuser pursued her for years, frequently attacking her. Canadian police did little. In the end, she fled the country
Read moreHere Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’s Phone
Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:55:01 +0000
Motherboard has obtained the report made by FTI Consulting into how Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman allegedly hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone.
Read moreB.C. human rights commissioner asks Canadian government to halt pipeline project
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 01:01:15 +0000
The commissioner believes Canada is shirking its obligations as a signatory to the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Read moreTeen Activists Couldn’t Ignore the ‘Morbid Symbols’ All Over the UN’s Climate Conference
Credit to Author: Alex Lubben| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:52:18 +0000
Security formed a “human chain” to kick activists out, and Qatar was handing out dates, individually wrapped in plastic.
Read moreB.C. treaty commissioner expects UNDRIP bill to speed treaty talks, more deals
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:58:18 +0000
The commissioner said the legislation could provide the final impetus for reaching 37 treaty agreements with Indigenous nations in the final stage of talks
Read moreKathryn Harrison: About all those acronyms at a climate conference
Credit to Author: Joseph Ruttle| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:37:55 +0000
What does a professor do in advance of a new conference? Homework!
Read moreBefore Greta, there was Severn, the B.C. girl who silenced the world
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:15:55 +0000
Severn Cullis Suzuki was just 12 years old when she made an impassioned plea to avert ecological disaster at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. The world listened, but little changed.
Read moreGreta Thunberg’s Angry UN Speech Follows 120 Years Of People Ignoring Scientists
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:00:21 +0000
We’ve had 120 years of scientists and experts telling us calmly that climate change was occurring and that it would be bad, and 70 years of global peace since WWII to do a lot about it. But instead, we massively increased greenhouse gas emissions