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• Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?

  By genvana on April 5, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting. By Franklin Foer Read Franklin Foer’s follow-up story for new statements from the Trump campaign… Read More ›

• Yemen’s shameful war

  By konigludwig on April 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Two years ago, a tribal conflict in Yemen widened into a full-scale war after intervention by Saudi Arabia. Today, two-thirds of the population is starving. The world can no longer look away… By Matthias von Hein The richest country in… Read More ›

• Study: Global warming is drying up the Colorado River — vital to 40 million people

  By jward199 on March 5, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  By Dan Elliott Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could reduce the flow by more than a third by the end of the century, two scientists say. The… Read More ›

• Chancellor Merkel begins visit to Egypt to curb migrant flow

  By fada1 on March 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has started her tour of North Africa where she is set to discuss migration and development in the region. Activists have called on her to also address human rights abuses. As part of her push to… Read More ›

• NATO insiders suspect staged Turkey coup

  By fada1 on March 3, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The dominant assessment in NATO is clear: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan staged the coup against himself. By Kjetil Stormark / kjetil@aldrimer.no Senior NATO sources tell aldrimer.no that they believe Erdoğan staged the coup himself. However, they stress that there… Read More ›

• A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution

  By konigludwig on February 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  London is choking from record levels of pollution, much of it caused by diesel cars and trucks, as well as wood-burning fires in private homes, a growing trend. It has been bad enough to evoke comparisons to the Great Smog… Read More ›

• Ahwaz’s environmental woes at the epicenter of crisis in Iran

  By konigludwig on February 27, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  By Daniel Brett Over recent days, Iran has been rocked by massive protests in its southwestern Arab-majority Khuzestan province as power stations have failed and water supplies have been cut off. Dust storms and poor weather in this region, where… Read More ›

• Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces

  By konigludwig on February 12, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Researchers behind ‘Anthropocene equation’ say impact of people’s intense activity on Earth far exceeds that of natural events spread across millennia By Melissa Davey For the first time, researchers have developed a mathematical equation to describe the impact of human… Read More ›

• Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh to Be Relocated to Remote Island

  By konigludwig on February 1, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government is moving forward with a plan to relocate Rohingya refugees staying in camps near the country’s largest tourist resort towns to a remote island that is underwater for much of the year. A cabinet order… Read More ›

• Women’s March Against Trump Turns Into Global Day of Action

  By konigludwig on January 19, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Over 600 marches will take place in 57 countries around the world By Nika Knight The Women’s March on Washington on January 21 has gone global, with over 600 “sister marches” planned in 57 countries that same day, as an… Read More ›

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