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Saturday, 15 July 2017

Electric cars, mass extinction, and a swimming elephant – green news roundup

Extract from The Guardian

Environment
Green light

The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox

A herd of elephants cross a road through the flooded Kaziranga national park in Assam, India
Scientists warn that Earth’s sixth mass extinction event is under way. Up to 50% of all individual animals have been lost in recent decades. Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters

Saturday 15 July 2017 00.44 AEST

Environment news

  • Earth’s sixth mass extinction event under way, scientists warn
  • World’s largest butterfly survey aims to assess apparent spike in British numbers
  • Electric cars to account for all new vehicle sales in Europe by 2035
  • Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children
  • EU calls for immediate ban on logging in Poland’s Białowieża forest
  • Iceberg twice size of Luxembourg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf
  • Seven right whales found dead in ‘devastating’ blow to endangered animal
  • Exclusive: government inaction leading to increased pollution on Barrier Reef, says WWF

The defenders

This week the Guardian launched a project, in collaboration with Global Witness, to attempt to record the deaths of everyone who dies over the next year in defence of the environment. We will be reporting from the world’s last wildernesses, as well as from the most industrialised countries on the planet, on the work of environmental defenders and the assaults upon them.
  • Environmental defenders being killed in record numbers globally, new research reveals
  • Interactive: 98 environmental defenders killed so far in 2017
  • The Canadian company mining hills of silver – and the people dying to stop it
  • Who are environmental defenders?

In depth

  • ‘You helmets, get a life!’: Celebrating 25 years of the Dunwich Dynamo
  • If you care so much, Coke, why aren’t your bottles 100% recycled?
  • 5,665 gates, 4,862 stiles, 1,054 bridges: but who maintains the Yorkshire dales?

Multimedia

  • The week in wildlife – in pictures
  • Sri Lankan navy saves wild elephant found in ocean – video
  • Fido’s family tree – in pictures

And finally ...

  • Monkey selfie photographer says he’s so broke: ‘I’m thinking of dog walking’
The strange story of the man behind the macaque selfies that could be earning him a fortune.
The Worker at 7:18:00 am
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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