New research indicates that over 80% of American adults now have antibodies to the coronavirus, earned either through infection or vaccination. The study, based on data collected from blood donors, estimates that over 80% of Americans over the age of 16 had these antibodies as of May 2021. The authors do caution, however, that their results may not be generalizable to the entire U.S. population.
The study,publishedThursday in JAMA, is the work of researchers from various blood donation organizations as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic response group.
Every month starting in July 2020, the team has been analyzing samples of donated blood collected from people over 16 in the…
It reads: “The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority.” The Catechism also warns that “when the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined.”
Biden has long maintained that the government shouldn’t force particular beliefs on Americans. That’s part of the reason he supported the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding for most abortions. But amid pressure in the 2020 campaign, he reversed his decades-old stance on the issue.
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Polymetallic nodules coat fields of the ocean floor and are rich in critical minerals needed to make batteries for electric vehicles.NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
Sprawling fields of rocks about the size of your fist coat the Pacific seabed. Below miles of ocean, these nodules burst with copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt, all key to building batteries for electric vehicles.
As the global push for electric transportation grows, these metals have converted a remote underwater plain into a battleground over the hard decisions required to address climate change. A nascent industry of deep sea mining is growing to harvest these rocks. The industry’s first commercial mining applications may be filed in as little as two years despite incomplete regulations and unsettled science about mining’s effects.
Industry proponents say deep sea mining is more environmentally friendly than land-based mining, making it the best option in the face of looming mineral shortages for electric vehicles and a tight timeline to decarbonize transit. Marine and climate scientists counter that there’s scant data on the deep sea to gauge potential consequences for oceanic biodiversity and carbon sequestration, and that it would take decades of study to get a holistic assessment.Article continues after sponsor message
Because of such serious uncertainties, conservation groups, hundreds of scientists and some battery-reliant manufacturers are calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining. In March, BMW and Volvo Group, along with Samsung and Google, pledged to abstain from sourcing deep sea minerals.
It’s a “sustainability paradox,” says Kris Van Nijen, managing director of Global Sea Mineral Resources, a deep sea mining contractor for Belgium and Germany. “On the one hand, we have a whole world demanding we deal with climate change … [but] there is not one solution that does not impact biodiversity that actually helps to mitigate climate change, because, in the end, we have to do something and we have to make choices.”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lwq1j3nOODA?rel=0Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering via YouTube
The world does not have decades to decide how to handle climate change. And, when it comes to regulating deep sea mining, the international community may have even less time.
In June, the 8-square-mile, Pacific island nation of Nauru took the first step in launching the industry. It announced plans to submit an application for commercial extraction as early as 2023 to the International Seabed Authority, the organization overseeing deep sea mining. Such an application will be judged against whatever the deep sea mining rules are at that time — finalized or otherwise.
It’s a “concerning move,” says Andrew Friedman, who oversees the Pew Charitable Trusts’ deep sea mining project. “We’re taking what was intended to be a deliberative, consensus-based process to regulate an untested industry in a part of the world that remains largely unexplored, and we’re compressing it somewhat arbitrarily into a two-year window. It’s raising a lot of questions about what’s going to happen next.”
A sediment plume (above in the foreground) created by deep sea mining vehicles unfurls over a field of deep sea polymetallic nodules. Scientists are researching and developing models to determine how far this sediment will spread across the seafloor.NOAA/DeepCCZ expedition
Getting critical metals is complicated
Metals to make clean energy batteries can be extracted from the land, sea or recycling. Advocates for marine mining say harvesting ocean minerals would be safer for workers than traditional mining and would have a lower carbon footprint by avoiding deforestation. A traditional land mining project for lithium has already sparked controversy in Nevada because of alleged environmental degradation. Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo has long faced accusations of child labor abuses.
“If your nickel comes from [a traditional terrestrial mine in] Indonesia, you are guaranteed that your atmospheric carbon emissions will be many times higher than if your nickel was coming from nodules,” DeepGreen, Nauru’s Canadian-based contractor, tells NPR. The company points to a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Cleaner Production, which it commissioned, that found “nodules put 94 percent less sequestered carbon at risk and disrupt sequestration by 88 percent less” than terrestrial ores. Just like with land mining, DeepGreen says, permits should be decided on a “project-by-project” basis.
Mineral production on land is also concentrated in certain countries, giving them outsize power over extraction and distribution. More than 75% of lithium and rare-earth elements come from Australia, China and Congo, which also holds more than 70% of the world’s cobalt.
Researchers deploy a hose off the coast of San Diego to study how discharged mining sediment would move in the ocean.John Freidah
By contrast, the international waters of the deep sea are home to trillions of mineral-rich nodules. The nodule fields between Hawaii and Mexico known as the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone — about the size of the United States — are estimated to contain six times more cobalt and three times more nickel than land reserves.
Environmentalists argue the best option is to forgo all mining and gather critical materials instead through electronics recycling. But reports by the World Bank and the International Energy Agency conclude recycling alone will not address the world’s clean energy mineral needs. By 2050, global demand for minerals such as cobalt and nickel will shoot up nearly 500%, the World Bank predicts.
“Recycling can have a major role, probably, after the 2030s,” says Tae-Yoon Kim, an energy analyst for the International Energy Agency and an author of its recent report, when technology has improved and spent clean energy batteries are ready to be recycled.
Until then, experts say, a steady flow of freshly mined minerals will be key to decarbonizing transportation. Shortages could drive up the price of electric vehicles or hamper production, slowing their adoption.
The deep sea holds more than critical minerals
Among the different kinds of deep sea mineral deposits, those that draw the most commercial interest are metal-rich nodules. Though the nodules were discovered more than a century ago, attempts at commercial extraction started only in the 1970s.
The International Seabed Authority was created in 1994 to oversee mining in the high seas. While continuing to draft the Mining Code, or the rules of international seabed mining, it has already issued at least 29 exploratory permits to allow nations and their contractors to search for nodules, test mining equipment and conduct environmental analyses. Sixteen of the permits are for harvesting polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. The organization did not respond to repeated interview requests for this story.
Polymetallic nodules, which take millions of years to form, support life in the deep sea ecosystem
Credit: NOAA
Unlike the lifeless barrens most people expect the deep sea to be, the remote ocean floors are a biodiverse and complex ecosystem. The intensive logistics to reach the deep sea thwart most research. It’s only in the last several decades that scientists have begun to piece this picture together.
Interest in deep sea mining is now drawing industrial and academic dollars, broadening our understanding of this plain. DeepGreen has spent millions of dollars since 2012 to study its leases’ environmental “baseline and [ways to] mitigate impacts of nodule collection on the marine environment,” it told NPR via email.
Citing an impending merger in which DeepGreen will become The Metals Co., the corporation declined to comment on whether the science of deep sea mining will be settled by 2023, when the Nauru-sponsored mining application is likely to be submitted to the International Seabed Authority.
Other companies also seek a picture of what the deep sea environment is right now. The mining company GSR, which anticipates starting commercial extraction by 2030, is collaborating with an independent European Union scientific consortium, MiningImpact, to assess its leases. MiningImpact periodically monitors the deep sea environment and GSR’s mining tests. In April, MiningImpact collected data during field tests of GSR’s second vehicle prototype. But this data will not be fully analyzed for several years.
DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron and the company’s chief ocean scientist, Greg Stone, then-Nauru President Baron Waqa and International Seabed Authority Secretary-General Michael Lodge speak with the crew of the Maersk, an international shipping container company, in San Diego in 2018 while the Maersk Launcher undertakes a DeepGreen research mission.Sandy Huffaker/AP for DeepGreen Resources
Could mining affect the ocean’s storage of carbon dioxide?
As the world’s largest carbon sink, the ocean has absorbed a substantial portion of our greenhouse gas emissions, with rising water temperatures and acidification to show for it.
Ocean carbon moves from the surface down into the seabed. Most of this occurs in the relatively shallow continental shelves where plentiful light and animals push carbon down the water column. A small portion makes its way down to the deep seabed. How exactly mining could affect this deep sea carbon is unclear, scientists say, and depends, in part, on exactly how mining technology functions.
If carbon-packed sediment that’s dislodged by mining stays near the seabed, it is unlikely to contribute to atmospheric carbon levels on a meaningful time scale, says Trisha Atwood, an associate professor of watershed sciences at Utah State University. Atwood is co-author of a recent study that discovered bottom trawling releases as much carbon dioxide annually as global aviation.
“Once you get below 2,000 meters, carbon cycling slows down a lot,” Atwood says. While deep sea mining “might expose carbon … there’s a pretty big time lag between when microbes would turn that into CO2, and when that CO2 is likely to hit the atmosphere,” potentially thousands of years.
Still, Atwood is one of the nearly 500 scientists who called in June for a deep sea mining moratorium. “Even if that carbon isn’t coming out into the atmosphere, we are weakening the oceans’ capacity to take up more CO2,” she says.
But it’s uncertain if mining sediment will remain at the bottom of the ocean. Both GSR’s and DeepGreen’s mining vehicles use seawater to displace several centimeters of sediment and nodules so they can be sucked into the vehicle, which separates muck from rocks. The nodules are then raised to the surface for processing while the sediment is returned to the seafloor. Early tests indicate the sediment plumes generated by their activities disperse several kilometers across the seabed but do not rise significantly. Scientists recently developed a model to estimate how plumes will move around in the water to inform regulations and affect estimates.
Keeping the sediment close to the seabed is relatively expensive, says Matthias Haeckel,who oversees MiningImpact. It requires additional technology to re-cool the sediment so it stays dense and does not rise in the water column. Mining operators looking to save money could decide to release the sediment at or near the surface.
There are currently no provisions in the Mining Code that regulate the height at which sediment can be released in the water column, according to Pew’s Friedman.
Hoovering up deep ocean mud may also affect microbes living in the seabed that consume carbon dioxide. These microbes absorb so-called natural carbon dioxide, or carbon that was not emitted by people but from ongoing organic and inorganic processes instead. The bacteria could be responsible for up to 10% of background “natural” carbon absorbed by the ocean annually.
Scientists do not know if disturbing the microbes through mining would alter the ocean’s ability to capture and hold carbonlong term. What is evident is that this bacteria recover slowly from disturbances. Researchers dragged small plows in the Peru Basin in 1989 to simulate small-scale mining. Decades later, the sites remain scarred, and they house decreased microbial activity.
“The microbial community does take a long time to recover following simulated mining disturbance,” says Andrew Sweetman, a deep sea ecologist at Heriot-Watt University, who discovered carbon-consuming bacteria in theClarion-Clipperton Fracture Zonein 2018. “So if these processes are important and are taking up CO2, then it’s possible that mining may impact those processes to a large extent.”
Deep sea mining companies say the amount of seabed that could be disturbed is inconsequential to carbon levels. Even if “nodule collection severely disrupted the carbon-cycling” in mining areas, writes sustainability researcher Daina Paulikas in the Cleaner Production paper, harvesting enough rocks to build 1 billion electric vehicles would disturb only 0.2% of the ocean’s deep sea bacteria.
Down the road, DeepGreen anticipates pivoting from oceanic mining to recycling minerals in support of a circular economy. Several U.S. port cities are under consideration as potential sites for future recycling plants.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in June that the Biden administration wants to see the supply for clean energy minerals met through “responsible” mining “that respects the environment.”
A June report from the White House on potential supply chain shortages notes that “significant quantities of strategic and critical materials may be found on the seabed, but the industry to extract these resources remains nascent, given both technical challenges of mining in the marine environment and the potential for significant environmental harm.”
In the end, experts say, mining the deep sea will likely come down to a value judgment.
The carbon impact of deep sea mining “is probably not going to be huge,” Heriot-Watt’s Sweetman says, “but I would say, at what point does a small number become significant?”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday pledged to bring a bill codifying the Supreme Courtabortion decision Roe v. Wade to the House floor in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a Texas abortion law to go into effect.
“When we go back to Washington, we will be putting Roe v. Wade codification on the floor of the House, to make sure that women everywhere have access to the reproductive health that they need,” Pelosi said in a news conference.
Pelosi announced that the House would vote on a bill sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., H.B. 3755, the Women’s Health Protection Act. The bill aims “to protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services.”
The law would strike down current state restrictions on abortion and prevent states from imposing new restrictions on abortion, which pro-life advocates claim involves the killing of an unborn baby, except in limited circumstances.
Pro-life advocates celebrated the court’s ruling.
“March for Life celebrates the Supreme Court’s decision to allow – for now – the state of Texas to protect babies who have a detectable heartbeat. Americans, through their elected representatives, deserve to be able to enact laws that reflect their own values and compassion for our most vulnerable citizens,” Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, said in a statement.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling allows Texas to protect unborn babies with beating hearts while litigation continues,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement. “The Texas legislature, acting on the will of the people, debated and passed this law with the very simple goal of protecting unborn children with beating hearts from death in the womb. This is how democracy works.”
Dannenfelser condemned H.B. 3755, claiming that the bill would “permanently stifle American debate on abortion.”
“Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi want to permanently stifle American debate on abortion and instead impose a regime of abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth, paid for by the taxpayer,” Dannenfelser wrote in a statement after Pelosi’s announcement. “The deceptively named ‘Women’s Health Protection Act’ should really be called the ‘National Abortion on Demand Act.’ Existing laws at risk if the legislation passes include limits on late-term abortions, waiting periods, informed consent laws, and limits on discriminatory abortions, and many others.”
President Biden announced that he is launching a “whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe, and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties.”
Some Democrats have renewed their push to pack the Supreme Court in the wake of the ruling.
Democrat-controlled state legislatures have passed their own attempts to codify Roe v. Wade should the conservative-majority Supreme Court strike down the ruling. The New York version not only codified abortion but removed protections for babies in the womb, even those wanted by their mothers. It struck down laws treating the death of an unborn baby as a homicide.
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Nearly three years ago when British dog behaviorist Kasey Carlin arrived at Heathrow Airport to meet a rescue dog flown in from Lebanon, she thought the airport staff brought her the wrong dog. She knew the mixed-breed dog had been horribly abused and expected to see signs of trauma.
It’s a remarkable personality trait considering all Maggie endured before her rescue.
“They used a BB gun and used her as target practice. They had tied her up and shot her. She has about 200 pellets from her nose to her chest and some in her shoulders, but they’re all concentrated in her face,” Carlin said. “Then they pulled her eyes out. She had a broken jaw. They started cutting off her ears before somebody intervened. And she was heavily pregnant at the time.” (The puppies Maggie was carrying did not survive.)
But Maggie’s situation proved increasingly desperate.
“Nobody wanted her,” she said. “She had six days before she was due to fly and nowhere to go, and they were going to have to delay the flight or she was going to have to go in kennels, but I couldn’t let a poor little blind dog go in kennels.”
The plan was never to adopt Maggie, just to foster her — which initially seemed prudent. Maggie and Mishka, Carlin’s recently adopted dog, did not get along. Mishka’s former owners kept her in a crate that she tried desperately to escape, and she emerged aggressive toward both dogs and people. But Carlin worked every day to help make them comfortable with one another, and they became best friends.
Though Maggie delighted in meeting new friends on walks, her past haunted her sleep.
“She’d be in dreams, and she’d wake me up screaming. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard a dog scream, but it is horrific,” Carlin said through tears. “I used to have to go, ‘Maggie, it’s OK. It’s OK.’ But now there’s (a) difference between her dreams. She’ll run in her dreams. These horrible nightmares that she used to have don’t happen often now — she had one maybe six months ago. She’s happy now.”
“When we go to the schools, we do these little headbands the children make, where they have just one little ear on them,” Carlin said. “It’s really cute to see all these kids with this one little Maggie ear on their heads.”
With pandemic restrictions lifting in the United Kingdom, Carlin hopes Maggie can begin visiting hospital patients. They recently visited a care home, where Maggie reunited with one of her favorite residents, Anne.
“Even after a year of lockdown — she hasn’t seen Anne — when we went to go see her, she knew exactly where she was going. She’s completely blind, but she’ll lead you straight to Anne’s room first and then she can go see other residents,” Carlin said. “She just wants to love everyone.”https://www.instagram.com/p/CQrHVu6pTTl/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=13&wp=600&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com&rp=%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Flifestyle-buzz%2Fblind-dog-once-used-as-target-practice-now-brings-comfort-to-others-as-therapy-dog%2Far-AAO3TNs%3Focid%3Duxbndlbing#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A12927%2C%22ls%22%3A6789.799999952316%2C%22le%22%3A6996.200000047684%7D
Maggie is trusting as well as loving. She walks in a perfect heel — off leash — even on the streets of London. When Carlin calls to her dog from across a field, Maggie runs happily toward her.
She hopes people inspired by Maggie’s story will consider adopting overlooked pets, particularly older dogs and those with disabilities.
“Nobody wanted Maggie, and now she’s got half a million people that would take her in an instant if I offered her up because she’s a good dog,” she said. “Every dog is a good dog. You just have to work with them, understand their limits, respect those limits and build that bond. Then they’re good dogs. … Maggie does all this good, and she’s just being herself.”
Aerolíneas Argentinas has just announced that it will no longer carry hunting trophies on its domestic and international flights. The airline is launching this initiative to help protect the environment and wildlife worldwide. Let’s investigate further.
Aerolineas Argentinas has banned hunting trophies on its domestic and international flights. Photo: Getty Images
Wildlife protection
Trophy hunters invest tons of money every year to kill wild animals for in-home displays. According to the Humane Society International, more than 200,000 threatened or endangered animals are killed for trophies each year.
Moreover, trophy hunters prefer to kill the largest, strongest animals, causing further population declines. The United States is the biggest importer of wildlife trophies, and New York is the biggest port of entry.ADVERTISEMENThttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.478.1_en.html#goog_106002227235.2KThe Fall Of The Airbus A318 Baby Bus
Argentina is in the top ten countries that import animals as trophies to the US, according to the Humane Society International. This has led Aerolíneas Argentinas to take radical action and stop this activity.
In a statement, the airline said,
“This initiative aims to protect the Argentinian wildlife, and it complies with the international conservation standards such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).”ADVERTISEMENThttps://7a78d8c9bda7d191c639f74059524244.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Aerolíneas Argentinas cited that many wildlife species are directly impacted by hunting activities, including the American cougar.
“This type of policies are important, they show progress and have the common objective of moving forward to a more conscious world towards wild fauna and flora protection,” said Pablo Ceriani, Aerolíneas Argentinas CEO.ADVERTISEMENThttps://7a78d8c9bda7d191c639f74059524244.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Marina Ratchford, the Humane Society International country manager in Argentina, told Simple Flying,
“We commend Aerolineas Argentinas for joining the list of 45 airlines that have made a commitment not to transport hunting trophies. Trophy hunting harms wildlife populations and killing wild animals for fun has no place in modern society. Aerolineas Argentina’s decision ends their role in this harmful activity. We urge other airlines who have not joined this list yet to do so as well.”
Aerolíneas Argentinas wants to protect the wild fauna and flora in Argentina. Photo: Getty Images.
Are there any other airlines that ban hunting trophies?
As of January 2020, 45 airlines worldwide had some sort of ban on carrying hunting trophies, according to data of the Humane Society International. One of them is Emirates.ADVERTISEMENThttps://7a78d8c9bda7d191c639f74059524244.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
In Latin America, besides Aerolíneas Argentinas, only Aeromexico has made a commitment to disincentive hunting of animals.
Meanwhile, in the United States and Europe, many airlines have banned hunting trophies, such as KLM, Virgin, Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Air France, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, Hawaiian Airlines, SWISS, Iberia, Cargolux, and others.
Many US carriers first launch their ban on carrying hunting trophies in 2015. The decision came following the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe by US dentist Walter Palmer (who wasn’t deferred from his activities following the backlash after Cecil’s controversy).
Nevertheless, not every US airline banned the transport of any hunting trophies. For instance, Delta and American only prohibited the shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo trophies, meaning they allow the transportation of other species.
Many airlines across the world have banned the transportation of hunting trophies – for example, Cargolux completely prohibited it in 2018. Photo: Guillermo Quiroz Martínez via @gquimar.
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Which airlines have completely banned hunting trophies?
Of the 46 airlines (including Aerolíneas Argentinas) that the Humane Society International has listed to have some sort of ban on hunting trophy carriage, 33 have a 100% prohibition.
For instance, Cargolux completely banned the transportation of hunting trophies in 2018. The airline said that practice “does not align with the company’s ethical engagements and policies.” It later added that Cargolux is committed to building a sustainable business model which preserves the environment and its natural resources.
Finally, other carriers like Air Canada and WestJet have only banned trophies from the “Big Five”. The Big Five refers to these species: the African buffalo, African lions, African elephants, African leopards, and Southern white rhinos.
What do you think of Aerolíneas Argentinas decision? Let us know in the comments.ADVERTISEMENThttps://7a78d8c9bda7d191c639f74059524244.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html84
Lead Journalist – South America – Daniel comes to Simple Flying with many years of aviation journalism experience, having worked with Mexican publication A21, Roads & Kingdoms, El Economista and more. His degree in journalism allows him to form beautifully crafted and insightful pieces. His specialist knowledge of Latin American airlines and close relationship with the likes of Aeromexico, Avianca, Volaris brings depth to our coverage in the region. Based in Mexico City, Mexico.
The U.S. military has replied to PETA’s letter about recent reports that dogs—including working dogs, animal companions of evacuated Americans, and rescued animals—were left in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Army sent us this response:
I can report that the U.S. military did not leave any dogs in cages at the airport. … During the extremely complicated and dangerous final phases of the retrograde mission, U.S. forces went to great lengths to help the Kabul Small Animal Rescue facilitate the evacuation of more than 150 stray Afghan dogs. These dogs were not permitted on military evacuation flights due to regulations, but the Kabul Small Animal Rescue claimed to have arranged a chartered plane to rescue the animals. Unfortunately, that plane did not arrive, leaving no options to evacuate the dogs. U.S. forces identified that the only reasonable and humane course of action was to relocate the dogs to a former Afghan National Army compound on the airport grounds with appropriate supplies of food and water. This compound was relatively self-contained and provided for adequate space and grass area. Working tirelessly through the night of August 29 and into the morning of August 30, dedicated U.S. Soldiers transported more than 150 dogs in crates down the airfield to the compound—no easy task under the best of circumstances, but particularly challenging during the hazardous final stages of our withdrawal. Finally, before our forces’ departure from Kabul, our Soldiers showed the owner/operator of Kabul Small Animal Rescue where our forces had released the dogs, and she acknowledged that our forces had exercised the only option available at that point. She also indicated that she intended to return to the airport in the coming days to gather the dogs and get them on a charter plane to forever homes outside of Afghanistan, and it’s our sincere hope that she is successful in that effort.
PETA is in direct contact with Kabul Small Animal Rescue, which has verified that by the time the dogs were “released,” relocating them (as described above) was the only possible solution. But Kabul Small Animal Rescue maintains that its staff was trying to get animals out and needed more time, which was not granted. It remains committed to the welfare and safety of the many dogs in its charge and is continuing to work on the situation.
Thank you to all of you who took action! Please be aware that much of the information circulating online, while perhaps well intentioned, is not accurate. When updates of interest become available and can safely be shared, we will post them here. Thank you again for your compassion and action for animals.
Bear hunting season began Wednesday in New Hampshire, the beginning of a four-month stretch of the year’s most popular hunting seasons, leading up to rifle season for white-tailed deer in late November.
Susan Peter’s name would have emerged as one of the golden names from Hollywood’s silver-screen era, but a tragic accident not only cost her her career but also her will to live.
Susan Peters’ story would have ended differently if not a tragic accident that forced her career to a halt and brought her to misery. Years before her accident, the actress found her inspiration to study after befriending a disabled boy; little did she know she would meet the same fate as him.
At age 22, Peters had suddenly become an actress with promise in the 1940s. Although newcomers in the movie industry might find it hard to recall her name, it once offered great potential.
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Her career began during her senior year in high school, where she…
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