Brown skies over Europe and North America fromCanadian wildfiresand record “hot”North Atlanticseas are signs that we have reached a new level of climate risk — one that threatens the well-being of nearly everyone on Earth. Threats described in stark terms by theUnited Nationsand byscientificandforeign affairsexperts were underscored by global average surface temperaturesbriefly passing 1.5 degrees Celsius, a threshold for intensified danger, in early June.
The men were reported to the police who caught them at the scene while hare coursing.
Two men infiltrated fields in Essex to let their greyhounds loose on hares – and have now been sentenced in one of the first cases of its kind in the UK. The men broke into fields in Paglesham near Rochford at the beginning of this year after travelling from out of the county.
Hare coursing usually takes place when crops have recently been harvested, allowing for greyhounds to chase hares by sight across fields easily. It causes damage to crops, harms animal welfare and threatens rural communities and can result in intimidation and even violence.
Tommy Gray, 19, of Weller Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and 20-year-old Joseph Abercromie, of Heartenoak Road, Hawkhurst, Kent, both admitted trespassing with intent to search for, or to pursue, hares with dogs when they appeared before…
Last week, a group of Republican senators gathered for a special closed-door lunch on Capitol Hill with author Alex Epstein, who distributed signed copies of his newest book to attendees. After the lunch, Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakotatold E&E Newsthat Epstein was “brilliant,” adding, “He made the case that fossil fuels contributed more to people getting out of poverty than the other way around.”
Epstein’s name may not be recognizable to most Americans, but his star has been rising on the right for quite some time. We may all start hearing about him more often because the time is ripe for his particular brand of fossil fuel boosterism to become the GOP’s mainstream climate talking point.
Twenty (and counting) straight days oftemperatures exceeding 110 degreesFahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona. 126 F measured in China. 120 F at 1 a.m. in Death Valley, California. 109 F in Rome.
They’re all new temperature records. Yes, heat waves are normal. But continuously breaking, nearly breaking, orobliterating heat recordsisn’t normal.Such historic and sustained heatis expected to increase in the coming years as added global warming exacerbates heat waves, and overall temperatures will continue to rise until emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gassesdrop to zero.
So, you might ask yourself:How hot will it get??
The answer is dependent on the most unpredictable part of theclimate…
Reserve, New Mexico— The race to save an endangered species took five newborn Mexican wolf pups on a nearly 2,500-mile journey from captivity in New York to the wild in New Mexico.
“Time is trauma, and the very best place for a wolf pup to be is with a mother,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veterinarian Susan Dicks told CBS News.
Mexican wolves, or lobos, were once plentiful in the Southwest. But they were hunted nearly to extinction. By the mid-1970s, there were just seven in existence, according to USFWS.
“They are doing better and improving,” Dicks said. “But that’s a fine line. Disease comes through, something happens, they could be lost.”
There are now about 250 back in the wild, USFWS says, but a lack of genetic diversity makes rehoming pups from captivity…
Amassive humpback whale that found itself tangled up in fishing equipment has been successfully released back into the deep.
The 36-foot-long whale was found on Monday in the waters off Quondong Point in Western Australia, around 12 miles north of the town of Broome. The whale’s fins had become wrapped around the lines of a local pearl fishery.
Local authorities, including the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), and staff from Willie Creek Pearls rushed to its aid, battling strong winds and lurking predators to save the whale over the course of three days.
Local authorities attempting to free to trapped humpback from the fishing gear. The hard work paid off after three days.PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
“DBCA’s Kimberley Parks and Wildlife Service team successfully freed a humpback whale this week,” Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia posted on Facebook, sharing a video of the success.
“A DBCA crew set out on Monday after a member of the public spotted the whale in trouble.
The operation was complicated by the extent of the entanglement which included multiple ropes and associated equipment,” it said. “The multi-vessel operation, involving Parks and Wildlife Service personnel, DPIRD officers and staff from Willie Creek Pearls, continued on Tuesday with the team facing difficult conditions including tides, strong winds and sharks.”
Humpback whales are a large species that can grow up to 50 feet long. These whales were heavily hunted before the global whaling moratorium in the 1980s, depleting their population significantly. In the years since, they have risen to around 84,000 individuals worldwide, but they are still threatened by a number of factors, including vessel strikes, and entanglement in fishing gear.
The humpback’s fins entangled in the fishing gear of a local pearl fishery. It was freed after three days.PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Entanglement in fishing gear, as well as accidental ingestion of the gear, is a major threat to whales and other marine animals. One 2021 study by the University of St Andrews in the U.K. found that around 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die from fishing gear injuries worldwide each year.
“Fishing gear is known to be a threat to many species, both from ingestion and also when the animal is entangled in gear externally. For some critically endangered [species], entanglements in fishing gear pose a serious issue for their recovery,” Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society (MARS) in Canada, told previously told Newsweek.
The whale’s release was complicated, as it was quite severely tangled, and the conditions were rough and windy, with sharks lurking nearby.
The rescue operation underway. It was a complicated three-day process.PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
“It had a number of wraps around its tail and the involvement of floats and pearl frames and other bits and pieces, so it was quite a complicated entanglement,” Lyle Gilbert from the Wildlife District Office, told local news ABC Australia.
Eventually, on Wednesday, the whale was freed.
“Several ropes were cut but the team ran out of daylight,” the Facebook post said. “Returning on Wednesday, the team was able to free the animal and the whale swam away strongly, continuing its journey north.”
The whale trapped in fishing gear. Sharks were lurking nearby.PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Another whale was found entangled at Gantheaume Point, Broome, at the weekend, but it was a different individual.
“Thanks to everyone involved in this rescue effort, including the invaluable assistance provided by DPIRD and Willie Creek Pearls,” the post said.
Gilbert urged anyone who sights an entangled or trapped whale to contact the DBCA, despite it being a relatively rare occurrence.
“We have a team ready to go,” he said. “If it does happen again we’ll be able to respond appropriately and hopefully have a successful outcome like we did this time.”
Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat Inc., speaks during an interview at the Nasdaq MarketSite during the company’s initial public offering in New York, on May 2, 2019.
UPDATED:JULY 20, 2023 3:56 PM EDT| ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED:JULY 20, 2023 10:58 AM EDT
In retrospect, rising as high as Ethan Brown did four years ago might almost guarantee a brutal, Greek tragedy-style fall from grace somewhere down the line. Back in 2019, the CEO and founder of faux-hamburger startup Beyond Meat closed the most successfulIPOsince the financial crisis. Partnerships withMcDonald’sandKFCwere in the works, and theinvestor presentationswere all upside, with plant-based hamburgers poised to take an enormous bite out of a $270 billion meat industry. It was all for a good cause, too. In talks and interviews with friendly journalists (including two
Authorities arrested Jun “Harry” Liang on Thursday and he is facing federal charges including wire fraud, money laundering, and attempted violation of the Lacey Act.
An alleged illegal immigrant fromChinais accused of hosting illegal hunting trips in acomplaintrecently filed inU.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
Jun “Harry” Liang is facing a number of federal charges including wire fraud, money laundering, and attempted violation of the Lacey Act after he allegedly charged two men $60,000 for a week-long bear hunting trip last August, according to the complaint.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Lacey Act prohibits taking, possessing, transporting, or selling any wildlife, animal, or fish which has been obtained in an illegal manner. The complaint…
FILE — A squirrel climbs a fence in Central Park, May 2, 2020, in New York. New York could ban contests that involve killing coyotes, squirrels and some other wildlife species for cash prizes. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. –The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox, sometimes challenging hunters to bag the heaviest coyote or the heftiest bunch of squirrels to win a cash prize.
While participants seek prey in the name of fundraising, animal rights advocates are training their sights on contests they see as senseless slaughters. With bans in eight states, activists are now looking to New York, where Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering a proposal recently approved by the Legislature.
Exposing the Big Game 