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Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the food chain. Krill are also sought after by humans, who scoop them up using massive fishing boats, potentially putting whales in danger, scientists warn. The fishing boats and whales are “going after the exact same thing; the biggest, largest, densest krill swarms,” Matthew Savoca, an ecologist at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in the U.S., told Mongabay by phone. In July 2023, Mongabay reported on fishing trawlers harvesting Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) amid a…

Prince Harry said his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids was about holding the media accountable, during the New York Times DealBook summit in December. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s British publishing arm has made a substantial settlement offer to Prince Harry and a senior lawmaker to avoid a lengthy trial over whether company executives had engaged in a coverup of illegal actions at his tabloids here. Among the executives allegedly involved in that coverup is Will Lewis, now the CEO and publisher…

Transcript: If you want to reduce your impact on climate change, you can start by thinking about what’s for dinner. Katin-Grazzini: “And it turns out there’s a lot we can do in the kitchen.” That’s chef Cathy Katin-Grazzini. She says the biggest step people can take is to eat less meat because producing it creates a lot of planet-warming pollution. So her new cookbook, “Love the Foods That Love the Planet,” includes dozens of vegetarian recipes – like arugula pesto, eggplant-zucchini torte, and beet burgers. But even vegetarian ingredients have some impact on the climate. So the book includes a…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage captured by The Associated Press shows mounds of rubble stretching as far as the eye can see — remnants of the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Hamas in their blood-ridden history.“As you can see, it became a ghost town,” said Hussein Barakat, 38, whose home in the southern city of Rafah was flattened. “There is…

© Veejay Villafranca / Greenpeace We’ve been working on a very exciting report with our colleagues across the environmental, union and industry sectors. The resulting report – Forging Our Future – outlines a path forward for Australia to build a Green Iron industry. We think investing in Green Iron will solve some key challenges facing our country right now and bring a number of important benefits: Benefits of Green Iron: Green Iron offers massive benefits to the climate through emissions reductions from the global steel industry. Is a key employment pathway for workers currently in fossil fuel based industries. Would…

(Bangkok) – A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over a decade in Thai detention face risks of enforced disappearance, long-term imprisonment, torture, and other severe mistreatment if Thailand forcibly sends them to China, Human Rights Watch said today. The Uyghurs appear to be at imminent risk following recent moves by Thai immigration officials, including telling the detainees to complete new paperwork and photographing them, steps that the group believes are in preparation for their forcible transfer.“Successive Thai governments have kept the Uyghurs in inhumane detention, while under pressure from the Chinese government to send them…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a trial against A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend and could get a decades-long prison sentence if convicted.The 36-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, and his attorney has said he committed no crime.The Grammy-nominated hip-hop star, fashion mogul and actor is the longtime partner of Rihanna, and the two have two toddler sons together. It’s not entirely clear whether Rihanna will appear to support him in court, but his attorney has suggested…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Windy and dry conditions returned to Southern California on Monday, raising the risk of new wildfires sparking as firefighters continue to battle two major blazes in the Los Angeles area that started in similar weather nearly two weeks ago.Gusts could peak at 70 mph (113 kph) along the coast and 100 mph (160 kph) in the mountains and foothills during extreme fire weather that is expected to last through Tuesday.The National Weather Service issued a warning of a “ particularly dangerous situation ” for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego counties from Monday afternoon…

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA —  More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said. Twenty others were injured in the violence that has forced thousands to flee as Colombia’s army scrambled to evacuate people on Sunday, according to William Villamizar, governor of North Santander, where many of the killings took place. Among the victims were community leader Carmelo Guerrero and seven people who sought to sign a peace deal, according to a report that a government ombudsman agency released late…

ReutersChildren chased after a lorry carrying aid from Unicef in the southern city of RafahA UN official in Gaza has warned that the rebuilding process in the devastated Palestinian territory will “take an awful lot of time” despite the promised surge in humanitarian deliveries under a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.”We’re not just talking about food, healthcare, buildings, roads, infrastructure. We’ve got individuals, families, communities that need to be rebuilt,” Sam Rose, acting director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Gaza, told the BBC.More than 630 aid lorries crossed into Gaza, with at…