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Animal news: sex, violence and tar sands
From the February 2021 Harper’s Findings: Verbal autopsy revealed many Bangladeshis have been attacked by rabid mongooses, and intergroup violence among wild banded mongooses was found to be initiated by females, who enjoy mating with extragroup males “in the midst … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh mongooses, Canadian tar sands, Harper's Findings, Joe Biden, Keystone Pipeline, mongoose mating, rabid mongooses, river otters penis bones
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Animal news: how animals are reacting to climate change
They’re smarter than us. From Harper’s September 2020 Findings: Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual … Continue reading
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What horrible people! To hell with polar bears
Right next to the New York Times article about how the Trump EPA has refused to tighten rules on soot emissions was this one: Arctic Seismic Work Will Not Hurt Polar Bears, Government Says The announcement removes a major hurdle … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Alaska polar bears, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Biden Administration, fossil fuels, pollution, seismic work in Alaska, Trump administration, United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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