Tag: extinction
Close to extinction – here the bison thrives again
“The second the bison entered the landscape, I felt like I had brought them home,” says Wes Olson, who in 2017 followed the first 16 bison released — in Banff…
Tegmark: 50 percent risk of human extinction if AI is not controlled
Max Tegmark has warned several times about the risks of artificial intelligence. This week, he, along with several other researchers, politicians and business leaders, wrote under a statement from the…
Extinction Rebellion demonstrates at ING offices in Amersfoort and Utrecht against ‘financing climate crisis’
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators today occupied nine ING offices in the Netherlands, including branches in Amersfoort and Utrecht. They protest there against “financing the climate crisis”, which the bank is doing…
In Australia, the severe heat wave causes a mass extinction of fish
Millions of dead fish continue to surface in Australia’s Darling River. A slaughter caused by the low levels of oxygen in this river and the very high temperatures, above 40°C,…
Species extinction can herald ecosystem collapse
Published: Less than 20 min ago full screen The Fjällräven is one of Sweden’s most endangered animal species. Here a arctic fox at the Grönkitt Predator Center in Orsa. Archive…
Extinction Rebellion activists attack BNP Paribas, financier of Total
Environmental activists in France continue their mobilization against the Tilenga and EACOP projects of TotalEnergies in Tanzania and Uganda, contested for their environmental and human impacts. This Friday, January 20,…
Without action, the world faces mass extinction
Published: Less than 20 min ago Proportion of endangered species within some selected categories of animals and plants. 1 of 4 Photo: Anders Humlebo Currently, one million plant and animal…
Extinction Rebellion protests for hours at Rabobank Utrecht: ‘Stop financing the nitrogen crisis’
More than thirty Extinction Rebellion activists occupied the lobby of Rabobank’s head office on Croeselaan in Utrecht for hours today. The action group demanded, among other things, that the bank…
OM demands fine for Extinction Rebellion after protest at Rabobank headquarters
A total of seventeen activists stood trial, one of them has been acquitted due to insufficient evidence. The suspects come from all over the country, especially from Nijmegen and Haarlem.…
Extinction Rebellion protests against ING in Utrecht, police remove one activist
The bank has the impression that the demonstration is going smoothly, but ING is keeping an eye on the situation. “Where the actions of the protesters create an uncomfortable situation,…