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Environmentalists Under Threat in South Africa
Environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was killed after her refusal to withdraw legal challenges to existing and future mining operations.
Human Rights Watch: 2021 Domestic Transition Priorities for the Next US Administration
Whoever wins the November 3 presidential election has an opportunity – and a responsibility – to help the United States move forward by making human rights a priority in the next administration.
The Next President Should Protect Human Rights in the US and End Abuses
Whoever wins the November 3 presidential election has an opportunity – and a responsibility – to help the United States move forward by making human rights a priority in the next administration.
US: Heat Emergency Plans Missing Pregnancy, Racial Justice
(Washington, DC) – Many plans by local, state, and federal authorities in the United States to respond to heat extremes and climate change miss the threat that extreme heat poses to pregnancy, particularly for low-income and Black and brown people, Human Rights Watch and partners said today. Authorities should promote racial
Iran: Prisoners Who Reported Abuse Charged
(Beirut) – Iranian judiciary authorities are prosecuting human rights defenders for reporting abuse in detention, Human Rights Watch said today.
Canada: Climate Crisis Toll on First Nations’ Food Supply
(Ottawa) – Climate change is taking a growing toll on First Nations in Canada, depleting food sources and affecting health, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Brazil: Stop Harassing Environmental Defenders
(São Paulo) – A Brazilian government action in response to a leading environmental defender’s criticism of the Bolsonaro administration’s disastrous environmental policy threatens freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today.
The government should protect free speech by civil society instead of trying to curb it. On October
Indonesia: New Law Hurts Workers, Indigenous Groups
(Jakarta) – Indonesia’s government should revise a new jobs law to meet international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
Colors evoke similar feelings around the world
In the current issue of Psychological Science, the scientists report that the participants were asked to fill out an online questionnaire, which involved assigning up to 20 emotions to twelve different color terms
NASA's IRIS spots nanojets: Shining light on heating the solar corona
In pursuit of understanding why the Sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface, and to help differentiate between a host of theories about what causes this heating, researchers turn to NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. IRIS was finely tuned with a high-resolution imager to zoom in
Strong Evidence Suggests Wireless Radiation Is Harming Bees
Unnatural sources of electromagnetic seem to be harming not only us, but our bees, trees and other insects.
Photosynthetic hacks can boost crop yield, conserve water
"Like a factory line, plants are only as fast as their slowest machines," said Patricia Lopez-Calcagno, a postdoctoral researcher at Essex, who led this work for the RIPE project.
Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting
"It was initially thought that humans appeared in northeastern Siberia fourteen or fifteen thousand years ago, around when the woolly rhinoceros went extinct.
Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
High temperatures in the Arctic during the last interglacial -- the warm period around 127,000 years ago -- have puzzled scientists for decades.