The life of a wolf is a rough one – in a pack or solo – and there are many reasons a young, healthy wolf could die. She could have been kicked in the head by a deer while hunting. She could have choked on the liver of a raccoon, which happened to a wolf in Yellowstone. She could have been hit by a car. Or she could have been killed by a poacher.🤬
Gray wolves are covered under both the Federal Endangered Species Act, as well as the California Endangered Species Act

The scaly-foot snail is one of Earth’s strangest creatures. It lives more than 2,300 metres below the surface of the sea on a trio of deep-sea hydro thermal vents at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. #climateaction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature Here it has evolved a remarkable form of protection against the crushing, grim conditions found at these Stygian depths. It grows a shell made of iron. Discovered in 1999, the multi-layered iron sulphide armour of Chrysomallon squamiferum #climateaction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

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Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources😡
Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands😡
Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump😡 The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.

Apparently #Covid19 can live on paper for up to 36 hours, maybe somebody could invent a UV lamps to irradiate letterboxes as the envelope is posted. In the US there are trials going on of robotic UV lamps which can kill all bacteria in a hotel room after each guest
leaves, they would probably be good idea too for care homes.

"They have exposed our societies to diseases for which no immunity has yet developed."
Errr... we need to have encountered a disease in order to have had the opportunity to develop immunity to it. So this does not make the emergence of new pathogens by this route any different to the emergence by any other route even though it may well be accelerating the rate of emergence of new pathogens

The Con Don and his democracy-destroying brethren in OUR United States of America
is trying to squelch absentee voting because too many people might vote against him. He is threatening to hold funding for OUR U.S. postal service to prevent it. An absentee ballot doesn't have to be mailed. Voters can drop the completed ballot in a secure, drive in ballot

Archaeologists discover remains of vast Mayan palace in Mexico
Ancient building found 100 miles west of Cancùn estimated to be more than 1,000 years old Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered the remains of a vast Mayan palace over 1,000 years old in an ancient city about 100 miles west of the tourist hotspot of Cancún.

While Ellen DeGeneres tries to rehabilitate George Bush's reputation, it might be good to remember we have the Bush family to thank for William Barr and John Yoo. Trump, you do have the power to self-waterboard.
Try it, you'll like it. I guarantee it. If you need help,
millions of people will volunteer.

Twitter faces class-action privacy lawsuit for sharing security info with advertisers
Phone numbers for two-factor authentication were used by advertisers. Twitter faces a class-action lawsuit for providing advertisers access to people's phone numbers without consent. The complaint, filed Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks $5,000 in damages for every person

It is documented by our intelligence agencies that Russia was concentrating on hacking into poorly secured, electronics-only, open networked polling systems being used by precincts in Electoral College critical states in 2016. ⬇️ Even though this has been proven, even more of these crucial precincts have switched to electronic voting for 2020, and (Moscow) Mitch McConnell has prevented every attempt at congressional legislation to increase the security of elections from coming to a vote.⬇️

"Wanton Endangerment" means cruel and unprovoked and endangerment would appear the victim was merely put at risk. Unless Breonna Taylor is alive and has returned to the life she should have lived, then what incurred goes far beyond ""Wanton Endangerment." This young woman is dead. She died in a hail of bullets because of the reckless and ill-conceived actions of police officers who tried to cover their criminal behaviors with lies and the false arrest of Breonna Taylor's fiancé.

In secret tapes, mine executives detail their sway over leaders from Juneau to the White House🙄Video recordings by the Environmental Investigation Agency shed light on an effort to win a key federal permit for Pebble Mine
#climateaction @WeDontHaveTime https:// www .msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-secret-tapes-mine-executives-detail-their-sway-over-leaders-from-juneau-to-the-white-house/ar-BB19jGWe?li=BBnb7Kz

A direct line to the White House, but routed through a third party to hide it from public view. Easy access to

Deer found dead in Thailand with plastic bags and underwear in stomach🖤😔😢😢
The animal had 7kg of rubbish in its stomach including coffee grounds, noodle packaging and towels #ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature A deer has been found dead in Thailand after swallowing 7kg (15lb) of plastic bags and other rubbish, raising the alarm on littering in the country’s waters and forests.

The south-east Asian country is one of the world’s largest consumers of plastic,

Indian Country fights against more fracking🤨Families living in rural areas south-west of Counselor, New Mexico, were telling him they saw sickly bull snakes and near-death rattlers above ground during the snowy, winter months of the south Sage, the administrator at the Counselor Chapter House, a Navajo local government center, was incredulous.

“In February? There’s no snakes in February,” he said.

It’s hoping to meet a $125m investment goal in an effort to retain 42 state legislature seats that the group says are key to holding power in the House of Representatives in battleground states including Wisconsin, Texas, Florida and New York.

https://twitter.com/TuanaTang/status/1308492109696118786

The group recently appointed party strategist Karl Rove and ousted White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to its board.

It seems to me that the current "controls" on money printing are working well enough. We have a fiat currency and therefore we can print as much as we like, but Zimbabwe showed what can go wrong. #coronavirus #ClimateAction #ForNature Provided it is used sparingly, for crises, it is a viable lifeboat.
I believe that, for an "act of God" crisis, such as our present pandemic, there are no moral turpitude issues and therefore we should print whatever it takes to get us through.

"To build a fairer, greener society, money must be made to serve the people, not the other way #coronavirus #ClimateAction #ForNature With governments and banksters basically being the same motley outfit, is it strange the system seems running on its last legs? And that the chasm between highest and lowest earners is back to record levels, on a par with the 19th century?#ClimateAction #ForNature

Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record w a reading of 18.3C
A new record set so soon after the previous record of 17.5C in March 2015 is a sign warming in Antarctica is happening much faster than global average

wmo asu edu/content/antarctica-highest-temperature-continent The reading, taken at Esperanza on the northern tip of the continent’s peninsula, beats Antarctica’s previous record of 17.5C, set in March 2015.
@WeDontHaveTime #ClimateAction #fornature @JohnKerry

Who is Qassem Suleimani? Iran farm boy who became more powerful than a president. Quds leader was extraordinarily successful in reshaping the region in wake of Iraq war and Syrian revolution US drone strikes in Baghdad have killed not just one of the most influential men in Iran but also in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, too.

Impact of Suleimani's death is playing out in unexpected ways
Iranian general’s assassination has led to an eerie calm rather than the predicted turmoil Suleimani’s wrecked car was still smouldering when the predicted consequences of his death started 2rebound across Middle East There would be chaos, outrage, instability – maybe even war. Among those who opposed the killing and those who cheered it on, there was more or less consensus: things would never be the same again.

He stepped down from the role after his consultancy work for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was exposed, and he was later convicted of fraud and tax evasion.

https://twitter.com/TuanaTang/status/1308091161240797186

According to the ICIJ, banks began flagging activity linked to Manafort as suspicious beginning in 2012. In 2017 JP Morgan Chase filed a report on wire transfers worth over $300m involving shell companies in Cyprus that had done business with Manafort.