‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens (www.theguardian.com)
"Hundreds of foreign hunters come to Sweden for lynx hunting because they think it is exciting" (www.theguardian.com)
After the biggest ever wolf cull in Sweden in recent months, the planned cull of lynx is out of all proportion to any danger to livestock or people, Swedish wildlife conservationists say. They are asking the EU to take action against Sweden for breaching environmental law.
China’s defiant fur farmers (www.theguardian.com)
"Some may call it greed, but we also keep pets and eat livestock, that’s because there is a demand, so how is it any different to fur trade?”, one fur garment seller says.
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone (www.theguardian.com)
Work carried on as usual in Amazon facility even though a colleague's dead body laid on the floor (www.theguardian.com)
Dutch city becomes world’s first to ban meat adverts in public (www.theguardian.com)
Remember the child mannequin being run over by a Tesla? Now Musk obsessives are putting their actual, living children in front of moving Tesla cars just to prove a point (www.theguardian.com)
A continuation of this: lemmy.ml/post/427773/
Google refuses to reinstate man’s account after he took medical images of son’s groin (www.theguardian.com)
This is why using Google is a bad idea. Random bans that make no sense.
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)
New gender-neutral pronoun likely to enter Norwegian dictionaries (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of Israel's NSO Group spyware tool Pegasus [The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations (www.theguardian.com)
Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory [The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
FYI, this US Nobel Laureate was one of the originators of the China lab conspiracy theory, debunked last year, and failed to be revived this year.
Hong Kong democracy leaders found guilty over peaceful 2019 protest (www.theguardian.com)
Monash University research finds Bing and Ecosia delivered substantially more professionally produced news in the top 50 results compared with Google (www.theguardian.com)
The director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Associate Professor David Holmes, said the results demonstrated the importance of news media to search engines, with the top search terms clearly reflecting that people were trying to learn more about current affairs topics. “It is in the interests of search...
