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Right-Wing Extremism: Germany’s New Islamophobia Boom

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Across Germany, right-wing organizations are using anti-Islam rhetoric to further their ideas — and finding a receptive audience. Now legal experts are debating whether it’s time for a new kind of hate-crime legislation.

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Four Lion Cubs Born at National Zoo in DC [VIDEO]

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News / No Comments

Four lion cubs were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C., the zoo announced Tuesday.

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Costly plan to reduce Somerset floods

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Protecting Somerset Levels to cost tens of millions

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The price of gold: winners and losers in Latin America’s mining industry

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News / No Comments

On a Friday afternoon in June, the Plaza de Armas in Cajamarca is pulsing with life. It’s winter here, and although thick white clouds hover low in the distance, the sun in this northern Peruvian city is warm. Couples sit on benches facing one another. Kids run in the grass between flowerbeds. Men in suits […]

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Clean Water Act protects Bristol Bay

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that it is initiating a process under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to identify appropriate options to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska, from the potentially destructive impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine!

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Ukraine Crisis: EU Concerned about Cost of Sanctions on Russia

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has set off plenty of bluster and aggressive rhetoric in Europe. But many EU member states are skittish about the potential dangers of imposing punitive economic measures on Moscow.

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Bank Oversight: Europe Stressed by Approaching Stress Tests

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Thousands of ECB auditors have begun examining the balance sheets of euro-zone banks. Stress tests are coming soon. With the European Central Bank in charge of oversight, many hope the EU’s financial industry will return to health. But there are risks.

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Biologists Use Tracking Devices to Uncover Early Life of Florida’s Loggerhead Turtles

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News / No Comments

Biologists have used small, solar powered tracking devices to find how Florida’s loggerhead turtles spend the first few years of their life. The study challenges few commonly held notions about the turtles’ infancy.

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Good news for Nepal’s wildlife after another year of no poaching

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

After Nepal making a commitment to protect the future of its magnificent and highly endangered species, it has once again succeeded and between February 2013 and February 2014, no rhino, tigers or elephants were poached in the country. Nepal has a history of success in the prevention of poaching, and another poaching-free year occurred in […]

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VIDEO: Australia’s ‘Big Dry’ a mounting crisis

March 5, 2014 / Angela Cave / News

Emergency relief is being provided for drought-hit famers in eastern Australia, as Phil Mercer reports.

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About The Politics of Species

The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.

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Themes

  • The Road to Respectful Coexistence

  • Carnal Desires

  • An Animal Bill of Rights?

  • Turning a Whale into a Killer

  • Apeism and Racism

  • What is a Person?

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