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Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan #AnimalRights

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan
The endangered Indian pangolin, already devastated by the illegal wildlife trade, is facing another crisis in Pakistan, one of the four countries where it’s found: rapid habitat loss. Key habitats of the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) have particularly disappeared in Pakistan’s rural, mountainous northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to new research, reports contributor Emma […]

A giant mirror to create
“sunlight on demand”
was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety concerns.
The FCC approved the company
Reflect Orbital
to test one satellite, named Earendil-1,
as a means of reflecting the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy
and wide-area lighting.
The light is expected to cover an area about five ki…

The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.

The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed,
in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit.
The US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, said Washington had active “on-orbit” weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were circling the globe.
It has been an open secret that the US, Russia and China are working on space weapons,
which could include signa…

US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit

Climate bills are coming in now, big time: Rhine shipping cut in two as ships coming from Rotterdam can't get any further than Duisburg or Cologne anymore, instead of being able to reach Switzerland or even further via the Danube. Billions of damage for German industry.
https://nos.nl/l/2626584

Zu den komischsten Meldungen der letzten Woche gehörte diejenige, dass die CDU sich bitterlich darüber beklagt, dass die AfD in sozialen Medien so viel erfolgreicher ist als sie.
DANN VERSUCHT HALT NICHT STÄNDIG MEMES ZU VERBIETEN, IHR TIGERENTENAZUBIS!

Good morning! Since it's become a drag to support in mainline, I've extracted svcs's Pyramid support into an own package svcs-pyramid.
That means, the next svcs version will ship WITHOUT a `svcs.pyramid` module.
You can start using svcs-pyramid TODAY to avoid breakage the moment 26.2.0 drops – there are no code changes, just adjust the import statement:

GitHub - hynek/svcs-pyramid: Pyramid integration for the svcs Python service locator
Pyramid integration for the svcs Python service locator - hynek/svcs-pyramid

Taste and nutritional needs in space are different than those on Earth,
and researchers are trying to develop preservation methods and food production systems that address those requirements.
New systems will need to safely integrate with the habitat’s life-support system;
These technologies could also help address food insecurity on Earth.

Proposed mine expansion raising pollution concerns in Canada and US https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/proposed-mine-expansion-raising-pollution-concerns-in-canada-and-us/

Proposed mine expansion raising pollution concerns in Canada and US
The Elk Valley in southeast British Columbia is home to Canada’s four largest coal mines. With a proposed mine expansion moving through environmental assessment, people on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border worry the valley’s decades-old pollution problem could get even worse. Industrial coal mining in the Elk Valley goes back more than 50 years. […]

While calls to “abolish ICE”
have exploded during the second Trump presidency,
critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants,
US citizens, and democracy itself
since it was created just over 20 years ago.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars,
host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE
and what it will take to abolish it and the new …

ICE: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.