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"Minesweeper" wird 35: Vom Windows-Klassiker zum Abo-Schreck
Am 8. Oktober 1990 veröffentlichte Microsoft das Minispiel "Minesweeper". Wer es heute spielen will, muss sich von Microsoft abwenden.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

Municipalidad de Montes de Oca exhorta al Ejecutivo a no firmar TLC con Israel
https://delfino.cr/2025/08/municipalidad-de-montes-de-oca-exhorta-al-ejecutivo-a-no-firmar-tlc-con-israel?ut…

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I am blocking the babka.social instance as the person who runs it (Serge) is a Zionist and a genocide/denier, who conflates being Jewish with being Zionist (“Zionism is a belief that more than 80% of Jews have. Talking about Zionists is talking about Jews.” – https://babka.social/@serge/1151605…

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protected-areas-hit-hard-as-mekong-countries-forest-cover-shrank-in-2024/

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland, […]

☕ A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/a-better-brew-how-regenerative-coffee-could-root-out-exploitation/

A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation
The coffee industry faces many problems, from being the sixth-largest driver of deforestation worldwide to being rife with human rights abuses, including slavery and child labor. But coffee can be made sustainable and ethical, Etelle Higonnet, founder of the NGO Coffee Watch, said in an episode of Mongabay Newscast in June. “To the best of my […]

Tropical bird numbers plummet due to more days of extreme heat, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/tropical-bird-numbers-plummet-due-to-more-days-of-extreme-heat-study-finds/

Tropical bird numbers plummet due to more days of extreme heat, study finds
Tropical bird populations are crashing as temperatures soar. That’s according to a new study that found abundances of tropical birds were 25-38% lower than they would be without human-driven climate change and the rising temperatures it has caused. This temperature impact on birds is greater than declines attributed to deforestation. “It’s a staggering decrease. Birds […]

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded pšramos in Ecuador https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/restoration-brings-back-fresh-water-wildlife-to-degraded-paramos-in-ecuador/

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador
When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water quality improved. Without their hooves compacting the soil, plants began to grow again. Before long, shy white-tailed deer arrived, drawn by the grasses and shrubs for food and shelter. Not long after, pumas reappeared. […]

High temperatures threaten to reignite blaze after France’s largest wildfire in decades https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/high-temperatures-threaten-to-reignite-blaze-after-frances-largest-wildfir…

High temperatures threaten to reignite blaze after France’s largest wildfire in decades
VILLEROUGE LA CREMADE, France (AP) — Firefighters and local authorities remained on high alert Friday after France’s largest wildfire in decades was contained in the south of the country, amid forecasts of very high temperatures which could reignite the blaze. Over three days, the fire spread across more than 160 square kilometers (62 square miles) in the […]