Rio Tinto bosses sensationally QUIT after mining giant destroyed an Aboriginal sacred site dating back 46,000 years Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques quits after destruction of Aboriginal site Chris Salisbury and corporate relations manager Simone Niven both quit Resignations are due to destruction of Aboriginal site dating back 46,000 years ‘What happened at Juukan was wrong,’ … Read more
Kenosha was on edge on Thursday, as protests against the shooting of Jacob Blake entered their fifth night. Protesters broke the 7pm curfew once again to march through the streets, but it was comparitively calm compared to previous evenings. There was no repeat of the disturbances that wracked the town earlier in the week, and the … Read more
Rio Tinto cutting bonuses of three senior executives by almost £4m following destruction of Aboriginal site – but they will still keep their jobs By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 24 August 2020 | Updated: 22:08 BST, 24 August 2020 The world’s biggest iron ore miner is cutting the bonuses of … Read more
Entire buildings were razed to rubble in Beirut yesterday after a chemical explosion punched through the city and wreaked devastation for miles. The industrial port that provides Lebanon with crucial trade routes was virtually flattened by the blast, which is believed by officials to have been caused at a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate. Sobering scenes … Read more
Destruction of natural ecosystems through deforestation and agriculture increases the risk of pandemics by removing the barriers between humans and wildlife, study shows More than six out of ten infectious diseases today came from animals, says CDC Scientists have said that environmental degradation increases risk of pandemic It can also undermine the availability of natural … Read more
Human activity is destroying more than 50 billion years of evolutionary history, with the Caribbean and parts of Southeast Asia hit the hardest, researchers claim. The study, by the Zoological Society of London and Imperial College mapped the evolutionary history of the world’s land vertebrates including birds and mammals. An ever increasing ‘human footprint’ with … Read more