Ecology/Environment

Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave

29/07/21

Author:

Hallie Golden

Link:

The Guardian

Red lesions and white fungus on the salmons’ bodies are the result of high water temperatures and stress. Photograph: Conrad Gowell/Courtesy of Columbia Riverkeeper

July 27, 2021

A conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F

Salmon in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus in the wake of the Pacific north-west’s record-shattering heatwave, according to a conservation group that has documented the disturbing sight.

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The California salmon wipeout is even worse than you think

29/07/21

Author:

The Times Editorial Board

Link:

yahoo news

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Far right rallies behind Annamie Paul

29/07/21

Author:

Yves Engler

Link:

yvesengler.com

July 28, 2021

Was Annamie Paul’s plan to unite the far right and the Green Party? Because, incredibly, that seems to be what’s happening. And stranger still is how some self-professed progressives have let identity politics blind them to anti-Palestinian racism.

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To avoid climate catastrophe, Canada must account for its hidden emissions

27/07/21

Author:

Fraser Thomson

Link:

National Observer

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions both here in Canada and around the world. Photo by Pikrepo

July 27th 2021

The past month has been a wake-up call for many Canadians as large parts of the country sweltered under an intense “heat dome” that is believed to have contributed to at least 719 sudden deaths in British Columbia.

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Genocide and Colonialism: Challenging the Canadian State

26/07/21

Author:

Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme

Link:

The Bullet

July 26, 2021 • Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme

Public opinion has been shaken by the ‘discovery’ of unmarked graves of children who died in residential schools. The word ‘discovery’ has to be placed in quotation marks because Indigenous communities have been saying for many years that terrible things happened at these places. The time has come to call this what it is – a genocide.

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