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Now that the tequila craze has crested, the latest Latin liquor to capture the world’s alcoholic imagination is tequila’s grandfather: mezcal. But an explosion of authentic mezcal is impossible—for reasons our correspondent discovers when she goes to Oaxaca to learn how this hyper-local spirit can be sustained.
This podcast is an audio recording of our story, Mezcal’s Dance with Extinction.
Advocacy groups responded to the Biden administration's new conclusions about how a trio of popular neonicotinoid pesticides threaten endangered species with calls for a total ban on the products. While neonics are widely known for harming bees and other pollinators—and are banned in the European Union—this is the first time the EPA has reviewed impacts of this class of pesticides on the nation's most imperiled species.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to follow established guidelines for determining cancer risk, ignored important studies, and discounted expert advice from a scientific advisory panel in officially declaring that the weed killer glyphosate was “not likely to be carcinogenic,” a federal court said in an order issued Friday.
California’s bill, which has already passed the state assembly, would set a goal of at least 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere each year by 2030 through natural carbon sequestration (in 2019, the state emitted 418 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents).
The eleven-year persecution of Julian Assange was extended and escalated on Friday morning. Assange will be extradited to Virginia to stand trial on eighteen felony charges in connection with the 2010 publication by WikiLeaks of thousands of documents showing widespread corruption, deceit, and war crimes by American and British authorities along with their close dictatorial allies in the Middle East.
The U.K. government on Friday formally approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. to face espionage charges, a decision that human rights groups condemned as a dire threat to journalism worldwide. Julian Assange's wife slammed the U.K. government for moving to send the WikiLeaks publisher "to the country that plotted his assassination."
The community members in Iowa breathed a huge sigh of relief, grateful their determination, creativity, and persistence had paid off. They had successfully fought off an industrial-sized animal operation that would have polluted the communities’ air and water, damaged public health, and threatened the quality of life for nearby residents.
A USDA spokesperson said the agency does not have projections for how many summer meals will be served this summer, but No Kid Hungry estimates that one in five sites that served meals in summer of 2021 will be ineligible to do so this year, and that nearly 7 million children could lose access to meals this summer.
A few weeks back, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Bill Gates said some surprising things. In the course of a 56-minute panel discussion the vaccine pusher extraordinaire admitted (starting at the 18:22 mark) that the Covid vaccines do not block infection and that the duration of whatever protection they bring to the table is extremely short.
Over the past couple of years, the volume of such activism seems to have been turned down. Massive marches and demonstrations have given way to smaller gatherings in Washington, D.C. and New York; some activists have shifted from sit-ins and chanting to working for think tanks or environmental NGOs.
