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Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:16:56 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state>

"Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the
police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.

Giant 135-year-old Galapagos tortoise Goliath celebrates first Father's Day as new dad at Zoo Miami

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:15:40 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/zoo-miami-galapagos-tortoise-goliath-fathers-day-new-dad/>

"Zoo Miami's oldest animal, a 517-pound Galapagos tortoise named Goliath, is
celebrating an extraordinary double milestone this Father's Day: turning 135
years old and becoming a father for the first time.

OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH | OFFICIAL TRAILER | IN CINEMAS NOW | Altitude Films

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:14:34 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAdCtKT_g

"OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing
there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or
surprise, than the ocean.

An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:13:30 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/canada-indigenous-heiltsuk-constitution>

"When outsiders arrived in the lands of the Heiltsuk people, they brought with
them a rapacious appetite for the region’s trees, fish and minerals. Settlers
and the government soon followed, claiming ownership of the thick cedar

Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:12:32 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.positive.news/science/violinist-composes-music-from-moth-flight-data-to-highlight-insect-decline/>

"A thought-provoking collaboration melding music and nature has shone a light
on the nocturnal world of a much-maligned member of the insect family: the
moth.

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:55:30 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed>

"A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to
force the virus out of hiding inside human cells.

Resurgent tuna and rebounding elephants: the dogged conservation efforts bearing fruit

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:25:17 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.positive.news/environment/resurgent-tuna-and-rebounding-elephants-the-dogged-conservation-efforts-bearing-fruit/>

"It’s not easy being green these days, as Kermit once put it. If the climate
crisis doesn’t get you down, then ‘drill baby drill’ surely will – plumbing the
depths, as it were, of sheer insanity.

South America Sets Historic Benchmark: Zero New Coal Plants Planned

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:24:08 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/21/south-america-sets-historic-benchmark-zero-new-coal-plants-planned/>

"South America just achieved a remarkable energy milestone, quietly setting a
global benchmark: for the first time in history, the entire continent now has
zero new coal-fired power plants planned. To grasp how remarkable this is, we

Growth potential: the small north London garden with big eco ambitions

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:22:29 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

https://www.ft.com/content/97f17d89-0b30-4e18-8fee-447d32077987

"The traffic-laden Archway Road in north London is not where you’d expect to
find one of the UK’s most fascinating gardens. But venture down a side alley
off Highgate High Street and you’ll find a lush, curvaceous tangle where the

Why taking apart buildings piece by piece is a climate solution

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:21:18 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5340709/deconstruction-recycling-climate-solution>

'BOULDER, Colo. — Proponents of a growing movement in the construction industry
are asking: Why tear down old buildings with wrecking balls when those
materials can be mined for reusable materials?