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The hilarious winning images of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards are announced

2024-12-10 /

A stuck squirrel gets its nut!

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Digital Camera World »

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is one of the most popular, and undoubtedly the funniest, photography competitions in the calendar year, and Milko Marchetti’s Stuck Squirrel takes this year’s top prize.

This year’s competition saw the highest number of entries in its ten-year history, with over 9000 entries by professionals and amateurs alike, each vying for the title of ‘Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Year’. The selection of images had to be whittled down to a mere 45 before reaching the judging panel to award the winners. Competition was fiercely competitive with only a few points between the top 5 places.

A 2-year, 35,000 km world bike tour comes to an end

2024-12-09 /

Koen has completed his 35,000 kilometre around-the-world bicycle tour. Here are his highlights »

I Cycled Around The World - A 35.000 Kilometer World Tour by Bike

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Koen cycle two years through some 30 countries and 4 continents. On his YouTube channel, The Sunday Ride, Koen has a 75-episode video series, if you wanted to dive a little deeper.

 

Noise pollution caused by oil and gas exploration threatens the survival of Norway’s whales

2024-12-05 /

Miranda Bryan, writing in The Guardian »

Unlike the majority of humans, who see with their eyes, in the darkness of the ocean whales and dolphins see with sound. It is like going into a dark room and scanning the room with a torch, she says, only for somebody to suddenly turn on a big light. “You get blinded. And that’s how it is for the whales with noise – they get blinded.

“It’s not just a masking of the communication,” Vester says. “It’s also blinding their sensory organ of seeing underwater.”

Women Peace Security Index for 2023

2023-10-25 /

Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) seeks to promote a more stable, peaceful, and just world by focusing on the important role women play in preventing conflict and building peace, growing economies, and addressing global threats like climate change and violent extremism.

This fourth edition of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Index ranks and scores 177 countries on women’s status. The results show that countries where women are doing well are also more peaceful, democratic, prosperous, and better
prepared to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

This year, nine of the top ten best countries to be women are European, with Scandinavian countries leading the rankings. Denmark leads the 2023 rankings, scoring more than three times higher than Afghanistan.

1 Denmark
2 Switzerland
3 Sweden
4 Finland
4 Iceland
4 Luxembourg
7 Norway
8 Austria
9 Netherlands
10 New Zealand

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The mayor of Pontevedra, Spain is placing pedestrians first

2023-09-27 /

For decades, throngs of cars clogged the cobblestone streets of Pontevedra’s downtown, making this seaside city on Spain’s northwestern tip a hard place to live. Smog, loud noise and narrow walkways drove young families away from a region struggling with a shrinking and aging population.

Family physician turned mayor Miguel Fernandez Lores managed to halt the bleeding by closing many streets to car traffic. Now Pontevedra is a model of success in a growing global movement that’s trying to reclaim streets for pedestrians.

Bloomberg »

This Spanish Mayor Is Putting Pedestrians First

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