A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists.

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant
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In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., told us the white moderate “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and said this is someone who “prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.…

I am horrified by the violent actions of police at US universities smashing protests against an ongoing #genocide perpetrated by a foreign country. Such a dystopian reality.
May students and faculty members be safe.
May the genocide end.
May justice and reason prevail.…

'Solving the ecological crisis requires achieving democratic control over the means of production.  We need to be clear about this fact and begin building now the political movements that are necessary to achieve such a transformation.' progressive.international/blueprint/1f26…

Ah, it’s finally out!!!! So grateful to all- human & other- who made this labour of love possible. The future is multispecies 😁🫶🏼✊🏾🌍🦆🦇🕷️🐙🐋🦈🪼🐆🦓🐖🐊🦨🌱🍄 #ClimateJustice #BookTwitter #sustainability NTU Research Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies @ UL Peter Lang Publishers peterlang.com/document/14366…

Saying goodbye to a species, the very last male Northern White Rhino. A powerful photo of 2018.

The incredible photo captures the moment an Orangutan reached out to help a conservationist who appeared to be stuck in a river.

The picture was taken in a conservation forest area in Borneo as the man searched for snakes in the river to protect apes living in the area.

From our archives: Rubber is a worse deforester than coffee or cocoa and is closing in on palm oil for the top spot.

And the damage could escalate sharply thanks to EVs, which wear out tires faster than conventional cars, raising demand for rubber.
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Excited to introduce Global Lives of the Orangutan's free #ethnographic resources for #orangutan & other #conservationists - created w/the POKOK project, now in English and Bahasa Indonesia 1/6 globallivesoftheorangutan.org/resources/

Great detective work by our current Tunku Scholar Chee Yong Tan St Catharine's College - read more about his discovery of the 'lost' Chinese memorandum at a key moment in #Malaya / #Malaysia 's road to independence #MalayWorldStudies

Earlier this month +972 Magazine outlined AI’s pivotal role in Israel's war on Gaza

I dive into the human decisions behind all the bloodshed

It's a story that implicates Israel's military & broad swaths of a civilian tech sector

972mag.com/israel-gaza-la…

The new Royal Asiatic Society Archive catalogue has just been launched. Thanks to Max Communications for creating and hosting the society. Find it at:royalasiaticarchives.org/index.php/

Yesterday, April 24th (still the first month of spring) Malak Saed Al-Yazjy a 5 months old baby girl died because of heat in her family’s tent in Rafah, as the temperature was 39-41c and even higher in the tents which are made as agricultural greenhouses!

Asst Prof JaniceSHLee shares with CNA about the importance of #interdisciplinaryresearch and incorporating non-STEM disciplines when it comes to addressing #environmentalissues around the world!
#science #womeninstem #STEMeducation
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The emergence of cherry blossom is a classic sign of the arrival of #spring . This illustration, published in 1921, depicts Prunus serrulata, a Japanese variation of the flower, now cultivated in the UK. Visit the Gardens to catch the last of this spring's cherry blossom at Kew!🌸

i wrote about student organizers calling for divestment from both israeli apartheid & fossil fuels, & how these two demands are fusing into one 'clarion call'

feat Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Yale Endowment Justice Coalition Olivia Katbi 🌹 Phyllis Bennis Matt Leonard Noel Healy

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NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal:

Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries heated.world/p/nobel-prize-…

I feel like I’m going bananas everyday listening to people on here trying to equate feeling uncomfortable on an Ivy league campus with not being able to leave your house to get your infant clean water because a soldier is pointing a gun at you. Get serious!!!

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…