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For
decades, activists
have fought to end
Faroese dolphin hunts,
known as the
grindadráp. But
hundreds are still
killed each year.
By
Teresa Tomassoni
On
May 27, a massive pod
of more than 400
long-finned pilot
whales was spotted off
the coast of Tórshavn,
the capital of the
Faroe Islands—a remote
archipelago located
about 200 miles north
of Scotland. By early
evening, dozens of
motorboats converged
on the animals,
forming a wide arc
around them to block
their escape as crews
revved their engines
and pounded on the
hulls of their
vessels, using the
noise to drive the pod
into a shallow bay.
 
And
what people just like
you are doing about
it.
Interview
by Paloma Beltran,
Living on Earth
From
our collaborating
partner Living on
Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine,
an interview by
Paloma Beltran with
Judith Enck, the
founder of advocacy
group Beyond
Plastics.
The
Nueces River of South
Texas flowed at twice
the rate of Niagara
Falls last week during
the region’s second
flood disaster in two
years.
By
Dylan Baddour
Parts
of South Texas ravaged
by flooding this week
have logged a steep
rise in rainfall
intensity over recent
decades, federal data
show.
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