A severely ill hunger-striking Thai democracy activist released from prison vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for reform to the country’s monarchy, defying his bail conditions. Parit Chiwarak, who goes by the nickname Penguin, was held in pre-trial detention for nearly 100 days for multiple royal defamation charges. He is one of several protest leaders […]
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study finds Major emperor penguin breeding ground barren since 2016
For the past three years, virtually nothing has hatched at Antarctica’s second biggest breeding grounds for emperor penguins and the start of this year is looking just as bleak, a new study found. Usually 15,000 to 24,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins flock yearly to a breeding site at Halley Bay, considered a safe place […]