WORLD & NATION
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
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Moscow, Russia:
The Russian capital was shrouded in noxious fumes Monday, and the government has encouraged some residents to stay indoors, according to the BBC.The which
smells like rotten eggs, is reportedly hydrogen sulphide.This highly toxic substance can lead to headaches and nausea at even low levels of exposure. It has affected the
central and eastern areas of the city, as well as major shopping centers and government buildings.TTie cause of the gas Is unclean It has been attributed to both a nearby oil
refinery (a charge the factory denies) andwastewater treatment plants.
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Washington
D.C., USA:
President Obama
declared his
support for
maintaining
net neutrality
on Monday
and called on
the Federal
Communications
Commission to do
likewise, according
to The Guardian.
Net neutrality, which
opposes Internet
providers’ slowing down
content from websites
that do not pay them
increased fees, has
become contentious
recently as the FCC
decides what to allow
Internet providers to
do or not do. “An open
Internet is essential to
the American economy,
and increasingly to our
very way of life,” said
Obama in his speech.
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Beijing, China:
President Xi Jingping
of China and Prime
Minister Shinzo
Abe of Japan shook
hands for the first
time at the Asia-
Pacific Economic
Cooperation summit
in Beijing, according
to the BBC. Neither
leader seemed
comfortable with the
interaction, and both
remained unsmiling
as they clasped
hands and posed
for a photo. The
two countries have
been at odds over
several uninhabited
islancb since 2012,
^according to The
Guardian. China
has also criticized
Abe for visiting the
Y^ukuni war shrine,
^^ich pays tribute
to ail fallen Japanese
soldiers including
war criminals
Potiskum, Nigeria:
On Monday a suicide bomber killed 46 students during morning assembly In the town of Potiskum in Nigeria, according to the
BBC.The bomber disguised himself as a student in order to slip into the school. Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist organization
that gained international infamy for their kidnapping of school girls, is suspected. TTiis is not the only school In the Yobe state to
have been attacked — it is one of three Nigerian states under a state of emergency. Only a week before, 15 people were killed in
another suicide attack in the same town.
White rhino popuiation continues to faii with recent death
BY NICOLE ZELNIKER
Senior Writer
01 Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya,
last hope to many endangered species,
suffered a loss this past October with the
death of the northern white rhino Surd.
Surd's death leaves six northern white
rhinos in existence. The species is now
critically endangered.
'They were khled in the Garamba National
Park ... for their horns," said The Henshaw
Curator Of Mammals at the San Diego Zoo
Randy Rieches in an email interview with
The Guilfordian. "We are losing one rhino
every eight hours in the wild."
As a subspecies, they have not been
tracked nearly as well as tirey should have.
"We fall back on this mentality that if we
lose a subspecies it's okay because we've
got other rhinos," said Associate Professor
of Political Science and Environmental
Studies Co-Chair Kyle Dell. "Those kinds
of comments tell me we have a bigger
project to undertake ... (The rhino) is a very
representative story of a lot of larger forces
that aren't as visible."
The northern white rhinos would not be
the first species lost. In the past 40 years, the
Earth has lost more than half of its wildlife,
according to the World WQdlife Fimd.
"If half the animals died in London Zoo
next week, it would be front page news,"
said Professor Ken Norris, director of science
at the Zoological Society of London, in an
interview wifii The Guai^an. "This damage
is not inevitable, but a consequence of the
way we choose to live."
Exploitation and habitat degradation
After the death of a white rhino named Suni, only sbc white rhinos remain on the earth within the subspecies.lwo of these rhinos are shown above.
accoimt for almost 70 percent of species
extinction, according to the World Wildlife
Fund.
"During the past 50 years, humans
have altered ecosystems more rapidly and
extensively than in any other period in
human history," said Executive Secretary
of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Ahmed Djoghlaf in an interview with the
Daily Mail.
However, steps are being taken in the right
direction, including the U.N. agreement to
end deforestation, an agreement influenced
by the People's Climate March this past
September.
At Guilford, new efforts are making our
campus more aware of environmental issues.
"We're going to try to get a sustainability
coalition on campus, maybe as a dub, but
also connect with the People's Qimate March
group and the sustainability office," said
environmental studies major and sophomore
Eva Cosgrove. "We could have a few
people who are eco-reps — representatives
of Guilford fighting for sustainability and
working with the sustainability office."
In November, the Greenleaf showed
"Bringing it Home," a film about hemp and
sustainable housing.
"(There) are award-winning documentary
filmmakers from North Carolina who (were)
there," said sustainability coordinator
Bronwyn Cony.
Recently, the Quake Talk series featured
Sol Weiner and his documentary about pig
farming and environmental radsm in North
Carolina, as weU.
Unfortunately, it may be too late to save
the northern white rhinos.
"It's all kind of a balancing ad between
how much money we have for conservation
and how much of that we are willing to give
to one spedes," said Macklin.
Still, there is work that needs be done for
other spedes.
'To preserve the health and safety of
our planet and the human race, we must
meet targets didated by sdence," said
Greenpeace International '^ecutive Diredor
Kumi Naidoo in an interview on the
oiganization's website. "We need strong laws
to proted forests and people as well as better
enforcement of existing laws."