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In today’s newsletter: Escalating costs mean Victoria will no longer host the competition – but can another host be found?

Palm oil plantations have fragmented Sabah’s rainforest but land corridors let pygmy elephants and orangutans roam again

KOTA KINABALU: Rhino and Forest Fund (RFF), non-governmental organisation (NGO), is urgently looking for donors to secure land for the Tabin-Kulamba wildlife corridor initiative at Sabah's east coast.

An NGO is working in Malaysian Borneo to buy up former plantations and reforest them, creating wildlife corridors between protected areas

A metal detectorist has returned a number of Second World War dog tags to families across the pond.

Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner’s Call to Scienceby Jeannine Atkins; Simon & Schuster There have been any number of studies that outline the barriers many women still face today in the workplace, from earning less pay than men for comparable work to the...

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. if you go back to that republican party post -- if you reverse the messaging on the expensive burrito, their promise is essentially we will bring down the wages of chipotle workers. if you put it that way, it doesnt sound so appealing, does it? sarah nelson, robert risch, author of "the system who rigged it" and they both join me now. sarah, let me start with you. youre representing folks in a sector that were seeing a lot of tumult. the industry ...

Have to grow the labor movement. this is what president biden is saying and hes absolutely right. if we dont grow that sustained labor movement where workers can bargain for health care and vacation and things that make it a meaningful life, then those things can change. the corporate elite can change them any day. so, you can have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something in one month and is taken away in the next month if you dont have a union and the contract that is in black and wh...

Robert risch how is that not mean to make americans pay more and more for health insurance. >> are those the only two options? either no obamacare or this plan? isnt there another way to change obamacare and give some confidence to the market? >> i dont think so, anderson. the democrats say yes, but we can put band-aids on it. no, when youve got one-third of americans living in counties now that dont have any obamacare insurer, when youve got peoples insurance premiums doubling, what is this hea...

To lose, or have already by the time you have the 2018 midterm elections, have already lost their health care. this is not only immoral, this is also something that is politically very, very damaging for the republicans. >> steve, if this is such a good bill, why isnt it a slam dunk for republicans, if every republican was onboard, the bill would pass? >> well, they do have to get 50 senators, no question about that. so they can only lose two. the math is there. but look, i want to get back to t...