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Focus Daily News EarthxFilm starts their fifth annual environmental film festival in Dallas April 16-25. This year’s hybrid event features drive-in, outdoor, and online screenings. The Festival’s mission: Showcase films and emerging media that explore science, conservation, climate change, and the environment. They also honor the heroes working to protect our planet. EarthxFilm hopes to turn awareness into action through education, art, and media. Opening Night highlight is a drive-in presentation of Sally Aitken’s Sundance favorite, “Playing with Sharks.” Closing Night features t...

Ask The Expert: Climate Change (Virtual) Friday April 23, 2021 Free Learn more about how climate change has accelerated a collision between right whales, one of the world’s most endangered species, and the lobster industry, North America’s most valuable fishery. Come meet reporter and documentary filmmaker, David Abel, at our next Ask The Expert event. Bring your questions and learn more about his new film, Entangled, which documents how the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine have forced the whales to search for food in new areas let to a rise in deaths due to the...

Fear is the Glue That Holds Myanmar’s Military Together Fear is the Glue That Holds Myanmar’s Military Together Myanmar military personnel in Naypyitaw before they cracked down on the peaceful protesters on '22222' nationwide general strike against the regime on Feb 22. / The Irrawaddy 17.6k By Bertil Lintner 9 March 2021 Demonstrations against the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar have continued for more than a month. Brutal and even lethal force against the pro-democracy demonstrators may have reduced the number of people who are risking their lives by taking to the street, but there is...

This could be a turning point for protection of the right whale © David L. Ryan The fluke of a whale is seen in an aerial view of whales feeding off the shores of Duxbury Beach in this May 2015 file photo. Government’s proposed new rules don’t go far enough Re “New US plan to aid right whales faces wide-ranging wrath” by David Abel (Page A1, March 1): As a marine advocate, campaigner, and former stranding responder, I have been involved in all aspects of trying to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from a path toward extinction. With the population having ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu, Abuja A member of the House of Representatives from Ondo State, Peter Makinde, has defected from the African Democratic Congress to the All Progressives Congress. Makinde, in his letter of defection, read to members at the plenary on Tuesday by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, blamed the defection on the alleged division in the ADC. “You’re welcome to the progressive party,” Gbajabiamila said after reading the letter. Several members of the Peoples Democratic Party, however, screamed point of order. A leader of the minority caucus, Nicholas Ossai, ...