Tag: Peril
Christopher Nolan on the Promise and Peril of Technology
By the time I sat down with Christopher Nolan in his posh hotel suite not far from the White House, I guessed that he was tired of Washington, D.C. The day before, he’d toured the Oval Office and had lunch on Capitol Hill. Later that night, I’d watched him receive an award from the Federation for American Scientists, an organization that counts Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Nolan’s most recent film, among its founders. Onstage, he’d briefly jousted with Republican
A global report finds amphibians are still in peril. But it’s not all bad news
Nearly 20 years ago, the first global assessment of amphibians found the animals facing widespread declines. Now, a second, updated report shows that many amphibians are still in trouble, but with some silver linings, researchers report October 4 in Nature.
“We are realistic and hopeful at the same time,” says Jennifer Luedtke, a conservationist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which tracks extinction risk trends for species around the world.
In particular, the wealth of data in
French government warns German AfD is ‘peril for European stability’ – EURACTIV.com
The German far-right AfD, whose party congress this weekend asserted that the EU has “failed”, is “founded on hatred” and looks to “destroy what already exists”, French EU minister Laurence Boone said on Monday (7 August).
Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party members gathered over the course of two successive weekends (29-30 July and 5-6 August) to adopt a shared political platform ahead of the 2024 European elections. Leading Eurosceptic AfD MEP Maximilian Krah was voted in last week to
Biden’s Ambitious Climate Agenda Is in Peril – Mother Jones
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This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Last April, President Joe Biden convened dozens of world leaders for a “virtual climate summit” that sought to generate more ambitious environmental policies ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference later in the year. The summit, held on an occasionally glitchy Zoom call, sought to prove that Biden would restore the climate credibility the US had lost
We Abandon Low-Income Voters at Our Peril
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Die größten Enthüllungen in „Peril“ beziehen sich wirklich auf die Republikanische Partei
Donald Trump und der Führer der Minderheiten im Repräsentantenhaus Kevin McCarthy, so wurde weithin berichtet, trafen sich am 28. Haben Sie sich gefragt, worüber sie gesprochen haben? In „Peril“ haben Bob Woodward und Robert Costa die Antwort für Sie. Trump fragt: