Dance Emu Revolution

Local news site The Edinburgh Minute ran its best ever headline a few weeks ago, the kind where you have to find out what’s going on: “Dance music event axed over emu attack fears”. Turns out that a Cold War bunker in the city’s northwest is home to two angry Aussie birds. As well as angry birds of its own, Bolivia is home to the first new cat species identified by science in a century. Leopardus tilcayo was known to indigenous Bolivians all along, of course. I wonder if Cecil saw one during his time in the Yungas. Ctenophores are wonders. Half of Britain’s fish and chip shops are facing closure. “The eels were climbing out of the water to die.” How a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles. The planetary boundaries necessary for life to flourish have been massively breached. Steel production using coal is responsible for 7% of global carbon emissions. Laureen Meroueh’s method using natural gas cuts those by at least half and is 25% cheaper. Victoria’s underground…