The indoor enclosure that confined the lioness, Nasha, was wet and soiled with excessive feces, urine, soil, and food wastes with no clean bedding provided,” reads the December 2024 inspection report for a roadside zoo in coastal Oregon. The report, completed by the US Department of Agriculture, paints a grim and detailed picture of systemic animal neglect: “On closer observation, Nasha’s coat was matted with what appeared to be feces on various areas of her body, she was wide-eyed, crouched and reluctant to approach the enclosure door.”
The disputes raise questions about the region’s economy and environment, as well as national priorities over energy, water, climate and Indigenous rights.
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]