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A Buck for a Ring

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          The Canadian Press covers the heartwarming proposal between a Nebraskan couple in their article,  " Nebraska woman bags marriage proposal shortly after killing big buck on hunting trip " by an unknown author, published Sunday November 26th, 2023.     The Omaha couple,  Samantha Camenzind and  Cole Bures, secured an engagement and a big buck, during a hunting trip earlier this month in Lincoln. The pair, who had bonded over their shared love for hunting, spotted a "prize" sized buck on a trail camera during their most recent deer hunting trip. After locating the buck, Bures let his girlfriend,  Camenzind, take the shot, recalling "[I]  didn't have any problem letting [her] take the first shot... I was just as excited as she was when she got it." Bures had gotten the idea of proposing from his friend who had recently gotten engaged on their own hunting trip in Alaska. Bures arranged for a professional photographer ...

"Ecocide" Criminalized by the European Union

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Isabella Kaminski discloses the details behind the European Union as the "first  international body to criminalize wide-scale environmental damage," in her article ,  EU criminalizes environmental damage 'comparable to ecocide ' , by The Guardian, on   Friday, November 17th, 2023.       The European Union criminalizes severe environmental damage such as illegal logging and habitat loss as seen in the image above. After the assertion of the idea 'ecocide' in 2021 by Professor Galston and a team of international legal experts, the European Union began debating and implementing legal parameters to combat ecocide within their  region. While the act will remain informal until Spring of 2024, followed by two years of national implementation, this criminalization of environmental damage considerably minimizes the " widespread, substantial and irreversible or long-lasting damage to large or important ecosystems, habitats or the quality of air, soil or wat...