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Usually the word “jail” brings some harsh imagery to mind: barbed wire fences, orange jumpsuits and tall concrete walls. That’s not the case in the Key West, though. Ask a local about the jail, and the most likely image is Mo, an adorable and charismatic sloth who’s become the unofficial mascot of the Stock Island Detention Center, which doubles as a sanctuary for unwanted animals.

“All the animals here are either abandoned, abused, confiscated or donated,” Jeanne Selander, the caretaker for the facility, explains to Care2. “The animals are here because they need a forever home and we give them one.”

Low Emissions Zones have their place in cleaning up the UK's worst air pollution hotspots, writes Richard Howard. But we also need to adopt fiscal measures to encourage a shift away from diesel vehicles, at once delivering cleaner air, increased tax revenues, and lower carbon emissions.

If we are to clean up air pollution in London and the rest of the UK, then Government needs to recognise that diesel is the primary cause of the problem, and to promote a shift away from diesel to alternatives.

There is an air pollution crisis taking place in London and many of the UK's other major cities.

Menos de dos meses después de que 196 países en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMCC) adoptaron los Acuerdos de París, la comunidad mundial ya está viendo signos de que sea un punto coyuntural decisivo, según un alto funcionario de la ONU, que se ocupan de cuestiones climáticas.

Depending on the source, anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of produce in America ends up wasted. One reason why so many fruit and vegetables are thrown out is because they do not conform to what retailers and consumers believe fresh food should look like. Tomatoes too wide for a hamburger bun, carrots that look like something out of an anatomy textbook, and cucumbers that dare to be curved almost never make the shelves at grocery chains from Walmart to Whole Foods. But Whole Foods, the supermarket that has arguably made organic and socially-conscious foods mainstream, announced that it will start selling “ugly” fruits and vegetables.

Dependiendo de dónde se produzcan, entre el 20 y el 40 por ciento de productos vegetales en EEUU termina desperdiciados. Una de las razones por la que muchas frutas y verduras son echados a la basura, ​​se debe a que no se ajustan a cómo los minoristas y los consumidores creen que los alimentos frescos deben lucir. Tomates demasiado anchos para un pan de hamburguesa, zanahorias que parecen salidas de un libro de texto de anatomía, y los pepinos que se atreven a ser curvado casi nunca se hacen presentes en los estantes de las cadenas de supermercados de Walmart o Whole Foods.