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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention

We couldn't tell if it was day or night, said one former detainee who spent 10 months at the facility and whom the Guardian is not naming for fear of retaliation from US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and the Geo Group, the private company that operates the detention center. The lights were on 24/7. We maybe saw the sun twice a week. Windows were coated in dark paint, and people made eye masks with their socks, he recalled.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass

Window collisions, worsened by artificial lights and ubiquitous glass, kill up to a billion migratory birds annually despite proven preventive glass treatments.
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