Traces of chemicals commonly used for fracking were found in鈥 鈥瑃he鈥 鈥琩rinking鈥 鈥瑆ater鈥 鈥瑂upply of three homes in Bradford County in the US state of Pennsylvania,鈥 鈥琣 study revealed on May鈥 鈥18.鈥
The investigation,鈥 鈥瑆hich appeared in scientific鈥 鈥琷ournal鈥 鈥鈥琍roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences鈥<鈥/i鈥>鈥,鈥 鈥琾roved the long-held worry of damaging underground drinking water sources from the method of extracting gases known as hydraulic fracturing.鈥 鈥琓he report explicitly links the practice with the affected water systems.鈥
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Britain's May 7 general elections, in which the Conservative Party won an outright majority, produced a couple of silver linings on a very large black cloud. One was the success of the Green Party of England and Wales. While the party did not sweep into Westminster, it made progress politically and in terms of votes.
More than鈥 鈥200鈥 鈥琫nvironmental activists鈥 鈥琤locked a terminal in Seattle鈥欌瑂 port to protest against Royal Dutch Shell鈥欌瑂 imminent plans to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic.鈥
A huge vessel,鈥 鈥琻amed Polar Pioneer,鈥 鈥琲s temporarily stationed at the port before heading out to the Arctic to explore for oil.鈥 鈥琁f successful,鈥 鈥琲t will be the first time the multinational has exploited oil in the Arctic.鈥
Burundi's embattled President Pierre Nkurunziza agreed on May 20 to postpone parliamentary elections, but refused to change the date of the presidential vote. Parliamentary and local elections were moved back from May 26 to June 6. However, the contentious presidential vote remains scheduled for June 26.
Popular left-wing activist activist Ada Colau has won Barcelona's May 24 mayoral elections. Running on the ticket of Barcelona Together, which united several left groups and grassroots activists, Colau came first with 25% of the vote.
The case of yet another death at the hands of US police of an unarmed Black man 鈥 in this case teenager Ariston Waiters in Georgia 鈥 will be re-opened after new evidence emerged on May 17. The new evidence revealed Waiters was shot twice in the back when already on the ground.
Dalton County District Attorney Paul Howard reopened the case after Channel 2 Action News revealed new evidence and witnesses. The new elements proves Union City police officer Luther Lewis shot the unarmed 19-year-old Waiters twice in the back, after he already had him on the ground.
A new video has surfaced of the arrest of 25-year-old Black man Freddie Gray by Baltimore police that contradicts previous police accounts and features an extra stop made by police on the way to the station, the Baltimore Sun reported on May 20.
Gray died on April 19 from injuries sustained in the back of a police van. He was arrested after he made eye contact with police and then ran away.
The newspaper obtained the extra cell phone video footage and testimony from neighbours who said they saw the police van stop one block away from where Freddie Gray was arrested April 12.
More than 250 farmers and their city cousins rallied at Queensland Parliament House on May 21 calling for an end to unconventional gas production and coal mining.
The rally was organised by Lock the Gate (Queensland). Farmers from the Bentley Blockade and Northern Rivers in NSW travelled to Brisbane for the rally.
A 23 year-old Iranian asylum seeker has been savagely attacked on Nauru.
The young woman had been on day-release from the detention centre on May 16, visiting refugees in the community. She was expected back at 5pm so at 4.30pm she left the house she was visiting to catch the bus back to the detention centre.
She never arrived.
At about 8pm Nauruan police were seen wrapping the woman in a blanket and trying to place her in a police car. She had been found naked, distressed and disoriented.
About 100 people rallied at Glenelg in Adelaide to protest against plans by oil company British Petroleum to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
I guess there were some people who thought that the leopard Tony Abbott may have changed his spots after his look-we've-changed 2015 federal budget. The polls certainly suggest this.
As William Bowie wrote in his Poll Bludger column in Crikey.com: 鈥淎 flurry of post-budget opinion polls adds up to a solid increase in the Coalition鈥檚 standing, with Tony Abbott鈥檚 personal standing now rivalling his least-bad results since his short-lived post-election honeymoon.鈥
The white US police officer who shot dead Black teenager VonDerrit Myers while off-duty will not be prosecuted, officials said on May 18. The 18-year-old teen was shot 17 times in St Louis in October, six minutes after buying a sandwich at convenience store.
His death exacerbated protests in Missouri state against the killing of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in the nearby town of Ferguson in August, also by a white officer. Like the fatal shooting of Brown, the details of Myers鈥 death contained startling inconsistencies.
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