After teasing fans with posts suggesting a possible reunion with one-time girlfriend Chloë Grace Moretz, Brooklyn Beckham’s latest ‘gram seems to put everything out on the table, publicly displaying his affection.
On Wednesday, the aspiring photographer shared an artsy black-and-white image of the actress from behind at a concert. “Thinking of this one xx,” he captioned the candid shot.
As if that wasn’t enough relationship fodder for fans, the Carrie star sent the social media love back with a post of her own. Simply captioned, “8.27.17 NY,” the inky image seems to prove that Becks Jr. passed down a few of his photography tips to Moretz.
Rumors of a rekindled romance first started swirling back in August, when eagle-eyed fans noticed Moretz’s silhouette in a photo shared to the Brit’s account. And, on Sunday, Beckham appeared to stealthily confirm the reports with a low-key post, captioned: “Missing my girl.”
Thousands of Google employees across the globe walked out of their offices at 11:10am local time on Thursday to demand improvements to workplace culture including an end to sexual harassment and misconduct.
The walkout comes on the heels of an executive resigning this week after the New York Times reported that he allegedly harassed a female job applicant and that the company gave another executive accused of harassment a “hero’s farewell” and a $90 million exit package.
Those who are participating in the Google Walkout For Real Change are leaving flyers at their desk that read: “I’m not at my desk because I’m walking out in solidarity with other Googlers and contractors to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace culture that’s not working for everyone. I’ll be back at my desk later.”
“I’m here protesting against harassment in the workplace, to make sure that we don’t protect or support those perpetrators of harassment,” a demonstrator in London told Sky News. “I think people are supporting those who have been harassed in any workplace situation, by any employer, and this is just part of the movement.”
Echoing the #MeToo movement’s rallying cry “Time’s up!” seven organizers of the walkout wrote for The Cut on Thursday about the culture of the company and its failures to create a safe work environment. As they put it:
All employees and contract workers across the company deserve to be safe. Sadly, the executive team has demonstrated through their lack of meaningful action that our safety is not a priority. We’ve waited for leadership to fix these problems, but have come to this conclusion: no one is going to do it for us. So we are here, standing together, protecting and supporting each other. We demand an end to the sexual harassment, discrimination, and the systemic racism that fuel this destructive culture.
While the walkout is occurring in an era of mounting calls for accountability and amid growing frustration over how Google has handled past allegations of sexual misconduct, the walkout participants’ five demands also have some broader goals related to eradicating sexism, including an end to “pay and opportunity inequity.”
The walkout follows the resignation of Richard DeVaul, an executive at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, who stepped down Tuesday over allegations reported in the Times—which also revealed that despite “credible” allegations against Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, the company gave him a multi-million dollar exit package when he left in October of 2014.
Following DeVaul’s departure, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai reportedly sent an email to employees announcing that those participating in the walkout on Thursday will get “the support you need.”
“I understand the anger and disappointment that many of you feel,” he wrote. “I feel it as well, and I am fully committed to making progress on an issue that has persisted for far too long in our society… and, yes, here at Google, too.”
“As CEO, it’s been personally important to me that we take a much harder line on inappropriate behavior,” Pichai continued. “We have taken many steps to do so, and know our work is still not done.”
Participants are sharing photos and videos from worldwide protests using the hashtag #GoogleWalkout, and the Twitter account Google Walkout For Real Change is sharing highlights from several demonstrations:
As the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday put out a report that warns, “If the current warming rate continues, the world would reach human-induced global warming of 1.5°C (2.7°F) around 2040,” 350.org released a compilation of stories from 13 communities “fighting against fossil fuel projects and for a fast and just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.”
“With a planet barely 1°C warmer than pre-industrial times, we are witnessing a chain of catastrophic climate-related extremes all over the globe. If we want to avoid even more dramatic impacts, we have to stay under a 1.5°C increase in global mean temperatures,” 350.org program director Payal Parekh writes in The People’s Dossier on 1.5°C (pdf).
After outlining why “scientists say we must stop global warming now,” the dossier details a collection of stories that, as Parekh explains, “shows readers why we should all care more for this existential fight, and how each one of us can make the difference, not only through personal choices, but joining others, building grassroot movements from the ground up.”
The Arctic
As the Arctic warms more quickly than the rest of the world, the Saami people inhabiting regions of Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden face a variety of issues with herding reindeer, which they use for transportation and food. While melting ice sheets and deforestation pose threats, the report also points out that large energy projects do as well—such as hydropower dams and wind farms on reindeer grazing land, providing “a stark reminder that clean energy solutions need to be implemented taking into account the needs of the ecosystem and of the local communities.”
Brazil
Ceará, a state in northeastern Brazil, has been enduring its longest drought in recorded history since 2010, and water scarcity has devastated local agriculture and fishery. “With the reservoirs of the hydroelectric plants—the country’s main source of electricity—empty and for lack of investments in other renewable energy sources, the government has to activate the fossil fuel-fired thermoelectric plants.” These dirty energy plants also require water, and extraction from supposedly protected areas have led to conflicts with indigenous groups in the region.
Canada
Faced with mounting opposition from indigenous communities and environmental groups, fossil fuel giant Kinder Morgan sought to bail on the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline—and much to the frustration of local opponents, sold it off to the Canadian government. “Despite increasingly dangerous climate impacts and strong public opposition, the government of Canada continues to promote and expand tar sands expansion—Canada’s fastest growing source of emissions and a fossil fuel reserve that, if fully exploited, could burn up nearly a quarter of the entire world’s remaining carbon budget for the 1.5°C threshold,” the report warns.
Italy
Residents of Salento, a southern region of Italy, are fighting against the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which, as the report notes, “would come onshore in the beautiful seaside town of San Foca, Puglia.” Facing off against the Italian government and European Commission, locals are organizing peaceful protest of TAP, which they fear will “damage and pollute the local landscape, coastline, and clear blue waters.” The project would also contribute to planet-warming emissions, which force up global temperatures that are already endangering “olive groves and grapes that have shaped the Salento region over thousands of years.”
Japan
In the historic city of Kobe—designated one of the most susceptible in the world to sea level rise—activists are working to quash plans to build two large-scale coal power plants. The steel manufacturer trying to construct the plants, the report points out, “has a notorious history when it comes to air pollution.” Critics of the plants have turned to the courts, citing concerns about air pollution and climate change, in an efforts to stop them.
Kenya
Residents of Lamu Old Town—which “is one of the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlements in East Africa, and was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 2001—are working to prevent the construction of a giant coal plant that they fear would harm the region’s most vital industries, fishing and tourism, and displace some 120,000 people. Community members have pursued a court battle, arguing that the economic, environmental, and health impacts weren’t adequately considered when the government approved plans for the plant.
Oceana
Pacific Islander and Australian activist have teamed up to take on the the Carmichael coal mine project, a proposal by the Indian fossil fuel company Adani that would entail shipping millions of ton of coal through the Great Barrier Reef, which is already significantly impacted by rising ocean temperatures. “To build and run its proposed Carmichael coal mine,” the report notes, “Adani also wants to extract a billion liters of water per year from a river in drought-stricken central Queensland for decades to come.”
The Philippines
Led by the Our Lady of the Angels parish, residents of Atimonan, Quezon are fighting plans to construct a coal plant in a vulnerable coastal area. “While trying to block the construction of this giant coal power plant, the community has been eager to implement solutions to energy needs that offer an alternative path to energy independence for the region,” the report notes, pointing out that the parish has installed rooftop solar panels “to power their church, convent, and the park outside the parish.”
Senegal
“The sleepy town of Barngy, Senegal, is one of the country’s most vulnerable to coastal erosion,” the report explains. Its residents are also battling pollution from a nearby cement plant as well as plans for a new coal plant that would pose a local public health and environmental threat. Members of the community have organized in opposition to the plant since 2014, including a mass demonstration at COP21 in Paris. “They want to get it up and running this month, but we’re gonna do everything we can to stop it,” said local activist Fadel Wade.
Thailand
Women’s groups, academics, community members, and environmental and civil society groups in Pattani Bay, southern Thailand have come together to oppose a proposed coal power plant that would endanger a bay and force hundreds of families to relocate. “Women play a significant role in the local fishing industry and rely on Pattani Bay for nutrient-rich foods to feed their families,” the report explains. In addition to the pollution threats this plant poses to the region, Thailand at large is facing more extreme weather events that scientists have tied to the global climate crisis.
United States: California
As their state is devastated by increasingly dangerous wildfires, residents of California repeatedly have called on Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown to match his lofty rhetoric on climate action with actual policy changes, and completely end all fossil fuel extraction across the state. Amid mounting pressure by residents and activists, state lawmakers passed legislation that aims to transition the energy grid to 100 renewable sources by 2045.
United States: Louisiana
While coastal communities across southern Louisiana are increasingly threatened by rising sea level, activists are fighting to block the Bayou Bridge pipeline, which could cut across vital regional wetlands. Opponents of the project created the L’eau Est La Vie and continue to peacefully protest in spite of a recent state law pushed through by right-wingers that aims to criminalize actions that interfere with “critical infrastructure” such as fossil fuel pipelines. In addition, as the report notes, “Louisiana is one of the hardest hit regions of the United States when it comes to climate impacts such as intense hurricanes, which have devastated in particular low-income communities, people of color, and other vulnerable population.”
United States: Montana and the Dakotas
Advocates of clean energy continue to battle the use and development pipelines from the Alberta tar sands, including Keystone XL (KXL). The resistance to Keystone XL is being led by indigenous groups, farmers, landowners, and climate activists in the United States and Canada, and has seen creative actions such as the installation of solar arrays along the pipeline’s proposed route.
“The weight of the climate crisis falls on those who have the least to do with creating and perpetuating it.” —The People’s Dossier on 1.5°C
Around the world, as the report notes, “the weight of the climate crisis falls on those who have the least to do with creating and perpetuating it, including indigenous communities, climate vulnerable countries, low-income communities of color, and the poorest communities bearing the brunt of fossil fuel extraction, overburdened with unsafe and unfair levels of exposure to pollution.”
Thus, it asserts, “tackling the climate crisis requires building a new economy that works for all and leaves no one behind.”
In addition to explaining the threat the human-caused warming poses to the planet and those who inhabit it, and highlighting 13 communities fighting for a transition to clean energy, the dossier charges that in order limit warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century—the goal of the Paris agreement—the international community must halt all new fossil fuel projects, stop investing in dirty energy companies and projects, and “dramatically accelerate the transition to 100 percent, locally distributed, renewable energy systems.”
“Real climate action,” according to the report, means:
Building decentralized renewable energy infrastructure that serves everyone’s needs and doesn’t just replace a big plant with another, excluding workers, citizens, farmers and wildlife;
Addressing energy poverty by making leapfrogging to renewable, clean energy accessible for the many in the global South, for instance through investments in off-the-grid small scale renewable energy;
That workers in the fossil fuel industry are given a chance to be part of the energy revolution;
No swapping of one fossil fuel for another; and
Jobs, innovation, and opportunities are possible with a low-carbon transition.
Nothing says “super fan” like getting your celebrity idol’s face (or name, or merchandise, for that matter) permanently inked on your skin, and it’s a plunge more and more Kardashian fans are willing to take to show their love for the colorful television family.
From the man with two giant leg tattoos spelling out Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s names (one of a handful that’s garnered a Twitter shout out from the reality star herself recently) and the Kylie Jenner super fan with eight tats inspired by the young mogul to one man’s moving tribute to Caitlyn Jenner, scroll down to see the wildest Kardashian-inspired tattoos on the Internet.
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Caitlyn:
Bonus:
Rob’s tattoo of his mom, Kris Jenner.
This Kim-approved Kanye-inspired ink.
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As for us? We’ll just stick with Kylie’s lip kit—that washes off.
Fergie stepped out of the spotlight to let Kendall Jenner shine in her new music video for the song, “Enchanté (Carine).”
In the visuals, the supermodel takes center stage in a fashion-centric feast that puts her wardrobe quick-change to the test. On Wednesday, the songstress teased a mysterious clip from the video, in which Jenner plays a real-life Sleeping Beauty—serenaded by the sweet voice of Fergie’s son, Axl, in her naptime soundtrack. And the energy only goes up from there, with the runway star emerging from her slumber for a veritable style explosion.
Like the name of Fergie’s visual experience, Seeing Double, promises, we are often left with two, three, and sometimes even five fashionably-clad Kendalls in a single frame. The KUWTK star dons everything from a floral slip to a paillette-embellished sweater with a pencil skirt and red pumps, playing upon the French gamine vibe of the song. She even twirls around in the same neon Oscar de la Renta dress Blake Lively wore at the American Ballet Theatre Gala in May.
However, it isn’t all about the clothes, as Jenner dances, walks her dogs, and plays the horn. The 21-year-old also gives us a French lesson, mouthing lyrics including, “Enchanté, comment allez-vous? / Très bien, Merci”. Clearly, the woman is talented.
A prosecutor in Sicily confirmed this week that he’d begun an investigation into allegations that a U.S. Navy ship appeared to have initially ignored cries for help from migrants aboard an inflatable raft off Libya—a delay that may have led to the deaths of 76 people including a baby.
“If the first time we had seen the ship, if it had come and helped us, there wouldn’t have been deaths,” charged one of the survivors.
Survivors described the events of the June 12 shipwreck in harrowing details in a video published by Italian news site La Repubblica.
To hear the survivors in their own words, watch the video posted by La Repubblica below. (The subtitles are in Italian, some of the survivors are sharing their stories in English, while others are doing so in French.)
“We saw the American ship,” said one survivor referring to the USNS Trenton. Several said they were close enough to see the American flag on the ship, adding that the sight of the vessel brought a sense of relief as the small dingy had begun to take on water. Trying to get the Trenton‘s attention, the migrants stood up, waved their shirts in the air, and called out.
But the U.S. Navy ship, according to survivors, did not approach them, but rather appeared to be moving further away even as the migrant ship tried to follow it.
The U.S. Navy and aid groups acknowledged that the ship ultimately did come to provide aid, helping 41 of those still alive.
But survivors say the relief came only when the ship came back around, some 30 minutes later. That was 30 minutes too late, as the boat had capsized and people were drowning.
“At that moment, I lost my only brother and my sister,” said one woman, adding that she too almost lost her life.
“We clearly saw the same American ship that had ignored us approaching,” the Guardian reports one man as saying in the video.
When they asked the people on the U.S. ship why they didn’t help at first, survivors said they were told rescuing people was “not their job.” The U.S. Navy had asserted in a statement about the rescue of the 41 people that it showed “our ability to respond rapidly to provide relief.”
According to the International Organization for Migration, those aboard the ill-fated raft were mostly sub-Saharan Africans. It added:
they had left Zuwara, in Libya, during the night of 11 June, sailing on a dinghy carrying 117 people, including 20 women and a one-year-old child. After seven hours of navigation, the boat began to deflate and many migrants fell into the water. The U.S. Trenton, patrolling nearby, intervened and managed to bring 41 people to safety. Overall, 76 migrants lost their lives, survivors said, including 15 of the 20 women and the one-year-old child.
Survivor testimony prompted the newly launched probe by Ragusa, Sicily prosecutor Fabio D’Anna, who said that initial testimony from them did not raise suspicion the naval ship had ignored them.
And just like that New York Fashion Week has alsmot come to an end. After a whirlwind few days, Ralph Lauren capped off the tailend of NYFW with an incredible show this evening, and the Instagrams coming from the elaborate venue will take your breath away.
While there was no shortage of amazing sets this fashion week—ahem, Rihanna’s Fenty runway show—Ralph Lauren really takes the cake. An exclusive guest list of editors, influencers, and celebrities like Jessica Chastain, Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Aimee Song, traveled to suburbs of New York to celebrate the iconic brand’s latest shoppable collection at a private garage, where the designer keeps 60 of the rarest cars in the world. Talk about an iconic backdrop for a runway show.
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Before the the models hit the runway, Lauren took Kendall Jenner, who is a well-known car buff, on a tour of his renowned collection, and her expression definitely says it all.
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The use of Lauren’s private car collection made for a gorgeous (and very Instagram-worthy) venue for all of the ‘grams taken at the exclusive show. Scroll down to see more jaw-dropping snaps, including Song’s incredibly glamorous road trip bathroom break.
Back in 2013, Lady Gaga shared for the first time that she was dealing with chronic invisible pain. Since then, she has spoken out about her illness, remedies that have helped, and why self-care is extra important when you deal with chronic pain. Now, Gaga has revealed that she suffers from fibromyalgia.
Gaga’s new documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two (which heads to Netflix on Sept. 22) covers everything in Gaga’s life, and that includes her illness. While doing press for the new film, she talked about her struggles with chronic pain but never mentioned her diagnosis by name.
Gaga took to Twitter to clear things up, in the hopes that by naming her chronic pain she can encourage education and dialogue around fibromyalgia.
According to Mayo Clinic, “Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain processes pain signals.” There is no cure, only symptom management.
For her part, Gaga has already been posting on Instagram about the remedies that have helped her deal with fibromyalgia.
She credits an infrared sauna session followed by an ice bath as one thing that she says “…helps me to keep doing my passion, job and the things I love even on days when I feel like I can’t get out of bed.”
What we find most inspiring is her power in the midst of dealing with chronic pain.
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“There is an element and a very strong piece of me that believes pain is a microphone,” Gaga revealed at a Toronto Film Festival press conference via The Hollywood Reporter. “My pain really does me no good unless I transform it into something that is. I hope that people watching [the documentary] that struggle with chronic pain know they are not alone.”
A terrifying new study details the havoc being wrought by what scientists call “the most destructive pathogen ever” recorded on earth, finding that with help from unwitting humans a “silent killer” has caused major declines of frogs, salamanders, and hundreds of other amphibian species.
Chytridiomycosis, or chytrid fungus, has killed off 90 species over the past 50 years while leading to huge losses of 501 kinds of frogs, toads, salamanders, and other amphibians, according to researchers from a number of worldwide universities. Nearly 125 of those species have declined by at least 90 percent due to the rapid spread of the pathogen.
“We’ve known that chytrid’s really bad, but we didn’t know how bad it was, and it’s much worse than the previous early estimates.” —Ben Scheele, ecologist
The report, published in Science on Thursday, offers disturbing new information about a disease which scientists first detected in 1998—but whose power they didn’t grasp until now.
“We’ve known that chytrid’s really bad, but we didn’t know how bad it was, and it’s much worse than the previous early estimates,” Ben Scheele, an ecologist at Australian National University and lead author of the study, told National Geographic.
Chytrid fungus kills amphibians by eating away the skin of its hosts, leaving amphibians unable to breathe and quickly going into cardiac arrest. The pathogen is easily spread and rapidly destructive to the 695 species it infects.
“If it were a human pathogen, it’d be in a zombie film,” biologist Dan Greenberg told National Geographic.
Chytrid fungus does not infect humans—but human activity has helped to spread the disease. The pathogen is thought to have originated in Asia, and both legal and illegal pet trades have helped to spread it to Central, South, and North America; Europe; Australia; and Africa. The disease is widespread in the United States.
Across the world, chytrid fungus “has damaged global biodiversity more than any other disease ever recorded,” wrote Michael Greshko in National Geographic.
The study’s 42 authors are urging world governments to curb trading of wild amphibians, protect amphibian habitats, and support captive-breeding programs to stem the effects of the disease.
“It’s pretty sobering that we haven’t been able to do those sorts of obvious things,” biologist Wendy Palen told National Geographic. “Maybe this is a real wake-up call.”
Presley Gerber is making mom Cindy Crawford proud with his latest ad campaign. The 18-year-old model, who was recently named an Omega brand ambassador, helped to unveil a new watch on Thursday, and he’s cuddling a teddy bear in the adorable images.
Gerber is wearing the new Omega Speedmaster “Orbis” watch, which features a stainless steel bracelet and blue face. While the timepiece certainly looks good on him, there’s another reason why Crawford’s son was the model chosen to wear it.
The new watch was unveiled to celebrate World Sight Day on Oct. 12, according to the brand. Omega and Orbis have been partners in delivering eye care to some of the world’s most remote regions since 2011, carrying out programs in more than 90 countries across the globe. Presley’s mom, Cindy, a long-time Omega ambassador, visited Orbis’s team in Peru in 2015 and was moved by the work of their healthcare professionals aboard the Flying Eye Hospital, which she described as “an aircraft that can perform miracles.”
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Omega provides a teddy bear for every young patient who undergoes eye treatment with the help of Orbis—thus Gerber’s cuddly companion. The Speedmaster “Orbis” watch also features an Orbis Teddy Bear design stamped on the back of the accessory.
Omega will donate a portion of each sale of this special watch to continue the work of Orbis International.