Steve Cutts (2012) Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land Patagonia files claim against Trump over removing Bears Ears protections 170 environmental defenders have been killed so far in 2017 while protecting their community’s land or natural resources *** (106)
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AC/DC founding member Malcolm Young dead at 64 AC/DC were remarkably consistent for over 40 years with its mix of driving hard rock, lusty lyrics and bluesy shuffles, selling over 200 million albums, surviving the loss of its first singer and creating one of the greatest rock records ever in…
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Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero On the evening of November 3, 1957, barely a month after the Soviet Union sent humanity’s first artificial satellite into orbit, a rocket lifted off from a secret site in Kazakhstan, carrying its second. The launch of Sputnik 2 was timed to coincide…
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Harvey’s Mammoth Deluge Potential: Some Models Are Showing Storm Could Produce Five Feet of Rain During recent years, a warmer than normal atmosphere has been producing more and more intense rain storms. The number of record daily rainfall instances around the world has been rising precipitously (see image above). This…
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What kind of eclipse you are likely to see? Let our visualizations show you The Demons of Darkness Will Eat Men, and Other Solar Eclipse Myths Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (48)
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House of horrors: inside the US wildlife repository – photo essay If the US had a national house of horrors, it would probably be the federal government compound that lies on the fringes of Denver, Colorado, incongruously set within a wildlife reserve where bison languorously dawdle against a backdrop of the…
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American Dignity on the Fourth of July, The New Yorker “More than three-quarters of a century after the delegates of the Second Continental Congress voted to quit the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared that “all men are created equal,” Frederick Douglass stepped up to the lectern at Corinthian Hall,…
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