Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn…
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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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MUSTANGS AND BURROS REMAIN AT RISK Congress has declared: wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people; and that these horses…
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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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How a tulip teaches us resilience and other big life lessons from Mother Nature Jane Goodall on resilience of nature and the indomitable human spirit Imagination: “I would describe it as ‘ripe for invasion’” – Resilience Floating Rafts of Fire Ants “As water levels in a flood rise, the ants…
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‘Cause it’s the new Mother Nature taking over It’s the new Splendid lady come to call It’s the new Mother Nature taking over She’s gettin’ us all She’s gettin’ us all….. *** Animal Agency: Resistance, Rebellion, and the Struggle for Autonomy Giant Antarctic iceberg ‘hanging by a thread’, say scientists Great…
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Johnny Cash sings Merle Haggard, 1969 “Mama Tried” *** (15)
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Led Zepplein “Good Times Bad Times” (Bonham/Jones/Page) The Hindenburg disaster, 80 years on: a ‘perfect storm of circumstances’ “Then the zeppelin turned. Its tail swung into view. On it, stark and black, were swastikas…that beauty up there turned into fear.” *** (60)
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