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Vincent Frank Wendt, 75, was born on June 28, 1948 in Baraboo, Wis. He died on August 16, 2023 at St. Mary’s Hospital. A Memorial Gathering will be held on August 23, 2023 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Gunderson Camacho Black Earth Funeral and Cremation Care, located at 1710 Center St., Black Earth. […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high. It’s the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don’t surprise scientists. The […]
The winners of Earth Photo 2023, which awards images that shine a spotlight on climate change and the natural world, have been announced. From the evacuation of big cats from war-torn Ukraine to the shrinking of a glacier in Iceland – here are just some of the award-winning images. With ‘failure to mitigate climate change’ […]
BLACK EARTH, Wis. (WKOW) — US 14 is open near Black Earth after a crash, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. An alert from WisDOT indicates the crash happened around 12:20 p.m. at Kahl Road. The roadway reopened by 1:30 p.m. A Dane County Dispatch official said injuries were reported and three ambulances were […]
NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr. will travel farther into space than any Black person before him when he pilots the Artemis II lunar mission in 2024. But he’s already embarked on a personal mission that hits closer to home on Earth. He wants to take his fellow Americans to school and guide them deep into […]
As the world celebrates Earth Day this Saturday, a Florida State University Department of Art professor is using art to teach people about water conservation and sustainability. During the Earth Day event, a team of conservationists inform the participants about water sustainability and encourage them to make a clay cloud in exchange for a Sawyer portable water […]
Noreen E. (Kelliher) Oscar Aug. 23, 1929 – April 5, 2023 BLACK EARTH – Noreen E. (Kelliher) Oscar passed away on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at Agrace HospiceCare with her loving family by her side. Noreen was born to parents, Barth and Dorothy (Schutt) Kelliher on Aug. 23, 1929, growing up in the Greenbush neighborhood […]
In Despicable Me (now streaming on Peacock!), Gru (Steve Carrell) gets into a contest of oneupmanship with his nemesis, Vector (Jason Segal), which escalates to the point of shrinking and stealing the Moon. Now, there’s a death ray pointing at our planet, sort of, that Gru and Vector didn’t have anything to do with it, […]
Scientists discovered a massive black hole pointed directly at Earth. PBC J2333.9-2343 is located nearly 657 million light years away from Earth and stretches nearly 40 million light-years across, according to the Royal Astronomical Society. That is about 40 times larger than the Milky . . .
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