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This blog is the first of three detailing the progress of Borana’s new ‘Mazingira Yetu’ Conservation Education Centre. School. It is something that stirs a mix of memories. For me, it was waking up, having breakfast, and heading in with the full intention of skipping that morning’s assembly. Parts of the school routine may have […]
Medved pointed to the OurCrowd efforts that direct a percentage of profits toward improving health care for the poor. Like a lot of people worried about climate change, he says there’s no time to waste. He thinks spending money on building new solar and wind farms is important, but he has his money on climate […]
Good Good Good is in Vancouver this week covering TED2023. This article is part of our ongoing, exclusive coverage of the conference, with more interviews and stories to come. Follow along here all week, or on social media with our hashtag #GGGatTED. While it may initially come off as dramatic or despondent, there’s a pretty […]
Comment on this story Comment Pandas. Polar bears. Mountain lions. All are examples of what ecologists call “charismatic megafauna,” a term for critters that spark squeals of delight at the zoo and grace the glossy brochures of conservation groups. But less charming critters are in crisis, too. Climate change and habitat . . .
How US troops in Germany are training Ukrainians to save one another on the battlefield CNN Source link
Confession time: I’m one of those weirdos who uses the vertical zoom feature on their TV to conceal black bars when watching movies. Yes, I’m a monster. As someone who despises losing a chunk of screen real estate to strips of darkness, my obsessive eyes are all too ready for 21:9 ultrawide TVs. Ultrawide monitors […]
Comment on this story Comment Water levels in the nation’s second-largest reservoir dropped to a record low last week, raising the alarm that major changes are on the way for the seven states — and millions of Americans — relying on that system, experts say. Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir that sits along the Colorado […]
BALTIMORE — In 2018, Angela Banks received bad news from her landlord: Baltimore officials were buying her family’s home of four decades, planning to demolish the three-story brick row house to make room for a beleaguered urban renewal project aimed at transforming a historically Black neighborhood. Banks and her children became homeless almost overnight. With […]
Black Baltimoreans fight to save homes from redevelopment WV News Source link
When a toast is raised at a wedding, it is invariably to the bride. Not so when artist and author Sally Muir married the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft back in 1990. That honour went to Fanny, Sally Muir’s “big-haired, lawless 80s mongrel” with whom she had fallen in love at first sighting in Battersea Dogs Home […]