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Trees can decline for a number of reasons: insects, disease, soil compaction, winter injury, drought stress, and many other factors.

A San Francisco woman visiting an Emerald Bay waterfall fell to her death July 4, Tahoe officials said. A spokesperson from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said Ishrat Binta Azim, 25, of San Francisco, was visiting Eagle Falls on July 4. Around 2:45 p.m., Azim slipped and fell at the lower Eagle Falls. “The female was later located in a pool of water near the Vikingsholm walking path, where she was confirmed deceased,” the spokesperson said. “No foul play is suspected.” This is at least the second slip-and-fall fatality in recent years at Eagle Falls. In 2019, a young...

As most of my followers on social media and Substack must know by now, I have spent a considerable amount of time the last two years trying to discover the actual ingredients of the new COVID vaccines. The reason is simple: Big Pharma has gone to considerable trouble to hide them. Do the Big Pharma companies want to submit the vaccines to independent analysis? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies want to disclose all the ingredients? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies have any liability for lying to the public about the proprietary ingredients in their...

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HIDDENITE, N.C., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Experts said a 64-carat emerald discovered by a gem miner in North Carolina is the largest cut emerald ever found in the United States. Terry Ledford, 53, who dug up the gem in August 2009 in Hiddenite, said the rock -- 310 carats uncut -- "looked like an empty 7 Up bottle" when he discovered it, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported Friday. Ledford, who named the stone The Carolina Emperor, said he expects selling the emerald to be "completely life-changing." C.R. "Cap" Beesley, a New York gemologist, said Ledford is likely correct, as the...

Emerald Goals Green Our Cities Our goal is to achieve significant reductions in the carbon footprint and energy consumption and increased energy savings and efficiencies. To this end, we encourage cities to: Substantially increase the energy efficiency of citywide building stock over ten years while prioritizing poor communities. Buildings are the largest national source of energy consumption, costing $400 billion annually in energy bills and comprising 80 percent of local carbon emissions in some cities. Yet, efficiency gains between 30 and 50 percent are possible using existing, cost-effective technology. Reducing energy consumption requires a comprehensive retrofit of building stock. The...

L.A. County Sheriff Has the Big Rock Many Claim to Own Just before Christmas, detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department pried open a crate outside a warehouse to find something they had been chasing for months: an 840-pound Brazilian emerald that had been reported stolen. Now, if they could just figure out who owns it. So far, at least five people have come forward to say it's theirs. "It seems like the more we talk to people, the more people claim to have ownership over this thing," said Lt. Thomas Grubb, who heads the sheriff's investigative team on...