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  • Bear attack leaves one person dead, two injured

    03/18/2024 12:24:33 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    UPI ^ | MARCH 17, 2024 | Mark Moran
    Two people were hospitalized after being attacked by a bear in Slovakia, officials reported Sunday. The Environment Ministry may propose making the animals easier to hunt to reduce their population. A 49-year-old woman suffered a wound to her shoulder and a 72-year-old man was treated for a gash on his hand from the bear in the town of Liptovsky Mikuláš, emergency services said. Police drove the bear out of town.. A day prior to the latest attack, a 31-year-old Belarussian woman apparently fell to her death trying to escape a brown bear in the nearby Low Tatra mountains. She and...
  • So where is the Seirra Club? Where are all of the environmental groups? Why don't we hear from them about this mess?

    03/18/2024 8:23:10 AM PDT · by Omnivore-Dan · 14 replies
    F.A.I.R ^ | Feb, 2024 | Hanna Davis
    The Texas border comprises almost half of the entire U.S.-Mexico border, stretching 1,254 miles across four Mexican states. Millions of immigrants have entered the country through one of Texas’ five Border Patrol sectors. As a result, the Lone Star state’s diverse environment, divided into ten ecoregions, has gradually transformed into a dumping ground for immigrants’ waste.
  • Many of the Most Beautiful Places in America Have Been Transformed Into Open Toilets

    03/18/2024 6:15:26 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    Discern Report ^ | March 18, 2024 | Michael Snyder
    Once upon a time, America was such a beautiful place. As a nation, we are blessed with great natural beauty, and the shiny, clean cities that we constructed from coast to coast were once the envy of the entire world. But now many of the most beautiful places in America have literally been turned into open toilets. Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. Decades ago, California beaches were so spectacular that tourists would come from all over the world to experience them. But now the beaches in one section of southern California resemble “a...
  • 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct.7

    03/18/2024 6:03:31 AM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | FEBRUARY 21, 2024
    While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period.. An 11-year-old boy found a 2,000-year-old coin belonging to the Hasmonean king and high priest Alexander Yanai, Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday. Nati Toyikar was evacuated from his home, Kibbutz Magen, following Hamas's October 7 attacks. He is currently living in one of the hotels for evacuated residents along the Dead Sea, where, on one of his explorations, he unexpectedly found an ancient coin from the time of Hasmonean...
  • Migrant shelter evictions will not begin this Saturday, Chicago mayor administration says (disease outbreak)

    03/17/2024 3:37:53 AM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    Chicago Tribune via MSN ^ | 3/16/24 | Alice Yin
    CHICAGO - Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration reversed itself Friday, announcing migrants will no longer start being evicted Saturday from Chicago’s migrant shelter system. It’s the mayor’s latest about-face in his handling of a 60-day shelter limit policy that has seen months of delays and backlash. However, the administration said they will evict 35 migrants Sunday, and the pace of evictions after that is unclear. During a Friday briefing with City Hall reporters, Johnson’s deputy chief-of-staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas confirmed the change ahead of Saturday’s deadline for the first group of migrants required to leave the shelters. The mayor had told reporters...
  • Marine Archaeologists Discover 10 Shipwrecks, Including One From Roman Era

    03/16/2024 9:43:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 15, 2024
    Marine archaeologists have identified 10 shipwrecks, including one from the Roman era, in the waters around a Greek island in the Mediterranean. The finds came to light during a multiyear project carried out by a team in collaboration with Greece's National Hellenic Research Foundation and the country's Ministry of Culture. The project has been surveying an area around the island of Kasos, which lies in the Aegean Sea, a portion of the Mediterranean between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey's Anatolia peninsula to the east. "This research was conducted to shed light on the maritime history of the...
  • It’s the Skytanic! Plans revealed for world’s largest plane — it’s a whopping 356 feet long (wind farm turbine blade transport)

    03/15/2024 3:30:21 PM PDT · by Libloather · 55 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/15/24 | Ben Cost
    Call it the Skytanic. Engineers have unveiled plans for the world’s largest airplane, dubbed the WindRunner, which could revolutionize renewable energy by transporting gigantic wind turbine blades from point A to B. Designed by the Colorado-based energy company Radia, the behemoth cargo carrier measures a whopping 356 feet long and 79 feet tall with a wingspan of 261 feet. For reference, this castle in the sky is nearly as long as a regulation NFL football field and 127 feet longer than the Boeing 747 — the world’s largest passenger plane. With a potential carrying capacity of 80 tons, it will...
  • U.S. Naval Research Lab Investigating Unexplained Arctic Phenomena That Evades Conventional Theories

    03/15/2024 11:53:17 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 3 replies
    The Debrief ^ | ·MARCH 14, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
    A specialized C-130 aircraft provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will assist in the CAESAR campaign’s investigations (Credit: Dan Zietlow/NSF/NCAR) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) is assisting an investigation into unexplained arctic phenomena associated with the sudden formation of intense “polar lows” that are known to lead to hazardous conditions at sea. Since late February, a field campaign, the Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region, or CAESAR, has been collecting data on the phenomenon underlying these potentially dangerous arctic events by observing cloud formations and other Arctic meteorological conditions....
  • Climate change is important for GA’s young voters in choice between Trump, Biden | Opinion

    03/15/2024 11:48:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 30 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | March 15, 2024 | By Marrow Woods (they/them)
    Last weekend, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both visited Georgia ahead of this week’s primary. The rallies felt like more of a preview for the general election and the choice that young people like me will have this November—which isn’t much of a choice at all. Trump’s speech included him saying “drill, baby, drill,” repeating his claims that the 2020 election was rigged, and talking about wanting to ban “critical race theory” in schools. His vision of the future couldn’t be further from the one I want. As a student organizer with the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition,...
  • Carlos Alcaraz Attacked by Bees in Wild Scene at Indian Wells

    03/14/2024 10:49:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 15, 2024 | Ryan Glasspiegel
    Star tennis player Carlos Alcaraz was attacked by bees in a surreal scene at Indian Wells. Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev were tied 1-1 in the first set of the quarterfinal of the BNP Paribas Open when the attack occurred. All of a sudden, Alcaraz was swarmed as he was lining up to serve, and he had to run off the court to avoid the bees.
  • Santa Cruz Supervisors and City Council Unanimously Oppose Proposal to Protect Kelp Forests

    03/14/2024 5:22:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    KSBW ^ | Mar 14, 2024 | Christian Balderas
    Santa Cruz city council and the county's board of supervisors unanimously voted to write an opposition letter to a Los Angeles-based environmental lobbying group's proposal to protect the kelp forests. They cited a lack of scientific evidence, public outreach and its impact on local fishing. In a petition to the California Fish and Game Commission, Environment California, a Los Angeles-based, lobbying group, requested the expansion of six marine protected areas, or MPAs, which includes Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, and the creation of one new one at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz. "I guess my question is, environmentalist, is what's wrong...
  • READY, FIRE, AIM: Why I Stopped Worrying About Climate Change

    03/14/2024 3:54:38 PM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    Pagosa Daily Post i ^ | March 12, 2024 | Louis Cannon
    On June 20, 2013, an area on the Sun’s surface erupted, sending out a coronal mass ejection (CME) that propelled billions of tons of charged particles into space. The storm reached Earth about two days later. Most of us didn’t even notice. We were busy watching the Miami Heat beat San Antonio Spurs, 95-88 in Game Seven of the NBA Finals. If we weren’t into basketball, we may have been surprised to hear that Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) had became the Senate’s third Republican to publicly endorse same-sex marriage. Behind our backs, the Sun was churning out a storm of...
  • Montana Man Used Animal Tissue and Testicles to Breed ‘Giant’ Sheep for Sale to Hunting Preserves

    03/14/2024 12:27:41 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 74 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 3/14/2024 | By Matthew Brown
    BILLINGS, Mont.—A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the United States to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, according to court documents and federal prosecutors. Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana pleaded guilty to felony charges of wildlife trafficking and conspiracy to traffic wildlife during an appearance Tuesday before a federal judge in Great Falls. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Court documents describe a yearslong conspiracy, beginning in 2013, in which Mr....
  • California highway covered in toilet paper that fell from pickup truck

    03/13/2024 11:34:15 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    UPI ^ | MARCH 12, 2024 / 1:02 PM | By Ben Hooper
    VIDEO AT LINK................ March 12 (UPI) -- The California Highway Patrol said there were brief traffic delays on a highway when a pickup truck spilled hundreds of rolls of toilet paper onto the roadway. The CHP said three boxes of toilet paper fell from the back of the Ford F-350 on the Interstate 5 Freeway near Calgrove Boulevard in Santa Clarita about 12:20 p.m. Monday. Footage from the scene shows traffic backed up as CHP officers throw rolls of toilet paper over the cement barrier separating the roadway from a construction site. The CHP said the toilet paper mess was...
  • ‘Hand Is Gone!’: Man Loses Hand To Huge Alligator While Fishing

    03/12/2024 11:05:02 AM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 12, 2024 | Dana Abizaid
    A 9-foot-long alligator in Florida tore the hand off a fisherman Sunday afternoon.. The attack happened when the man was fishing in a golf course pond in Leesburg.. While the guy was on the ground, the gator got the guy in the hand, and the two rolled... Two 911 calls, including one by Priest’s wife, were released by Lake County Fire Rescue,... In the first call, the caller says, “There is an alligator attacking a man in my backyard,” while during the second call, the dispatcher asks, “Is this regarding a gator attack?” The caller reportedly responds, “Yes, he took...
  • Chernobyl Worms Have Special Superpower: Study

    03/09/2024 9:21:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    A new study has found worms collected in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have a special type of superpower. The 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant transformed the area around it into the most radioactive landscape on Earth, researchers say. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the blast caused mutations in plants and animals. After the explosion, leaves changed shape and some animals were born with physical deformities. However, researchers at New York University found that chronic radiation hasn’t harmed one creature. Microscopic worms living there today have been found to be exceptionally resilient to radiation, according to...
  • Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey penalized for not properly gutting moose that he killed to protect his dogs

    03/09/2024 7:45:09 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 7, 2024
    Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the moose, which became tangled up with Seavey and his dog team early Monday, about 12 hours after the dayslong race officially started. One dog was injured in the encounter and flown back to Anchorage for care. On Tuesday, Dallas Seavey Racing said on social media that the injured dog, named Faloo, was in...
  • Strong winds blew a lake 2 miles north in Death Valley National Park

    03/08/2024 12:20:23 PM PST · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    NBC News ^ | March 8, 2024, 10:51 AM CST | By Katherine Itoh
    The winds blew Lake Manly from its original lakebed. But it also left the water shallower and muddier than before, forcing the National Park Service to close all boating activities in the lake. Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park in California, on March 4, 2024.John D Hallett / National Park Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Powerful 40 mph winds from Feb. 29 to March 2 in Death Valley blew Lake Manly two miles north, according to the National Park Service. The lake spread out to cover more ground, but at a shallower depth. The water slowly moved back to its original lakebed,...
  • Diver has found about 200 Apple Watches in Indiana lakes

    03/08/2024 11:52:50 AM PST · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    UPI ^ | MARCH 5, 2024 / 1:42 PM | By Ben Hooper
    Scuba diver Darick Langos said the items he has recovered from the water at Indiana's Chain O' Lakes State Park include about 200 Apple Watches. Photo courtesy of Scuba Bear Diving Recovery Service/Facebook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ March 5 (UPI) -- An Illinois diver who has recovered about 200 Apple Watches from the bottoms of lakes has a warning for owners: Don't go swimming with the original watch bands. Darick Langos, a Port Barrington scuba diver who makes a living using his metal detector to recover lost items from the water at Indiana's Chain O' Lakes, said he has found about 200 Apple...
  • Pennsylvania Woman Suffers Severe Injury After Bear Attack, Recounts Horrifying Ordeal From Hospital Bed

    03/08/2024 11:51:21 AM PST · by george76 · 35 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 08, 2024 | Mariane Angela
    A Pennsylvania woman is recovering in a hospital after a vicious assault by a mother bear .. The incident reportedly took place around 8:30 p.m. just outside the victim’s house. Lee Ann Galante, 55, stepped out to let her dog, a small black Pomeranian, enjoy the backyard, ... With injuries across her arm, face, neck and head, Galante’s condition necessitated urgent medical attention, police said,.. She was rushed to the nearby hospital following the attack ... "I thought I was going to die." A woman who was hospitalized after being mauled . ... Galante shared her ordeal from her hospital...