A California woman had a rude awakening on July 4: A mountain lion crashed through her apartment window and landed on top of her while she slept. “At first, I think she said she thought she was dreaming. It didn’t seem real,” apartment manager Francis Muniz told local Fox affiliate KTXL. (The woman was apparently […]
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The World We Share, USARobert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., the largest coal company in the US, has long tried to convince people that global warming is a hoax. But even he admits that the so-called “clean coal technologies” are a load of nothing – a lie. Coalers against coal “Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It’s
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Editor’s Note: Editor Donald H. Harrison and his grandson Shor recently completed a 2,000 mile journey through California and Nevada, collecting and photographing Jewish stories along the way. This article is the second in a series generated during that trip. Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori MADERA, California – Stuart Weil
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA“We are seeing a microcosm of the future.” A rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf NASA In a harbinger of future sea-level rise that could pose a serious threat to coastal communities, an iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from an Antarctic ice shelf, leaving the rest of the shelf
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareThe owner of Chewy the dog was not happy about abandoning him in the airport bathroom – but she didn’t think she had any other choice. The Chihuahua puppy was left in one of the restrooms of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada with a note that read: “Hi! I’m Chewy! My owner was
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The World We Share, USAIf we want a smooth transition into a sustainable future, we need to act fast. A comment article in the journal Nature says we have to act fast if we hope for a painless transition to a low-carbon society. Pexel If you want to lose 10 pounds by a certain date there are, broadly speaking,
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The World We ShareThis revolutionary device has already saved thousands of animals from a terrible fate. Though biologist Rich Mason normally works to conserve wildlife around the vast brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay, he was also concerned about the dozens of frogs perishing in his friend’s backyard pool in every summer. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> As a means
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The World We ShareNorway threatened to cut-off its billion dollar financial assistance to Brazil if it did not put serious effort into curbing the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, it was reported Thursday. It came just ahead of a Friday meeting in Oslo between leaders of both countries. The oil producing country has been providing Brazil $1.1 billion
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International, The World We ShareAntarctica is changing. The typical image is that of a pristine, white wilderness of ice and snow. “The white of the snow, the brown of the rocks, and the blue of the sky is a perfect day on the Antarctic Peninsula,” says researcher Dominic Hodgson of the British Antarctic Survey. But Hodgson says there is
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International, The World We ShareBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re looking for American ingenuity and technological prowess to help resolve the climate issues that face the world, the Paris Climate Pact is not for you. The pact is a voluntary agreement among countries including the world’s worst polluters (this is axiomatic, since only Nicaragua and Syria are
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Shoshana Bryen, The World We Share, USAAnthropologists have long sought to pin down the exact location of the proverbial “Garden of Eden” — the region of our planet where the earliest Homo sapiens emerged. Over the last two decades, a combination of genetic evidence and data from the fossil record led scientists to conclude that the first members of our species
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International, The World We ShareIn the wake of the US’s announced withdrawal from the Paris agreement, California Governor Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week to cement green Sino-American economic and technological cooperation. “Where the grass is green and the energy is greener.” Image credits Tobias Müller. Five days ago, President Trump split the US in
Use of the animals is growing in Israel, although the country’s lone accredited school training them in Hebrew struggles with lack of funding and awareness By Luke Tress Six juvenile Labradors and Golden Retrievers surrounded Yariv Melamed, intently watching the piece of bread the dog trainer held in his hand. Several others wrestled with each
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Middle East, The World We ShareOur swiftly tilting planet Earth rotating at night. NASA Close your eyes and picture what the Earth looks like. You’re probably picturing a circle, mostly blue thanks to the ocean, with swirls of clouds and the occasional green and brown land mass. The entire sphere is floating in a mass of impossible black. You’re picturing
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