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China is looking to the US as it builds its first national park system

Throughout its 100-year history, US National Parks have served as a model for other countries trying to set up their own networks of protected spaces. Now China is quietly planning its own national parks system. And, like Costa Rica and India before them, the Chinese are looking toward America. “They’ve visited several locations in the […]

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International, The World We Share, USA

Park service centennial celebrates America’s «crown jewels»

Thursday is the 100th anniversary of the law that created the US National Park Service. The vast system includes parks featuring spectacular scenery and sites that are historically and culturally famous all over the world. Seattle (dpa) – The US system of US national parks is one of extremes. There is a park where the

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Reports provide new details on deadly gator attack at Disney resort

ORLANDO, Fla. — Lane Graves bent over to scoop wet sand into his small plastic bucket when the alligator struck. The 2-year-old wanted to build a sandcastle on the beach at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa after stormy weather canceled a scheduled outdoor movie. His father, who was standing nearby with his wife and

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Intruders set crocodiles loose in Australian school

Sydney (dpa) – Four men broke into an Australian high school and set loose three female saltwater crocodiles before ransacking an office, local police said Monday. The incident took place at Taminmin College in the unusually named town of Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory early Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. CCTV video released by

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International, The World We Share

Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?

Forty thousand homes damaged and more than a dozen people killed by torrential rains in Louisiana. Blistering temperatures in the Middle East. Continuing fires in California, fed by five years of drought. All this extreme weather around the world just this week has a lot of people again pointing fingers at climate change — not

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Are animals people, too? Soon, a chimpanzee could walk into a courtroom as a thing, and walk out as a person

If you’ve heard of American lawyer and author Steven Wise, it’s likely due to the peculiar lawsuits he filed in 2013 in New York State court. What makes these suits eccentric, and their plaintiffs certified media darlings, is that the plaintiffs are not human – but rather chimpanzees. If these legal proceedings are successful, something

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The World We Share, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Zoos ask travelers to photograph wildlife trafficking

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego Zoo Global has joined with zoos around the world in support of an international campaign to stop the massive and cruel illegal trade in wildlife—the fourth largest illegal trade in the world, after drugs, weapons and human trafficking. The global “Lend Your Eyes to the Wild” campaign encourages individuals to

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International, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Gimme a Break! IRS Tax Loophole Can Reward Excessive Water Use in Drought-stricken West

ProPublica’s reporting on the water crisis in the American West has highlighted any number of confounding contradictions worsening the problem: Farmers are encouraged to waste water so as to protect their legal rights to its dwindling supply in the years ahead; Las Vegas sought to impose restrictions on water use while placing no checks on

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Ancient cuisine, modern flavours: Lebanese cook highlights versatility of Middle Eastern vegetarian fare

Salma Hage hooked me with her baba ganoush – smooth, garlicky, and most definitely moreish. She reeled me in with her other mezze classics: fava bean and mint falafel; sweet potato kibbeh; and beets with labneh (a tart, strained yogurt cheese). The Lebanese cook focuses entirely on the meatless in her second book, The Middle

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Middle East, The World We Share