Let’s all take a moment to appreciate 73-year-old Australian fisherman Terry Selwood’s reaction to a Great White shark hopping into his boat and staring him down for the perfection it is: “Well I’ll be buggered, there’s a shark in my boat.” Selwood’s experience was unlike any we’ve seen in recent memory, and to tell you […]
WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage
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International, The World We Share, USALook out below. Goats grazing in an argan tree in Morocco. H Garrido/EBD-CSIC Goats climb mountains. Why wouldn’t they climb trees, too? But the sight of a herd of goats perched in a tree like a flock of birds is pretty startling. It certainly was to biologists traveling through Morocco. “We were astonished to see
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Middle East, The World We Share, Travel and FoodMeet Omar the cat. He is a breed known as a Maine coon cat, owned by Stephy Hirst, of Melbourne, Australia. He may be the world’s longest cat. Hirst told the BBC that Omar measures 3 feet 11 inches (120 centimeters) in length, which would make him the longest cat in the world. The current
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The World We ShareIn 1,000 years time, humans have come to radically transform Earth’s landscape with the help of technology. In another 1,000 years, technology will radically transform another impressive entity: the human species itself. It’s difficult to envision what humans might look like in a century, let alone in a millennium but this recent video produced by
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareYou can add “wrecking the schedule of our favorite birds” to the list of negative effects of climate change. A new study has shown that the onset of spring is being significantly shifted due to global warming, and this is having a negative effect on migratory birds. The Blue-winged warbler is one of the North-American
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The World We ShareParadise lost Henderson Island has long been regarded as one of the most remote and pristine islands in the world, but trash washing up on shore is turning it into a landfill. J. Lavers 2015 Traveling by ship, it takes about 13 days to reach Henderson Island from New Zealand. Hidden in the South Pacific,
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International, The World We ShareIn first in 109 years, new group of fritillary found hovering over slopes at Hermon ski resort By Times of Israel staff The Acentria’s fritillary (Melitaea acentria) is a new butterfly species discovered in Israel on the Hermon ski resort. (Dr. Vladimir Lukhtanov/Pensoft Publishers for Press Release Use Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) For
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Middle East, The World We SharePlastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean. It may not sound like much, but it’s a surprising amount given the area’s sparse population. The researchers who measured the plastic debris in the waters near the North Pole described it as “widespread and
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International, The World We ShareBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, I approached Rabbi Michael Lerner in California, the founder of Tikkun magazine, about writing a blog post for his publication, and he kindly invited me to send my piece in. A few days later, it was published, with the headline “A ‘Cli-Fi Missionary’ with Jewish Roots
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The World We ShareBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For a group of 17 short story writers in Canada, putting together a collection of stories for a new anthology titled Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change was a labor of love and a commitment to speak up about the risks and fixes for runaway global warming. Bruce Meyer
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The World We ShareU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed his name Thursday to a document that affirms the need for international action against climate change, adding further uncertainty to the direction of climate policy under the Trump administration. The document, signed by Tillerson and seven foreign ministers from Arctic nations meeting this week in Fairbanks, Alaska, says
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International, The World We Share, USACongrats Germany! Credit: Pixabay. For the most part of April 30, about 85% of Germany’s consumed electricity came from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric. According to a spokesman from the Agora Energiewende Initiative, a fortunate mix of sunny weather and strong winds in the south and north of the country, respectively,
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International, The World We ShareThis new study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting to warming ocean waters – offering great hope following recent reports of coral die-offs due to rising temperatures. Researchers observed how reefs in two Kenyan marine national parks responded to extreme temperature exposure over time. They found that 11 of the 21 coral species that
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