By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — A friend called yesterday on the verge of tears. Her dog was very sick, so sick that a recovery was highly unlikely. “I don’t know what to do. I know that a dog can’t be Jewish, but what’s the Jewish thing to do?” Dogs, cats and many other pets […]
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San Diego County, The World We ShareMACAO — Macao’s twin panda cubs were officially named “Jianjian” and “Kangkang” by the government out of 1,718 names recommended by Macao citizens, the special administrative region(SAR)’s civil affair authorities said on Saturday. The names for the twin brothers represent good wishes from the Macao people, as Jian Kang in Chinese means “being healthy”. They
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International, The World We ShareThe skull of a mammoth — possibly roaming the planet 13,000 years ago — was unearthed from an eroding stream in the Santa Rosa Island at Channel Islands National Park. Burrowed in the stream bank, the “exceptionally well-preserved fossil” with tusks is a rare find, especially because it would indicate the mammoth roamed the islands
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The World We Share, USABy Michelle Mowad County of San Diego Communications Office SAN DIEGO –Could you and your family evacuate in 15 minutes or less? September is National Preparedness Month and just as you prepare your family for a disaster, the same can be done for your furry family members—dogs, cats and other animals both large and small.
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The World We ShareSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Two rare reptile species native to two delicate island ecosystems—the black tree monitor, native to the Aru Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea; and the mossy leaf-tailed gecko, native to Madagascar—are now thriving at the San Diego Zoo. The latest milestones in a long history of successful reptile
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San Diego County, The World We ShareBERLIN — Five Russian scientists trapped by more than a dozen polar bears for two weeks used a shipment of flares and air horns to free themselves this week, according to Russian and European news reports. Because of the endangered status of polar bears, the scientists were willing to use only non-lethal methods to scare
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International, The World We ShareThis story originally appeared on The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A coalition of 25 military and national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that climate change poses a “significant risk to U.S. national security and international security” that requires
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International, The World We Share, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Samburu County of northern Kenya has opened the first community owned and managed elephant orphanage in Africa. The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is situated in the remote Mathews Range, among Kenya’s second largest elephant population. It will take in orphaned and abandoned elephant calves, with an aim
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International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareThe other day, outraged about the early release of convicted rapist Brock Turner, I posted on my Facebook page the general outlines of my own rape, which occurred when I was 19 years old and on my first solo trip abroad. And I wondered, in the post, how many of my friends also had been
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International, The World We Share, USALola Gayle, STEAM Register A new species of butterflyfish, first seen in a video taken from manned submersibles more than 20 years ago, has finally been given a name: Prognathodes basabei. Why did it take so long? According to Bishop Museum scientist Richard Pyle, who first observed the species those many years ago, the fish
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By Donald H. Harrison SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California – The giant sequoias can be awe-inspiring and not only for their size, says Matt Fagan, the National Park Service’s district interpreter. “There was a gentleman named Walter Fry who back in the early part of the 20th century (circa 1920) was a lumberman and he cut
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Smoke plumes from a fire pit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Thursday, Sept. 8, provided a sobering reminder of the slaughter of rhinos taking place in Africa to feed a voracious demand for rhino horn. In a ceremony that signaled to the world the United States is committed to
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San Diego County, The World We ShareLOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders embarked on a new era in California’s effort to combat climate change Thursday when the governor signed a law committing the state to some of the most drastic greenhouse gas emission reductions in the world. “What we’re doing here is far-sighted, as well as far-reaching,” Brown
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The World We Share, USAA leading conservationist announced Tuesday that it is too early to downgrade the giant panda’s conservation status fearing that the change might affect conservation efforts. Zhang Hemin’s statement comes shortly after the Chinese government’s State Forestry Administration said Monday that the change in status comes “too soon.” On Sunday, the International Union for Conservation of
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