Golden retrievers are arguably the best things that ever happened to humankind. To know a G.R. is to know love and compassion, exactly what we see from Milo, Hattie, Quinn, Jessie, Leo and Archie, six special dogs working to take care of nervous children who visit the hospital. These therapy dog-tors are part of an…
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Do you remember the nursery rhyme about a certain garden-planting Mary? Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. If you’re like most amateur gardeners, you probably haven’t put much thought into how to plant your garden to maximize its fruitfulness….
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Specialist firefighters in a secret operation recently saved the world’s last standing of Wollemi Pines, also called “dinosaur trees”, from near extinction in the devastating wildfires sweeping through parts of Australia. In what was described as an “unprecedented environmental protection mission,” specialists firefighters managed to preserve the last wild stand of dinosaur trees. They dropped…
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Australian nature photographer, Murray Lowe, decided he’d had enough of capturing beautiful sunrise scenes and chose to show the world how much fire had destroyed his lovely country. The 71-year-old lives in Kulnura, New South Wales, and of the 15.6 million acres of land that have been scorched in Australia by wildfires, NSW was the…
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On any single night in the United States, over half a million people go homeless. While some of these people take refuge in emergency shelters, just under 200 thousand of them are unsheltered on our streets, in parks, cars, or abandoned buildings [1]. The situation across the pond isn’t any better. Germany has seen a…
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Currently in New South Wales, Australia, it’s raining carrots and sweet potatoes. Yes, you read that correctly. While much of the country continues to burn, there are some areas where the fires have abated (for now). The animals living in these areas, however, are still not out of harm’s way. Many of them who are…
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Coca Cola products are everywhere, and you might not even realize it. The company that is recognized for its signature red label and classic white print is also behind many other recognizable brands like Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, Minute Maid, Smart Water, Honest Tea, Powerade, Vitamin Water, and many more [1]. You can find Coca Cola…
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According to water.org, one in nine people lack access to safe water, and the water crisis is ranked as the fourth largest global risk in terms of its impact on society [1]. Water is essential to life, and there are many organizations and companies that have dedicated themselves to improving access to water around the…
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Camping is pure fun – more so when you add a bit of “glamour” to it, hence, glamping. While there’s nothing wrong with connecting directly with nature once in a while, under the stars and close to the earth, you may want to have a less stressful and more relaxing experience. These apartment-like tents were…
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We can learn a lot from studying the rings inside trees. The science of tree-ring analysis is called dendrochronology, and examining these markings can provide information about the tree’s age, whether it had been through any fires, or if it had endured any insect outbreaks. A tree’s rings can also give significant insight into what…
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The sun gives life to plants and microorganisms, provides us with warmth and daylight, and is an endless source of renewable energy. By all accounts, solar energy should be our first choice for heating our water and homes and powering our cars, but there’s just one problem that has stumped the solar industry for quite…
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The sun gives life to plants and microorganisms, provides us with warmth and daylight, and is an endless source of renewable energy. By all accounts, solar energy should be our first choice for heating our water and homes and powering our cars, but there’s just one problem that has stumped the solar industry for quite…
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The bush fires that continue to ravage much of New South Wales and the rest of Australia are causing more and more damage every single day. There is a rising human death toll, people are losing their homes forcing them to camp out on beaches under a burnt orange sky, and nearly half a billion…
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The animals are the pride of Australia, and millions of people all over the world are contributing to countless relief projects to protect these creatures. Australia has seen greatly rough times since September 2019, when massive wildfires simultaneously picked up in various regions around the country. In what is being regarded as the worst wildfire…
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If you have a lunar spirit or simply a love for the night sky, get ready to enjoy the sight of 13 full moons this year, including 2 dramatic super moons and a second full moon in October [1]. There are normally 12 full moons in a year, but since our calendar is not perfectly…
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The devastating fires that have been raging in Australia over the last several weeks have taken the lives of nearly 1 billion animals and are on track to desolate one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems in an unparalleled way [1,2]. The fires have been burning since September leaving over 6.3 million hectares of bush,…
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Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked “out of the ordinary”, you would come up with all sorts of ways it could have gotten there, and imagine the far off planet it might have…
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As a child, many of us probably wished that our stuffed animals could come to life. They were always so cute, soft, and cuddly – they would make the perfect pets, right? Well, in a way, your childhood dreams may be able to come true! A new breed of cat has been officially distinguished: The…
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The world’s largest travel leisure company, Carnival Corporation has agreed to pay yet another penalty of $20 million for environmental crimes committed by its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines. Princess has previously incurred a fine of $40 million for deliberate acts of pollution. In June this year, she admitted to violating the terms of an improper…
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Florida is synonymous with sunshine, beaches, and everlasting summer, the dream of everyone enduring this cold and snowy winter. After all, it’s dubbed the Sunshine State, and is the envy of all who trudge through slush to get to their cars before scraping ice off of their windshield. That is not to say that winter…
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The world’s first funerary human composting facility is slated to open in the spring of 2021 after Washington State lawmakers legalized the posthumous process earlier this year. Seattle-based company Recompose will be the first to offer “natural organic reduction,” a process that owner Katrina Spade says gently converts human remains – bones, teeth, and all…
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The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector looks like something out of a sci-fi movie that critics would deem “too unrealistic.” Picture a gigantic dome-shaped chamber with gold walls, an array of light detectors, and 50,000 tons of pure water. However, the Super-K neutrino detector is real and hidden 1,000 meters under Mount Ikeno in Japan. (Neutrinos are…
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That the tiny, remote town of Poniatowski in Marathon county, Wisconsin, is one of the four 45×90 points in the earth – the centers of the world. If you were to divide the surface of the earth into four equal parts, the center of each part is called a 45×90 point. These points are halfway…
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