Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024
the Atlantic: The Corals That Survive Climate Change Will Be Unrecognizable
the Atlantic: Marijuana Is Too Strong Now
Smithsonian Magazine: See Hundreds of Sea Lions Take Over a Popular California Beach
Smithsonian Magazine: Colossal Stone Monument Built 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge Shows Neolithic Engineers Understood Science
Reuters: Bolivian farmers pack up and flee as wildfires burn woodland
Reuters: Harris, Walz to hold first joint network TV interview on CNN
CNN: ‘It could have been us’: American father and daughter recall horror of Iceland cave collapse
CNN: Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil
CBS News : Bugs, mold and mildew found in Boar's Head plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak
AP News: Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions
AP News: Grand Canyon’s only water pipeline fails, prompting shutdown of overnight hotel stays
AP News: Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore multibillion-dollar student debt plan
The Hill: Abbott says Texas border issue is solved
The Guardian: Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle
The Guardian: ‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?
The Guardian: ‘The police don’t seem to care’: in a rural California town vexed by gun violence, families search for clues on their own
The Guardian: ‘The river is free’: historic US dam removal nears completion
The Hill: Trump’s subversive media strategy to reach young male voters
The Hill: United Airlines flight attendants approve strike authorization
The Guardian: US leads wealthy countries spending billions of public money on unproven ‘climate solutions’
The Oregonian: Mass killing of barred owls by trained shooters may start in Oregon next spring
BBC: Israeli settlers are seizing Palestinian land under cover of war - they hope permanently
Courthouse News Service: Killings of invasive owls to ramp up on US West Coast in a bid to save native birds
BBC: Millions told to evacuate as Japan hit by one of strongest typhoons in decades
BBC: Three months into their global cruise, they've not left Belfast
Courthouse News Service: Biden administration accused of rubber-stamping dozens of Trump-era oil leases in Utah desert
Courthouse News Service: Klamath River and its salmon free-flowing after final two dams breached in California
LA Times: Sophisticated SoCal crime tourism ring stole millions in heists, home burglaries, feds say
LA Times: As removal of dams frees Klamath River, California tribes see hope of saving salmon
LA Times: California passes school cellphone restrictions. But some students find workarounds
KTLA: Riverside Hospital to shutter labor and delivery department
KTLA: Recyclers arrested in stolen metal crackdown
KTLA: FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket catches fire, falls over at landing
KCRA: 2 postal workers assaulted, robbed for mail in Stockton
KCRA: Second elephant calf in 2 weeks born at a California zoo
KQED: Over 1 Million Were Deported to Mexico Nearly 100 Years Ago. Most of Them Were US Citizens
KQED: How Salamanders Skydive From the Tallest Trees in the World
KQED: Salmon Will Swim Freely as Nation's Largest Dam Removal Project Nears End
NPR: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov indicted in France
NPR: At least 7 middle and high school football players have died in August
NPR: Former elected official found guilty of murdering Las Vegas veteran reporter
NPR: A new round of free COVID tests is coming soon
SF Gate: Wildfire in Sequoia National Park grows nearly 40%, triggers evacuations
North Bay Biz Journal: Allstate gets OK to raise California policyholder rates by a third
East Bay Times: Lawmakers pass bill that could make undocumented immigrants in California eligible for home loans
SF Chronicle: ‘Jesus doesn’t pick kings’: California Christian leaders sound alarm over Trump voting comments
SF Chronicle: Sex work has gotten so rampant again in S.F.’s Mission District, residents are suing the city
East Bay Times: The fight to save last pieces of historic Japanese fishing village on a California island
East Bay Times: Landmark AI bill passes in California Assembly
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