Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, June 29, 2023
KRCR: France will deploy 40,000 police officers to quell violence that followed deadly police shooting
KRCR: Advanced drones revolutionize Cal Fire's approach to wildfire management
KRCR: Interstate 5 reopens in Redding after truck carrying liquid nitrogen overturns
KRCR: Redding's Mercy Canyon transient camp undergoes massive cleanup operation
SF Chronicle: California nearly wiped out its sea otter population. Here's why we need to bring them back
SF Chronicle: Amtrak train headed for Bay Area derails in Ventura County, 16 injured
SFGate: Redding: How a miracle-obsessed megachurch conquered a California city
SFGate: Historic Arizona mining town backs copper project on land that Native American groups say is sacred
SFGate: Yosemite visitors are waiting 4 hours to enter a packed park
Marin Independent Journal: Marin Voice: From inside San Quentin, Newsom’s plan doesn’t hold up
The Guardian: Biden’s efforts to clear wildfire fuel in US forests are falling short
The Guardian: National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers
The Guardian: The truth about emulsifiers: are they destroying our gut health?
The Guardian: Master Lock’s Milwaukee plant to close after 100 years and send jobs abroad
The Guardian: Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
The Guardian: ‘Gay furries’ group hacks agencies in US states attacking gender-affirming care
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Business Insider: The multibillion-dollar lawsuits that could radically reshape how we buy and sell homes forever
San Jose Mercury News: Landslides in China kill at least 4, displace hundreds
The Guardian: Saved by seaweed: nuns and Native women heal polluted New York waters using kelp
Washington Post: Melted, pounded, extruded: Why many ultra-processed foods are unhealthy
Del Norte Triplicate: Fashion Blacksmith law suit decision filed in the Superior Court
AP News: Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct: Justice Department watchdog
KOMO: NYC migrant crisis raises concerns as number of migrants exceeds homeless population
KOMO: Tribal governments receive first share of $500 million aid from American Rescue Plan
Smithsonian Magazine: Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years
Smithsonian Magazine: This Ancient Maya City Was Hidden in the Jungle for More Than 1,000 Years
NY Times : Tesla May Have Already Won the Charging Wars
AP News: FBI and Homeland Security ignored ‘massive amount’ of intelligence before Jan. 6, Senate report says
NY Times : The Indigenous Guardsmen Who Rescued Colombia’s Missing Children
NY Times : A Renowned Economist’s New Idea for Stopping Climate Change
NY Times : A Giant Wind Farm Is Taking Root Off Massachusetts
Washington Post: American arrested after Canadian airport drug tests gave false positives
Washington Post: Cement emits as much CO2 as India. Why is it so hard to fix?
NPR: China owns 380,000 acres of land in the U.S. Here's where
NPR: Malaria cases in Texas and Florida are the first U.S. spread since 2003, the CDC says
Washington Post: How troubles at a factory in India led to a U.S. cancer-drug shortage
AP News: Tenants say a 3-year ban on evictions kept them housed. Landlords say they're drowning in debt
BBC: New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds
BBC: Major research lost after "annoyed" cleaner turned off fridge, lawsuit says
AP News: A nuclear site is on tribes’ ancestral lands. Their voices are being left out on key cleanup talks
Politico: Hollywood mogul acknowledges gifts to Netanyahu may have been ‘excessive’
AP News: At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin
Yahoo News: Kevin McCarthy says George Santos 'shouldn't run for re-election'
AP News: Italy looks for man seen in viral video carving names into Rome’s almost 2,000-year-old Colosseum
The Hill: Why most Americans no longer consider themselves environmentalists
The Hill: New recording shows Trump discussing ‘secret’ documents he did not declassify: report
The Guardian: ‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears
The Guardian: Marjorie Taylor Greene implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV
The Guardian: Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge