Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, March 3, 2022
NY Times : This Map Shows Where Biodiversity Is Most at Risk in America
NY Times : Opinion: The ‘Disney’ for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display
LA Times: Podcast: How violence taints Mexican avocados
LA Times: In Ukraine reporting, Western press reveals grim bias toward ‘people like us’
LA Times: Hundreds feared dead in Ukrainian port city under siege from Russian forces
KTLA: Riverside County health officials looking for children seen handling rabies-positive bat
KTLA: Firefighters battle Jim Fire in Cleveland National Forest
KRCR: City of Cannabis: an inside look on the impact illegal grows have on the Northstate
KRCR: First Tesla charging station comes to Weaverville five months after first traffic light
KRCR: https://krcrtv.com/news/local/two-caltrans-workers-hospitalized-after-wreck-on-1-5
Sacramento Bee: Church massacre highlights how California lets abusers keep guns despite restraining orders
Sacramento Bee: Medical school behind plan for $1 billion Sacramento hospital plan placed on probation
Press Democrat: Helmet worn by Amelia Earhart sells for $825,000 at auction
Press Democrat: California bill seeks to allow small cannabis retailers to sell at events
AP News: UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
AP News: China denies asking Russia not to invade until post-Olympics
AP News: Kyiv shrines (some 1,000 years old), memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk
AP News: Jan. 6 panel sees evidence of Trump ‘criminal conspiracy’
AP News: Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership
SFGate: Home collapses on Hawaii’s North Shore, more likely to follow
SFGate: Katie Meyer, Stanford star soccer player, found dead in campus dorm
SFGate: China Asked Russia to Delay War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say
The Guardian: The smell of money: why locals think Peru’s billion-dollar fishmeal sector stinks
The Guardian: Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds
The Guardian: People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists
The Guardian: ‘For our grandchildren’: the man recording the lives of Paraguay’s vanishing forest people
The Guardian: California wants to eradicate microplastics. Will a new strategy be enough?
The Guardian: A white man got probation for voting fraud. A Black woman faced six years in prison for an error
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
MSN News: Trump’s border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, CBP records show
Hollywood Reporter: Netflix Robbed: Thieves Heist $500K From ‘Lupin,’ ‘The Crown’ Sets
Vice: Cities Keep Trying to Stop Churches From Helping the Homeless
Politico: Biden admin to applicants: Maybe don’t invest in weed companies
AlJazeera: Rich Russians turn to luxury jewellery, watches to shield savings
AlJazeera: People of colour struggle to escape Russian invasion of Ukraine
AP News: At cartel extermination site; Mexico nears 100k missing
AP News: Tainted water ‘shatters’ Native Hawaiians’ trust in military
AP News: Refugee count tops 1 million; Russians besiege Ukraine ports
NY Times : Bombing of Civilian Targets Intensifies, First Key Southern City Falls
LA Times: Orange Co.: Fast-moving wildfire grows to 500 acres in Cleveland National Forest
The Guardian: Australia Floods: almost 500,000 people across state under evacuation orders or warnings
NY Times : Peering Into the Brutal, Beautiful World of Tide Pools
NPR: Half a century ago, Stevie Wonder defined what an 'artist's classic run' could mean
NY Times : For Older Americans, Some Positive Health News
NY Times : Billionaires Clash Over the Future in a Caribbean Eden
Washington Post: New Zealand police battle protesters as tents burn, Parliament camp is cleared
Politico: Opinion | A Tale of Two Speeches in Biden’s State of the Union
Washington Post: Hounds chased a Yellowstone National Park mountain lion into a tree. Then Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot it.
Washington Post: Fed chief: Russia invasion has ‘highly uncertain’ implications for U.S. economy
Washington Post: Moscow intensifies attacks on key Ukrainian cities