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1 week, 2 days ago

Missing Woman Killed, Stuffed Inside Suitcase And Dumped In Trash: Officials

LOADING ERROR LOADING A Montana man has allegedly confessed to strangling a woman, stuffing her body in a suitcase and disposing of it in a dumpster, officials said this week. As of Friday, Wood’s body had yet to be located, according to a press release from the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office. Search party looking for Alicia Lindsey Wood via Cascade …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Investigator finds Montana SOS Jacobsen discriminated against former county election official

Associated Press

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen emailed Cascade County commissioners in February as they considered candidates for the elections administrator position. An investigator from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry’s Human Rights Bureau recently concluded, according to a report obtained by Montana Free Press, that reasonable cause existed to support Fontana Moore’s allegation of political discrimination. That February, Cascade …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Assam cascade frog test for Himachal stream water flow impact

The Hindu

GUWAHATI A frog with an Assam connection has helped scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India gain insights into how water flow impacts the presence and abundance of the species in Western Himalayan streams. The duo studied the Amolops formosus, commonly known as the Assam cascade or hill stream frog, in two streams – the Chauras and the Kanda – …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Cauvery: From crisis to cascade of hope

The Hindu

The Cauvery river now presents a picture of calmness, much to the relief of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The situation turned positive with regard to the realisation of water by Tamil Nadu — from deficit to “over surplus.” In a matter of 15 days, Tamil Nadu received its entire share — even marginally higher — for July and August, as …

Karnataka Tamil Nadu Water States Tamil Tribunal Cauvery

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Former criminology professor pleads guilty to igniting four wildfires in 2021

LA Times

A former college criminal justice instructor pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of arson, including for igniting wildfires in 2021 behind firefighters who were already battling one of the largest California blazes. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, admitted to setting four fires in the summer of 2021, according to the U.S. attorney’s office: the Cascade fire, the Everitt fire, the Ranch …

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1 year, 3 months ago

The ancient Sri Lankan ‘tank cascades’ tackling drought

BBC

The ancient Sri Lankan ‘tank cascades’ tackling drought Zinara Rathnayake Pinchal Weldurelage Siriwardene stands in front of a tank water cascade in Maeliya, Sri Lanka A 2,000-year-old Sri Lankan hydraulic system uses natural features to help harvest and store rainwater. Zinara Rathnayake By releasing water into irrigation canals, the tank cascades sustain the rice crop during the dry season Constructed …

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1 year, 7 months ago

'Cascade effect' pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records

ABC

For Rhiannon*, the last three years have been a first-hand tour through the housing crisis. Key points: The national rental vacancy rate has been at a record low level for four months Advocates say homelessness is dramatically increasing and affecting new demographics They point to the "cascade effect", where increasing competition for cheap rentals is pushing people out of the …

Record Housing Market Homelessness Crisis Young People Cent

1 year, 10 months ago

Avalanche in Washington’s Cascade Mountains kills 3

Associated Press

SEATTLE — Heavy snowfall and high winds on Tuesday kept searchers away from a remote, jagged peak in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, where an avalanche killed three climbers from the northeastern U.S. over the weekend. One of the four survived, a 56-year-old man from New York, and despite some injuries he was able to confirm that the other three were killed …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Bigfeet: A short story about inventing a real Bigfoot.

Slate

This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. “So when all those Bigfeet appeared,” says Squash, “and when someone from a genetic sequencing lab called to tell me that the genomes were …

Social Media Climate Change Burns Washington Squash State Real

2 years ago

‘Govt’s losses surged in past decade on illicit trade of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages’

Live Mint

New Delhi: The Centre’s loss on taxes on tobacco products and alcoholic beverages rose over three times during 2010-20 due to illicit trade of the products, as per a Ficci-CASCADE’s 2022 report. Titled ‘Illicit Markets: A Threat to Our National Interests’, the report said that the estimated tax loss to the government due to illicit goods in five key industries …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Oregon confirms new wolves in northern Cascade Mountains

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon wildlife officials said Tuesday they have identified a new family of wolves in the northern Cascade Mountains, bringing the total number of known wolf groups in the region to three. “Wolves will disperse to different places, but when we have resident wolves, like we know they’re sticking in that area, that’s when we create something called …

California Oregon Wolf Wolves Warm Springs Department Of Fish And Wildlife

2 years, 4 months ago

Southwest rains flood deserts, cascade into Vegas casinos

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Intense summer thunderstorms that drenched parts of Las Vegas — causing water to cascade from casino ceilings and pool on the carpet of a stadium-sized sports betting area — were part of a broad regional monsoon pattern that may repeat through the weekend, a National Weather Service official said Friday. “We’re getting right into the heart of …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Nam Ou hydropower project in Laos generates 10 bln kWh

China Daily

The aerial view of Nam Ou River Cascade Hydropower Project taken on July 13. VIENTIANE -- The Nam Ou River Cascade Hydropower Project developed by the Power Construction Corporation of China has generated over 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. A project manager said at an event on Wednesday that as of Tuesday the total electricity generated by the seven cascade …

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2 years, 7 months ago

With water running out, California faces grim summer of dangerous heat, extreme drought

LA Times

California faces severe and extreme drought after two consecutive La Niña years, and the hot, dry summer season hasn’t even started. If NOAA is correct, high temperatures and the lingering La Niña will have major impacts on urban and agricultural water use across the American West, as well as for California’s increasingly extreme fire season. “Last year, one thing that …

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3 years ago

Farmers turning to alternative growing methods in wake of sky-high fertiliser price

ABC

In 12 months the price of commonly used fertilisers essential for Australia's $43 billion cropping industries has increased by as much as 230 per cent. Key points: Fertiliser prices have risen an extraordinary amount over the past year An increase in energy costs is behind the price rise Australian grain growers are looking for alternative fertiliser options Grain farmers looking …

Farmers Nitrogen Legume Cascade Synthetic Fertiliser Fertiliser Prices Mark Roberts

3 years, 2 months ago

Two Montanas? New maps highlight state’s split personality

Associated Press

— For the first time in 30 years, the Census has awarded Montana a second seat in Congress. To Republicans, there’s a simple solution — a neat line splitting the state into eastern and western districts that puts Bozeman in the eastern one and Missoula in the western one. “When you have a shape that isn’t even a shape, it’s …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Proposal to lay cables under Columbia met with skepticism

Associated Press

Can slicing a 100-mile trench into the bed of the Columbia River be good for the environment? The cables also would intersect the monster transmission lines at the Bonneville Power Administration’s Big Eddy substation, drawing cheaper solar power from the Southwest, steadier wind power from Montana and Wyoming, and reliable backup power from British Columbia’s supersized hydropower reservoirs. Bottom line, …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Bill Gates's longtime money manager 'rated female colleagues and showed nude photos of women'

Daily Mail

Bill Gates's money manager shared nude photos of women in the office, rated female colleagues on their looks and made racist and sexually-offensive remarks, former employees have claimed. Michael Larson, 61, has managed Bill Gates's money for the past 27 years Gates, 65, was not a social friend of Larson, but the pair had a close working relationship Bill and …

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Missing Woman Killed, Stuffed Inside Suitcase And Dumped In Trash: Officials

Investigator finds Montana SOS Jacobsen discriminated against former county election official

Assam cascade frog test for Himachal stream water flow impact

Cauvery: From crisis to cascade of hope

Former criminology professor pleads guilty to igniting four wildfires in 2021

The ancient Sri Lankan ‘tank cascades’ tackling drought

'Cascade effect' pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records

Avalanche in Washington’s Cascade Mountains kills 3

Bigfeet: A short story about inventing a real Bigfoot.

‘Govt’s losses surged in past decade on illicit trade of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages’

Oregon confirms new wolves in northern Cascade Mountains

Southwest rains flood deserts, cascade into Vegas casinos

Nam Ou hydropower project in Laos generates 10 bln kWh

With water running out, California faces grim summer of dangerous heat, extreme drought

Farmers turning to alternative growing methods in wake of sky-high fertiliser price

Two Montanas? New maps highlight state’s split personality

Proposal to lay cables under Columbia met with skepticism

Bill Gates's longtime money manager 'rated female colleagues and showed nude photos of women'