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Carmel-by-the-Sea, a town with no addresses, says the time has come to add house numbers
5 months ago

Carmel-by-the-Sea, a town with no addresses, says the time has come to add house numbers

LA Times  

Carmel-by-the-Sea has historically had no street addresses or home mail delivery. They argued that the lack of house numbers — along with other quirks, such as no streetlights or sidewalks in residential areas — added to the vaunted “village character.” “We are losing this place, day by day and week by week, from people who want to modernize us, who …

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California could boot thousands of immigrants from program that aids elderly and disabled
7 months ago

California could boot thousands of immigrants from program that aids elderly and disabled

LA Times  

An In-Home Supportive Services care provider helps a client at her home in Thousand Oaks. The overall goal was to maintain core programs and base benefits” such as Medi-Cal, “in particular, Medi-Cal services regardless of citizenship status.” The California Department of Social Services said nearly 3,000 immigrants without legal status had been authorized for IHSS. At a California State Senate …

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Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens
11 months ago

Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens

NPR  

Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? "There are certainly far more survivors of rape who become pregnant as a result, who — for totally understandable reasons — don't want to disclose that fact to a medical provider that they just met." "These are hard numbers to come up with — there's no kind of systematic collection at the …

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Japan turns to livestreamed fish in Fukushima safety campaign
1 year, 5 months ago

Japan turns to livestreamed fish in Fukushima safety campaign

Al Jazeera  

Fish swimming in a tank of treated water are part of a multi-million dollar campaign to convince people it’s safe to release the radioactive water. Tokyo, Japan – Japan has launched a torrent of advertising campaigns to help convince a sceptical public that releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean is safe. “Instead of allowing …

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WWF tracks wildlife recovery from Black Summer bushfires with AI, machine learning
1 year, 7 months ago

WWF tracks wildlife recovery from Black Summer bushfires with AI, machine learning

ABC  

Wildlife experts are surprised to see animal populations recovering across eastern Australia following the devastating Black Summer bushfires. Key points: WWF is tracking the recovery of animal species after the Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20 Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to identify animal species after they are photographed Researchers say animals are recovering "surprisingly" well after the …

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Two California fires in the Sierra Nevada have very different outcomes. Why?
2 years, 4 months ago

Two California fires in the Sierra Nevada have very different outcomes. Why?

LA Times  

Firefighters douse hot spots in a scorched and ash-filled area of forest that burned recently in near Mariposa. The Washburn fire, which ignited July 7 along a forested trail in Yosemite National Park, was nearly contained, with no damage to structures or to the famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Since vegetation along the trail was dense, and flames travel …

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Preventative fires credited with saving Yosemite sequoias
2 years, 5 months ago

Preventative fires credited with saving Yosemite sequoias

Associated Press  

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the site said Tuesday. Small, intentionally lit fires over the past 50 years essentially stopped the fire in its …

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Wildlife experts fear celebrity campaign to ban trophy hunting could sentence MORE animals to die
2 years, 7 months ago

Wildlife experts fear celebrity campaign to ban trophy hunting could sentence MORE animals to die

Daily Mail  

Should you live in Chipping Norton, Hampstead or even Westminster you won’t go to bed tonight worrying whether you’ll wake up to find an elephant has trampled your flower bed or a lion is waiting in the bushes to snatch your children as they leave for school. Its supporters include Zac Goldsmith, minister for the Pacific and the international environment …

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Wildfires killed thousands of sequoias in southern Sierra Nevada
3 years, 1 month ago

Wildfires killed thousands of sequoias in southern Sierra Nevada

LA Times  

Nathan Stephenson, scientist emeritus at the Western Ecological Research Center, speaks Friday about the loss of giant sequoias in the Redwood Mountain Grove in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. As many as 3,600 giant sequoias perished in the flames of the twin wildfires that ignited during a lightning storm in early September and rampaged through 27 groves of the …

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‘Running out of options’: Fight to protect giant sequoias has gotten experimental
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Running out of options’: Fight to protect giant sequoias has gotten experimental

LA Times  

Firefighter Lindsay Freitag sprays water on sequoias on the Trail of 100 Giants to extinguish heat within the massive trees after they were singed in the Windy fire. As flames from the KNP Complex threatened to race up a steep slope toward the remote Muir Grove of giant sequoias, officials at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks had to think …

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WWF Study Shows Nearly 3 Billion Animals Killed or Displaced in Australian Bushfires of 2019 & 2020
4 years, 4 months ago

WWF Study Shows Nearly 3 Billion Animals Killed or Displaced in Australian Bushfires of 2019 & 2020

News 18  

Nearly 3 billion animals, including mammals, reptiles and birds, were either killed or displaced during Australia's devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020, a new study by the World Wide Fund for Nature said on Tuesday, revealing for the first time the scale of the impact on the country's wildlife. Almost 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, …

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3 billion animals killed or displaced in Black Summer bushfires, study estimates
4 years, 4 months ago

3 billion animals killed or displaced in Black Summer bushfires, study estimates

ABC  

Almost 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other animals are estimated to have been killed or displaced in Australia's 'Black Summer' bushfires, according to an updated study trebling the previous estimate of 1 billion. Key points: Scientists revised the figure up after calculating the effects of fire outside NSW and on additional species The estimate includes 2.46 billion reptiles and 180 …

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The making of Jordan Henderson, the man who proved them all wrong
4 years, 5 months ago

The making of Jordan Henderson, the man who proved them all wrong

New York Times  

Jordan Henderson’s sparrow arms made the jersey he was wearing seem oversized and his thighs disappeared somewhere beneath what were made to look like a baggy pair of tracksuit bottoms, even though they were designed to be slim-lined. “His attitude was, ‘I’ve got to win the ball back’.” Both coaches identified Henderson’s natural enthusiasm above all of his other attributes. …

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