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The secret treasure trove still hidden in Africa’s forests
1 week, 3 days ago

The secret treasure trove still hidden in Africa’s forests

Al Jazeera  

It’s 8am on a Tuesday and Rudi Swart, 33, is getting ready for yet another day in the office. If you want to have a clue what’s pollinating these trees you have to look at what’s going on up there.” Haddad has used canopy fogging – a method pioneered by entomologist and visionary biodiversity researcher Terry Erwin in the 1970s …

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Looking to vacation on the California coast? Marin County just made it harder
7 months ago

Looking to vacation on the California coast? Marin County just made it harder

LA Times  

A stay in Brian Maggi’s house, per the Airbnb listing, is what coastal California dreams are made of. The county’s new policy, he wrote, will “create hardships for low- and middle-income residents, worsen housing insecurity and deny visitors access to the coast.” An aerial view of Stinson Beach in Marin County. “Housing affordability and housing supply were really the driving …

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How to ease your anxiety when it’s all too much — without dissociating
10 months, 1 week ago

How to ease your anxiety when it’s all too much — without dissociating

LA Times  

Lynn Bufka isn’t sure how she’s going to get through the next nine months. “I don’t want to hear anything about the election and it’s only January,” she said in an interview last month. If they were to say, ‘I won’t rest until I see justice done,’ whatever that metric is, then unfortunately that person may not see rest in …

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Netherlands tames South Africa to set up Women’s World Cup QF clash with Spain
1 year, 4 months ago

Netherlands tames South Africa to set up Women’s World Cup QF clash with Spain

The Hindu  

The Netherlands set up a heavyweight Women’s World Cup quarterfinal with Spain after ending South Africa’s historic run with a 2-0 victory on Sunday. South Africa goalkeeper Kaylin Swart then made a mess of an innocuous Lineth Beerensteyn shot midway through the second half to gift the Dutch a second. READ: FIFA Women’s World Cup: England midfielder Walsh joins squad …

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Netherlands beats South Africa 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup.
1 year, 4 months ago

Netherlands beats South Africa 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup.

Associated Press  

SYDNEY — Netherlands had just advanced to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup, yet star midfielder Danielle van de Donk looked inconsolable. “We felt we could have won this game and if I look back, we should have with the opportunities that we had, but we didn’t take them,” South Africa coach Desiree Ellis said. “If you look at …

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T20 World Cup, 29 days to go: Top moments - Sri Lanka bowls out Netherlands for the lowest total in tournament history
2 years, 3 months ago

T20 World Cup, 29 days to go: Top moments - Sri Lanka bowls out Netherlands for the lowest total in tournament history

The Hindu  

The T20 World Cup 2022 begins in Australia in 28 days. March 24 - Sri Lanka bowls out Netherlands for 39 - lowest total in T20 World Cup history Sri Lanka skittled out qualifier the Netherlands for 39, a record low total in Twenty20 Internationals, to romp to a nine-wicket win and close in on a semifinals spot at the …

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Electra fire nears 4,000 acres, threatens power grid, officials say
2 years, 5 months ago

Electra fire nears 4,000 acres, threatens power grid, officials say

LA Times  

A firefighter sprays water on the Electra fire burning in the Rich Gulch community of Calaveras County. “We’re closely watching it as it has the potential to become a large fire,” Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie said. Though the utility has faced scrutiny for its role in previous wildfires, McFarland said based on the location and timing of the …

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Rittenhouse trial arguments worry mental health advocates
3 years, 1 month ago

Rittenhouse trial arguments worry mental health advocates

Associated Press  

The first man Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was “irrational and crazy,” Rittenhouse’s attorney told jurors at his murder trial. “I’m glad he shot him because if Joseph Rosenbaum got that gun I don’t for a minute believe he wouldn’t have used it against somebody else,” Richards said during closing arguments in the 18-year-old Illinois …

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Essay: Damon Galgut - cartographer of the South African psyche
3 years, 1 month ago

Essay: Damon Galgut - cartographer of the South African psyche

Hindustan Times  

South African writer Damon Galgut, 57, who had made it to the Booker Prize shortlist twice in the past, at last won the £50,000 award this year for his ninth novel, The Promise, which charts the story of a family’s decline over four decades, with each decade marking a different point in the country’s chequered history. It was a significant …

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Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'
3 years, 1 month ago

Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

BBC  

Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia' Alamy Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset. Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout …

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Witness: Kenosha victim was belligerent but no threat
3 years, 1 month ago

Witness: Kenosha victim was belligerent but no threat

Associated Press  

KENOSHA, Wis. — The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” that night but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone, a witness testified Friday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial. On Thursday, witnesses testified that a “hyperaggressive” Rosenbaum angrily threatened to kill Rittenhouse that night and that Rosenbaum was …

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Health service wasting Covid vaccines, hospitals & pharmacists say
3 years, 10 months ago

Health service wasting Covid vaccines, hospitals & pharmacists say

NL Times  

Health service GGD is wasting abut 15 percent of the coronavirus vaccines, because they don't use everything that comes in the vial. Hospitals supplement this with part of a new vial, but the GGDs discard it, Ernst Kuipers of acute care network LNAZ and Noortje Swart, vaccine coordinator for hospital pharmacists, said to newspaper AD. But the GGDs are bound …

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