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Asian Parks Congress Urges Greater Indigenous Stewardship Over Wild Places — Australia Listens
ArchivesPolicy

Asian Parks Congress Urges Greater Indigenous Stewardship Over Wild Places — Australia Listens

June 2, 2022July 17, 2023

The 2nd meeting of the Asian Parks Congress concluded in Malaysia with representatives from government agencies, NGOs, international organizations,…

Acres of Toxic Chemicals and Rusting Cars Becomes National Park After Amazing Transformation
ArchivesEnvironment

Acres of Toxic Chemicals and Rusting Cars Becomes National Park After Amazing Transformation

May 30, 2022July 10, 2023

Story at a glance… This story has been reprinted with express permission from Good News Network. A toxic waste…

Latin American Countries Boycott Summit of the Americas After Biden Excludes Rivals
ArchivesForeign Policy

Latin American Countries Boycott Summit of the Americas After Biden Excludes Rivals

May 27, 2022July 10, 2025

An attempt by the Biden Administration to host the 9th Summit of the Americas is in jeopardy after a…

Full Genome Sequenced of Man from Pompeii Reveals a Diverse Italy
ArchivesCoffee Break Reads

Full Genome Sequenced of Man from Pompeii Reveals a Diverse Italy

May 26, 2022July 10, 2025

1,943 years ago, a man in his mid 30s was buried under the burning ashes of Mount Vesuvius, as…

Amazing Discovery in Southern Amazon Reveals Details of Urban-Agrarian Society as Never Before
ArchivesHuman Sciences

Amazing Discovery in Southern Amazon Reveals Details of Urban-Agrarian Society as Never Before

May 25, 2022October 28, 2023

If one searches “Casarabe Culture” in a search engine, they won’t find much. Maybe they will see a Wikipedia…

Gaffes in Tokyo – Biden Claims US Will Militarily Defend Taiwan – Calls Indo-Pacific “Our Region”
ArchivesForeign Policy

Gaffes in Tokyo – Biden Claims US Will Militarily Defend Taiwan – Calls Indo-Pacific “Our Region”

May 24, 2022July 10, 2025

President Biden has forced his administration yet again to walk back comments he has made about the US commitment…

Lions Begin Long Road to Recovery in Senegal’s Yellowstone — A Defiant Roar in a Troubled Region
ArchivesConservation

Lions Begin Long Road to Recovery in Senegal’s Yellowstone — A Defiant Roar in a Troubled Region

May 23, 2022July 17, 2023

Story at a glance… West African lions are slowly growing in number in the massive Niokolo Koba National Park,…

There Are 4 Million More Digital Nomads Since Last Year, and Another 24 Million Are Getting There
ArchivesTravel

There Are 4 Million More Digital Nomads Since Last Year, and Another 24 Million Are Getting There

May 17, 2022July 20, 2023

Digital nomads—people who spend the majority of their working year traveling the world, working remotely from their computers, are…

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away
ArchivesEarth Sciences

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away

May 16, 2022October 28, 2023

If you go to a national park in one of America’s deserts, you may see signs on the hiking…

Some Key Services Resume As Yemen Breathes After First Month of Truce Passes Without Airstrike
ArchivesWorld News

Some Key Services Resume As Yemen Breathes After First Month of Truce Passes Without Airstrike

May 13, 2022January 22, 2024

2 diesel fuel tankers arrived in the port city of Hodeidah in south Yemen as the ceasefire between the…

Greater One-Horned Rhino Population Tops 4,000 for the First Time Records Began
ArchivesConservation

Greater One-Horned Rhino Population Tops 4,000 for the First Time Records Began

May 11, 2022July 17, 2023

In their biannual population survey, the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) has announced that the population of the greater one-horned…

American Produce Has Lost as Much as 80% of its Nutrition Since the 1950s
ArchivesCoffee Break Reads

American Produce Has Lost as Much as 80% of its Nutrition Since the 1950s

May 9, 2022June 30, 2025

If you wanted to replicate the vitamin A content of an orange grown in 1940s America, one would have…

An Enraged US Threatens to Invade Solomon Islands Over Security Pact with China
ArchivesForeign Policy

An Enraged US Threatens to Invade Solomon Islands Over Security Pact with China

May 6, 2022September 11, 2024

The Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Manasseh Sogavare told his nation’s parliament on Wednesday that either Australia, the…

Rissani: The Little-Known City of Kings, Dates, and Caravans in the Moroccan Sahara
ArchivesTravel

Rissani: The Little-Known City of Kings, Dates, and Caravans in the Moroccan Sahara

May 5, 2022July 5, 2023

Go to a bus station in Fes after dark. Tell them you want to go to Rissani, and then…

Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses Signs of Aging in Mice
ArchivesMedicine

Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses Signs of Aging in Mice

April 29, 2022August 12, 2023

Out in La Jolla, California, a top-ranked research institute has rewound time in mice, resetting their cells to youthful…

Seed Oils Are Probably the Reason Behind Decades of Heart Disease Not Butter, Cheese, or Meat
ArchivesNutrition

Seed Oils Are Probably the Reason Behind Decades of Heart Disease Not Butter, Cheese, or Meat

April 25, 2022July 26, 2023

Story at a glance… Industrial seed oils like corn, canola, safflower, rapeseed, and peanut oils are the main mechanisms…

Perseverance Captures Video of Martian Solar Eclipse While Beginning Exploration of River Delta
ArchivesSpace

Perseverance Captures Video of Martian Solar Eclipse While Beginning Exploration of River Delta

April 22, 2022February 19, 2024

On April 13th, following 31 days and 3 miles of travel, NASA’s Perseverance Rover arrived at an extinct river…

Can Dungeons & Dragons Help Save Biodiversity Through Storytelling/Gaming?
ArchivesConservation

Can Dungeons & Dragons Help Save Biodiversity Through Storytelling/Gaming?

April 21, 2022July 19, 2023

Story at a glance… A new Dungeons and Dragons rulebook features monsters based on extinct species of animal like…

Why After 37 Years Does America Now Strongly Believe in Cooperation with Pacific Islands?
ArchivesForeign Policy

Why After 37 Years Does America Now Strongly Believe in Cooperation with Pacific Islands?

April 20, 2022July 12, 2023

The State Department announced on Monday that Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell, the Biden Administration’s top man for Asian affairs,…

Resistance Exercise Improved Sleep Duration by 40 Minutes, More Than Aerobic Exercise
ArchivesPhysiology

Resistance Exercise Improved Sleep Duration by 40 Minutes, More Than Aerobic Exercise

April 5, 2022August 12, 2023

In an interesting study, researchers working at the American Heart Association were trying to quantify how exercise influences sleep…

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UN’s ‘Genocide Chronicler’ Issues New Report on Mass Corporate Facilitation of Israel’s War on Palestine

Andy Corbley July 4, 2025

From civilian machinists like Hyundai and Caterpillar, to tourist platforms like Airbnb and Booking, to more obvious culprits like…

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Italy Quietly Tries to Renew Military Cooperation Agreement with Israel, Law firm Notices and Objects

Andy Corbley May 23, 2025

Signed in 2002 and entering into force in 2005, few Italian citizens will know what has resulted from a…

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Houthis Defeat the Americans, Claim Destruction of Another F/A-18 and Strike Israel with Drones

Andy Corbley May 8, 2025

Yemen has claimed responsibility for an attack on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier that caused a second F/A-18…

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