Photo by Ken Lund via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article Cecelia Campbell-Livingston, Jamaica Gleaner Municipal officials in Paterson, New Jersey will be recognising the contributions of Jamaicans to the city by naming a street in their honour. A section of the popular Vreeland Avenue is to be renamed...
Photo by Jürgen Jester via Pixabay Article via WSKG The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday. After dipping last year because of...
Photo by Jasperdo from Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Article via JDSupra Montana Governor Greg Gianforte recently signed two bills designed to establish the framework for recreational cannabis and to begin to implement Constitution Initiative 118 (CI-118) and Initiative 190 (I-190), which were adopted by vote in the...
Photo by Bill O'Leary from The Washington Post Article by Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post Months spent in the sun and rain has warped the wooden works of art. They’ve been tagged and scrawled on, disassembled and pulled down from the windows that sat boarded up...
Photo from pixabay.com, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Aubrey Allegretti, Sky News After two national lockdowns in the spring and autumn of 2020, England is preparing for another - but this time it will fall in the darkest days of winter. Experts have raised concerns about the...
Photo via European Space Agency Article by Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground, since the electrical discharges erupt from the tops of thunderclouds. But...
Photo: A Child Explores "Recycling Labyrinth" Art Installation at U.N. Office Geneva, via Global Citizen Article by Helen Lock, Global Citizen You never know what is going to be the spark for the next budding activist to take a stand. In the case of 9-year-old Lizzie A. (her...
Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images, via Yahoo! News Article by Abby Haglage, Yahoo! News Twelve years after being sentenced to life for selling $20 worth of marijuana to an undercover cop, Fate Vincent Winslow will walk out of Louisiana State Penitentiary on Wednesday a free man. “Today is...
Photo courtesy of Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Reuters Article originally from Reuters via Yahoo! News An international team of scientists say they've found potential signs of life on the planet Venus. There's only one planet closer to the sun than Venus and its surface temperatures reach almost 900 degrees Fahrenheit. But scientists said on...
Photo via Intelligent Living Article by Andrea D. Steffen, Intelligent Living A couple of people can literally make a whole forest of a difference! That’s what renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado have proven. With the help of many, they planted 2.7...