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Giant iceberg in Antarctica kills off 150,000 penguins
An enormous iceberg in Antarctica has killed off 150,000 penguins and threatens to wipe out an entire colony, which has become trapped and unable to reach food. A study by researchers from New Zealand and Australia said only about 10,000 ...
How Russians differ from Ukrainians
Kiev is putting Moscow to shame, said Yulia Latynina. Even after riot police beat up protesters last week, 1 million Ukrainians took to the squares to protest their president’s foreign policy. By contrast, Moscow, a city four times as large, ...
Overdosing On Exercise – Harmful Extreme Workouts
Training for a marathon and other extreme workouts may be more harmful than healthy. After reviewing over 50 studies, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that more than an hour of intense aerobic activity per day put runners and cyclists ...
GPS Not Working in Australia
GPS relies on satellites for them to work. It is getting very difficult to rely on them in Australia. Researchers have found that the country has moved north about 5 feet according to the movement of the tectonic plates. Because ...
Welfare – Not Just The Poor Who Benefit
In America, 7 out of 10 people are on Welfare. That’s the percentage of people who receive more in gov't benefits than they pay in taxes, according to a new Tax Foundation study. Some of these beneficiaries of Uncle Sam’s ...
Pope Gives “OK” For Atheists To Enter Heaven
In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers (Atheists) would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences. Responding ...
Plastic Crisis Resolution
The European Parliament has put in to affect a ban on single use plastics to battle the plastic crisis. The new law would make it so that all plastic will need to be recyclable by the year 2030. Europe will ...
How elephants defy getting cancer
As the world’s largest land mammals, elephants should suffer one of the highest cancer rates—they simply have far more cells that could potentially mutate and become malignant. But new research reveals that elephants rarely get cancer—and the reason why may ...
Wild Coffee Extinction Possible
Let it be known that you should enjoy your cup of joe now because it may become extinct due to climate change. Coffee beans need a certain type of climate to grow. Some of the coffee bean areas in Madagascar ...
California Drought
For the first time since 2011 California is now drought free. Good news but also bad news because of the drought between 2010 and 2016 they have over 102 dead trees, 62 million trees died in just the last year. ...
