Death toll in Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor
‘We undertook all the precautions and informed the … the inhabitants of the areas the disaster could have taken place, we created an emergency room .. the security forces carried out their duty,” he said.
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Japan says swarms of tourists defiling sacred Mt Fuji
“Fuji faces a real crisis,” Masatake Izumi, a Yamanashi prefecture official told reporters during a tour for foreign media on Saturday, the last weekend before the trails close for the year. “It’s uncontrollable and we fear that Mt Fuji will soon become so unattractive, nobody would want to climb it,” he said.
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‘Empty shelves with absolutely no books’: Students, parents question school board’s library weeding process
#Canadian #bookban #education #Canada
Dianne Lawson, another member of Libraries not Landfills, told CBC Toronto weeding by publication date in some schools must have occurred in order to explain why a middle school teacher told her The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was removed from shelves. She also says a kindergarten teacher told her The Very Hungry Caterpillar had been removed as well.
The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth and it’s beginning to impact us
It turns out that the Moon is moving away from Earth at us at 3.82 centimetres a year. That means that, eventually, it’ll result in Earth days lasting 25 hours in 200 million years time.
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Evolving Folks Project 