Colin Kaepernick’s era of sports activism ‘vanished with him’ — but another is coming
By the time Colin Kaepernick began his peaceful protest during the national anthem on the San Francisco 49ers sideline in the summer of 2016, a social justice movement was bubbling up among the nation’s athletes. It was the most visible political action seen in American sports in half a century.
Rukidi IV, World’s Youngest Reigning Traditional Monarch, Dies at 34
Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV became king of Tooro, a Bantu kingdom in the west of Uganda, in 1995, when he was 3, after his father died, according to local newspaper The Daily Monitor.
Tooro Prime Minister Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki announced his king’s death with “profound sadness and a heavy heart,” he said in a statement, sharing that he died at about 10 p.m. local time on Thursday, Aug. 27.
Nepal-Tibet floods: millions at risk from glacial floods in Himalayas in years to come, UN warns, as death toll passes 1,000 – as it happened
The Himalayan region faces severe risks from future glacial floods, an assistant secretary-general at the UN has warned.
The Nepal-Tibet floods have overrun hydropower facilities, knocking out about 10% of Nepal’s power capacity. There are now fears that entire riverbanks where millions of people live might become effectively uninhabitable.
A single teaspoon of soil from a healthy forest floor contains more living organisms — bacteria, fungi, protists, nematodes — than there are humans on Earth, and most of the species in that spoonful have never been named or described
Many of those organisms still lack species-level names, yet their work continues every hour beneath the forest. The teaspoon is not simply crowded with life. It is a small working piece of the ecosystem above it.
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