Category: Nature
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The legendary life of Brazilian soccer icon Pele in photos A three-time World Cup winner who scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 games, Pele is known as the “king of soccer,” the world’s most beautiful game. “The difficult, the extraordinary, is not scoring a thousand goals like Pelé. It is creating a goal like Pelé,” wrote…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Did the world make progress on climate change? Here’s what was decided at global talks “We call for reduced CO2 emissions,” said Zambia’s environment minister Collins Nzovu after the meeting ended. “That’s a basic issue. Right now, as it is, we will not reach 1.5 [degrees Celsius]. We are off the map completely.” #COP27 #ClimateChange…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
COP27 protesters call for climate reparations, human rights “We cannot accept any decision here without loss and damage reparations,” she told the crowd, adding that keeping to the 1.5C global warming limit in the Paris Agreement “is not negotiable”. #COP27 #ClimateCrisis #activism #Egypt Supreme Court struggles with a case dealing with the rights of Native…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Here’s why Seoul’s Itaewon district was so packed ahead of the deadly crowd surge “Historically, Asians don’t celebrate Halloween … but Itaewon has a lot of foreigners and those foreigners celebrate Halloween,” Shin said. “Businesses in Itaewon cater to the huge population of foreigners living there. So because foreigners are partying in Itaewon, it just…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Few Americans see a third Xi term as a major problem for the U.S.; other concerns about China have grown Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to secure a third term in office during the country’s 20th Communist Party congress, a gathering held every five years that began in Beijing on Oct. 16. For Americans, however, the potential…
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The Ballad of the Redwoods
The mighty Guardians of the Pacific Northwest have stood in all their splendid glory since the age of the dinosaurs. These glorious natural monuments are as ancient as they are beautiful. I’m speaking of the Sequoioideae, more commonly known as the Redwood Tree. Nature can be a healing and beautiful place. This weekend besides spending…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
It’s a Girl (Fascist)! It’s tempting to say that her position as a woman leader should be considered irrelevant, given her and her party’s vile anti-immigrant, nationalist, racist, anti-LGBTQ+ politics. But ignoring her womanhood misses some crucial points about her political ideology. Being a woman — a white woman, that is — is not in…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the hip-hop artist, author, and environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798 “The US has undertaken over 500 international military interventions since 1776, with nearly 60% undertaken between 1950 and 2017,” the project wrote. “What’s more, over one-third of these missions occurred after 1999.” #USForeignPolicy #Politics #international #interventions The queen was not a gentle figurehead for many in Britain’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean nations and their diasporas. #TheQueen #colonialism #imperialism #britishempire Tropical Storm Kay dumps rain on Mexico’s Baja peninsula Hurricane Kay made landfall on a sparsely…
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