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In the wake of the Nat'l Guard deployment and police dept. takeover, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to make D.C. a state, saying, "It’s times like this when America needs to know why your nation’s capital, a place where 700,000 taxpaying Americans live, should be the 51st state.”
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The Trump administration struck a deal with Mexico to extradite 26 cartel members, including the leader of the "Los Cuinis" cartel, to face prosecution in the U.S. They are scheduled to fly to the U.S. today. The deal required the DOJ's agreement not to seek the death penalty.
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Witness the spectacular Geminids on the night of December 13–14.
#geminids #december13 #nightsky #astronomy
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Once the process of brewing coffee removes the acid in fresh coffee grounds, some gardeners use the remaining grounds to energize the plants growing in their vegetable and flower gardens.
#coffeegrounds #plants #gardening
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To save axolotls, Mexico's National Autonomous University is asking people to virtually adopt these tiny salamanders or help pay for one of its meals.
#axolotls #mexico #salamanders
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The marsupial frog -which incubates its young in a pouch on its back and was thought to be extinct in some countries- has reappeared, reports Smithsonian Magazine.
#marsupialfrog #frogs #endangeredspecies
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The North American wolverines are now protected under the Endangered Species Act as climate change threatens their habitat.
#endangeredspecies #climatechange #wolverine #endangeredspeciesact
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One of the reasons why landfill mining is rare is the lack of knowledge about what, where, and how much target material is in the garbage heaps. Experts believe this makes assessing the cost to mine and the potential revenues very difficult.
#garbageheap #landfill #mining
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One of the many studies focused on the mysterious 'Mandela Effect'—a massive, collective belief in an event or fact that is not true— suggests that specific images from popular culture consistently lead to particular false memories.
#mandelaeffect #falsememories #research
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Watch: An orca pod uses Antarctic icebergs as "scratching posts" to rub their itchy skin.
Credits: Incredible Animal Journeys/National Geographic
#nationalgeographic #orca #icebergs
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In carbon farming, trees are planted on abandoned farmland to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, acting as a natural sink to offset emissions.
#carbonfarming #emissions #farming
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The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year: Jialing Cai wins first place for the image of a Paper Nautilus drifting on a piece of ocean debris.
#papernautilus #nautilus #oceandebris #pieceofocean #oceanlife
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Watch: Intelligent wild dolphins steal bait from crab fishermen.
Via Dolphin Discovery Centre TV on YouTube
Watch the full video here:
youtube.com/watch?v=m5ZIbt_1…
#wilddolphins #crab #dolphins #fisherman #bait
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Watch: A treehouse home for kittens at a rescue in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
Credits: @nahimana_forest/TikTok
#northcarolina #appalachian #kittens #rescue
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Bald eagles, American alligators, and grizzly bears are among the species that have rebounded since the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973.
#endangeredspecies #grizzlybears #eagle #alligator #endangeredspeciesact #baldeagle #americanalligator
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Irvine is poised to become the latest California city to ban single-use plastics.
#irvine #california #singleuse #plastics
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