Poem – In The Mood (By Donal Mahoney)

We’re going dancing, my wife and I,  to a Charity Ball high in the sky where Glenn Miller’s band has been playing  since 1944, the year his plane got lost  over the English Channel. No wreckage was ever found, not a single body. Glenn Miller was going to France  to play for American troops  during World War II. Government records say  he’s still “missing in action.”   Maybe so, […]

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Megadrought may grip the Southwest

Megadrought

The Southwest and central Great Plains are likely to be hit in coming decades by the most prolonged megadrought in more than 1,000 years, a new climate study predicts. Scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell University created a long-term climate model after analyzing historical temperature records, carbon dioxide emissions, and drought trends from tree rings.The record shows that the […]

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Stopping elephant poachers

Radioactive residue from the Cold War could provide a valuable tool for stemming the deadly trade in illegal ivory, National Geographic News reports. Poachers killed an estimated 30,000 African elephants last year alone for their tusks—an ongoing slaughter that threatens the long-term survival of the species, whose population numbers about 500,000. Ending poaching has been nearly impossible because it is […]

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