(Ramon Tomey) Recent reports have touched on animals invading human spaces around the world. The invasions have been blamed on the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and climate change. A number of animals, such as rats, elephants, bears and wild boars, have made their way toward human settlements as their habitats face threats.
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Horrific Mystery Illness Now Leaving Wild Birds Blinded and Grounded in East
(Garion Frankel) A novel disease has been ravaging the eastern United States in 2021, and it isn’t COVID-19.
Lobster Diver Survives Being Swallowed Whole By A Humpback Whale Before Being Coughed Up Nearly A Minute Later
(B.K. House) Michael Packard is a commercial lobster diver working off the coast of Provincetown, Mass. Early Friday morning, at about 35 feet below the surface near Herring Cove Beach he encountered a hungry humpback whale. The giant marine mammal made a meal out of the unsuspecting diver, swallowing him whole. “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the New York Post. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
Massachusetts Man Was Completely Swallowed By A Humpback Whale And Survived!
(Anthony T) Most of you have heard the Biblical story about Jonah and the whale but what about the Massachusetts man and the Humpback whale?
Fighting Over Water: International Hedge Fund Aims to Profit off Resource Scarce in Dry West
(Natalia Mittelstadt) Water is “like oil” in Arizona, said State Rep. Regina Cobb, who is fighting the bid to market the right to transfer water from the Colorado River to a fast-growing suburb.
Biden’s Big Climate Conference Looking Expensive and Useless
(Lynn Corum) The Biden administration is desperate to demonstrate global leadership. President Biden has settled upon climate change as the ideal issue with which to be seen in command of the world. He has decided to lead a “climate summit” for forty world leaders to prove it. But Vladimir Putin has seen through his plans and resists submitting to U.S. control.
Population of Bald Eagles in US Has Quadrupled Since 2009
(Richard Moorhead) In the midst of what many are pointing to as national decline, the signature animal of the United States is experiencing a revival, with bald eagles quadrupling in number since 2009.
‘More Masks Than Jellyfish’: Covid Mask Pollution Is Destroying Ocean Ecosystems, Wildlife
(Gabriel Keane) While Covid face mask mandates have proved lucrative for governments, the pharmaceutical and PPE industries, and health officials, they have taken a devastating toll on the world’s oceans and wildlife according to ecological and environmental experts.
One Man Stops Drought And Brings Fortune to Village By Planting 11,000 Trees Over 24 Years
(Elias Marat) In the rural countryside of Indonesia, one elderly man is taking it upon himself to rehabilitate a landscape ravaged by mismanagement.
That’s not natural! Mysterious cloud circles appear over Swiss Alps
(Strange Sounds) The eerie sky formation hovered over the Eiger, a 3,967-metre (13,015 ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps.
Philippines Coral Reef Covered With Face Masks
(Paul Joseph Watson) Divers in the Philippines have discovered single use face masks and other PPE covering precious coral reefs and being consumed by marine life as the impact of lockdown takes its toll on the environment.
Amazing Petrified Tree up to 20 Million Years Old Found Intact in Lesbos
(Strange Sounds) First came the tree, all 19.5 metres of it, with roots and branches and leaves. Then, weeks later, the discovery of 150 fossilised logs, one on top of the other, a short distance away.
The Science Of Plant Intelligence Takes Root
(Jack Fox-Williams) For centuries, Western philosophy has viewed animals and plants as unthinking automatons. The famous 17th scientist and philosopher, Rene Descartes, maintained that non-human organisms cannot reason or feel pain; they are robotic machines that purely act on impulse.
Everyone in England is Planting Wildflower Meadows
(Andy Corbley) When Prince Charles of Great Britain read Plantlife UK‘s annual 2012 report, he was astonished to find that England had lost 97% of all its natural wildflower meadowland.
Yellowstone: USGS Sends ‘Devastating’ Warning after Running Volcano Eruption Probe
(Callum Hoare) YELLOWSTONE volcano scientist Dr Mike Poland has warned of the “devastating” capacity of the volcano after his team performed simulations of ashfall across the US in the event of a supereruption.