Extinction fears sharpened by a nursery rhyme memory
A reflection on the extinction crisis linked to Mother Goose images. The piece argues biodiversity sustains medicines and foods, critiques Endangered Species Act battles in Congress, notes historical and cultural extinctions like moas and the dodo, and urges awareness of commercial extinction in fisheries while calling for responsible ecological action.
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Congress
New Zealand
Mauritius
The
Wall Street Journal
Rescue Center in Norway Guides Global Lifesaving Efforts
Ole Vaage leads the Rescue Coordination Center Southern Norway from Sola guiding offshore rescues worldwide. The center, staffed around the clock, coordinates ships and ships’ crews via satellite links, sending messages rather than direct rescues. It averages ten saves daily and handled about 250 remote rescues plus 3,500 nearer operations last year.
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Ola
Norway
Ole Vaage
Vange
Rescue Coordination Center
Center
Earth
Sola Center
Navy
Coast Guard
Fading September Becomes Prelude to Autumn Colors
October arrives with foggy mornings and cooling nights as September fades. Berries ripen in yards and fields while robins thinning out, cardinals sing less, and retreating summer meets the coming winter. Towhee drinks, preens, and fashion notes mirror seasonal change as chicadees and titmice flock to feeders.
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Gulf Coast
Towhee
Christian Dior
Sheree
Birds and Things By Eulalie Gibbs Sees September’s Change
The piece notes Carolina wrens increasing in yards yet declining in song, and blue jays turning quiet during fall molt. It praises autumn decor with chrysanthemums and sasanqua blossoms, observes insects fading yet leaving eggs, and portrays September as a transitional month of fading August and approaching October with shorter days and cooler nights.
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Blue Jay
Dear Abby readers find meaning in memory letters gift
Deb Logue recalls giving her father a week of letters for his 70th birthday and a heart attack death on that day. The response shows such memory books bring priceless, one of a kind keepsakes. Tim Susman notes chimpanzees use tools, challenging the idea of human uniqueness.
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Abby
Dad
Deb Logue
East Petersburg
Jane Goodall
Louis Leakey
Tim Susman
Jane Goodall Institute
Center For Primate Studies
ST. Paul
Minn
MR. Susman
Miss Goodall
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Gibbons
AAP
Solve Tanke Hovden
Norway Rescue Center
Hiowed
Ole Va
Global Rescue
By Doug Mellgren
Associated Press
Vaage
Achille Lauro
Indian Ocean
Africa
Siner
Equator
Arctic Circle
Anders Bang-Andersen
U.S
Gibbs
Eulalie (Lee) Gibbs
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
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