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'Dry to the bone': Drought squeezes Everglades airboat operators
MIAMI — Instead of whizzing through the open marsh of the Everglades like he usually does, Tristan Tigertail steers his ... Read More
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This Day in History, March 17
On March 17th, 1941, the the National Gallery of Art was opened by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Colorado must require more air-quality monitoring around 6 Western Slope oil and gas sites, EPA says
DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency this month sent six proposed permits to regulate air pollution from oil and gas wells on the Western Slope back to Colorado regulators because the state did not require ...Read more
California's snowpack was already meager. Now comes an extraordinary heat wave
The warm winter has left very little snow in California’s Sierra Nevada, and now an extreme heat wave is accelerating the rapid melt in the mountains.
The Sierra snowpack measures 45% of average for this time of year, ...Read more
Trump administration's dismantling of Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research is illegal, universities allege in new lawsuit
DENVER — A consortium of universities filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration’s planned dismantling of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, alleging that the planned reorganization ...Read more
Today's Word "apotropaic"
apotropaic \ae-peh-treh-PEY-ik\ (adjective) - Having the power or designed to ward off evil, as an apotropaic symbol or talisman.
"Lydia was fond of wearing apotropaic ankle-length dresses with long sleeves and a collars ...Read more
Composer Murder Mystery
Handel has been killed and Beethoven is on the case. He has interviewed the four suspects and their statements are shown below. Each suspect has said two sentences...one sentence of each suspect is a lie and one sentence is the truth. Help Beethoven figure out who the killer is.
Joplin: I did not kill Handel. Either Grieg is the killer or none of us is.
Grieg: I did not kill Handel. Gershwin is the killer.
Strauss...
Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out
Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made ...Read more
In war-torn Iran, air pollution from burning oil depots and bombed buildings unleashes invisible health threats
The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic debris into the ...Read more
Meta to spend up to $27 billion on Nebius AI infrastructure
Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to artificial intelligence infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group NV as it spends aggressively to compete with the industry�...Read more
Oil flows through Santa Barbara coastal pipeline for first time in decade amid Trump fight with California
LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than a decade, offshore oil is again flowing through a controversial network of pipelines that run from California's Central Coast to Kern County.
Following an executive order ...Read more
Industrial chemicals have reached the middle of the oceans, new study shows
New research shows the chemicals we use to kill pests, heal our bodies and package our foods are spread throughout the ocean, intermingling with the microorganisms that feed marine life. They’ve reached even the most ...Read more
Incoming storms prompt early school dismissals as Maryland braces for damaging winds
BALTIMORE — A powerful storm system expected to move across Maryland on Monday could bring damaging winds, heavy rain, hail and possible tornadoes, prompting Gov. Wes Moore to declare a state of preparedness and local ...Read more
More than 131,000 without power as major storm hits northern Michigan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — More than 2.5% of electrical customers in Michigan were without power Monday morning as winter storms pummeled the northern half of the state and the Upper Peninsula.
The state as of 9:25 a.m. had...Read more
Florida without Kennedy Space Center? Director sounds alarm over relationship
The Kennedy Space Center director didn’t mince words.
“We stand at a pivotal moment,” Janet Petro told state lawmakers in Tallahassee last fall. The future of one of Florida’s signature assets, what Petro called ...Read more
Today's Word "irenic"
irenic \i-REH-nik\ (adjective) - Favoring, conducive to, or operating toward peace, moderation, or conciliation.
"Jasmine had always been one of the more irenic students on campus, so no one was surprised to learn that ...Read more
Different-Colored World
Imagine a world in which the colors of things have changed from what we consider normal. Assume the following changes:
Snow is now red.
Grass is now black.
The sky is now brown.
Blood is now white.
Soot is now green.
In such a world, what is the color of dirt?
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This Day in History, March 16
On March 16th, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published.
Boston Weather: Flooding, high winds warnings incoming
Potential flooding and high winds are set to kick off the week for Boston, before a period of chillier dry weather heading into next weekend, according to National Weather Service Forecasts.
“Rain starts to move in, ...Read more
Dangerous storms possible across Virginia; damaging winds, large hail and potentially strong tornadoes are threats
Much of Virginia is under the “substantial risk” of severe weather on Monday.
The commonwealth could see severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and strong tornadoes, according to the ...Read more
Wild US weather halts flights, dumps snow and knocks out power
Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms swirling toward the eastern U.S. have knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.
Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota ...Read more
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- Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out
- In war-torn Iran, air pollution from burning oil depots and bombed buildings unleashes invisible health threats
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- Meta to spend up to $27 billion on Nebius AI infrastructure
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