HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. – People who live on the Little Red River in Heber Springs say the wild brown trout population is dying and if something isn’t done soon, it could cost the city millions of dollars in potential revenue. Right now, temperatures in parts of the river are too hot for the fish to […]
WAKE COUNTY, North Carolina — When Josahandy Avila thinks about the 2024 presidential election, the word “excitement” does not come to mind. As a first-generation Mexican American, her family is directly affected by state and federal immigration laws, and she’s concerned about reproductive rights. But at the presidential level, she’s still undecided — she is […]
Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly mammoths — possibly as few as eight — on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast. What happened next is what science calls a “bottleneck event.” It’s when a species faces a combination of […]
***Watch previous coverage on eagles in Ohio above.*** CLEVELAND (WJW) – With Independence Day just around the corner, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is sharing some uplifting news about one of the country’s national emblems — bald eagles continue to thrive in Ohio. During an annual spring survey, the ODNR Division of Wildlife reported […]
Jul. 1—WILKES-BARRE — In honor of Deafblind Awareness Week and Helen Keller’s birthday, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright this week introduced bipartisan legislation to help overcome barriers and identify policy gaps for individuals with combined hearing and vision loss. The Deafblind Disabled Americans Table Approximation (DATA) or Deafblind DATA Act, would require the U.S. Census Bureau […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In the heart of the crowded Kibera neighborhood in Kenya’s capital, Jacinter Awino shares a small tin house with her husband and four children. She envies those who have escaped such makeshift homes to more permanent dwellings under the government’s affordable housing plan. The 33-year-old housewife and her mason husband are […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In the heart of the crowded Kibera neighborhood in Kenya’s capital, Jacinter Awino shares a small tin house with her husband and four children. She envies those who have escaped such makeshift homes to more permanent dwellings under the government’s affordable housing plan. The 33-year-old housewife and her mason husband are […]
By Minwoo Park SUWON, South Korea (Reuters) – South Koreans Kim Eun-ha and Park Cho-hyeon would like to get married and have children, a plan that fits in with government ambitions to boost the world’s lowest fertility rate. The catch is that same-sex unions remain illegal in South Korea, and doctors refuse to perform artificial […]
(Bloomberg) — Switzerland’s government has come out against a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million, saying it jeopardizes economic growth and security. Most Read from Bloomberg The country is due to hold a national vote on the proposal — which is backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party — after campaigners gathered […]
Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new research study my colleagues and I conducted has struck another blow to this notion by using artificial intelligence to analyze satellite […]
U.S. Census Bureau data released in May shows five of the six Shelby County suburban municipalities experienced population growth over the past 10 years. However, from 2013 to 2023, Shelby County’s population as a whole decreased 3.1%, dropping from 938,713 to 910,042. The list below compares the population change in the Shelby County suburbs in […]
COSHOCTON − A recent housing analysis reveals Coshocton County has a severe lack of housing across the board related to price range and location. The Coshocton Port Authority and Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association worked with The Hamman Consulting Group on the study. The report was funded from a grant by Resilience Initiative for Southeastern and […]