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Land near Ranthambore tiger reserve reforested by Indian couple
It was his love for nature and wildlife that led Aditya Singh to quit his Indian civil services job, leave his well-appointed house in Delhi and settle in a remote corner of Rajasthan, abutting the famous Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, in 1998. Over the last 20 years, Singh has been buying tracts of…
Time spent watching television does not replace physical activity for Finnish men – unlike for Finnish women
Previous studies have found prolonged television time to be more harmful to health than other domains of sedentariness. A recent longitudinal study with a ten-year follow-up examined how the television viewing time of Finnish adults was associated with their physical activity level during leisur…
Iran Says US Must Fix Its Own 'Nontransparent' and Undemocratic Elections Before Lecturing Others
Mousavi appeared to be referring to the Electoral College, the archaic system the U.S. uses to elect its president every four years. Two of the last three presidents—George W. Bush and Donald Trump—have lost the popular vote yet won the presidential election thanks to the Electoral College.
…California Police Have Been Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data
Some of California’s largest police departments have been collecting millions of images of drivers’ license plates and sharing them with entities around the country—without having necessary security policies in place, in violation of state law, according to a newly released state audit.
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Indian Students Mail 20,000 Plastic Food Wrappers Back to Manufacturers
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With no good option for disposing of non-recyclable plastic food wrappers, Indian students have decided to send it back and let the manufacturers figure it out.
“We are happy with the taste a…
Scientists Find a Mysterious 'Ghost Lineage' In the DNA of West Africans
Although modern humans are now the only surviving lineage of humanity, others once lived on Earth. Some made their way out of Africa before we did, including the familiar Neanderthals in Eurasia and the newfound Denisovan lineages in Asia and Oceania. It isn't completely clear whether these line…
15 Years after the Kyoto Protocol Went into Force, the Climate Crisis is Worse Than Ever
On Sunday, 15 years will have passed since the Kyoto Protocol was ratified on February 16, 2005, which was eight years after it was negotiated back in 1997. Progress stalled because of a failure to achieve the quota of countries required to implement the protocol. The stalemate was finally broke…
It’s official: Federal judge shuts down the largest oil refinery on the East Coast
A federal judge finally confirmed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan of Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) on Thursday. The plan includes the sale of PES’s 1,300-acre refinery complex to a real estate company — putting an end to the largest oil refining operation on the East Coast.
A month …
Growing Evidence Says People on Easter Island Were Still Okay When Europeans Landed
Still, even in the beginning, this was hardly a clean and simple case of 'ecocide'. Recent research suggests the forests on Rapa Nui might have disappeared much quicker than we thought, too rapidly for humans to achieve on their own, and it might have had something to do with an influx of hungry…
Windows 10 KB4532693 update may be hiding or even deleting files
Last year’s last major Windows 10 update was a relatively small one and, save for a few bugs, was relatively less problematic than previous feature updates. That was as intended since Microsoft wanted to dedicate the 2H19 update to bug fixes and polish. That doesn’t mean, however, that showstopp…
Health decline of Sundari trees in Sundarbans
Sundari tree in the Sundarbans is becoming unhealthy gradually. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees.
RFS denies sacking volunteer firefighter Paul Parker, who swore at Scott Morrison
Paul Parker told Channel Ten’s The Project on Sunday that he was chastised by the RFS for directing the expletive toward Scott Morrison and that he had been booted from the organisation, contrary to reports from the time that he had been stood down due to exhaustion.
“Another captain fro…
Chinese activist detained after calling Xi Jinping 'clueless' on coronavirus crisis
Xu Zhiyong, a former law lecturer and founder of the social campaign New Citizens Movement, was taken away by police on Saturday evening while he was seeking refuge at the home of a lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, activists Ye Du and Hua Ze said.
His host Yang Bin, her husband …
Facebook was repeatedly warned of security flaw that led to biggest data breach in its history
The breach, which involved stealing digital "access tokens" used by Facebook to verify users' identity without needing their passwords, exposed the names, phone numbers and email addresses of 29 million people and a host of more intimate data for 14 million of them, putting users around the worl…
Why President Trump asked Ukraine to look into a DNC "server" and CrowdStrike - 60 Minutes
Even after the acquittal of the president, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is pursuing allegations of corruption in Ukraine. This past week, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would "carefully scrutinize" what Giuliani finds. Last July, President Trump made the phone call to Uk…
Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the outbreak. Stay indoo…
DoorDash’s anti-worker tactics backfired spectacularly in ruling on forced arbitration
The food delivery company DoorDash made its delivery workers sign away their right to sue if a legal dispute arises between a worker and the company. Instead, disputes would be resolved by a privatized arbitration system that tends to favor corporate parties.
Under Judge William Alsup’s…
Tesla on autopilot had steered driver towards same barrier before fatal crash, NTSB says
“There’s a global race to AVs. Do we want China to win that race? Or do we want to lead?" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, argued. "Do we want all the safety, faster traffic and mobility benefits to go abroad, or do we want to win this future and deliver for the American people?"
Top CDC official says US should prepare for coronavirus 'to take a foothold'
"At some point, we are likely to see community spread in the U.S. or in other countries," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call. "This will trigger a change in our response strategy."
Mes…
Barclays reveals its CEO is being probed over links to Jeffrey Epstein
Media reports over the last six months had indicated historical ties between Staley and Epstein. According to Barclays on Thursday, Staley developed a "professional relationship" with Epstein earlier in his career, but they had no contact since Staley joined the British bank in 2015.
"As…
Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning, and it failed to demonstrate it had performed a legally required assessment of privacy risks.
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Appeals Court Rules That People Can't Be Locked Up Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Devices
Former Philadelphia policeman Francis Rawls has been locked up since 2015 for refusing to decrypt external hard drives the government claims contain child porn images. The government's claims are based on Rawls' sister's statements. She said Rawls showed her "hundreds" of child porn images that …
D.C. Makes It A Crime To Wear Masks. So Why Was A Group Of White Nationalists Able To?
More than 100 members of the Patriot Front hate group marched through D.C. on Feb. 8, almost all of them wearing white face masks.
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Coronavirus: Taxi driver tests positive in Tokyo
A taxi driver in Tokyo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Japan's health ministry is investigating how he was infected.
Sanders Argues Medicare for All Is Vital for Union Workers: 'They're Losing Wage Increases Because Cost of Healthcare Is Soaring'
Responding to the powerful Nevada Culinary Workers Union's criticism of Medicare for All in new fliers—a critique that was readily seized upon by some 2020 Democrats—Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday night made the case for why achieving single-payer is so vital for union workers and everyone els…
'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Further Than Previously Known
Ten years after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster sent hundreds of millions of gallons of oil across the Gulf of Mexico, researchers say the reach of the damage was far more significant than previously thought.
In a study published Wednesday in Science, Claire Paris-Limouzy and Igal Berens…
Man who refused to decrypt hard drives is free after four years in jail
A Philadelphia man has been freed after a federal appeals court ruled that his continued detention was violating federal law. Francis Rawls, a former police officer, had been in jail since 2015, when a federal judge held him in contempt for failing to decrypt two hard drives taken from his home.…
Jim Jordan: Key Trump ally was 'crying and begging' student wrestler to deny abuse cover-up, hearing told
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Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of ‘climate chaos’
Moreover, several once-common species have disappeared from many areas they were once found, becoming locally extinct in those places. For example, the rusty patched bumblebee, which used to flourish in Ontario, is no longer found in all of Canada—in the U.S., it’s endangered.
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Drugs fail to slow decline in inherited Alzheimer's disease
The study tested solanezumab by Eli Lilly & Co., and gantenerumab by Swiss drugmaker Roche and its U.S. subsidiary, Genentech. Both drugs gave disappointing results in some earlier studies, but the doses in this one ranged up to four to five times higher and researchers had hoped that would …
Half of Us Face Obesity, Dire Projections Show
A prestigious team of medical scientists has projected that by 2030, nearly one in two adults will be obese, and nearly one in four will be severely obese. The estimates are thought to be particularly reliable, as the team corrected for current underestimates of weight given by individuals in na…