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Record Number of Endangered Turtles Hatch in Mexico

Source: BBC » Record numbers of an endangered species of turtle have hatched on a beach in northern Mexico, believed to be the result of reduced human activity during the coronavirus pandemic. ...

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San Jose Man Donates Collection of 25,000 Baseball Cards to 9-Year-Old Who Lost All Hers in Wildfire

Source: NBC Bay Area » Let's be honest, when a home is surrounded by dozens of firefighters, CHP cruisers, and TV news cameras, it is rarely because something good happened. On Tuesday, though, i...

Environment Featured

China’s Forest Carbon Uptake ‘Underestimated’

Source: BBC » China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts. An international team has identified two areas in the country w...

Featured People

Vermont Woman Reunites with Biological Family 44 Years After She Was Lost at a Market and Then Adopted

Source: People » Forty-four years after being adopted from South Korea by a family in the United States, Denise McCarty has been (virtually) reunited with her birth family — including a twin...

Featured Pets & Animals

Hairless Opossum Needs To Keep Warm, So People Are Donating a Winter Wardrobe

Source: Today » A wildlife rehabilitation facility in Lubbock, Texas, has been met with an outpouring of community support after taking in a rare opossum that has no fur and needs a "winter wardr...

COVID19 Featured Health

Federal Government Says It Will Pay for Any Future Coronavirus Vaccine for All Americans

Source: CNN » The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it will pay for any Covid-19 vaccine that is authorized or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to allow for "broad va...

Culture Featured People

Trailblazing Climber Sasha Digiulian Was Told ‘Little Girls Don’t Belong.’ She Didn’t Listen.

Source: CNN » Sasha DiGiulian is used to proving people wrong. She has done so throughout her life. The 28-year-old took the rock climbing world by storm at an early age and has grown into one...

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Prisoners Are Among the Countless People Rescue Animals Help in New Richard Linklater Show

Source: People » That Animal Rescue Show, a new docuseries arriving on CBS All Access on Oct. 29, may sound like a program that focuses on how humans help animals — and that's part of it — but th...

Community Featured People

Indian Child Poverty Charity Offers Free School Meals in England

Source: The Guardian » A charity that feeds millions of poor children in India has joined the drive to end holiday hunger in England and distributed its first meals from a new kitchen in Watford....

Featured Pets & Animals

600 Pets To Leave Hawaii, Make History as Largest Pet Rescue Flight

Source: KHON 2 (Honolulu) » Over 600 shelter dogs and cats from Hawaii are being flown to Seattle in efforts to relieve overcrowded pet shelters in the state. Greater Good Charities and Wings ...

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Meet the Toronto Carpenter Building Insulated, Mobile Shelters for Homeless People This Winter

Source: CBC News » The small wooden structure inside Khaleel Seivwright's rented Cabbagetown workshop looks something like an oversized shoebox, or perhaps a transport crate for a motorcycle. ...