Forest creature with red eyes and bumpy belly found in Brazil. It’s a new species In a forest of eastern Brazil, a small creature with red eyes and a bumpy belly called out for a mate. Instead, its call attracted the attention of passing scientists. It turned out to be a new species. 10/10/2024 - 8:12 am | View Link
The biggest contrasts in Washington's public lands commissioner race How to best prevent wildfires and how much forest area should be protected from logging have become flashpoints in the race for Washington state's commissioner of public lands. Why it matters: The lands commissioner manages nearly 6 million acres and leads the state's wildland firefighting agency — a role that has come under more scrutiny in recent years as wildfires have increasingly blanketed the state in smoke. 10/9/2024 - 2:29 am | View Link
Types of Forests: Definitions, Examples, and Importance There are three types of forests: boreal, temperate, and tropical. On a global scale, forests are shaped by the amount of solar radiation and precipitation, both of which are influenced by ... 10/5/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
Forest Tropical rainforests and boreal coniferous forests are the least fragmented, whereas subtropical dry forests and temperate oceanic forests are among the most fragmented. Roughly 80 percent of the world's forest area is found in patches larger than 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres). 10/5/2024 - 4:03 am | View Link
Forest Task inspiration crushes procrastination—reignite your on-hold goals and take action! Forest is an app that helps you stay focused on the important things in life. Leaving the app halfway will cause your tree to die. Stay focused daily and turn hard work into a land of lush forest. 10/5/2024 - 2:08 am | View Link
Distribution of Forests A forest is defined as an environment that is covered by trees at least five meters (16 feet) high over an area of at least 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres)—a bit smaller than the size of an American football field. Forests grow in cold, temperate, and tropical regions and cover about 30 percent of the land area around the globe. 10/4/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important Forests cover nearly a third of all land on Earth, providing vital organic infrastructure for some of the planet's densest, most diverse collections of life. They support countless species,... 10/4/2024 - 3:17 pm | View Link
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On October 7, as Hurricane Milton was just days away from making landfall in Tampa, Florida, the city’s mayor, Jane Castor, issued a dire warning to residents in evacuation zones: “If you choose to stay…you are going to die.”
But leaving one’s home to avoid the Category 5 hurricane is not possible for everyone.
When people don’t flee their homes due to weather crises, despite warnings from government officials, there are typically two reasons why, according to Cara Cuite, an assistant professor in Rutgers University’s department of human ecology.
Tonight President Obama will be in Pittsburgh, PA.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are in Phoenix, Arizona.
Doug Emhoff is in Georgia.
All of them are rallying voters to go vote early and get their friends to vote, and it's all here on this live stream.
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Donald has been pitching on a days-long temper tantrum over Vice President Kamala Harris's widely watched 60 Minutes interview. CBS extended Trump an invitation but he broke 50 years of presidential campaign tradition by refusing to appear on the show. The former President has been losing his shit on his flailing Truth Social platform for days, and today is no different.
It doesn't appear that Donald realizes that the television's oldest and most-watched news magazine has editors.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel on Tuesday called out a Florida agency for threatening a Tampa NBC affiliate with prosecution for airing an advertisement in support of a state abortion rights proposal on the November ballot.
"The right of broadcasters to speak freely is rooted in the First Amendment," Rosenworcel said in a statement.
After Joe Biden had finally had enough and called out the dangerous lies being spread by MAGA Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump and others, the right-wing pundits on Fox's The Five were in full damage control mode this Wednesday.
After Dana Perino pretended not to know where the lie about the $750 originated, her cohorts did their best to try to minimize the damage being done by these lies, and once again, the only push-back came from the lone Democrat on the panel, Jessica Tarlov, and even she flubbed where the $750 lie originated.