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A 71 year old man became unconscious due to a seizure and collapsed during a walk by the Lake. However, one of his two dogs ran the path all the way down to alert another walker who passed by them earlier while his other dog stayed with the man to watch over him. Soon, the walker came over lead by his dog and was able to call for rescue.

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This river (River Thames) in London was once declared biologically dead due to pollution and sewage dumped into it, but recently it has been reported to have around 115 species of fish living within it.

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Once declared biologically dead, the Thames River flows as much with life as with water these days, and the first report on its health in 60 years is enough to make a Londoner cheer.

Perhaps 115 species of fish live in the river-providing food for not one, not two, but three species of shark which swim above a river bottom where seahorses and eels can be found.

The "State of the Thames" report highlights the gradual work in reduction of pressure on life in the river over the last 60 years, when pollution and sewage decimated it. Short and long-term phosphorus concentrations have fallen, while dissolved oxygen has increased.

"This report has enabled us to really look at how far the Thames has come on its journey to recovery since it was declared biologically dead, and in some cases, set baselines to build from in the future," said Zoological Society London (ZSL) program lead for wetland recovery, Alison Debney.

ZSL has been working to restore the Thames as a tidal and estuarine ecosystem since 2003, and one of the best ways the look at progress is how river's estuary is doing-specifically in the populations of the system's top predators, grey and harbor seals.
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These furry, fish-seeking mammals have increased in numbers, indicating growing fish stocks despite competition from tope, starry smooth hound, and spurdog sharks.

Annual counts of both species of seal have taken place on the Thames Estuary every year since 2013 except during 2020, and they've increased from 797 harbor seals to 932, and from 2,866 grey seals to 3,243.
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"As top predators, (seals) are a great indicator of ecological health, so they tell us how the Thames is doing," said conservation biologist Thea Cox, to the BBC. "People think the Thames is dead because it is brown, but the Thames is full of life-the water quality has improved so much."

It's not just swimming things that are flourishing in the Thames, but flapping ones as well.
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Several areas of the Thames are protected as native and migratory bird sanctuaries, and as a result the number of wading birds, for example the avocet, has doubled across a period from 1993 to 2017.
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Additionally, the future is bright for the river, as while some measurements of life in the Thames are worsening, the report details a new "super sewer" that will divert 95% of all sewage from the waterway.

"The new sewer, which is due to be complete in 2025, is designed to capture more than 95 per cent of the sewage spills that enter the River from London's Victorian sewer system," stated Liz Wood-Griffiths, Head of Consents at Tideway. "It will have a significant impact on the water quality, making it a much healthier environment for wildlife to survive and flourish."

"A resilient future for both people and wildlife will depend on protecting remaining natural habitats, reconnecting and restoring habitats, and innovating new ways to maximize opportunities for wildlife in the urban environment," Debney concluded.

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Once Biologically Dead, London's River Thames Rebounds - With Seahorses and Seals

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Firefighters and first responders were able to pinpoint where a trapped dog was underground, and safely rescued it. The walker and owner of the dog didn’t have it on a leash and lost it in her tracks, and quickly called the ambulance.

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Using equipment that is normally found at disaster sites after building collapses or earthquakes, firefighters worked for hours to free a trapped Jack Russell pet.

The 11-year-old Freddy was chasing a rabbit on Monday when he got trapped down a narrow hole in Blackroot Pool, West Midlands.

His owner Richard Hill said he could hear Freddy's whimpers underground but was unable to reach him.

The 55-year-old reluctantly gave up searching for him when it got dark.

"I really thought I had seen Freddy for the very last time," said Hill.

He returned on Tuesday morning and called 999 after he could hear Freddy's cries for help.

He had been trapped for 24 hours by that time.

The West Midland Fire and Rescue Service found them after Hill used an app to help firefighters find his exact location: What3Word has divided the world into 3m squares and given each square a unique combination of three words-and if you have the app, it is as accurate as GPS coordinates.

Crews used camera and listening gear on their mission to find the distressed pup, and eventually dug a 6-ft by 9-ft crater.

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Thankfully, after two hours digging, firefighters freed the exhausted Freddy, who "ran out of the hole as they got closer to him."

"I have to say a huge thank-you to the firefighters, they were just unbelievable," says Hill.

"It was just incredible when he ran out of the hole after the rescue, it was just like nothing had happened."

Freddy is still sporting an orange tint after being covered with the clay soil.

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According to the relieved owner, the 4-legged adventurer will "definitely be staying on the lead the next time we go out for a walk."
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Firefighters Rescue a Dog Trapped Down a 15-Foot Underground Burrow Overnight

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Using equipment that is normally found at disaster sites after building collapses or earthquakes, firefighters worked for hours to free a trapped Jack Russell pet. The 11-year-old Freddy was chasing a rabbit on Monday when he got trapped down a narrow hole in Blackroot Pool, West Midlands.

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This is one of the oldest women to climb the mountain and have such good health while doing it. She thinks she will be able to climb even more mountains with this health. I think this is really positive because this is a goal of mine, to stay healthy and active my whole life.

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a 70-year-old is believed to have become the oldest woman to climb yosemite's el capitan  - cnn

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A 70-year-old is believed to have become the oldest woman to climb Yosemite's El Capitan

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Dierdre Wolownick dreamed of watching the sunset from the top of Yosemite National Park's famous El Capitan rock formation in California.

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A man named Marty Rogers has lived in his south Bronx neighborhood for 66 years and is involved with a lifelong community for 44 years. He operates an annual Thanksgiving dinner at a local church and it becomes a tradition of his. This dinner at first served senior citizens, but now more homeless citizens were included too. Ever since the pandemic hit, his family and he worked together to raise money for a “takeout” version of the dinner by offering takeout and delivery.
He also operates a food delivery program called "Hope Walks," where he leads volunteers on trips to deliver food to people who are experiencing homelessness. During the pandemic, he expanded those efforts and now does them three times a week.

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So the article that I read about was about this vending machine called the giving machine which is like you buy something from it and the money is donated to local charities as well as global causes. These machines were popular in 2017 but when Covid hit they had to shut down or they just weren’t as popular but now they’re starting to repopularize and install more!

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12 year old boy helps lost couple and injured dog get back  safely using Boy Scout knowledge

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A couple was lost on a hike with an injured dog, they came across a boy named David who wanted to help them. He used his knowledge as a Boy Scout to help them, he made a stretcher using t-shirts and sticks, and worked with them to lead them out safely.
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It's the textbook beginning of a nightmare: lost on a hiking trail, with no water, and an injured dog too heavy to carry. Fortunately for the family of three this story happened to, they literally ran into a boy scout.

For JD, Aimee, and their dog Smokey, a two-mile hike had become a seven-mile disaster on the Waimanu Trail above Pearl City, Honolulu.

Their phone was dead, and it was getting dark.

That's when they came across 12 year-old David King and his mom Christine.

"We asked 'oh do you need any help?' They said 'yeah,' they showed us the dog's paws had some cuts on it," David told local reporters. "When the dog would walk, it would just be really painful."

David was just three miles short of getting his 15-mile-hike merit badge, but despite having done that and played a soccer match earlier in the day, David did what all boy scouts do: he lent a hand.
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First, he suggested they build a stretcher by using two lengths of wood and stringing their t-shirts across it-a technique David had learned from his eagle scout older brother.

"It was his idea to make the stretcher," said Christine. "We didn't think it would work because we didn't think the dog would get onto the stretcher. Smokey was just happy to, and we just carried him out."
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Someone (presumably David) knew the way back to the parking lot as well, and so they all worked together, sometimes in twos, sometimes in fours, to get Smokey to safety, who despite his injuries occasionally hopped off to give some relief to the exhausted hikers.

David would later take the opportunity to tell KHON2 News when you're off on a hike, a good way to be prepared is to imagine what could go wrong, and plan for that.
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Good on ya, David.

( WATCH the KHON2 video for this story below.)

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Abraham Olagbegi was 12 years old when he and his family learned that he will need a bone marrow transplant due to his rare blood disease he was born with. Abraham the learned he’d qualified as a recipient for Make-A-Wish and decided to use it to feed the homeless every month for a year. This is really positive because he could have easily used it for something he wants for himself like his favorite games, but he surprised his parents with his selflessness.

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When life hands you a miracle, you can bask in its glow-or you can pay it forward.

Abraham Olagbegi was 12 years old when he and his family learned that without a bone marrow transplant, the rare blood disease he'd been born with might prove fatal.

Fast forward one year, one successful transplant, and an intense schedule of chemotherapy later, and Abraham is out of the hospital and his prognosis is promising-but that's not the only good news.

Over the course of his illness, Abraham learned he'd qualified as a recipient for Make-A-Wish, a charitable organization whose purpose is to make the dreams of seriously ill children come true one wish at a time. Rather than something for himself, Abraham chose to show thanks for his good fortune by passing it along to others.

On their way home from one of his many doctor's appointments, the Mississippi teen shared his decision with his mom, Miriam. The wish Abraham asked for was to feed the homeless in his area one day a month for an entire year.

While she couldn't have been more proud of Abraham, Miriam did wonder if perhaps he wouldn't rather have something for himself-like a PlayStation-but really, she wasn't surprised by her son's selflessness. Prior to his diagnosis, Abraham and his family regularly volunteered in their community handing out hot meals to the homeless.
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"It was always a good thing to do, and that's what I grew up doing that," Abraham told WLBT-News 3. "So, I go back to my roots to do what I was taught to do."

"When he so easily gives to others at a time where everybody should really be supporting him, you just have to say, that's a remarkable young man," Linda Sermons, an assistant with Make-A-Wish Mississippi said in an interview with WAPT-News 16.

On the third Thursday of each month, Make-A-Wish's Mississippi chapter has committed to helping Abraham coordinate with local organizations and businesses to feed up to 80 homeless people in Jackson's Poindexter Park. As of October, Abraham has helmed two successful "Abraham's Table" events, distributing the donated goods to folks in need.

"When the homeless people get the plate, some of them would come back and sing to us and thank us," Abraham told CBS News. "It just really feels good, it warms our hearts-and my parents always taught us that it's a blessing to be a blessing."
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"We were excited," Sermons told WLBT News 3 during the first event in September. "This is our first philanthropic wish in our 20-plus years of the chapter in the state. [It's] a huge milestone for us, but also this is the first meal that Abraham is able to serve."

While a dozen days of giving is admirable, when the year is up, Abraham plans to keep his mission going. "We're very excited to be able to continue on this endeavor. It's just so rewarding," Miriam told CBS. "If I was out there on the streets, homeless, I would want somebody at some point to think of me and to do something special for me, so, that's what I try to instill in my kids."
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Abraham still receives weekly checkups to monitor his condition, but he has faith in his future. "I am a person of hope," he told WLBT. And as the type of person who not only has hope but gives it as well, he's a true inspiration.

( WATCH the CBS video for this story below. Editor's Note: Viewers outside the US can view this video on the CBS website, here )

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13-Year-old Boy Granted a "Make-A-Wish" and Uses It to Feed the Homeless Every Month for a Year

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A protected swimway from Galápagos to Costa Rica was built to help endangered migrating animals like whale sharks, sea turtles, and tuna. In addition to that, in 2022 there are more new marine projects on the way.

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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced at the climate summit, COP 26 in Scotland, an expansion of the marine protections around the iconic Galápagos Islands by 23,000 square miles-nearly 15 million acres.

Lasso also announced the creation a protected swimway from Galápagos all the way to Costa Rica, an underwater superhighway refuge for a variety of endangered migratory animals such as scalloped hammerhead sharks, whale sharks, rays, sea turtles, and tuna.

The swimway will connect with Cocos Islands National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of Costa Rica.

The new marine sanctuary expands the existing Galápagos Islands reserve by 45%, the equivalent of protecting a Lake Michigan-sized area of water-and there is already a fleet ready to police the area.

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Industrial fishing has for decades harvested from this marine superhighway, and the new protection has galvanized members of the Galápagos Conservancy, a nonprofit which is the premiere protector of the endemic giant land tortoises they study and breed, but which also is active in marine conservation.

The news earned the Ecuadorian president a shout out from Hollywood eco-conscience Leonardo Di Caprio.

Congratulations to Ecuadorian President @LassoGuillermo on the creation of a new 23,166-square-mile Marine Protected Area near the Galápagos and the new debt swap to help manage it, announced today at #COP26. (📷: @shawnheinrichs) pic.twitter.com/Uj1vzJN2RE
- Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) November 1, 2021

"Galápagos Conservancy will continue to fund the Galápagos National Park's patrol boats to keep industrial fishing out of these precious waters. What's more, we have groundbreaking new marine projects well underway for 2022, including more grants focused on marine conservation than ever before," the group said in a statement.

"We hope that this agreement between Ecuador and Costa Rica will serve as a model for multinational collaboration in marine conservation going forward."

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The announcement was hailed at COP-26 where, in other good news, 100 leaders from around the world pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030. More than 100 countries also signed a pledge to reduce their methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030-with the U.S. committing to a 50% reduction of the ultra-potent greenhouse gas by the end of the decade.

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A firefighter reads a book to a little girl to help calm her down after a car crash.

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A photo taken by a bystander in Montana captured the touching scene of a firefighter reading a book to a little girl in the street, taking her mind off the trauma of their family's car crash.

It was nighttime about a month ago when the Billings Fire Department responded to the two-vehicle accident, sirens blaring.

While the crews and the girl's parents were busy with tow trucks and police reports, firefighter Ryan Benton took a book out of their fire engine and started reading to her on the curb.

"This allowed her to calm down and allowed the parents the ability to focus on getting some sense of normalcy back after a traumatic event like an accident," said a fire department spokesperson.

"Sweetest thing ever!" wrote Allie Marie Schmalz on Facebook when she posted her photo of the 26-year-old fire fighter.

We've learned after news reports that the Billings fire responders always carry book bags to give to children in traumatic situations. The bags contain a stuffed animal, a book about firefighters, and other books that can soothe a young child's mind.

Julie Angle later wrote on the Billings Firefighters Facebook page, saying how grateful she was for the compassionate practice.

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"A few years ago we experienced the firefighters giving my kids stuffed animals after a fire. My girls remember that more than the fire. It was definitely something we will always be thankful for!"

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The Australian Koolie named Bear has been named a hero, winning an award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
Bear was trained in Australia at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where their Detection Dogs for Conservation team taught the former rescue dog to use his heightened sense of smell to hunt out the injured koalas among the ashes.
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An intrepid 6-year-old dog helped rescue over 100 injured koalas from the Australian bush fires in 2019-2020.

Now, the Australian Koolie named Bear has been named a hero, winning an award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Bear was trained in Australia at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where their Detection Dogs for Conservation team taught the former rescue dog to use his heightened sense of smell to hunt out the injured koalas among the ashes.

Research Fellow Dr Romane Cristescu, who leads the USC team, said Bear received "extra pats and extra play" after he was honored via video during the IFAW Animal Action Awards event in London's House of Lords.

She said Bear's sense of smell, along with his enthusiasm for play, made him ideal for research projects such as recognizing the scent of koala fur in the bush.

IFAW, which sponsors Bear, said the dog had been "a ray of hope" as he searched burned habitat to help the USC/IFAW team and their partners to rescue over 100 koalas.

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His heroics earned him worldwide renown via his Instagram page, BearTheKoalaDog.

Previously, he had found himself in an animal shelter after his former owners gave him up due to behavior issues caused by his "boundless energy and obsessive enthusiasm for play."

Dr Cristescu, an ecologist and former veterinarian, said the USC/IFAW koala detection dog is continuing to contribute to wildlife rescues and research with the team's other canine colleagues.

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"Bear and our team are studying the effects of the 2019-20 bushfires on koala health and habitat density in collaboration with IFAW," she said.

In addition, Bear has an ongoing day job of locating koalas for welfare rescue missions, in collaboration with local rescue groups.

"He is always happy to give a paw to find koalas as part of the Detection Dogs for Conservation 's other research activities."

Below is a PBS video of Bear at work...

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Heroic Dog Gets Award for Saving Over 100 Koalas From Australia's Bushfires

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An undersea cable has been connected from Morocco to the UK, and will import enough sun and wind-generated energy to supply seven million homes by 2030. This is a revolutionary project and is the world’s biggest undersea cable.

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A tiny English village is to become the center of a "revolution" in the global energy industry and be connected to Morocco-with the world's longest undersea cable.

The scheme will see Alverdiscott in Devon, population 286, at the end of a line attaching it to North Africa.

The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project says it will import enough sun and wind-generated energy to the UK to supply seven million homes by 2030.

The plan would see 3,800km (2,361 miles) of subsea cabling connect Morocco's renewable energy-rich Guelmim Oued Noun region with little Alverdiscott, near Barnstaple.

An agreement has already been reached with the National Grid for voltage source convertor stations to be set up in the English village, which has a population of 286.

The man behind the huge project is former Tesco groocery store chain boss Sir David Lewis.

The new electricity generation facility, entirely powered by solar and wind energy combined with a battery storage facility, would cover about 1,500 square kilometers (579 square miles) in Morocco and then be connected to Britain via four HVDC (high voltage direct current) sub-sea cables.
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These would plug into Alverdiscott which would host two 1.8GW connections.

Convertor stations in Morocco will change the high voltage alternating current (HVAC) power at the generation site to HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current).

This is then sent through the subsea cable to the converter station in North Devon which changes it back to high voltage power, ready to be injected into the British transmission network.
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In total, four cables will form the twin 1.8GW HVDC subsea cable systems.

They will follow the shallow water route from Morocco to Alverdiscott, passing Spain, Portugal, and France.

A technical feasibility study has already been completed to validate the reliability and cost of the project.
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The former Tesco boss is also raising £800 million ($1,080 million) to build three UK production facilities to tap into growing demand for the electric cables used for offshore wind farms and undersea interconnectors.
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A spokesman for Xlinks said, "This 'first of a kind' project will generate 10.5GW of zero carbon electricity from the sun and wind to deliver 3.6GW of reliable energy for an average of 20+ hours a day.

Once complete, the project will be capable of supplying 8% of Great Britain's electricity needs.

"Alongside the consistent output from its solar panels and wind turbines, an onsite 20GWh/5GW battery facility provides sufficient storage to reliably deliver each and every day, a dedicated, near-constant source of flexible and predictable clean energy for Britain, designed to complement the renewable energy already generated across the UK." That's exciting news indeed.

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In 2014 Minawao hosted 60,000 + refugees in Cameroon but they cut down all the surrounding forest to make firewood, making the area a dessert wasteland. In 2017 the UNHCR help the people plant trees and now the area is a thriving forest.

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A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States just had his 112th birthday.

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A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday.

Lawrence Brooks celebrated Sunday with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National World War II Museum, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. He also received greetings from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who tweeted, "Mr. Brooks, the entire state of Louisiana thanks you for your service and we all wish you a joyous birthday."

The museum has previously hosted parties for Brooks, although the coronavirus pandemic has caused those events to shift to drive-by celebrations for the past two years.

This year's festivities included a Jeep parade, a live performance from the museum vocal trio and entertainment from New Orleans musicians. The city also recognized Brooks' birthday with an official proclamation.

Born in Norwood, Louisiana, in 1909, Brooks has lived in New Orleans since 1929. Drafted in 1940, he was a private in the Army's mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion, a unit that was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines and built infrastructure such as bridges, roads and airstrips.

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A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday. Lawrence Brooks celebrated Sunday with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National World War II Museum, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.

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Almost 3 years ago A California wild fire destroyed almost a full footballs teams homes and almost their entire town. The only thing that seemed to go untouched was their highs school football field. The town took this as a sign of hope that things would get better. It didn't take them long to get the field cleaned up and ready to play on again. The Town is now back to the way it was and their football team is on their way to state  the state playoffs.

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High school football team rises again after deadly wildfire miraculously spared its field

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The Paradise football team was honored by the San Francisco 49ers as it continues to rebuild nearly 3 years after California’s deadliest wildfire.

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Jaba Kankava, the Georgian footballer who saved his opponent’s life

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Life is priceless. Today we want to inspire you by the sports moment in which this famous saying has literally translated into reality, when the Georgian footballer Jaba Kankava saved Dinamo Kiev player’s life after a terrible collision during a game. The matter dates back to 2014 and it took part…

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Morgan: Little boy goes to great lengths to try and get a safe and loving home for dogs in the shelter. 

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Morgan: Little boy goes to great lengths to try and get a safe and loving home for dogs in the shelter. 

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ASPCA Kid of the Year goes to great lengths to get shelter dogs adopted

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“It makes me feel really good ... but it also makes me want to do so much more,” Evan Bisnauth said.

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Puppy Siblings Adopted by Different Families Immediately Recognize Each Other During Walks One Year Later

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Kat Labno: Puppy Siblings Adopted by Different Families Immediately Recognize Each Other During Walks One Year Later

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Kat Labno: Puppy Siblings Adopted by Different Families Immediately Recognize Each Other During Walks One Year Later

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Two cockapoos, Monty and Rosie, noticed eachother on a walk a year after adoption. The siblings then decided it was time to (quite literally) hug it out. Even dogs can recognize their family separated at birth!

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These two adorable cockapoos look a bit different now than when they were adopted by different families almost a year ago, but it was a 'Puppy Love' moment recently when they ran into each other on a walk.

David Kidd was out walking his one-year-old pup Monty when he spotted another dog that looked similar.

When Monty crossed paths with Rosie, they began hugging, as though being reunited, so their owners started chatting.

They realized then, that they were from the same litter.

Susan, Rosie's mom lives in the next village, so this was a rare moment.

"My husband Lee and I took Rosie for a walk one day... It was so lovely, they both just jumped up and hugged each other, it was amazing," Susan Killip told Bored Panda.

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"It's nearly Rosie and Monty's first birthday, (so) hopefully we can do something to celebrate it together," Susan added.
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Puppy Siblings Adopted by Different Families Immediately Recognize Each Other During Walks One Year Later

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These two adorable cockapoos look a bit different now than when they were adopted by different families almost a year ago, but it was a 'Puppy Love' moment recently when they ran into each other on a walk. David Kidd was out walking his one-year-old pup Monty when he spotted another dog that looked similar.

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She took time out of her own life during the pandemic to try and bring other people positive attitudes.

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Elise Chang has come up with a sweet way to bring cheer to her friends and neighbors.

Chang told Good Morning America she loves giving gifts, and at the start of the pandemic, the Maryland teenager would bake cookies and drop them off at her friends' houses along with a present, usually a stuffed animal. They would tell Chang how much they loved her baked goods, and many would also send photos showing them with the stuffed animal. "That's why I wanted to continue doing it, because of those small but really meaningful reactions," Chang said.

She decided to use this as an opportunity to spread joy in her own neighborhood, and launched the Tough Cookie Service Project. Once a month, she makes special deliveries to 20 of her neighbors, leaving a bag of her latest cookie creation as well as a note encouraging the recipient to do something kind for someone else. The pandemic has helped Chang see just how resilient people are, and how even the smallest gesture can mean so much.

"I love random acts of kindness," Chang told GMA. "You can just make someone smile when they weren't originally or they'll just be thinking about you or what you've done and want to continue giving kindness to others, which is really important to me."
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Skip to main content Elise Chang has come up with a sweet way to bring cheer to her friends and neighbors. Chang told Good Morning America she loves giving gifts, and at the start of the pandemic, the Maryland teenager would bake cookies and drop them off at her friends' houses along with a present, usually a stuffed animal.

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JOEY RODINO: Teen collapse but opponent helped him finish race Ruining his chance at winning.

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JOEY RODINO: Teen collapse but opponent helped him finish race Ruining his chance at winning.

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During a cross country race, a racer collapsed from exhaustion and someone else helped him finish. He picked him up and carried him to the finish line ruining his chance at qualifying for the next race. This is super positive because their are selfless amazing people who will put themselves after others. This was something I thought was positive and inspiring.

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In the sport of track and field, athletes compete not only with one another but against themselves, and with each race they strive to achieve a new personal best.

For one Nebraska teen running in what would likely be his final cross country outing before graduating high school, his personal best turned out not to be about marking the fastest time but displaying the biggest heart.

Although it was a long shot when he came out of the blocks last Thursday, Bellevue East senior Brandon Schutt knew if his time was good enough that day, he still had the potential to qualify for the upcoming state meet.

A mile into the 3.1-mile race, however, Schutt realized he wasn't going to be able to keep up the necessary momentum.

Rather than risk injury, he slowed to a comfortable pace that would allow him to simply enjoy the moment and the day.

Meanwhile, Omaha Burke High School sophomore Blake Cerveny was running a very different kind of race.

Aiming to beat his own personal record, after a fast start, he continued to push himself hard.

With less than 400 meters to go, Cerveny's legs cramped up and failed him.

His will did not.

Determined to finish, Cerveny rose from the ground and continued on, only to fall again after another 150 meters... and again, he got up and started running. This time he'd made it only 25 meters more before going down. But he wasn't done yet.

Concerned, his dad and his coach asked Cerveny if he wanted to stop. He didn't. With Herculean effort, the young runner pulled himself up and with an unsteady gait, moved forward for one final push.

It wasn't enough. A scant 100 meters from the finish line, he lay curled on the ground. His legs had simply given out.

Before Cerveny's dad could reach his son, another runner-Brandon Schutt-was at his side to offer a helping hand.

His first attempt to get Cerveny up failed, but like Cerveny, he too refused to quit. With a second tug, Cerveny was on his feet.

At a measured jog, with Cerveny holding Schutt for support and Schutt helping Cerveny maintain balance, the two completed the final 75 meters of the course in tandem.

Schutt even made sure the injured runner crossed the finish line first, securing his opponent a faster time.

(Although Cerveny was automatically disqualified for having received help, Schutt's time for the race will stand.)
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"I saw Blake zig-zagging with 100 meters to go, a classic sign that his legs were about to give. As I kept my camera trained on him, I saw Brandon come into the picture. I began whispering, 'No, no, no,' to myself, because at the time, I didn't know the Good Samaritan rule had been changed," Jay Slagle, the citizen journalist who first broke the story on his blog, PrepRunningNerd.com told GNN.

"This is the first time I've ever seen an athlete stop his race and work so hard to help his fellow competitor across the finish line," he added. "Perhaps more impressively, Brandon had virtually no time to think about whether he should help or not; he reacted so quickly that he did it instinctively."

Three weeks prior to this meet, Schutt had found himself in the same situation as Cerveny, unable to complete the race. "I felt awful about not finishing," he told KETV-7. "I felt like I was letting my teammates down and I was letting myself down-so ultimately I just made the call [to help him]."

As Cerveny was taken to the medical tent for care, Schutt rejoined his teammates for a post-race cool-down. (Cerveny, who was only suffering from extreme muscle fatigue with no sustained injuries, was soon up and able to leave on his own steam.)

Ironically, though the pair had competed in five separate races over the course of the season, they were still strangers. At the end of the eventful day, neither Cerveny nor Schutt knew each other's names.

Thanks to Slagle's coverage and a whirlwind of social media, however, Schutt's uncredited act of kindness was quickly anything but anonymous. Soon enough, the local news outlet that picked up the story and ran with it arranged an on-camera reunion in which the boys were given the opportunity to reflect on what the day's events had meant to them.

In today's competitive world in which the emphasis in athletics is so often put on breaking records, it was inspiring to see that for an athlete like Brandon Schutt, the value of true sportsmanship still had legs.
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"Brandon is an excellent person," Bellevue East's head track coach Rachel Carraher told KETV-7. "He is really kind and a great leader on the team."
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And for others, like Blake Cerveny, knowing that finishing the race-no matter the odds or adversity-is the true meaning of a win.

( WATCH the KETV7 video showing the runners meeting below.)

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In the sport of track and field, athletes compete not only with one another but against themselves, and with each race they strive to achieve a new personal best. For one Nebraska teen running in what would likely be his final cross country outing before graduating high school, his personal best turned out not to be about marking the fastest time but displaying the biggest heart.

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Can tweeting trees help save the planet?

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Can tweeting trees help save the planet?

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The tree’s messages are based on data from a suite of sensors on and around its trunk, using a real-time approach to tree monitoring. This data, taken on a daily basis, is going to be used to monitor change in climate and how it affects trees. This may be one direct way to help diminish climate change .... one tree at a time!

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Can a network of tweeting trees help us cut carbon emissions and increase empathy for ecosystems? Scientists think so

In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio:

"Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century. Views are my own - sort of (data translated by scientists and communicators at HF)."

Every few days, the tree updates its 9,118 followers. On February 24 2020 it posted: "The last 2 days were extremely hot for February. When is this heatwave going to end?"

The day before, it had complained even more:

In 2019, it just kept raining and snowing. Overall, it was the 8th wettest year I have experienced here at Harvard Forest. We all need water, but when there's too much, I have a harder time getting oxygen and keeping stable footing in the soil.

- A witness tree (@awitnesstree) February 2, 2020

Now, after a hiatus due to Covid-related challenges, the Witness Tree is coming back online.

The tree's messages are based on data from a suite of sensors on and around its trunk, using a real-time approach to tree monitoring pioneered by Witness Tree's inspiration and sister project TreeWatch.net. Led by Ghent University, TreeWatch.net set up its first tweeting tree in 2016, and currently monitors sensor data from 21 trees across Belgium, Germany, India, the Netherlands and the UK.

The sensors fitted to Harvard's Witness Tree include a ribbon embedded in its trunk to track water flow, a spring-loaded pin pushing against its bark to monitor shrinkage and swelling and a camera to capture leaf growth. Continuous data streams from these sensors tell us how the tree is affected by changes in its immediate environment. This technology is still in its infancy, but it shows exceptional promise.

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By analysing data from Witness Tree and TreeWatch.net, we have already learned that drought can cause a tree's stomata - the openings on the underside of its leaves - to close. The closed stomata block water intake, disrupting tree growth. More frequent droughts may therefore lead to less carbon uptake by trees and forests.

Forthcoming studies even indicate that individual trees respond differently to the same heat waves, and that water transport in trees can react instantly to the presence of a solar eclipse. With the sun obscured by the moon, stomata close as they would do at night, immediately reducing water intake.

As we continue to assess incoming data from Witness Tree and TreeWatch.net, we will surely learn even more about how trees affect - and are affected by - their surroundings.
Science communication
The red oak at Harvard Forest, along with its Asian and European cousins at TreeWatch.net, is first and foremost a rich source of scientific data. But at the same time that data, when converted to tweets by custom-built algorithms, turns the Witness Tree into a platform for science communication research.

Behind the scenes, a computer programme analyses the incoming numbers from Witness Tree's sensors: cross-checking against pre-programmed thresholds for normal activity, looking for abrupt changes and compiling summaries.

For each key data feature, including daily water use, sap flow dynamics, stem shrinkage and trunk growth, the researchers at Harvard Forest have provided the programme with several different prewritten message templates. The programme chooses one of these templates, inserts the relevant data, and posts the completed message on Twitter as if in the tree's own voice.

Because the messages are chosen from templates at random, they can be used as a testing ground to study how the public prefers to engage with different topics and writing styles.

Preliminary results suggest, somewhat surprisingly, that the Witness Tree's followers engage equally with data-driven and narrative-based tweets. The addition of multimedia - through images, videos or data visualisation - generates more responses, likes and retweets. Any posts that directly concern climate change seem to attract the most attention.

Oak galls are all over the forest floor right now. They're stranger than fiction! They start when gall wasps lay eggs on my buds. The wasp larvae release hormones that hijack my buds, directing me to create orbs instead of leaves. The orbs protect the growing larvae. Humph!

- A witness tree (@awitnesstree) October 28, 2019

The future
To gain access to even more data, both the Witness Tree project and TreeWatch.net are expanding. The single Witness Tree will soon become part of a forest network spread over urban, suburban and rural areas to study how trees function in different environments.

Future witness trees with fine particulate matter sensors sensitive to poor air quality could help grow awareness about environmental stress factors faced by humans and trees alike.

New trees monitored by TreeWatch.net will measure carbon lost due to tree respiration, paving the way for more accurate carbon accounting. By cementing our understanding of how trees contribute to the carbon cycle, we will be in a better position to reduce carbon output globally.

Long-term, Witness Tree and TreeWatch.net aim to work together to build a vast, international network of tweeting trees: in other words, an internet of trees. The data from this 'internet' will provide invaluable insights into the wellbeing of our forest ecosystems - from detecting early signs of drought and tracking the impact of pests and pathogens to forecasting sap flow for maple syrup production.

As we have learned more about how trees interact with the ecosystems that they visually define, trees have often been represented as social creatures in recent research and popular writing. In a way, Witness Tree and TreeWatch.net play into this idea by giving their trees a human-like voice. They use personification as a tool to communicate effectively with a wide audience.

But it would be counterproductive to take this metaphor too seriously, because each tree's voice is in fact a fiction fed by automated messages. Really, it's the data talking - and the story that data tells is the brutally honest reality of environmental change.
Tim Rademacher is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; Grace Field is a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge; and Kathy Steppe is a professor of applied plant ecophysiology at Ghent University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter

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Can a network of tweeting trees help us cut carbon emissions and increase empathy for ecosystems? Scientists think so In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: "Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century.