READING REPORT by Oktavia Indri Liani https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw SUMMARY by : Oktavia Indri Liani en-us 2019-10-08 14:27:56 UTC 2024-06-13 16:42:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 07/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395512014 Odette, is a veterinarian who saved an injured bird by crashing into a hotel window. During the rehabilitation process he discovered the condition of the bird's feet was chronic and unable to return to the wild. He decide to take care of the bird and become his favorite pet.
Odette then introduces the bird to the children and teaches about the natural world and what happens in it. He takes them around the environment and shows how important the natural world is to our survival.]]> 2019-10-09 11:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395512014 08/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395532484 California's waters have the largest microplastic pollution on the American continent. Microplastic is derived from used car tires or other plastic. According to a study from the San Francisco Bay Miroplastics Project found more than 7 trillion pieces of plastic, which are less than 5 mm in length. And almost all marine organisms are found microplastic in each of their stomachs and other marine chemicals.]]> 2019-10-09 12:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395532484 09/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395535747 Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion used a fire engine to spray 1,800 liters of fake blood at Britain’s finance ministry. The fake blood was intended to hit Treasury building, though much of it ended up in the street when protesters lost control of the fire hose. The group did it with the aim of drawing attention to what was put forward as UK's contradiction in agreeing to climate change.]]> 2019-10-09 12:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395535747 10/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395543399 according to a guardian watchman manager for the Mamalilikulla First Nation, which has been monitoring the bears for several years. The bears are having trouble finding food. Because warmer temperatures in the British Columbia region have been very thin. Therefore many wild salmon have become extinct due to climate change.]]> 2019-10-09 12:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395543399 11/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395545685 Germany's coalition government unveiled a $60 billion package over the next four years to speed up the country's transition to renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that Germany was falling short of its original goal of cutting carbon emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2020. Some environmental activists said the government has missed an opportunity.]]> 2019-10-09 12:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395545685 12/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395549872 A man holds a boy during clashes with police outside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sept, 29. Some 12,000 migrants—many of them from Afghanistan—are in a space meant to house 3,000. Authorities said at least one person was killed and which reported that fires were set by migrants who were protesting at the overcrowded Moria camp.]]> 2019-10-09 12:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395549872 13/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/395556770 President Donald Trump has given Turkey the green light to invade northern Syria.In withdrawing around 150 American troops from northern Syria, Mr Trump has accelerated an inevitable clash between Turkey and the Kurds. ⁠The American withdrawal is also grim news for 3.6m Syrian refugees living in Turkey. ⁠
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John sat in the classroom and drew pictures of the Tatakai Fighting Warriors in his notebook while his teacher lectured about biology or something. He didn't really know for sure. The last thing he remembered her saying was that there would be a test tomorrow. His heart jumped. He went home to study for the test, but he was soon drawn to his Game Box. He played Tatakai Fighting Warriors long into the night. When his alarm clock rang the next day, he was too tired to hit the snooze button, so he let it beep for about 20 minutes before he got up and went to school. As she had promised, the teacher has prepared a test. She reviewed the testing procedures and directions with the class and then passed out the test. John looked at his test and scratched his head...

1. What event is most likely to occur next?
.., because he got a very bad test score. He regretted that he had not studied bafore. Finally, he began to study and stop playing the Game Box.

2. What evidence from the text supports your prediction?
-..,because he got a very bad test score = He played Tataki Fighting Warriors long into the night.
- He regretted that he had not studied before = He went home to study for the test, but he was soon drawn to his Game Box.
- he began to study and stop playing the Game Box = John looked at his test and scratched his head, because he got a very bad test score.
]]> 2019-10-14 05:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/397265736 14/10/2019 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/397824507 By Sunday, more than 20 rivers in central and northeastern Japan had burst their banks, flooding more than 1,000 homes in cities, towns and villages and pushing the death toll higher. Public broadcaster NHK said some died making their way to shelters, including a 77-year-old woman who fell more than 100 feet to her death during an airlift. At one point, the government had advised nearly 8 million people to evacuate.]]> 2019-10-15 10:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/397824507 15/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/397828142 A white Fort Worth officer who fatally shot 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home on Saturday has resigned and faces possible charges, police said Monday. Dean killed Jefferson by firing through a bedroom window. The department has asked the FBI to review Dean’s actions for possible civil rights violations]]> 2019-10-15 10:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/397828142 16/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933114 A protester from the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion climbed scaffolding on one of London’s most famous landmarks, the Big Ben clock tower. Protesters disrupted train service during rush hour.  Extinction Rebellion demonstrators, who are intent on forcing government action on ecological breakdown, have wreaked havoc in the British capital.

]]> 2019-10-20 05:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933114 17/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933310 Argentina-based startup Beeflow has developed a special nutrient-packed formula for bees. According to CEO Matias Viel, it enables bees to do seven times more flights in cold temperatures than they ordinarily would be able to without the formula. Bees are responsible for pollinating nearly one-third of all crops worldwide, but this past winter saw the highest number of bee colony losses on record as pesticides, parasites and climate change make it harder for them to survive.]]> 2019-10-20 05:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933310 18/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933540 A recent increase in the number of Mexican families and asylum seekers trying to cross into the United States has raised fears of a new border crisis. Vided data on the Mexican migrants told The Post. In recent weeks, thousands of Mexican adults and children have been camping out in queues at U.S. border crossings, sleeping in tents while awaiting a chance to apply for safe refuge. Neither the government of Mexico nor the Trump administration has publicly acknowledged the sudden change.]]> 2019-10-20 05:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399933540 19/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399934047 A tantric mask rests on an ancient coat of armor in an unnamed ruin near the Tibetan border in Nepal. In Tibetan Buddhism, weapons of war and grotesque figures are used to scare away bad energy and ignorance. In the isolated Mustang region of Nepal, Buddhist culture is adapting to a number of unexpected changes. Ancient artifacts and valuable religious icons started to go missing and appeared in international collections.]]> 2019-10-20 05:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399934047 20/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399962721 An estimated 3,000 people gathered for a solemn vigil to mark the second anniversary of the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s best-known investigative journalist, who was killed when a powerful bomb blew up her car. Caruana Galizia was known for her revelations about political corruption in Malta. A senior European monitor has raised serious concerns about the police investigation into her killing and says the authorities may have turned down evidence that could lead to those who commissioned the killing.]]> 2019-10-20 11:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/399962721 21/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401937458 n Ancient Egypt, the stork was associated with the soul. Greek and Roman mythology portrays storks as models of parental devotion. In Chinese wisdom, the stork is a symbol of longevity. In Christianity, the stork is linked with purification, and followers of Islam revered storks because they made an annual "pilgrimage" through Mecca on their migration. Since the mid-1980s, increasing numbers of white storks have chosen to stay on the European continent all year, rather than migrate to Africa in winter. ]]> 2019-10-24 11:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401937458 22/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401943015 Since Jair Bolsonaro was elected as president of Brazil last year, the Kayapó have been fighting to protect it from a president who has compared indigenous communities to animals living in zoos and who has allowed industry cut down more of the rainforest this summer alone than in the last three years combined, according to data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. People like the Kayapó have been stewards of the rainforest for centuries.]]> 2019-10-24 11:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401943015 23/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401943650 Seven seconds is all it took for Indonesian sports climber Aries Susanti Rahayu to break the women's speed climbing world record on Saturday. Rahayu scales the near-vertical 15-metre wall with such ease and grace, it looks like she's barely putting any effort in at all. Rahayu will definitely be one to watch at next year's Games.]]> 2019-10-24 11:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401943650 24/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401952713 Homelessness is declining in America—but it is worsening in the country’s most prosperous cities. The chief culprit is the cost of housing.⁠Even among the poor—of which there are officially 38m in America—homelessness is relatively rare, affecting roughly one in 70 people.⁠ So too are the reasons for the sharp racial disparities: roughly 40% of the homeless are black, compared with 13% of the population. ⁠
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⁠]]> 2019-10-24 12:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/401954157 26/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402818032 Libra, a new global payments system and currency, was announced by Facebook in June, with a plan to launch next year.⁠ Mark Zuckerberg spent a lonely few hours fielding mostly hostile questions from politicians on the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.⁠ One problem, as the CEO admitted, is Facebook itself. ]]> 2019-10-26 01:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402818032 27/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402819462 California’s rising gas price highlight a growing divide across the country. Drivers in California have reported paying up to $5 for a gallon of gas this month. Prices have surged this fall in California and other West Coast states following outages at several refineries in the region. ]]> 2019-10-26 01:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402819462 28/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402820130 Bernie Sanders is back on the campaign trail and looking to project confidence. Sanders and his campaign are hoping for a revival to tick up his sluggish poll numbers.  Aides and allies of Sanders said the event, plus endorsements from progressive Democratic stars, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, are a sign of positive things to come.⠀]]> 2019-10-26 01:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/402820130 29/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405852641 A brush fire called the "Easy Fire" ignited in Southern California on Wednesday morning. Reagan Presidential Library spokeswoman Melissa Giller said an executive director told her no one was trapped inside and that “the worst seems to be over.” The Easy Fire rapidly spread to nearly 1,300 acres in just a few hours, threatening 6,500 homes.]]> 2019-11-03 07:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405852641 31/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405853629 According to UNESCO estimates, 130 million girls between the ages of six and 17 are out of school and 15 million girls of primary school age—half of them in sub-Saharan Africa—will never enter a classroom. Every day girls face barriers to education caused by poverty, cultural norms and practices, poor infrastructure, violence, and fragility. But girls’ education goes beyond getting girls into school.]]> 2019-11-03 07:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405853629 1/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405857878 Children sit inside Dariya Khan Ghhumnat Rahat camp, set up outside a school in the state of Gujarat in Ahmedabad, India in 2002. They were displaced after some of the worst communal riots in India's history broke out. For days, mobs rampaged the city, burning houses, looting shops, raping women, and killing men, women and children.  while remaining in their own county, have no specific legal status or special protections.]]> 2019-11-03 08:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405857878 2/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405858263 Simon, a recent Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) defector, waited at a Uganda People's Defence Force and U.S. Special Forces base in Obo, Central African Republic, in March 2014. His brother, also a LRA combatant, was due to defect that day. The LRA killed an estimated 100,000-plus people and kidnapped 60,000 children in a three-decade-long rebellion spanning northern Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo.Since then, armed groups have carried out attacks on previously protected communities, often targeting people based on their religious, ethnic, or livelihood identity.]]> 2019-11-03 08:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405858263 3/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405858479 AS PART OF a “public-health emergency” declared on November 1st in Delhi, millions of face-masks are being distributed to children. Schools will shut until at least November 5th. The cause is polluted air, which Delhi’s chief minister says has turned the city into a “gas chamber”.Globally, says the World Health Organisation, more than 90% of children under 15 breathe air that puts their health at serious risk. The young are especially susceptible, because their lungs are still developing and their breathing is faster than adults’, so they take in more pollutants relative to their body weight. A British study found that on school-runs young children were exposed to 30% more pollutants than the adults accompanying them, because their height puts them closer to exhaust pipes. One of the most common ailments that results is asthma. Poorer children are still more vulnerable, since their schools tend to be near busy roads.]]> 2019-11-03 08:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405858479 30/10/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405859595 Thunberg was nominated by Sweden and Norway for the prize, which is awarded to a company, organization or person for noteworthy efforts to “integrate respect for nature and the environment into their business or work or for some other form of extraordinary initiative on behalf of nature and the environment. The award, which was established in 1995, comes with a cash prize of 350,000 Danish krone, or about $52,000. Thunberg also said in her Instagram statement that she was turning down the money until leaders in Nordic countries. Last month, youth in more than 150 countries skipped classes to demonstrate their concerns about climate change and to urge their elected officials to do something about it.]]> 2019-11-03 09:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/405859595 4/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409085590 A New York state judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to a collection of nonprofit organizations. Justice Saliann Scarpulla found that "Mr. Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Foundation," including by "allowing his campaign to orchestrate" a televised fundraiser ostensibly for the foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, in January 2016. In her decision, however, the judge didn't impose one of the outcomes the attorney general's office sought: a ban on Trump and his children serving on the board of any other New York nonprofit. She also declined to order Trump to pay punitive damages.]]> 2019-11-10 01:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409085590 5/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409086455 The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and covers 40% of South America, according to the World Wildlife Fund. It absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide, which helps regulate climate change. A newly-released NASA study has found the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest in South America has been drying out over the past 20 years and that human activity is the primary cause. Human actions such as burning forests to clear land for farming and grazing are responsible for the rest of the change. The scientists found that the drying of the atmosphere was worse in the southeast region, where the most of grazing and agricultural expansion is happening.]]> 2019-11-10 01:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409086455 6/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409086814 Michael Weber had just turned 3 when the Berlin Wall fell and doesn’t remember life before communist East Germany reunited with the capitalist West. Events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s demise this week are tempered by soul-searching about continued rifts in society. Only 38 percent of East Germans think reunification succeeded. Weber and his friends fall into that group. They took a recent day off from the metal factory where they work to attend a “family day” organized by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern town of Zeulenroda. ]]> 2019-11-10 01:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409086814 7/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409102863 A new report by more than 11 thousand scientists from a broad range of disciplines warns that the planet “clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency." The study, called the “World scientists’ warning of a climate emergency,” marks the first time a large group of scientists has formally come out in favor of labeling climate change an “emergency," which the study notes is caused by many human trends that are together increasing greenhouse gas emissions.]]> 2019-11-10 04:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409102863 8/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409104546 Nine members of a Mormon family were killed in northern Mexico, authorities reported Tuesday, as the assailants burned alive a woman and her children in a brutal assault. The victims were three women and six children, according to authorities. They were part of a community of dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. President Trump tweeted that “a wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed.” He offered to help Mexico strike back at the cartels, saying they “have become so large and powerful that sometimes you need an army to defeat an army!”]]> 2019-11-10 04:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409104546 9/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409105008 For six days a week, the three women worked as domestic workers in homes across Singapore. But in their spare time, they promoted ISIS online, donated money to militants overseas, and became so radicalized that at least one was ready to die as a suicide bomber in Syria. The women -- all Indonesian nationals -- were arrested in September under Singapore's Internal Security Act on suspicion of taking part in terror financing activities and face up to 10 years in prison. For the handful of women who become radicalized, the process usually begins with a traumatic event, according to IPAC researcher Nuraniyah. And the radicalization can be extremely rapid. IPAC's report details the case of one Indonesian domestic worker from Hong Kong who went from a secular fashion enthusiast to ISIS devotee in less than a year.]]> 2019-11-10 04:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409105008 10/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409105403 South Korea has deported two North Korean fishermen suspected of killing 16 fellow crew members, including the boat's captain, before fleeing to South Korean waters. According to South Korean investigators, the two fishermen and 17 others were aboard a squid fishing vessel that left the port of Kimchaek, on North Korea's east coast in August. The South Korean navy captured the men on November 2 after firing warning shots at their vessel during a chase that lasted for two days.]]> 2019-11-10 04:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/409105403 11/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413316249 Alec Ingram, a 14-year-old from Washington, Missouri, died on November 7 after battling cancer for over four years. Alec was diagnosed in 2015 with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. Manley's organization, which provides bucket lists for children suffering from terminal illnesses, reached out to the Ingram family to ask if there was something Alec wanted to do. And Alec was too sick to do anything. Instead, they saved one special idea for later. Manley recruited thousands of sports and exotic cars to escort Alec to his funeral service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Washington. Thousands of people with signs lined the procession route to support of Alec's family.]]> 2019-11-19 13:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413316249 12/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413320186 Protesters set fire to the entrance of Hong Kong's Polytechnic University in a last ditch attempt to stop riot police from entering. The flames followed a night of violence as students hurled petrol bombs at Hong Kong police. dozens of protesters attempted to leave the university through the main entrance as police fired rounds of tear gas. And A police armored vehicle catches fire as protesters and police clash on a bridge at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Schools are closed across the city on Monday, extending a disruption that began last week.]]> 2019-11-19 13:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413320186 13/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413322868 The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has risen to its highest level in 11 years. About 9,762 square kilometers (3,769 square miles) of rainforest were lost for the 12 months through July 2019, according to the release from The National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The increase in deforestation comes while the country is under the leadership of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro . Sales said the increasing levels of deforestation were caused by illegal activities such as cattle grazing, agriculture, wood extraction and trade and illegal mining. The number of fires detected by satellites in the region is the highest it's been since 2008..]]> 2019-11-19 13:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413322868 14/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413325327 The historic Italian city has been brought to its knees this week by the worst flooding there in more than 50 years.
And the council chamber in Ferro Fini Palace started to take in water around 10 p.m. Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice's Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history. Zanoni went on to accuse Veneto regional president Luca Zaia, who is a member of Matteo Salvini's far-right League Party, of presenting a budget "with no concrete actions to combat climate change.".]]> 2019-11-19 13:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413325327 15/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413327855 The Post spent months determining how many children have been exposed to gun violence during school hours since the Columbine High massacre in 1999. Beyond the dead and wounded, children who witness the violence or cower behind locked doors to hide from it can be profoundly traumatized. The count now stands at more than 233,000 children at 243 schools. The Post has found that at least 145 children, educators and other people have been killed in assaults, and another 309 have been injured. ]]> 2019-11-19 13:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413327855 16/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413330397 A gunman opened fire at a high school north of Los Angeles early Thursday, leaving at least five people injured, authorities said. Police said the suspect was “in custody and being treated at a local hospital." People hurt in the incident were taken to Henry Mayo Hospital, in Valencia. The hospital is reporting three of the wounded are in critical condition and one is in good condition. Television footage showed students evacuating the school and emergency vehicles responding, with people in gurneys being loaded into ambulances. This is at least the fifth shooting at a U.S. school this year, according to a Washington Post analysis.]]> 2019-11-19 13:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413330397 17/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413334734 From a distance, it looked like any other protest winding its way through Lafayette Square — the homemade signs and pink pussy-hats, the chants and claps and fists raised high. But look closer. These protesters were smaller than usual — not in number, but in stature. The signs they carried bore messages such as “Homework kills trees,” and “Batman 2020,” and “I love cats.” Every now and then, a whine would rise above the din. “My feet are hurting,” said a boy. “I’m hungry,” said a girl. In a city where politics seep into playground chatter and protests are more common than rain, Kiyoko Merolli celebrated her seventh birthday Saturday by gathering about 100 kids and adults for a march around the White House. She carried a sign that said, “Time’s up for the bad stuff,” and cartwheeled through the grass on the Ellipse. ]]> 2019-11-19 13:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413334734 18/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413336800 "Now the government must listen... these are the effects of climate change."
Severe flooding in Venice has left much of the Italian city under water. St Mark's Basilica has flooded six times in the past 1,200 years, but the latest deluge has caused "grave damage" to the iconic church. Tourists, residents and the merchants of Venice are using impromptu raised walkways to move through the highest water levels in 50 years. One of the possible effects of a changing climate is that the jet stream will be more frequently meridional and blocked weather patterns such as these will also become more frequent. ]]> 2019-11-19 13:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/413336800 19/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423175204 Iran is still almost entirely offline, days after the government cut off on the internet amid nationwide anti-government protests. Experts say the shutdown is an attempt by the government to stop the flow of information and quash the demonstrations. Here's what you need to know:⁣
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▪️ Protests started Friday after the government announced an increase in fuel prices by as much as 300%.⁣
▪️ Social media images showed banks, gas stations and government buildings set ablaze by rioters.⁣
▪️ The internet blackout started on Saturday evening, according to internet watchdogs. As of Wednesday, the internet is still down.⁣

]]> 2019-12-12 10:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423175204 20/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423176600 Teen activist Greta Thunberg on Friday again criticized world leaders gathered for the COP25 conference in Madrid for not doing enough to stop the ecological crisis that's damaging the planet.The sort of global children's protests Thunberg has inspired and led in recent months are "not sustainable," the 16-year-old continued.
Around 25,000 people from 200 countries are expected to attend COP25, the last gathering of the group before 2020, the year the Paris climate accord goes into effect. Attendees include dozens of heads of state and government, business leaders, scientists and activists.
She had already traveled halfway to Chile when the United Nations changed the location of COP25 to Madrid. The South American nation withdrew as host because after weeks of protests paralyzed the country.
Thunberg refuses to fly because of the high levels of emissions emitted in air travel and instead uses boats, trains and electric cars.
]]> 2019-12-12 10:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423176600 21/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423177854 House Democrats announced Tuesday they will bring two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump:⁣
▪️ Abuse of power: Democrats charge that Trump abused his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals ahead of the 2020 election while withholding a White House meeting and $400 million in US security aid from Kiev.⁣
▪️ Obstruction of Congress: Democrats say that Trump then obstructed the investigation into his misconduct with a blanket blockade of subpoenas and refusing to allow key senior officials to testify before Congress.⁣
The introduction of articles of impeachment comes after a two-month investigation into Ukraine that was sparked by an anonymous whistleblower complaint. The announcement sets the stage for a dramatic impeachment vote on the House floor next week after the House Judiciary Committee debates and votes on the articles this week.⁣]]> 2019-12-12 10:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423177854 22/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423180137 At least five people are dead and more are still missing following a deadly volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island. The eruption took place with little warning early Monday afternoon local time while dozens of tourists from a nearby cruise ship were touring the volcano. Police say fewer than 50 people were on or around the island at the time of the eruption. So far, 23 people have been evacuated from the island since the eruption, all with some degree of injuries. The five who have since died were among the evacuees. Police say they have had no communications with anyone on the island since the eruption. New Zealand is located in one of the world's most tectonically-volatile regions. Vulcanologists said that while the eruption was relatively small compared to other past disasters, anyone close to the site would have been in serious danger.]]> 2019-12-12 10:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423180137 23/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423182690 A banana duct-taped to a wall went on a sale at the Art Basel art fair in Miami Beach this week, priced at around $120,000. According to the gallery behind the work, two of the three editions have already sold, with the last now going for even more. The work by Maurizio Cattelan is titled “Comedian” and it comprises a banana bought in a Miami grocery store and a single piece of duct tape. The bananas are “a symbol of global trade, a double entendre, as well as a classic device for humor,” said the founder of the gallery Perrotin, which presented the work. Potential buyers should note there are no clear instructions about what to do if the bananas start to decompose.]]> 2019-12-12 10:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423182690 24/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423183467 A firefighter in Australia filmed the shocking moment a bushfire erupted through tall trees at breakneck speed, spewing flames into the sky. It's called crowning -- when a bushfire moves through the tops of trees or shrubs, burning independently above the ground. Firefighters from the Sydney suburb of Inglewood ran for their lives as the fire burned out of control in Orangeville, around 45 miles (75 kilometers) southwest of Sydney. It’s one of over 100 blazes that is burning across the southeastern state of New South Wales, as Australia experiences one of its worst bushfire seasons on record. Fire and Rescue NSW 79 Station Ingleburn said on its Facebook page that “no one was injured or hurt, our truck survived with no damage…. The video was put up to demonstrate why you need to listen to the fire advisory system.” ]]> 2019-12-12 10:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423183467 25/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423184754 A few days after Veronika Didusenko was crowned Miss Ukraine, the beauty pageant revoked her title for having a child and having been married. Now, Didusenko is taking legal action against the Miss World organization, alleging that its rules are discriminatory. The pageant said the disqualification is because Didusenko “provided false information” by signing an agreement stating that she had never been married and did not have children, which are among the competition’s requirements. While Didusenko admitted to reporting false information, she said those rules are outdated. “It’s not about the crown,” she told CNN. “It’s about the rules and the discriminatory policies which Miss World has now in the 21st century.”]]> 2019-12-12 10:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423184754 26/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423185722 Winds have blown smoke from Australia's bushfires toward New Zealand, and particles have turned the snow on some glaciers red and pink, CNN meteorologist Monica Garrett says. It is not possible to know for sure what material it is until it's tested, Garrett said, but given the conditions of the past few months, it is safe to assume that the discoloration is from the Australia fires. These dramatic images were snapped by a travel photographer, who described the scene as "shocking" and "bizarre." While it's too early to say exactly how the particles will affect the glaciers, scientists have found that forest fires in the Amazon have caused glaciers in the Andes mountains to melt faster.]]> 2019-12-12 11:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423185722 27/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423186012 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked Congress to proceed with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. "The President leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit," Pelosi said during her press conference. The speaker's announcement is the clearest signal yet that Democrats are moving swiftly to impeach the President before Christmas.⁣
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𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭:⁣
▪️ The House Judiciary Committee has authority to write articles of impeachment, and will vote on whether to refer them to the full House.⁣
▪️ If they're approved, they'll go to the House floor, where a simple majority is needed to formally impeach President Trump.⁣
▪️ If Trump is impeached, the Senate will hold a trial to decide if he should be removed from office. A two-thirds majority is required to convict and remove a president from office.⁣]]> 2019-12-12 11:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423186012 28/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423186440 Matthew Shepard, whose brutal murder in 1998 sparked outrage and galvanized the LGTBQ movement, was honored Tuesday with a memorial plaque installed at the Washington National Cathedral. Last year, his remains were interred at the church, which is known for its historic inclusion of LGBTQ people. Shepard was a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming when he was robbed, beaten and left tied to a fence by two men who targeted him because he was gay. “People around the world gave generously to make this memorial possible,” said Shepard's mother, who is pictured above with his father. “We hope this will be a place that forever offers solace and strength for all who visit.”]]> 2019-12-12 11:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423186440 29/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423187205 Rosa Parks was honored with a new statue in Montgomery, Alabama, 64 years after she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus. December 1 marked the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama, after the state legislature approved the honor for the civil rights icon last year. "She was a consummate contributor to equality and did so with a quiet humility that is an example for all of us,” said Mayor Steven Reed, the city's first African American mayor. Parks was on her way home from work on December 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus for a white man. Her subsequent arrest prompted the 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.]]> 2019-12-12 11:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423187205 30/11/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423187741 The Yareta or llareta, bright green blobs that resemble moss-covered boulders, are actually flowering shrubs perfectly designed to withstand the high-altitude conditions of the Andes Mountains in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and western Argentina. The largest shrubs are approximately 3,000 years old.⁣
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Methuselah, a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, is the oldest single tree on Earth at the ripe old age of about 5,000, making it the oldest known non-cloned organism on Earth. Its exact location is a guarded secret, but hikers can wander by its ancient peers.⁣
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A sprawling sea grass meadow 10 miles long near Spain ranks as the oldest known single organism on Earth, according to geneticists. One patch is estimated at 200,000 years old.⁣]]> 2019-12-12 11:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423187741 1/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423188728 The world has lost another year in the quest to finally start reducing its carbon emissions, which scientists say is crucial to avoid the steadily worsening impacts of climate change. Global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to grow slightly during 2019, reaching another record high, according to a new analysis published Tuesday. The report from the Global Carbon Project makes clear that the transformation necessary to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions is nowhere in sight. Global emissions have risen for three consecutive years, at a time when they should be starting to drop sharply if the world is to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423188728 1/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423188756 The world has lost another year in the quest to finally start reducing its carbon emissions, which scientists say is crucial to avoid the steadily worsening impacts of climate change. Global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to grow slightly during 2019, reaching another record high, according to a new analysis published Tuesday. The report from the Global Carbon Project makes clear that the transformation necessary to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions is nowhere in sight. Global emissions have risen for three consecutive years, at a time when they should be starting to drop sharply if the world is to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423188756 2/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423189425 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on his white horse, in knee-high virgin snow on a sacred mountain, state media announced Wednesday, as Pyongyang foreshadowed a major policy decision later this month. The images of Kim were high on symbolism. Mount Paektu is enshrined in North Korean revolutionary myth as the birthplace of Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, and a key military base for his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, during the struggle against Japanese colonial rule. The third-generation leader’s visit to the peak read like an attempt to burnish his leadership credentials and prepare the country for a policy shift. Previous visits to the mountain have come before major decisions.]]> 2019-12-12 11:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423189425 3/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423189770 George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all promised the same thing: The United States would not get stuck with the burden of “nation-building” in Afghanistan. Yet nation-building is exactly what the United States has tried to do in war-battered Afghanistan — on a colossal scale. Since 2001, Washington has spent more on nation-building in Afghanistan than in any country ever, allocating $133 billion for reconstruction, aid programs and the Afghan security forces. The exorbitant nation-building project for Afghanistan went awry from the start and grew worse as the war dragged on, according to a trove of confidential government interviews in documents obtained by The Post. Instead of bringing stability and peace, those interviewed said, the United States inadvertently built a corrupt, dysfunctional Afghan government that remains dependent on U.S. military power for its survival. Assuming it does not collapse, U.S. officials have said it will need billions more dollars in aid annually, for decades. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423189770 4/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423191264 Pete Frates, the man whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped spark the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, died Dec. 9 at his home in Massachusetts. He was 34. Frates was celebrated around the world for popularizing the movement, which raised more than $200 million for efforts to fight the disease. “Pete was an inspiration to so many people around the world who drew strength from his courage and resiliency,” Frates’s family said in a statement. Frates, a former Boston College athlete, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2012, when he was 27. The disease, which gets its colloquial name from the former New York Yankees great who suffered from it, causes neurons in the spinal cord and brain to die, eventually leading to paralysis and death. It has no known cure. The ice bucket challenge took off in the summer of 2014, after Frates and his family started daring each other to dump ice water on their heads to raise awareness about the disease.]]> 2019-12-12 11:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423191264 5/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423191962 The Justice Department inspector general concludes in a report obtained by The Post on Monday that the FBI had an “authorized purpose” to initiate an investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia and that the bureau’s use of confidential informants was in compliance with the rules. The report, which spans more than 400 pages, concludes that the top FBI officials running the Russia investigation were not tainted by political bias and that they had information “sufficient to satisfy the low threshhold” needed to begin investigating several Trump associates in 2016, people familiar with drafts of the document told The Post. The Justice Department inspector general is expected to release the full report later Monday. Lawmakers and staff were allowed to begin reviewing the report ahead of its public release.]]> 2019-12-12 11:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423191962 6/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423192351 The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee handed down the most severe punishment to date in the years-long Russian doping saga, issuing a four-year ban that will bar Russia from competing at the next two Olympic Games. The decision means Russia will have no formal presence at next year’s Summer Games or the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and will be barred from most major international competition through 2023, including FIFA’s World Cup, the Youth Olympic Games, Paralympics, world championships and other major sporting events subject to World Anti-Doping Code. Similar to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Russians who have not been implicated in the country’s state-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to compete in Tokyo as unaffiliated athletes. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”]]> 2019-12-12 11:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423192351 7/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423192589 More than 2,000 pages of confidential U.S. government interviews and memos obtained by The Post reveal a secret history of the war in Afghanistan. U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. The documents were generated by a federal project examining the root failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history. Since 2001, more than 775,000 U.S. troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly. Of those, 2,300 died there and 20,589 were wounded in action, according to Defense Department figures. The documents bring into sharp relief the core failings of the war that persist to this day and underscore how three presidents — George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump — and their military commanders have been unable to deliver on their promises to prevail in Afghanistan. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423192589 8/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193016 A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign. U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They weren’t, and they knew it. The documents include more than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the war, from generals and diplomats to aid workers and Afghan officials. The Post won release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle. In interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United States became mired in nearly two decades of warfare.]]> 2019-12-12 11:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193016 9/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193206 Six months ago over a million people in Hong Kong marched through the city in what became the start of a sustained pro-democracy movement against Beijing’s tightening grip. On Sunday, they did it again. At least 800,000 people, according to organizers, showed up in the same park, waving signs calling for the end of Chinese Communist Party rule and for the Hong Kong government to meet protesters’ four existing demands. The march, which was approved by authorities, was one of the biggest peaceful protests seen in the city for months and underscores the strong support that still exists for greater democratic freedoms in Hong Kong, despite a crackdown that has seen police fire over 10,000 tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and arrest some 6,000 people. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193206 10/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193565 Roy’Ale Hill, 12, and Roy’Nal Hill, 13 were shot in their old Southeast Washington neighborhood less than 80 days apart. The shootings came in a courtyard where they tossed footballs, rode bikes and hung out with friends. Police say neither brother was an intended target. Roy’Ale, left, was hit first, struck by one of at least 51 bullets fired on Valentine’s Day evening. He was under a shade tree heading home after buying a $1 pack of gum. Roy’Nal was shot May 4, while with buddies eating pizza steps from his front door. The bullet — one of at least a dozen fired — lodged in his lower spine, leaving the football fullback paralyzed from the waist down. They were two bullets out of thousands fired in the District this year, some claiming lives of children and adults, and sending many others into long recoveries from life-changing injuries. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423193565 11/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423194175 Laurent Simons looks much like any other 9-year-old boy. Then he starts describing his work at a university in the Netherlands, developing a computer circuit that will replicate a part of the brain. The Belgian boy wonder is on track to become the world’s youngest university graduate when he completes a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology later this month. After completing high school in roughly a year, Laurent — born in Belgium but now living in the Netherlands — started college and is set to finish the three-year bachelor’s program in just nine months. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423194175 12/12/19 oktaviandrln https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423194920 Swinging cranes and clawing excavators have reshaped the landscape, elevating Charlotte’s skyline, expanding its girth and transforming this former cotton-shipment town into the South’s financial hub and one of America’s fastest-growing cities. But the Queen City has also been steadily unbuilding itself, bulldozing houses and razing apartment complexes along its creeks, ripping up a mall parking lot to reveal a hidden waterway and then stripping away its concrete banks, all in a bid to prevent the flash flooding that turns communities into deathtraps. The North Carolina county has removed 460 structures and replaced them with absorbent grasslands, winning national praise as a prototype for regional flood planning that anticipates the impact of projected development and the growing effects of extreme weather. The innovative strategy was ahead of the curve when it launched in the 1990s, by calculating future flood risk and then purchasing — and demolishing — vulnerable homes, businesses and office buildings. But the region is facing more-complex challenges as climate change threatens bigger and more-lasting deluges. Six of North Carolina’s seven wettest storms have occurred in the past 20 years. In June, following an 11-inch downpour upstream, the Catawba River burst its banks here in a catastrophe that can’t be cured by opening up a few extra acres of flood plain. ]]> 2019-12-12 11:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/423194920 13/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424438930 Heliogen, a clean-energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius. The breakthrough means that, for the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes. Cement alone accounts for 7% of global CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. “We are rolling out technology that can beat the price of fossil fuels and also not make the CO2 emissions,” Bill Gross, Heliogen’s founder and CEO, told “And that’s really the holy grail.”]]> 2019-12-16 09:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424438930 14/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424440988 In a dramatic, final-second victory, the Newtown High School football team won its first state championship in 27 years on Saturday — seven years to the day since the Sandy Hook massacre that made the Connecticut town’s name a byword for the national conversation about gun violence. Playing in the fog with just seconds to spare, the Newtown Nighthawks’ quarterback Jack Street connected with receiver Riley Ward for a 36-yard pass to win the game 13-7, CNN affiliate WTIC reported. “It was surreal,” Pete Paguaga told CNN. “It was a movie ending. I’m still searching for words to process what I saw.”]]> 2019-12-16 09:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424440988 15/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424442062 Unrest in India is spreading after the nation’s Parliament and the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed a sweeping new citizenship law last week that favors every South Asian faith other than Islam. Many see the passage of the new law as anti-Muslim, disadvantaging the country’s huge Muslim minority of 200 million. Over the past few days, furious protests have broken out on college campuses and in packed streets of a growing list of cities — Mumbai, Chennai, Varanasi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Patna, Pondicherry — and several people have been killed as a result. ]]> 2019-12-16 10:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424442062 16/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424442115 Where do our old electronics end up? For a lot of them, the answer is Thailand, where workers break down the scrap with hammers and raw hands. Each year, 50 million tons of electronic waste are produced globally, according to the United Nations. But it is dirty and dangerous work to extract the tiny quantities of precious metals from castoff phones, computers and televisions. And the factories that process and burn the waste are producing toxic fumes that are threatening the health of local workers and their communities. “We can’t choose the air we breathe,” said Metta Maihala, a eucalyptus farmer. “Now there will be even more factories. We are all going to die a slow death.”]]> 2019-12-16 10:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424442115 17/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424934908 Fifteen black medical students from Tulane University posed in front of former slave quarters at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, Louisiana, in an effort to show how far African Americans have come. The students, who wore their white coats for the occasion, hope to put the photos in schools across the country to inspire future generations. Their message: "Yes, you can be smart. Yes, you can be successful ... and you can also do that while being unapologetically black and proud of where you come from and proud of where you are going,” said Sydney Labat, one of the students.]]> 2019-12-17 11:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424934908 19/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424935003 Temperatures are soaring in Australia as devastating wildfires continue to burn across New South Wales. The hottest ever average temperature was recorded on Tuesday in the country — hitting a record 105.6 Fahrenheit, beating the 2013 record of 104.5 Fahrenheit. Around 100 active fires are still burning across NSW, of which 54 are not yet contained, according to fire officials. "The driving force behind this is climate change," said Greg Mullins, former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner. "In our decades of service, we've seen Australia become drier, hotter and extreme weather conditions far more severe." ]]> 2019-12-17 11:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424935003 18/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424935004 President Donald Trump is now the third president in US history to be impeached after a House vote on Wednesday, joining Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. The Republican-led Senate will now hold a trial to decide if Trump should be removed from office. Unlike every other impeachment effort, Trump's party has a majority in the Senate. No president has ever been removed from office.

Here’s more on the US presidents who have been impeached:
▪️ Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868. The House passed 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson, a Democrat. They were mostly connected to violating the Tenure of Office Act, a law passed specifically to curb Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet officials appointed by Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, before his assassination.
▪️ Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. The House passed two articles of impeachment against Clinton for perjury before a grand jury and obstructing lawsuits. The charges stemmed from Ken Starr's years-long independent counsel investigation that started as an inquiry into a land deal before Clinton was elected but morphed into a look at his affair in the White House.]]> 2019-12-17 11:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424935004 23/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939333 LeBron James Jr., known as “Bronny” to his family, friends and 3.9 million Instagram followers — wears No. 0 rather than his dad’s No. 23, but the genetic flashes peek through on the court. He tosses no-look passes, throws down alley-oop dunks and shifts gears in transition with a familiar ease for Los Angeles' Sierra Canyon School. High school basketball hype runs in the family. Before his father, LeBron James, was the face of the NBA, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in February 2002 as a junior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, and played a nationally televised game on ESPN2. Even as a teenager, LeBron was the biggest story in basketball. Nearly two decades later, in an age when social media turns teenage phenoms into celebrities, LeBron’s eldest son is riding the prep hype machine to new levels.]]> 2019-12-17 12:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939333 20/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939960 Hundreds of pro-impeachment demonstrators gathered in New York’s Times Square on Tuesday night, chanting, "Tell me who's above the law? Nobody is above the law!" Rallies sprang up across the US the night before a historic House vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. If the articles pass in the House as expected, Trump will become only the third president in history to be impeached. Then, the Republican-led Senate will hold a trial to decide if Trump should be removed from office.]]> 2019-12-17 12:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939960 21/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939961 Deadly protests broke out in cities across India after the government approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill, or CAB, last week. The bill promises to fast-track citizenship for religious minorities — including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians — from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who arrived before 2015. But the exclusion of Muslims has raised concerns about the bill's constitutionality and the growing anti-Muslim rhetoric in India. ⁣
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party have described CAB as a means of protecting vulnerable groups from persecution, but critics say the true target is India's minority Muslim population. ⁣
At least five people have been killed and more than a hundred injured during the demonstrations, according to police, and a large military presence has been deployed in Assam and Tripura, where the government shut down the internet. ]]> 2019-12-17 12:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424939961 24/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424940112 After winning the Heisman Trophy by a historic margin Saturday, record-breaking LSU quarterback Joe Burrow used his speech to tearfully remember others who are less fortunate, specifically highlighting the problem of hunger in his hometown of Athens, Ohio. The viral speech sent ripples nationally, sparking an impromptu fundraiser that left the Athens County Food Pantry with nearly $333,000 in donations after just two days. “Coming from southeast Ohio, it’s a very impoverished area,” the 23-year-old Burrow said on the stage, wiping away tears after winning the award. “The poverty rate is almost two times the national average, and there’s so many people there that don’t have a lot. I’m up here for all those kids in Athens and in Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school,” he added, telling those kids, “and you guys can be up here, too.” ]]> 2019-12-17 12:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424940112 22/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424940113 Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who emerged in recent weeks as an anti-impeachment Democrat, switched parties Thursday to join the GOP. “Very big announcement ... Jeff will be joining the Republican Party,” President Trump said Thursday, with Van Drew by his side in the Oval Office. The announcement is one of the White House’s first acts of political combat following Wednesday’s impeachment vote, with the intent of casting the Democratic Party as consumed with investigating the president and inhospitable to moderates. Van Drew, a 66-year-old dentist, was elected in 2018 to represent a congressional district that was won by Trump in 2016.Trump and administration officials, along with outside allies, have been wooing Van Drew for weeks, urging him to switch parties and assuring him that Trump and the GOP will support his reelection bid. ]]> 2019-12-17 12:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/424940113 25/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172776 When Chrystul Kizer (pictured above) was 16, she met a 33-year-old man named Randy Volar. Volar had sex with Chrystul multiple times. He filmed it. She wasn’t the only one — and in February 2018, police arrested Volar on charges including child sexual assault. But then, they released him without bail. Volar, a white man, remained free for three months, even after police discovered evidence that he was abusing about a dozen underage black girls. He remained free until Chrystul, then 17, went to his house one night in June and allegedly shot him in the head, twice. She lit his body on fire, police said, and fled in his car. A few days later, she confessed and was charged with arson and first-degree intentional homicide, an offense that carries a mandatory life sentence in Wisconsin. Chrystul, now 19, maintains she was defending herself.]]> 2019-12-20 07:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172776 26/12/19 https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172835 In a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service, a whistleblower alleges that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion in accounts intended for charitable purposes, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Post. The confidential document accuses church leaders of misleading members by stockpiling their surplus donations instead of using them for charitable works. It also accuses church leaders of using the tax-exempt donations to prop up a pair of businesses. The complaint provides a window into the closely held finances of one of the nation’s most visible religious organizations, based in Salt Lake City. It details a church fortune far exceeding past estimates and encompassing stocks, bonds and cash.]]> 2019-12-20 07:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172835 Alaska : Animals Everywhere https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172921 Banyak hewan-hewan di Alaska, jika kamu pergi ke tempat yang liar, kamu akan menemukan beberapa hewan seperti karibu,rusa besar, serigala dan beruang. Ketika hewan datang ke daerah dengan manusia seperti rusa, mereka membuat masalah bagi tukang kebun karena memakan tanaman di kebun. Banyak orang-orang Alaska memelihara anjing, karena anjing mereka bisa mengikuti kompetensi pada bidang olahraga.]]> 2019-12-20 07:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/oktaviandrln/72yvf9rb12xw/wish/426172921