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☆ Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Archaeologists originally uncovered the near-complete D. avus skeleton buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia, in 1991. Parts of the D. avus specimen were buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia. D. avus lived from the Pleistocene Epoch (around 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) into the Holocene, becoming extinct about 500 years ago. With a similar diet to D. avus, dogs may have helped speed the foxes’ extinction by outcompeting them. Dogs could also have carried and transmitted diseases that sickened the foxes, Lebrasseur added.

Persons: wasn’t, Ophélie, avus, Francisco Prevosti “, Dusicyon avus, ”, Lebrasseur, Cinthia, ” Lebrasseur, Dr, Aurora, d’Anglade, ‘, Francisco Prevosti, it’s, ” Mindy Weisberger Organizations: CNN, Wellcome Trust, Archaeology Research, University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology, Royal Society Open Science, Argentina’s, Technical Research, Universidade, Oxford, Scientific Locations: what’s, Argentina, South America, Cañada Seca, Patagonia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Spain, Patagonia . Hunter

☆ PortAventura World: 14 people injured at Spanish amusement park as tree falls onto children’s roller coaster
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Benjamin Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Fourteen people were injured, including two seriously, after a tree fell onto the tracks of a children’s roller coaster at an amusement park in the Spanish region of Catalonia Sunday. Strong winds caused the tree to fall on the “Tomahawk” children’s roller coaster at the “PortAventura World” park in Vila-Seca, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Barcelona on Sunday morning, according to the park. Catalan emergency services said they had treated the 14 injured people, two of whom were taken to hospital with serious injuries. “This Sunday morning, due to strong winds… there was an incident caused by a tree falling close to the Tomahawk ride,” the theme park said in a statement, per Reuters. The PortAventura World park is the most visited amusement park in Spain and the sixth most visited in Europe, according to PortAventura.

Organizations: CNN, Reuters, “ Locations: Spanish, Catalonia, Vila, Seca, Barcelona, Spain, Europe

☆ Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 57% in September
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Amazon Fund II LP FollowSAO PAULO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 56.8% in September compared to a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, while the region is struggling with a historic drought. In September, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva announced at the United Nations Summit in New York more ambitious climate targets for the country. Deforestation and fires usually spike in the Amazon in August and September, when the weather turns drier. Fires in the region last month fell 36%, improving from the worst September in more than a decade in 2022. Last month, Switzerland and the United States donated $8.4 million to Brazil's Amazon Fund to help preserve the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Persons: Ueslei Marcelino, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's, Jair, Marina Silva, Peter Frontini, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, Amazon Fund, SAO PAULO, Brazil's, United Nations Summit, Thomson Locations: Seca, Uruara, Para State, Brazil, New York, Switzerland, United States

IndyCar will return to the Milwaukee Mile next season and Texas Motor Speedway is off the calendar for the first time since 1997 in the 2024 schedule released Monday. NASCAR is expected to return to the oval, and IndyCar will race the Indianapolis road course only once — in May ahead of the Indianapolis 500. IndyCar is still finalizing an exhibition race to be held in Argentina next season that was not part of Monday's schedule announcement. Political Cartoons View All 1176 ImagesSebastien Bourdais won the final IndyCar race at the track in West Allis, Wisconsin. IndyCar is coming off its most-watched season on record with an average Total Audience Delivery of 1.32 million viewers.

Persons: Rodger Ward, Michael Andretti, Bobby Unser, Mario Andretti, A.J, Foyt, Gordon Johncock, Johnny Rutherford, Tom Sneva, Paul Tracy, Al Unser, Sebastien Bourdais, Roger Penske, Peacock, ”, Mark Miles Organizations: IndyCar, Milwaukee Mile, Texas Motor, NBC, Texas, NASCAR, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Labor, Indianapolis Motor, Wisconsin, Fair, NBC Sports, Penske Entertainment Corp, USA, Motorsports Park, America, Speedway, International Raceway Locations: Southern California, Nashville, —, Argentina, West Allis , Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, St . Petersburg , Florida, Toronto, St . Petersburg, Long Beach, Detroit, Laguna Seca

BERLIN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The Earth's life-support systems are facing greater risks and uncertainties than ever before, with most major safety limits already crossed as a result of planet-wide human interventions, according to a scientific study released on Wednesday. The authors said crossing the boundaries did not represent a tipping point where human civilisation would just crash, but could bring irreversible shifts in the Earth's support systems. "We can think of Earth as a human body, and the planetary boundaries as blood pressure. Over 120/80 does not indicate a certain heart attack but it does raise the risk," Richardson said. "It is a complete failure ...and it's a large risk... We're still following a pathway that takes us unequivocally to disaster."

Persons: Katherine Richardson, Richardson, Ueslei Marcelino, We're, Johan Rockström, I've, Rockström, Riham, David Stanway, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: University of Copenhagen, REUTERS, Potsdam Institute, Climate Impact, United Nations Global, Thomson Locations: Seca, Uruara, Para State, Brazil, Dubai

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — By the time Scott Dixon turned his season around, it was too late to beat teammate Alex Palou for the IndyCar championship. Palou became the first driver in nearly 20 years to clinch the IndyCar title before the season finale with his victory last weekend in Portland. Palou won his second title in three years with last week's win, his fifth of the season. “It's a credit to the team, they've been executing like that all season,” Dixon said. We won.”Ganassi became the first team owner to win the championship and top rookie honors in the same season.

Persons: Scott Dixon, Alex Palou, “ It’s, ”, Dixon, Palou, Chip Ganassi, ” Dixon, Alex, ” Dixon's, AJ Foyt's, Scott McLaughlin, Will, Callum Ilott, Christian Lundgaard, Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Alexander Rossi, Arrow McLaren, Marcus Armstrong, Pato O'Ward, McLaren, Ryan Hunter, Reay, Ed Carpenter Racing, they've, ” Ganassi, Armstrong, Colton Herta, Helio Castroneves, Bryan, Herta, he'd, Josef Newgarden Organizations: IndyCar, Laguna Seca, Team Penske, Will Power, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Ganassi, Laguna, Andretti Global, Chevrolet, Indianapolis, Honda, Palou Locations: MONTEREY, Calif, California, Portland, New Zealand, Laguna Seca

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Felix Rosenqvist will end his tenure with Arrow McLaren Racing by starting from the pole in the IndyCar Series season finale at Laguna Seca. Rosenqvist won the only two poles of the season for McLaren, which is still seeking its first win of the season from its three-driver lineup headed into Sunday's finale. Rosenqvist announced earlier this week that he's moving to Meyer Shank Racing next season; McLaren said David Malukas will replace him next year. In the end, Palou decided last month he wasn't going to McLaren at all, too late for the team to retain Rosenqvist. Ericsson, who is in his fourth season with Ganassi, won the Indianapolis 500 last year and had been lobbying since for a better contract.

Persons: — Felix Rosenqvist, Arrow McLaren, Rosenqvist, “, ” Rosenqvist, Meyer Shank, McLaren, David Malukas, Alex Palou, Palou, Chip Ganassi, Scott McLaughlin, Christian Lundgaard, Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Helio Castroneves, Castroneves, Romain Grosjean, Devlin DeFrancesco, Dale Coyne, Simon Pagenaud, Meyer Shank Racing, Marcus Ericsson, Swede, Ganassi, —, Scott, Dixon, Alex, ” Ganassi, That’s, ” Ericsson, He's, Chip, I’ve, ”, Linus Lundqvist, Lundqvist Organizations: Arrow, Arrow McLaren Racing, IndyCar, Laguna, Texas, McLaren, Team Penske, Andretti Global, Dale Coyne Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing, Ericsson, Ganassi, Indianapolis, Andretti, Ericsson —, Indy, ” Ericsson, Indy Lights, Nashville Locations: MONTEREY, Calif, Laguna Seca, Swedish, Seca, Indianapolis

☆ „Uneltirile”… lui Dumnezeu în Basarabia. Traduceri TV, Paradoxuri lingvistice
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-22 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +7 min

Atunci, cu ani în urmă, chiar îmi notasem denumirile televiziunilor, anul, data, ora, titlurile emisiunilor, filmelor, numele traducătorilor. Acum nu voi mai face aceste precizări: sunt prea multe de înșirat, de enumerat și nu ne va mai ajunge spațiu niciodată. Voi menționa doar că e vorba de o perioadă de vreo 7-8 ani de observări. S-a ajuns până a denumi „аттестаты зрелости” ca atestate mature, iar „безответная любовь” – dragoste iresponsabilă, în loc de dragoste neîmpărtășită. Dacă aşa stau lucrurile, de ce „Медный всадник” să nu se traducă „Călărețul fără cap”, cum a și fost tradus?

Persons: Boris Parii, haideți, Ecaterina, Ivan Şişkin, Dumnezeu, ., Nicolae Milescu -, Сельхозвыставка, Николай Спафарий Locations: daneză, tunari, Moldova, Chișinăului, rusească, Chinei, Nicolae Milescu - Spătarul, Rusiei, CA

☆ Mihai Eminescu, poetul nemuririi. Principalele momente din viața geniului creativ al Luceafărului
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +5 min

Între timp, e angajat ca funcţionar la diverse instituţii din Botoşani (la tribunal şi primărie) sau pribegeşte cu trupa Tardini-Vlădicescu. Iosif Vulcan îi schimbă numele în Mihai Eminescu, adoptat apoi de poet şi, mai tîrziu, şi de alţi membri ai familiei sale. De fapt, sunt ani de cunoaştere prin contact direct a poporului, a limbii, a obiceiurilor şi a realităţilor româneşti. În iunie 1883, surmenat, poetul se îmbolnăveşte grav, fiind internat la spitalul doctorului Şuţu, apoi la un institut pe lângă Viena. E înmormîntat la Bucureşti, în cimitirul Bellu; sicriul e dus pe umeri de patru elevi de la Şcoala Normală de Institutori.

Persons: Mihai Eminescu, Mihail Eminovici, Gheorge Eminovici, Eminovici, Juraşcu, Îşi, Tardini, Vlădicescu, Eminescu ., Aron Pumnul, M . Eminovici, Iosif Vulcan, Iorgu Caragiali, I.L.Caragiale ., Ioan Slavici, Veronica Micle, Ion Creangă, Titu Maiorescu, Eminescu, Şuţu, G . Călinescu Organizations: Junimea, Centrale Locations: Botoșani, român, Moldovei, Joldeşti, Botoşani, Cernăuţi, Pesta, Blaj, Sibiu, Giurgiu, Bucureşti, Viena, Berlin, Iaşi, Vaslui, Bellu

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