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Crowded together with 90 other migrants on a rickety fishing vessel bound for Spain, Moustapha Diouf watched 10 of them die, one by one, from heat and exhaustion. Worried about health risks posed by the corpses, Mr. Diouf had to throw the bodies overboard. Five were friends. “If we don’t do anything, we become accomplices in their deaths,” said Mr. Diouf, 54, sitting in a dusty office of the nonprofit he co-founded, empty but for one desk and a couple of chairs. “I will fight every day to stop young people from leaving.”

Persons: Moustapha Diouf, Diouf, ”, Mr, “ Locations: Spain, Europe

KHAN YOUNIS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Balanced on a steep slab of fissured concrete with rods of twisted metal poking out and the remnants of a dome slanted at a 45-degree angle behind him, a young muezzin in a baseball cap called Muslims to prayer from atop a bombarded mosque in Gaza. The mosque is one of many in Gaza that have been hit by Israeli strikes in its war against Hamas. Israel accuses the Islamist group of using mosques to conceal tunnel shafts, missile and rocket launch sites and other infrastructure. [1/5]A mosque destroyed in Israeli strikes during the conflict lies in ruin, amid a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 29, 2023. Next to the mosque was an open expanse of sandy terrain where a tent camp for displaced people had sprung up.

Persons: KHAN YOUNIS, Khan Younis, Mohammed Salem, Ansari, Ameen Mohammed, Antonio Guterres, Estelle Shirbon, Alison Williams Organizations: Hamas, Reuters, REUTERS, Al, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Touba, Khan, Israel, Al, Palestinian

☆ Planet-forming disk detected around star in another galaxy for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may form. The massive star, called HH 1177, and its rotating disk were spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy that’s about 160,000 light-years away. The gas and dust accumulate in a flat disk around the star, known as an accretion disk, as a result of strong gravitational forces. The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, or MUSE instrument, on the telescope captured a jet of material releasing from the young star. To discern whether a disk was present around the star, the team needed to measure how quickly dense gas moved around the star.

Persons: ”, Anna McLeod, ” McLeod, McLeod, Jonathan Henshaw, aren’t, “ Organizations: CNN, Durham University, Southern, ESO, Liverpool John Moores University Locations: ALMA, United Kingdom, Chile

China has decommissioned 70.45 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired plants in the last decade, and is building far more renewable energy capacity than any other country. Coal power makes up about 70% of emissions in China, which has committed to being carbon neutral by 2060. After 2025, it is unclear whether China will approve new coal plants. But like many cities in China's coal country, coal revenues and jobs are an incentive to keep building. Several workers in Yulin expressed little doubt about whether new coal plants make economic and environmental sense.

Persons: Li, Gao Yuhe, Xu Mingjun, China's, Xie Zhenhua, Yuheng, Duan, Colleen Howe, Ella Cao, David Stanway, Tony Munroe, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Reuters, Greenpeace, Shenhua Energy, Global Energy Monitor, Development and Research Center, Shaanxi Yulin Energy, Shaanxi Daily, Thomson Locations: YULIN, China, Yulin, Yangquan, Shanxi, Dubai, Ukraine, Canada, Shaanxi, China's, Beijing, Singapore

☆ Brenda Lee, a Queen of Christmas and So Much More
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Lee inducted Tucker into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October, and people are still talking about the dry delivery and killer comic timing of her speech. Lee has, Tucker added, “the best sense of humor known to man (or woman).”For the past four years, “Rockin’” has peaked at No. Because while Brenda Lee is a Christmas queen, she’s also so much more. Brenda Lee has stories. While still in her teens, Lee shared bills with Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield — the list is seemingly endless.

Persons: Tanya Tucker, Lee, Tucker, “, ”, Mariah, ” Lee, Carey, Brenda Lee, she’s, Elvis Presley, Elvis, “ I’m, I’ve, ” Patsy Cline, Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield, John Lennon, Lee “ Organizations: Country Music Hall of Fame, Ole Opry, Beatles Locations: Hamburg

Joseph Ataman/CNNAfter many foreign workers fled Israel following the October 7 attacks, farmers were forced to abandon crops or rely on volunteers for the harvest. Inbar’s remaining foreign workers quietly motor up and down the rows of zucchini. Hamas fighters torched the barns holding hay for the dairy cows on Kibbutz Alumim, riding unopposed into the settlement before massacring foreign workers and attendees of the nearby Nova music festival. “The foreign workers run the farm, they do all the milking,” farm manager Stevie Marcus said of the working of the farm before October 7. Joseph Ataman/CNNStanding among Inbar’s zucchini, tech worker Avi Leibovich - volunteering on a day off from his day job - said he came to help Israeli farms survive.

Persons: Thais, Nattaphong Duangchan, Matan, Yosi, Joseph Ataman, Avi Dichter, ”, Lior Simcha, Stevie Marcus, Yosi Inbar, it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, Inbar, “ We’re, Lisa Perlman, Inbar’s, Avi Leibovich, Danny Parizada, hadn’t, Mei –, Mei, “ Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Palestinian, West Bank, Milk Producers Association, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, of Housing, Brothers, Sisters, Volunteers Locations: Thai, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Thailand, Thailand’s, Sri Lanka, Israel’s, Egypt, United States, Nova, Kibbutz Alumim, Gaza City, Tel Aviv

☆ Need Therapy? In West Africa, Hairdressers Can Help.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Elian Peltier | More About Elian Peltier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Joseline de Lima was wandering the dusty alleys of her working-class neighborhood in the capital of Togo one day last year, when a disturbing thought crossed her mind: Who would take care of her two boys if her depression worsened and she were no longer around to look after them? Ms. de Lima, a single mother who was grieving the recent death of her brother and had lost her job at a bakery, knew she needed help. But therapy was out of the question. “Too formal and expensive,” she recalled thinking. Help came instead from an unexpected counselor: Ms. de Lima’s hairdresser, who had noticed her erratic walks in the neighborhood and provided a safe space to share her struggles amid the curly wigs hanging from colorful shelves and the bright neon lights of her small salon in Lomé, Togo’s capital.

Persons: Joseline, de Locations: Lima, Togo, de Lima, Lomé

☆ No. 2 Purdue comes back to beat No. 11 Gonzaga in Maui opener
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/61] Nov 20, 2023; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Purdue Boilermakers center Zach Edey (15) shoots while being defended by Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Ben Gregg (33) during the first half at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. 11 Gonzaga 73-63 on Monday afternoon in the opening round of the Maui Invitational in Honolulu. Nolan Hickman and Ryan Nembhard each added 11 points for Gonzaga, with Nembhard dishing out six assists. The Boilermakers outscored Gonzaga 43-28 in the second half, holding the Bulldogs to 0-for-13 shooting from beyond the 3-point line. Purdue scored the game's first six points, on two Edey hook shots in the lane and a driving layup by Lance Jones, before Gonzaga scored 14 in a row.

Persons: Zach Edey, Ben Gregg, Steven Erler, Gonzaga, Lance Jones, Braden Smith, Smith, Graham Ike, Edey, Nolan Hickman, Ryan Nembhard, Nembhard dishing, Ike, Hickman, Dusty Stromer, Stromer Organizations: Purdue Boilermakers, Gonzaga Bulldogs, SimpliFi, Stan Sheriff Center, Purdue, Maui Invitational, Boilermakers, Gonzaga, Syracuse, Bulldogs, Camden, Edey, Thomson Locations: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Tennessee, Hickman

☆ No. 11 Gonzaga runs past Syracuse in Maui consolation bracket
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

November 21 - Nolan Hickman scored 19 points and two of his teammates recorded a double-double Tuesday as No. 11 Gonzaga defeated Syracuse 76-57 in a consolation semifinal at the Maui Invitational in Honolulu. Graham Ike (16 points, 14 rebounds, four steals), Anton Watson (12 points, 13 rebounds) and Ryan Nembhard (11 points, seven assists) also were key contributors for Gonzaga. Syracuse trailed by 14 at halftime and still faced a 10-point deficit with less than 11 minutes remaining. Syracuse responded with seven straight points -- a 3-pointer by Bell and consecutive buckets by Mintz -- to get within 27-19.

Persons: Nolan Hickman, Monday's, Graham Ike, Anton Watson, Ryan Nembhard, Judah Mintz, JJ Starling, Chris Bell, Justin Taylor, Mintz, Maliq Brown, Hickman, Ben Gregg, Nembhard, Gonzaga, Ike, Watson, Dusty Stromer, Braden Huff's, Bell Organizations: Gonzaga, Syracuse, Maui Invitational, Purdue, Bulldogs, Orange, Thomson Locations: Honolulu, Orange, Syracuse

☆ At a Gaza hospital, a midwife brings life and volunteers tend the dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

She travelled to Khan Younis from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Khan Younis vegetable market is still open but prices have doubled. Though Khan Younis is south of Israel’s “evacuation line,” it has not escaped daily raids by Israeli warplanes or missiles. A total of 1,300 people have been killed in the Khan Younis area since October 7, local health officials say. Nasser Hospital, the main hospital in Khan Younis and the biggest in southern Gaza, uses the same term on its Facebook page where it lists the daily “martyrs” in this war.

Persons: Younis Khan Younis, Khan Younis, Israel, Abla Awad, Awad, “, ”, Younis, Suzan, “ They’re, Jan Egeland, Benjamin Netanyahu, NBC’s “, Relatives, Saeed Al, Shorbaji, Shaheed Organizations: United Nations, Program, –, Islamic, Israel, Norwegian Refugee Council, Reuters, Nasser Hospital, Al Locations: Israel, Gaza, Khan, Hulayqat, Israel’s, Islamic Jihad, Egypt, Cairo, ”, Al Aqsa, Old City, Islam, Nasser, Al Jazeera

☆ Economics and nature square off in Dubai Airshow jet engine rift
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Tim Hepher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The head of the world's largest international carrier was speaking in the midst of negotiations to buy dozens of Airbus A350-1000 jets powered by Rolls-Royce's XWB-97 engine, which have foundered for now over maintenance and pricing issues. I happen to be a service," Emirates President Tim Clark told reporters this week. INSURANCE-TYPE DEALSWhile the visible face of engine makers is technology, the way they generate much of their income resembles insurance. Rather than charge for repairs as they arise, engine makers increasingly strike long-term deals priced by the flight hour, agreeing to swallow the cost of planned and unexpected outages. To engine makers it means generating cash as soon as the engine enters service rather than waiting for shop visits.

Persons: Denis Balibouse, Tim Clark, Royce's, Larry Culp, Tufan Erginbilgic, Royce, Clark, Rolls, Nick Cunningham, Tim Hepher, Alexander Cornwell, Pesha Magid, Sarah Young, Rajesh Kumar Singh, David Evans Organizations: Boeing, Emirates, Cointrin Airport, REUTERS, Rights, Airlines, Royce, Airbus, GE Aerospace, Reuters, GE, Agency Partners, Thomson Locations: Cointrin, Geneva, Switzerland, Rights DUBAI, Dubai, India, Gulf

Conservatives also say Johnson, who was a rank-and-file member up until this point, hasn’t broken their trust yet. “Kevin was in a very difficult situation when that happened,” Johnson told CNN. But it wasn’t enough to win them over; the House Freedom Caucus took an official position against the plan. “Speaker Johnson must reassert his authority in this fight,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, said ahead of the vote. “I think if you’re going to oust a speaker of the House from your conference, the red line should remain the same for the next speaker,” Greene said.

Persons: Mike Johnson’s, Kevin McCarthy, –, McCarthy, Johnson, haven’t, ”, Bob Good, there’s, “, Tom Cole, we’ve, Warren Davidson, that’s, Chip Roy, Dan Bishop of, Kevin, ” Johnson, Scott Perry, “ He’s, Troy Nehls, ” McCarthy, Dusty Johnson of, Garret Graves, McCarthy ”, Patrick McHenry of, Marjorie Taylor Greene, ” Greene Organizations: Democratic, House Republican Conference, Louisiana Republican, CNN, GOP, ”, Freedom Caucus, Caucus, Fox Business, “, Pennsylvania Republican, California Republican, Dusty Johnson of South Dakota Locations: Louisiana, Virginia, Oklahoma, Ukraine, Israel, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Texas, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, “, California, Dusty Johnson of South, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Washington, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Emirates airliners are seen on the tarmac in a general view of Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 13, 2021. He told reporters Emirates would be prepared to order between 35 and 50 of the jets if Rolls-Royce improved both the durability and maintenance costs. Reuters reported on Monday that an order from Emirates for the largest version of the A350 appeared to be on hold over terms of engine guarantees with Rolls-Royce. With plans for an Emirates A350 order off the table for now, Airbus also saw a second major order from Turkish Airlines (THY) (THYAO.IS) slip off the show's agenda, industry sources said. Airbus said on Monday it had reached agreement "in principle" on a significant THY order.

Persons: Abdel Hadi Ramahi, Royce, Tim Clark, Christian Scherer, Trent XWB, Tim Hepher, Alexander Cornwell, Tom Hogue, Jason Neely Organizations: Emirates, Dubai International, United Arab Emirates, Rights, Airbus, Dubai, Boeing 777X, Royce, Reuters, GE, Boeing, Turkish Airlines, Thomson Locations: Dubai, United Arab, Rights DUBAI, Emirates, Egyptair, East, India

2 Purdue moved up a spot with two easy opening wins and received seven first-place votes. 24 James Madison moved into the poll for the first time ever after taking down Michigan State in overtime. 10 in the preseason poll after last year's surprising run to the Final Four. 25 Colorado in moving into the AP Top 25 this week. ___Get alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 basketball polls throughout the season.

Persons: Marquette, James Madison, Tommy Lloyd's, “, ” Lloyd, DUKES Mark Byington, James, Dukes, We’re, ”, Bickerstaff, Dusty May, Duke, Saint Mary's, ___ Organizations: Associated Press, Purdue, Arizona, Duke, Connecticut, Michigan State, Cameron Indoor, Wildcats, Princeton, Devils, Michigan, Dukes, AP, Spartans, OWLS Florida, The Owls, Loyola Chicago, ” Owls, Baylor, Buffaloes, Towson, Grambling State, San Diego, Aztecs, BYU, Weber State Locations: Kansas, Morgan, East Lansing, Arizona, Southern California, Colorado, San Diego State

☆ Polluting Industries Say the Cost of Cleaner Air Is Too High
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Lydia Depillis | More About Lydia Depillis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By law, the agency isn’t supposed to consider the impact on polluting industries. In practice, it does — and those industries are warning of dire economic consequences. Under the Clean Air Act, every five years the E.P.A. Fine particulate matter is extremely dangerous when it percolates into human lungs, and the law has driven a vast decline in concentrations in areas like Los Angeles and the Ohio Valley. But technically there is no safe level of particulate matter, and ever-spreading wildfire smoke driven by a changing climate and decades of forest mismanagement has reversed recent progress.

Persons: Biden, Trump, Jeffrey D Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency, Act, White House Locations: Los Angeles, Ohio

☆ Photos suggest Cybertruck's massive windshield wiper may be made up of two or three individual wipers attached to each other
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Photos suggest the giant wiper might actually be made of multiple wipers attached to each other. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs more details surface about Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck, one feature that's gotten a lot of attention is the Cybertruck's ridiculously large windshield wiper. New photos seem to reveal that it might actually be multiple wiper blades stacked in a row on top of each other. Is the Cybertruck’s wiper actually multiple wipers in a row? The added windshield wiper now rests vertically alongside the driver's side of the windshield when not in use.

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☆ The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Conor Dougherty | More About Conor Dougherty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

From 2011 to 2015, about 100,000 properties — more than a quarter of the Detroit lots — were auctioned in tax foreclosures, according to Regrid, a Detroit-based provider of parcel data nationally. (Speculators recently made money after the city bought out vacant lots to help revive an auto plant that would bring jobs to the area.) Mr. Allen said his main project at the agency was finding new ways to stimulate growth that didn’t rely on grants and tax breaks. After reading “Progress and Poverty” years earlier, he’d become obsessed with the problem of speculation, and suggested a land-value tax. A tax break for residents — paid for by nameless investors who are “taking advantage of the city” — would seem like a political layup.

Persons: Duggan, Nick Allen, Allen, he’d, Henry George, — Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr, Poverty Locations: Detroit

☆ The F-150 Lightning is fast, fun, and comfortable — and you probably don't need one
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

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Persons: —, I've, Ford, Tim Levin, It's, Cruise, spry, Dan Barbossa, Alexander Edwards, Barbossa Organizations: Ford, Service, New, Honda, Strategic Locations: New York City, New York, legroom, Berkeley , California

☆ Forgotten film reels bring Maria Callas' Paris debut to colourful life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A new film "Callas - Paris, 1958" is about to transport audiences back to the night 65 years ago when opera legend Maria Callas for the first time dazzled a Paris audience. Celebrities including Charlie Chaplin, Brigitte Bardot and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as well as then French president René Coty attended the three-hour performance at the Paris Opera. It was also broadcast live on television to more than 30 million people, but until film-maker Tom Volf and his team meticulously restored film reels that had lain forgotten, it had only been seen in black and white. He said the work of his team made the film "as vivid as if it was shot last month". It will be released in cinemas in some 40 countries between November and December in celebration of the centenary of Callas' birth.

Persons: Callas, Maria Callas, Charlie Chaplin, Brigitte Bardot, Duke, Duchess of, René Coty, Tom Volf, Volf, Norma, Hanna Rantala, Barbara Lewis Organizations: Paris, Thomson Locations: Paris, Duchess of Windsor, New York

☆ An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Aatish Taseer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage: a trip of endurance, hardship and ecstasy in celebration of one’s faith. On an epic pilgrimage of his own, one writer ventures into the heart of three great religions in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. The Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala the day after Ashura. “They’re poor, but they come thousands of kilometers for the love of Imam Hussein.” PILGRIMAGE WAS A great equalizer. “Labaik ya Hussein,” came the solemn chorus of surrounding voices.

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☆ As shutdown looms, US House Republicans search for stopgap solution
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

House Speaker Mike Johnson, the top Republican in Congress, described the closed-door debate as "positive." House Republicans are focused on passing full-year appropriations bills for transportation, housing, urban development and financial services. The chamber has passed seven partisan Republican bills of the 12 spending measures needed. "What we need is bipartisan solutions," Representative Pete Aguilar, chair of the House Democratic conference, told reporters. Another option on the House Republican table would be to negotiate with the Democratic-led Senate on a "clean" CR that can pass both chambers quickly.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Nathan Howard, Everybody's, Brian Babin, Johnson, Dusty Johnson, Pete Aguilar, Eli Crane, Crane, Mike Garcia, David Morgan, Scott Malone, Stephen Coates, Leslie Adler Organizations: Republican, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Rights, . House, Democratic, Republicans, Democrats, Internal Revenue Service, House Democratic, Social Security, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Israel, Ukraine, Mexico

Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt track in a runner’s lunge, waiting to spring forward as soon as her mother started the clock. Although Arti had risen before dawn to train, the oppressive heat bore down on her. It was May, and northern India was experiencing its worst heat wave in 45 years. She, like millions of other young people in India, dreamed of getting a job with India’s central government. Arti had already beaten the odds and passed the written exams for India’s Central Industrial Security Force, or C.I.S.F., a paramilitary corps responsible for guarding critical infrastructure.

Persons: Arti Kumari, Arti Organizations: Central Industrial Security Force Locations: India

A toddler with a bandaged head, limp and dusty, is carried into a Gaza hospital for treatment after an Israeli airstrike. Mourners bid farewell to a woman who was killed in southern Israel in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on a kibbutz. Scenes of destruction and pain endure on both sides as the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas stretches into a fourth week. In central Gaza Strip, Palestinians try to rescue a girl from rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Nusseirat refugee camp. Sitting atop a damaged building, a man surveys the remains of the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip following intense Israeli airstrikes, holes and rubble where buildings once stood.

Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Egypt

Yet over the last three weeks of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, Rafah has become the focus of heated negotiations, a place where many people, both powerful and powerless, have pinned their waning hopes. So far, nothing and no one has been able to come out of Gaza. Aid trucks and army tanks lined the dusty road leading to the crossing. On Tuesday, 83 trucks arrived in Gaza, said Wael Abu Omar, a spokesman for the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing. There is still a chance that an agreement could come together for people with foreign passports to leave.

Persons: we’ve, Mostafa Madbouly, Wael Abu Omar, David M, ”, Israel, ’, Madbouly, Mustafa Mouftah, Mr, Satterfield, Biden, Hiba, Iyad Abuheweila Organizations: Gaza’s General Authority, ”, European Union, U.S, United Locations: Cairo, Rafah, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, North, United States, Egyptian, El Arish

☆ Five modern-day ghost towns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Elissa Garay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. “Climate change will undoubtedly cause death of landscapes where we shall mourn our environmental decline.”Visiting such places now can shine a critical light on the effects of climate change and, in so doing, offer educational experiences to the contemporary visitor. “Visiting such places now can shine a critical light on the effects of climate change and, in so doing, offer educational experiences to the contemporary visitor.”Here are five global ghost towns that have been created as climate change reshapes the world – the likely harbingers of many more to come. Chacaltaya Ski Resort, BoliviaBolivia's abandoned Chacaltaya Ski Resort closed in 2009. Luke Chen/iStock Editorial/Getty ImagesOnce the world’s highest ski resort, the 17,388-foot-high lodge on Mount Chacaltaya opened in the 1930s as a popular – and only – ski resort in Bolivia’s Andes.

Persons: ”, Gaia Vince, “, Jack DeWaard, “ They’re, it’s, Vince, ” Vince, DeWaard, Philip Stone, Stone, Christoph Sator, de Jean Charles, Jean Charles’s, Cotul, Luke Chen, Chacaltaya, Kile Brewer, – Organizations: CNN, Population Council, United Nations, University of Central, for Dark Tourism Research, Institute, Dark Tourism, Fijian, Louisiana Communities, Valmeyer , Illinois Old, Valmeyer, School, The New York Times Locations: Wild, Hawaii , California, Australia, Bangladesh, Lahaina, Hawaii, Spain, University of Central Lancashire, Vunidogoloa, Fiji, Pacific, Fijian, Vanua Levu, Louisiana, Gulf, Mexico, New Orleans, Cotul Morii, Moldova, Morii, Europe, Bolivia, Andes, La Paz, Valmeyer , Illinois, Mississippi, North, Illinois, Valmeyer, –

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