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☆ New Year’s Eve 2024: Around the world from the first to last countries to celebrate
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-31 | by ( Kendall Trammell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The Pacific Island nation will be followed by Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 a.m. Here’s when places around the world will be ringing in the New Year, relative to East Coast time. ET Fiji, a small part of eastern Russia, and several more Pacific islands, including the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu8 a.m. ET A small region of Australia including Adelaide9 a.m. ET Much of US minor outlying islands (unincorporated US territories in the Pacific), including Baker Island and Howland Island

Persons: it’ll, “ Auld Lang Syne, Dan Himbrechts, Anusak, Sam Panthaky, Frances ’, Angelos Tzortzinis, Miquelon, Farruko, Dick Clark’s, Rockin, Ryan Seacrest, Rodrigo Varela, Dustin Bradford Organizations: CNN, New York City’s, Chatham, New Zealand, New, Adelaide, Leste, Macao, Getty, United Arab, Puerto Rican, Mobile, D.C, Cayman, Los, Island Denver Broncos, Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers, Cook, Pacific Locations: New York, Kiribati, Kiritimati, East Coast, United States, Chatham Islands, New Zealand, New, Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands, Antarctica, Hawaii, American Samoa, East, Chatham, Fiji, Russia, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Queensland, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Indonesia, Timor, Palau, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Mongolia, Taiwan, Brunei, Russia’s Irkutsk, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangkok, Myanmar, Cocos, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, British, Ocean Territory, Omsk, India, Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, AFP, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Maldives, Tajikistan, French Southern, Kerguelen, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Oman, Georgia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Iran, Moscow, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, Romania, Athens, Germany, Nigeria, Algeria, Italy, Belgium, Morocco, Albania, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, Iceland, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cabo Verde, Azores, Greenland, Brazilian, Pernambuco, South Georgia, Sandwich, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, French Guiana, Suriname, Saint Pierre, Falkland, Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada, Venezuela, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Guyana, Puerto, DISTRITO, San Juan , Puerto Rico, Coast, New York City , Washington, Detroit, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Acre, Panama, Mexico, Haiti, Bahamas, Turks, Caicos Islands, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Chicago, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Denver, Phoenix, Edmonton, Calgary, Los Angeles, San Francisco, British Columbia, Baja California, Pitcairn Islands, Denver , Colorado, Alaska, Polynesia, US, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Niue, Baker, Howland

☆ More than 30 stranded whales saved in New Zealand by people lifting them on sheets
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand were safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets. Four of the pilot whales died, New Zealand’s conservation agency said. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. “This response demonstrates the deep connection we all share with our marine environment.”A large crowd assisted with the rescue of the stranded whales. Both the North and South Islands feature stretches of protruding coastline with shallow, sloping beaches that can confuse species such as pilot whales — which rely on echolocation to navigate.

Persons: ” Joel Lauterbach, It’s Organizations: Department of Conservation, Associated Press, of Conservation, New Zealand Department of Conservation Locations: New Zealand, Whangārei, New Zealand’s, Zealand, Chatham, South

☆ New Zealand’s Bird of the Year: A shy penguin wins after campaign filled with memes and tattoos
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Wellington, New Zealand (AP) – It’s noisy, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. This year’s victor, the hoiho — its name means “noise shouter” in the Māori language — is a shy bird thought to be the world’s rarest penguin. Aspiring bird campaign managers — this year ranging from power companies to high school students — submit applications to Forest & Bird for the posts. While anyone in the world can vote, Forest & Bird now requires electors to verify their ballots after foreign interference plagued the contest before. The following year, Forest & Bird was forced to clarify that a flurry of votes from Russia appeared to be from legitimate bird-lovers.

Persons: John Oliver, ”, Emma Rawson, Nicola Toki, Bird, —, Charlie Buchan, Jane Goodall, Phil Keoghan, “, Emily Bull, Bull despaired, Hayden Parsons, –, Rawson, “ There’s, ” Bull Organizations: New Zealand, Forest, New, rugby, Victoria University of Wellington, Bird Locations: Wellington, New Zealand, New, South, Chatham, —, Aotearoa, Dunedin, Russia

☆ Mummified heads of Māori ancestors returned to New Zealand from Germany
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Germany has returned six mummified Māori heads to New Zealand, together with the remains of almost 100 Māori and Moriori ancestors. German institute/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaIn Māori culture, the head was considered the most important part of the body. Back in 2016, the Smithsonian Institution returned the remains of 54 indigenous people, including four mummified Māori heads, to Te Papa. The latest repatriation involved the skeletal remains of 95 ancestors of both peoples, together with six mummified tattooed Māori heads. A team carry 20 mummified Māori heads, repatriated from France, during a ceremony at Te Papa on January 27, 2012.

Persons: Hinemoana Baker, Te, Arikirangi Mamaku, Ironside, Reiss Engelhorn, Georg August, Roemer, Te Papa Tongarewa, Marty Melville, —, Arapata, Papa’s Māori, Te Herekiekie, “, Reiss, James Cook, moko, Craig Hawke, ‘, hora, marino, kia whakapapa, tere, ” Organizations: CNN, New Zealand, Smithsonian, New, Smithsonian Institution, Grassi Museum, Linden Museum, Stuttgart State Museum of, Georg August University, Pelizaeus, Museum, Getty, Aotearoa New Locations: Germany, New Zealand, Papa, New, Aotearoa, Chatham, Te Papa, Vienna, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Göttingen, Hildesheim, Museum Wiesbaden, Te, France, AFP, When, Te Papa’s, Aotearoa New Zealand, Engelhorn, Europe, Wellington, Te_Papa

☆ Photos show the tragic mass stranding event the killed a super pod of 200 whales in Australia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

200 long-finned pilot whales have now died in the mass stranding event. The episode comes two years after 380 pilot whales were stranded and died in the same harbor area. - About 200 pilot whales have perished after stranding themselves on an exposed, surf-swept beach on the rugged west coast of Tasmania. GLENN NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty ImagesThis event comes just two years after the largest mass whale stranding happened in the same harbor. The largest ever recorded whale mass stranding was in 1918, when approximately 1,000 pilot whales came ashore on the Chatham Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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