Investing in Blue: Indonesia's Bold Move to Save Coral Reefs with Innovative Bond The Indonesia Coral Bond, an innovative financing instrument launched by the World Bank, seeks to enhance ocean biodiversity and manage over 5 million hectares of marine protected areas (MPAs) in ... 06/6/2024 - 12:09 am | View Link
Coral Edith O’Brien OBITUARY Coral Edith O’Brien, nee Moyer, of Oak Park; beloved wife of the late William G.; loving mother of Michael, Thomas, Mary (Joseph Makowski), William “Bunker”(Therese “Tagger”), Katherine (Michael ... 06/5/2024 - 9:51 pm | View Link
Colombian underwater 'art gallery' serves as coral home On the Caribbean seafloor, an unusual sculpture gallery is taking shape with an equally unusual purpose: to provide homes for corals under threat from tourism and climate change. 06/5/2024 - 9:50 pm | View Link
‘Incident’ between Coral Gables mayor, city manager under investigation Coral Gables police Chief Ed Hudak issued a cryptic statement Wednesday confirming that an “incident” happened at city hall this week, saying his department’s internal affairs unit is now ... 06/5/2024 - 3:14 pm | View Link
Coral Gables police investigating ‘incident’ between mayor and city manager at City Hall Coral Gables police are investigating an “incident” between Mayor Vince Lago and City Manager Amos Rojas Jr. In a press release Wednesday, Police Chief Ed Hudak said the department’s Internal Affairs ... 06/5/2024 - 8:40 am | View Link
Corals Corals are small marine animals. The “hard” type of coral grows with the help of algae, which gives it color and nutrients that help it form a sturdy, stony skeleton. Reefs, which form through the accumulation of hard coral, are a vital ecosystem, supporting an estimated 25 percent of ocean species. 06/4/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Website
Coral Reefs Coral reefs are important ocean habitats and offer a compelling case of the risks of climate change. Reefs provide a large fraction of Earth’s biodiversity —they have been called “the rain forests of the seas.”. Scientists estimate that 25 percent of all marine species live in and around coral reefs, making them one of the most diverse ... 06/4/2024 - 8:26 pm | View Website
Coral Reefs and Corals | Smithsonian Ocean Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with perhaps one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter. This is a remarkable statistic when you consider that reefs cover just a tiny fraction (less than one percent) of the earth’s surface and less than two percent of the ocean bottom. 06/4/2024 - 3:25 pm | View Website
Coral | Definition, Types, Location, & Facts | Britannica Coral, any of a variety of invertebrate marine organisms of the class Anthozoa that are characterized by skeletons—external or internal—of a stonelike, horny, or leathery consistency. The term coral is also applied to the skeletons of those animals, particularly to those of the stonelike corals. 06/4/2024 - 7:11 am | View Website
Coral Vocabulary. There are about six thousand species of coral around the world, with some species growing in warm shallow waters near coastlines and others thriving on the dark, cold seafloor of the open ocean. Though coral may look like a colorful plant growing from roots in the seafloor, it is actually an animal. 06/4/2024 - 3:15 am | View Website
While rainbow-striped flags are the most iconic symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, several variations of the pride flag have been designed over the years to honor the sexualities and gender identities of people worldwide.
The transgender pride flag, representing 1.6 million people over the age of 13 who identify as transgender in the U.
Today, President Joe Biden gives remarks at the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy to honor past military sacrifices and triumphs. But with an eye toward the 2024 presidential race, he is also following a well-worn playbook of leveraging international travel to win domestic political points.
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Indeed, his Republican predecessor, Ronald Reagan, used the exact same anniversary 40 years ago to deliver one of his most famous overseas speeches, as a part of a carefully choreographed ten-day tour of Europe.
DULZURA, Calif. — Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U. S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late.
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“I heard that they were going to do it or were about to do it,” Castillo, 35, said Wednesday as she and her son were escorted to a Border Patrol van with about two dozen others from Brazil, Ecuador and her village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which she said she left because it was gripped by violence.
They had missed the deadline, and were now subject to the new deportation rule.
Her sense of uncertainty prevailed among many migrants after Biden invoked presidential powers to stop asylum processing when arrests for illegal crossings top 2,500 in a day.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza that the military claimed was being used as a Hamas compound killed at least 30 people, including five children, according to local health officials.
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The strike came after the military said it was launching new air and ground operations in central Gaza in an apparent widening of its nearly eight-month offensive, launched after Hamas’ Oct.
Five Points gets jazzed
Saturday. The free, wonderfully sprawling Five Points Jazz Festival returns this weekend with diverse live music on Saturday, June 8 — all taking place along Welton Street between 25th and 29th streets.
The beloved event in the Five Points neighborhood is expecting more than 10,000 attendees for its 20 local and national acts, along with food, drinks, shopping and ceremonies honoring local jazz legends.
WASHINGTON — YouTube is changing its policies about firearm videos in an effort to keep potentially dangerous content from reaching underage users.
The video sharing platform owned by Google said Wednesday it will prohibit any videos demonstrating how to remove firearm safety devices. In addition, videos showing homemade guns, automatic weapons and certain firearm accessories like silencers will be restricted to users 18 and older.
The changes take effect June 18 and come after gun safety advocates have repeatedly called on the platform to do more to ensure gun videos aren’t making their way to the site’s youngest users, potentially traumatizing children or sending them down dark paths of extremism and violence.
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Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project, said the change was welcome news and a step in the right direction.