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Dying dad, sick son booted off plane to applause are home in Arizona
2016-02-26 01:51:44| Airlines - Topix.net
Feb 25 A boy on a vacation with his dying father was back home in Arizona on Thursday, days after the 7-year-old suffered a dog allergy attack and the family was removed from a flight home to applause from passengers, his mother said. The trio was at the tail end of a bucket-list vacation to the U.S. Northwest so the boy's father, George, who has terminal throat cancer, could visit family, when the child suffered a severe allergy attack from being near a dog brought on the plane, she said.
Tree Team Replaces Dead and Dying Trees in Boise-Eliot
2016-02-11 19:38:49| PortlandOnline
Wise Words From A Dying Astronaut On Climate Change
2016-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: In the January 16, 2016 issue of the New York Timess Sunday Review climate scientist and retired astronaut Piers J. Sellers wrote a painfully beautiful article commencing with a revelation of his diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. His peroration: As an astronaut I spacewalked 220 miles above the Earth. Floating alongside the International Space Station, I watched hurricanes cartwheel across oceans, the Amazon snake its way to the sea through a brilliant green carpet of forest, and...
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Climate deniers attack NASA scientist dying cancer
2016-01-21 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Readers of The New York Times were treated to a deeply touching essay this week by Piers Sellers, a NASA astronaut and climate scientist who was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Sellers wrote: This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. Ive spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which is best viewed through a multidecadal lens. At some level I was sure that, even at my present age of 60, I would live to see the most critical part...
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Animals Are Helping to Slow Climate ChangeBut They're Dying
2015-12-19 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The decline in animal populations in tropical forests may play a role in accelerating climate change, according to new research. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows how the loss of animals reduces the ability of forests to store carbon that would otherwise accelerate global warming. Large animals like large primates, tapirs and toucans play a key role distributing the seeds of the large trees that store the most carbon and in turn ensuring a healthy forest. The researchers...
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