by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Sandie Gillard fell from a two-story window, the impact knocked the senior citizen unconscious, a state that may have become permanent if not for the intervention of a very small, very unlikely hero. Lightly tapping on her head, a bird named Jellybean roused its...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone. This ‘auto-petrification’ may offer a strange new way to reduce human carbon emissions, as the mineral created by the trees has a much longer...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
If there were one place in America where you’d decline a glass of tap water it would be Flint, right? Wrong. A decade after lead-contaminated water was found in the Michigan city’s water system, the legal battle to replace lead water pipes is nearly finished. Homes...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the coast of Madagascar springs a story of pirates and sunken treasure, as an American research team believe they have identified a famous shipwreck. Nossa Senhora do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape) was a 700-ton Portuguese warship captured by an infamous French...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain. While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who “love...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A little-known Coast Guard officer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing 165 people from the Texas hill country floods. Petty Officer and rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, a native of New Jersey, was on the scene when the Guadalupe River rose dramatically, causing...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are so many other ways it could have happened: they could have thrown away the sticky note containing Wayne Corprew’s phone number; they could have tilled the ground three inches to the left, they could have taken the ring they found to a pawnshop. But because...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A study examining mercury concentrations in the leaves of alpine plants has revealed that humanity has reduced worldwide exposure to this most toxic of heavy metals substantially. Controlled via a UN treaty called the Minamata Convention on Mercury Emissions, mercury...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Out of a recent UN conference on the protection of the sea comes the news that Portugal has announced the creation of a new 38,000 square-mile marine protected area. Established around the Gorringe seamount, technically Portugal’s tallest mountain, the decision will...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A California photographer recently captured three minutes of high quality camera trap footage of the state’s rarest mammal. Randy Robbins, whom this reporter chose to feature in GNN’s roundup of the 2024 Wildlife Photography Awards, has been on a three-year-long quest...
