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UNV volunteers raise funds to help flood victims

Sep 30

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 150,000 people lost their homes after heavy floods on 1 September 2009. UNV volunteers are providing humanitarian aid to someunvjpg of the most vulnerable flood victims.

Four newborn babies sleep quietly in the arms of their mothers just behind the school, Kobri Nabmanejeuma, one of 88 sites in Ouagadougou where floods victims are receiving urgent humanitarian assistance. The youngest, a baby girl, is just 12 hours old and of course unaware about the unfortunate circumstances under which she was born.

“My baby is fine for the moment, but I do not have enough clothes for her and I doubt that the food I get will be enough to allow me to breast feed her,” says her mother Salamata Nikiema who, like tens of thousands of other people, saw her house collapse under the rain two weeks ago.
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Lost Dog Gathers Clues to Find its Family

Sep 30

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A Hopelessly Lost Rottweiler and the Dedicated Animal Rescue Worker who Found her Family
By Steve Hartman

Over the last 20 years, the Love Me Tender animal rescue in central Tennessee has rounded up more than 1,000 abandoned dogs. And although most are timid and untrusting, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports, one Rottweiler named Ella was notably different.

“I could just tell right away she was somebody’s baby. She just didn’t act like a stray dog to me,” said Kathy Wilkes-Myers, who found the dog a few months ago.

Ella was emaciated and drinking from a drainage ditch along an empty stretch of highway. Kathy says it’s typical for people to dump unwanted pets in the middle of nowhere – but again, the dog’s demeanor convinced her there was more to the story. So she did some detective work, and what she found is a heart-wrenching tale of unending loyalty.

“She was hoping her family could come back. But they couldn’t. They couldn’t come back. It just breaks your heart,” said Kathy.

Kathy found the first clues to this mystery – broken glass and tail lights – right near where she found the dog.
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All bark and no pray? Montreal church plans service for dogs

Sep 29

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MONTREAL – A Beaconsfield, Que., church has gone to the dogs. Really.

Christ Church Beaurepaire in the community on the Island of Montreal is about to begin offering a monthly church service that will include dogs. Called Paws and Pray, the communion service will feature bread and wine, as well as doggie treats and bowls of water for the four-legged ‘parishioners.’

The church’s minister, Michael Johnson, said he has always enjoyed doing a pet blessing once a year, so he was open to the suggestion made by an animal-rights activist to include dogs in a church service.

“It’s to recognize the value of dogs,” said Johnson, who will not be offended if there is barking during his sermon.

The first Paws and Pray will be held on Oct. 4. The pilot project will continue once a month for four months, to see if there is real interest in bringing dogs to church.
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World’s first shark sanctuary set to open in Palau

Sep 28

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The tiny Pacific nation is fighting to protect more than 130 species fighting extinction in the Pacific Ocean.

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The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is creating the world’s first shark sanctuary, a biological hotspot to protect great hammerheads, leopard sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, and more than 130 other species fighting extinction in the Pacific Ocean. But with only one boat to patrol 240,000 square miles of Palau’s newly protected waters — including its exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, that extends 200 miles from its coastline — enforcement of the new measure could be almost like swimming against the tide.

Palau’s president, who is set to announce the news to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, acknowledges the difficulty of patrolling ocean waters nearly the size of Texas or France with a single boat. But he hopes others will respect Palauan territorial waters — and that the shark haven inspires more such conservation efforts globally.
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Rescue Ink’s tough guys crush animal cruelty

Sep 26

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Burly, tattooed, animal-loving bikers use tough looks to help abused pets
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Collectively, they have too many tattoos to count, but there’s one thing that really makes these tough-talking bikers from Long Island, N.Y., stand out: They have a hard-core passion for protecting animals.

Officially called Rescue Ink, this group of burly animal-lovers united in 2007 when they discovered this common ground and have come to the aid of countless animals ever since. Now they’re showing the world their intolerance for animal neglect and cruelty in their new National Geographic Channel show “Rescue Ink Unleashed,” which premieres Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. ET.
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Workers Find $3,200 In Sunnyvale Recycling Plant

Sep 25

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Sunnyvale police are working with the FBI after workers at a recycling plant found a stash of cash in the trash.

Police say workers found $3,200 while sorting through items Tuesday at the SMaRT recycling station.
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Water Found on the Moon

Sep 25

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Irene Klotz, Discovery News

Shattering a long-held belief that Earth’s moon is a dead and dry world, a trio of spacecraft uncovered clear evidence of water and hydrogen-oxygen molecules throughout the lunar surface.

“There’s no question that there is OH [hydroxyl, which is made up of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom] and H2O on the moon,” University of Maryland senior research scientist Jessica Sunshine told Discovery News.

“It’s still pretty damn dry, drier than anything we have here. But we’ve found this dynamic, ongoing process and the moon was supposedly dead,” she said. “This is a real paradigm shift.”
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Metal detector enthusiast unearths huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold

Sep 24

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The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found has been unearthed on farmland in Staffordshire by a metal detector enthusiast, saxon_group_618442earchaeologists revealed today.

Terry Herbert, 55, from Burntwood, came across the huge hoard as he searched a field near his home. The exact location of the discovery has not been disclosed but it is understood to be near the Lichfield border in South Staffordshire, in what was once the independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.

Experts said that the collection of more than 1,500 military artefacts, including helmets, sword pommels and sword hilt ornaments possibly looted on the field of battle 1,400 years by a victorious warlord, is unparalleled in size and may have belonged to Saxon royalty.
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Tiny technologies could produce big energy solutions

Sep 23

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(CNN) — Forgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on

These concepts are being developed by two leading nanotechnology researchers who are developing cleaner, more efficient ways of delivering electrical power. In working toward making these ideas realities, they are making use of structures that are 100 nanometers or smaller, where one nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

“[The nanoscale] can make the components small, sensitive and high-performance,” said Zhong Lin “Z.L.” Wang, distinguished professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering. “The toughness and the flexibility increase by orders of magnitude.”
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World’s Oldest Man Parties

Sep 22

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