It was just another Sunday afternoon as she took a breath and began the gradual descent into the bottomless void, in preparation to dive a total of 300 feet and back — around the height of a 60-story building. Everything was going as planned until she failed to resurface. A search was carried out with […]
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It started when park managers began the process of wolf extermination due to their destruction of domestic livestock within Yellowstone National Park. This self-centered decision led to a cascade of change in the food web which drove entire animal species toward endangerment. Only after the extinction of gray wolves within the region nearly 100 years
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Yolanda Quispe, a park ranger at the Quelccaya glacier in Peru, is greatly saddened at the dismal state of what was once the world’s largest tropical ice cap, she told The Guardian journalists who joined her in the park. Located at the heart of the Peruvian Andes, the climate crisis has had a direct impact
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For Matt Holdback, the symptoms started when he began shaking and sweating at the possibility of being called on in class, he wrote in a personal essay for the Selective Mutism Information & Research Association. When there was any confrontation, Holdback would try to get away with a small nod or a hand in the
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Inconspicuously, house keys and the location of home dissipates from memory. Progressing further along, even the familiar faces of loved ones fade out of recollection. The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. This neurodegenerative disorder primarily affects the cognitive functioning responsible for retrieving, storing,
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