Humanity
Opinion about Billionaires’ Private Space Race with a Suggestion for Earth’s True Frontiers
The Wild West Frontier has come to the Space Age where billionaire cowboys flaunt their supersonic weaponry hanging from holsters of extreme wealth studded with profligate excess. A few weeks ago, their high noon duel was livestreamed to see who is first or farthest or the biggest bang. Or the reason why Virgin Galactic shares soared by beating Jeff Bezos by 9 days.
By Annemarie Berukoff4 years ago in Earth
Boris & Josie
When I set out as the new Project Manager of the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project in the River Gambia National Park, I was 34. Boris and Josie were many years my senior. Nobody actually knew their exact age - they had come to the project roughly 12, 13 or 14 years prior to me, as pups. Now they were senior dogs, and incredibly overweight.
By Nadia Khan4 years ago in Earth
Nature’s Cup Runneth Over, We Can Take Sips
Everywhere I go, I can’t help but feel like the trees are waving to me. It’s almost like they are encouraging me — applauding me as their leaves shimmer in the summer breeze and their lightest branches bob up and down with excitement. Every window I glance out of, there they are, greeting me with the brightest and warmest dance. Every tree-lined road I drive down, they line up alongside to wave me on, for miles and miles, every last fiber of their being is waving and dancing and jumping to and fro in the golden sunbeams, hardly able to contain their excitement at the opportunity to hold my attention for just a passing moment. As I pass one by, waving and dancing and shimmering in all its glory, it shouts to the next tree in line, “Here she comes!” and every tree down the line just bounces in frenzy and fervor, buzzes with pleasure and pure joy. I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve such a warm welcome, but it’s unfailing.
By Jessica Wolf4 years ago in Earth
Snakes of India
In a new report, sea life scientists admonish a decrease in ocean snake populaces at the Malvan coast, a significant landing port in southern Maharashtra. The creators banner that motorized vessels are probably going to be the primary driver of this decay.
By Sonu Imambhai4 years ago in Earth
If Vocal Was a Tree I'd Hug It. Top Story - January 2022.
A tree is an awesome thing. A magnetic force with much virtue. As a statue of nature it is living and breathing. Much more awesome is a thing with magnitude. A simple statuesque form has much to offer. Not just aesthetics but as in function.
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle4 years ago in Earth
The Barn Owl
As a child I lived on the outskirts of a large city in an old farmhouse that had only cold running water, and a tin bathtub that was used by everyone on Sunday night before school on Monday. As the youngest of five children I always got my bath first, and I usually needed it. I was a tomboy in a dress. I loved most animals, except for cows. I was afraid of cows! However, snakes, frogs, worms, dogs, cats, mice, (which my mother couldn't stand) and had to be hidden from her sight, crayfish, tadpoles, baby minks and birds... any form of domestic animals or wildlife were playmates; except cows.
By Sheila Levitt4 years ago in Earth
Waking Up In Earth's 2020's . Top Story - January 2022.
I dreamt of coho salmon and secrets. Of the tide going out and a world drained dry. The ghosts of mighty rivers, lakes, and oceans howled naked in great craters; existing now only to those left to remember. Bottoms of former bodies of water lay bare, while a few red coho could be seen shining like stars in the muck. I scrambled down the steep trough to scoop up and return the stranded fish to the water, if I could ever find it again. Fat, stunningly beautiful fish wriggled in my embrace. My arms became slippery, and adorned with dark red scales. Scales the colour of spent venous blood returning to a heart.
By April Bencze4 years ago in Earth
Alternative Livelihood
It’s early Monday morning and Charlotte Smith is given the new product to use which was spoken to her about earlier. As she opened the bottle she smiled. The first thing she liked was the smell of the new floor cleaner she was given by her supervisor, to clean the floors, on her morning shift, at the Atlantic Regional Medical Centre, Atlantic City - US.
By Anupam Chanda4 years ago in Earth
