First Bird Flu Deaths Reported In Antarctic Penguins

Why It Matters: Penguins are already under pressure. The familiar black-and-white birds are facing numerous threats, including climate change, pollution and commercial fishing. Three Antarctic penguin species — emperor penguins, southern rockhopper penguins and macaroni penguins — are listed as vulnerable or near threatened. Before H5N1 arrived in the Antarctic region last fall, highly pathogenic…

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$2.2 Million Homes in California

Los Angeles | $2.2 Million A three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom storybook cottage built in 1926, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in the hills above Laurel Canyon, less than a five-minute drive from Hollywood Boulevard and less than 10 minutes from the nightlife on the Sunset Strip. It is also close to Canyon Country Store, a…

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Oh, you thought you were different, Lions?

Really thought you’d built something, didn’t you, Detroit Lions? The uniform change, the positivity, the belief, the empty catchphrases, whatever they were. Thought you’d shed that old Honolulu blue-and-silver skin and become something new, something better, didn’t you? Were sure you’d left the decades of “Loins” behind, huh? Being a Tennis Gladiator like Roger Federer…

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