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Native Like Water nonprofit created to reconnect Indigenous youth with their history, ocean culture
Intuitively, Marc Chavez says he knew that school really wasn’t a good fit for him as a teen. It wasn’t just that he was goofing off, but the material wasn’t engaging and didn’t speak to him because it didn’t reflect his story and that of his...

Roberto Duran Has No Doubt Who Wins Floyd Mayweather vs Sugar Ray Robinson: “He’s The Best”
Roberto Duran has predicted the outcome of a fantasy match-up between Sugar Ray Robinson and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Duran stands out as one of the greatest fighters of all time. His 33-year professional career saw the Panamanian icon win world...

Live Like You’re On Vacation
The natural beauty of Chautauqua County combined with our extraordinary manmade assets creates a spot that is just right for tourists and is also an exceptional place to live. Recreational and cultural opportunities are year-round, but our region...
UN-backed report warns of escalating global drought risk, calls for urgent action
BERLIN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Girls pulled from school and forced into marriage. Hospitals plunged into darkness. Endangered dolphins floated lifeless in the shrinking Amazon... These are not scenes from a horror film, but real consequences of some...

‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon
In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a young anthropologist, travelled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to investigate reports of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Along the Las Piedras River, people in Monte Salvado, a Yine Indigenous village, described how...

The U.S. plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work.
Published: 02 Jul. 2025, 16:12 In this January 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that...

Copa Airlines boosts T&T service from July 7
COPA Airlines will boost its service between Trinidad and Panama with additional flights starting July 7, in response to growing demand from travellers. Managing director of Copa Airlines, Camille Hackett, confirmed the expansion during a recent...

A Brilliant Explorer Discovered America’s Greatest Sunken Treasure. Then Came the Manhunt.
It was late in the summer of 1988 when Tommy Thompson finally located a big rusty paddle wheel buried in ocean floor sediment. Now he was banking on an even bigger discovery: a cache of 19th-century gold worth as much as half a billion dollars. On...

Canada Issues Travel Warning For Popular South American Capital Amid 'State of Emergency'
Canada just released a new travel advisory for Peru, after the local government declared a state of emergency for the provinces of Lima, where the capital is located, and Callao. The state of emergency is only in effect in specific districts and...

USNS Comfort Brings Life-Changing Care in Granada
U.S. Navy Captain Shelton Viola, a pediatric oncologist assigned to the Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), checks vitals on a Grenadian child during Continuing Promise 2025 in St. George’s, Grenada, June 14, 2025. (Photo: U.S. Navy...

Fights break out on beaches and roads could MELT as 'killer' heatwave brings hottest day of the year in Britain - with warnings mercury could hit 36C
An intense heatwave gripping Britain peaked today as an amber heat health alert warning of a potential 'rise in deaths' was extended into tomorrow. St James's Park, London, saw the highest of the UK's red-hot temperatures where a whopping 34.7C...

Fascism’s New Face is Still The Same!
On July 3, the Meeting of Promoting Teams of the Antifascist International is taking place at a right time. The stated objective is “to update and strengthen our shared agenda in a critical moment of regional and global tension amid the escalation...

US government to release billions of flies into Mexico to stop flesh-eating insects from crossing border
Scientists are preparing to breed and drop billions of flies on Mexico to halt a flesh-eating parasite from crossing the border. The Trump Administration is leading the effort to prevent the spread of the New World Screwworm, which was eradicated...

Deported Purple Heart Army veteran hopes for U.S. return from South Korea
South Korea (Island News) -- Americans paused to celebrate Independence Day, but despite being far from home, one veteran who self-deported to South Korea still feels the significance of this holiday. Sae Joon Park, a U.S. Army veteran,...
How AI and Drones Are Transforming Wildlife Conservation
red eyed tree frog or gaudy leaf frog or Agalychnis callidryas a arboreal hylid native to tropical rainforests in Central America in panama and costa rica . Mistakenly also called the Green Tree Frog© worldswildlifewonders/Shutterstock.comWith the...

Recent droughts are ‘slow-moving global catastrophe’, says UN report
From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report. Describing drought as a “silent killer” which “creeps in, drains...
Loons ride set pieces (again) in a 2-1 win at FC Dallas
Minnesota United’s set-piece success continues to be a driving force this season. The Loons scored two goals — one apiece on a free kick and long throw-in — to propel its 2-1 win over FC Dallas on Friday at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. The...

A (Native) Star is born in historic Gaslamp Quarter Victorian
Overview: Native Star On April 4, 1882, one year before his death, Capt. Wilcox began construction on what was a substantial brick building, complete with all the latest improvements like gas and water fixtures and large drainage pipes. Native...

Letter to Editor: O’er the Land of the Free…
Are we a free people anymore? We were told ICE would begin seizing illegal immigrants who were convicted criminals, MS-13 members, drug dealers, murderers, human traffickers and people of that ilk. We wondered how there could be 12 million such...

US to deploy billions of sterile flies over Mexico and Texas to combat flesh-eating parasite
US to deploy billions of sterile flies over Mexico and Texas to combat flesh-eating parasite In a bold and unconventional effort to stave off a potentially devastating threat to its livestock industry, the United States is preparing to release...