• Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines

    With salmon populations struggling, fishery officials have decided to ban fishing along the California coast for a second straight year. The Pacific Fishery Management Council, a multi-state, quasi-federal body that decides on ocean fishing seasons, voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend shutting down commercial and recreational fishing along the coast. Chinook salmon populations have suffered major declines in recent years, and fishery managers decided to prohibit fishing for another year to...

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    N.J. school district closed for day, town hall closed for morning following bomb threat

    Earlier this week, a teacher was removed from a middle school because a

  • Study lists world's 'forever chemical' hotspots

    Dangerous concentrations of long-lingering "forever chemicals" have been found in surface and groundwater worldwide, according to a study released Tuesday that showed Australia, the United States and Europe as hotspots.

  • Bomb threat closes NJ school district Thursday

    An unspecified bomb threat forced the closure of Marlboro Township Schools in New Jersey Thursday as authorities worked to identify the source and veracity of the threat. The superintendent for Marlboro Township Schools, which enrolls nearly 5,000 students in pre-K-8th grade, initially called for a two-hour delayed opening for schools in the district, citing the emailed bomb threat. “This decision

  • ‘It’d mean the world’: Portsmouth close in on Championship return

    With John Mousinho in charge, the whole city is ready to celebrate after 12 years out of the top two divisionsWhen Portsmouth celebrated promotion to the Premier League in 2003 and lifting the FA Cup in 2008 which, it later emerged, came at a crippling cost, Southsea Common played host to the party. Fans also gathered there to toast winning League Two in 2017, though at that point they did not anticipate spending quite so long in League One. At the seventh attempt, a return to the second tier...

    • Time

    Why a New Study Dubbed India the ‘Cancer Capital of the World’

    A new study sheds light on declining health in India, with cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and mental health disorders at "critical levels."

  • Routine jobs increase the risk of cognitive, dementia decline – Study

    Washington, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina)The harder your brain works at your job, the less likely you may be to have memory and thinking problems later in life, according to a new study published in the journal Neurology. The post Routine jobs increase the risk of cognitive, dementia decline – Study first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • North York high school closed due to bomb threat

    A high school in Toronto's Mount Pleasant East neighbourhood is closed Wednesday, as police investigate the validity of a bomb threat.In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Toronto police say Northern Secondary School, a Toronto District School Board school near Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton Avenue E., received a bomb threat by email.Police attended the school to investigate just after 7 a.m. Wednesday. They say no students were inside at the time.The school remains in lockdown, and...

    • CNBC

    Trump Media shares close more than 15% higher after days of declines

    Trump Media, whose majority owner is former President Donald Trump, has seen its share price plummet since late March. It owns the Truth Social app.

  • Population Projections: These Will Be The World's 6 Largest Countries In 2075

    Population Projections: These Will Be The World's 6 Largest Countries In 2075 The end of the 21st century will see the first plateauing (and eventually shrinking) of world population since the Industrial Revolution. As birth rates fall across the globe, what does this mean for the world’s most populous countries? To find out, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized forecasts for the world’s six largest countries using data from the latest revised version of the UN World...

  • Letters to the Editor: California is shrinking. Is this a preview of global population decline?

    To the editor: There are credible projections showing that the world population will peak midcentury then start declining. Once again, California is at the forefront. ("Why Californians are fleeing this once-Golden State," column, April 8) The only people truly worried about this are employers. A living wage will have to be paid and profits will shrink. Prices will go up across the board, causing demand to go down, thus exacerbating the hit to the bottom line. This is what happens in a...

  • Newcomers help, low births don't. Population decline in Slovakia hasn't stopped

    The new EU Migration Pact not seen as a solution for Slovakia.