The Luzia Museum in Brazil burned to the ground. Hundreds of thousands of items from the museum’s collection have been lost forever, including the only recordings of people whose nations or tribes have disappeared.
A toxic “red tide” in Florida has been occurring for an unusually long time, harming animals and birds. The number of sea turtles sickened or killed is in the hundreds, including the endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles. The algae bloom that causes the red tide has been made worse this year by agricultural runoff and warmer than normal weather.
Scores of dead elephants have been killed in Botswana since July. A total of 87 elephant carcasses have had their tusks removed for sale in the illegal ivory trade.
All of this bad news came from one issue of the “failing” New York Times, Wed., Sept. 5, 2018.
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