By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station which is in Hawaii sets the global benchmark. [...]
For The Madison Press COLUMBUS — Peregrine falcon enthusiasts worldwide will decide the name of the falcon chick in downtown Columbus, between Wednesday, May 8 and Monday, May 13, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Online voting will take place on the Division of Wildlife’s Web page at [...]
As the global climate change discussions heat up in Washington, many investors are paying attention to the impact of their investments on the environment and the well being of people around the world. As this trend has increased, so has the demand for investment choices that demonstrate not only financial soundness, but also a concern [...]
Marilyn Arlene Showalter, 65, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, after a four year battle with cancer. Marilyn was born on May 13, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio, just a few minutes before her twin sister Margaret. Marilyn is survived by her husband, Don Showalter of Mechanicsburg, Ohio; children, Carol (Daniel) Hobbs [...]
Irma has it figured out. She’s a bona fide, egg-laying member of the “Production Red” hen sorority and she knows her rights. This is really remarkable when you consider the braincase of your average barnyard chicken is wedged between some feathers and those big expressionless eyes and has about the same capacity for rational thought [...]
I don’t usually show a painting in its very beginning stage except two important things happened with me this past week and I would like to share them with you. I talked to a very close cousin just yesterday and she told me that her elderly mother had all but given up trying to stay [...]
When I was in third or fourth grade, just starting to learn about the founding of the United States, I read that the United States is referred to as The Great Melting Pot. My history books described how people from all over the world had come here to make their fortunes or to escape misfortune [...]
By KATHY MATHESON PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove’s journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation. The Villanova University junior thought she’d spend her first day filling out paperwork and undergoing orientation. Instead, she ran over to the Vatican [...]
