Monthly Archives: December 2016

(CNN)If you’re concerned about climate change, you’re likely in full panic mode right now. Consider three recent news items: That’s the message I took from an interview Friday with the outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, who has been fighting climate change for the Obama administration. “Whether you’re a Democrat or a […]

This afternoon, Norwest Venture Partners announced that it led a massive $210 million Series D investment round in OpenDoor. With the new capital, the startup is looking to expand the usage of its marketplace platform for buying and selling real estate to 10 cities. OpenDoor is unique in that it owns its own inventory of […]

When Ziggy Marley, son of famed reggae legend Bob Marley, was growing up in Jamaica in the 1970s, the political climate was a tumultuous one. With a proverbial war between communist and democratic agendas, violence and fear pervaded everyday life for citizens like the Marleys. “It was a very unstable time,” Ziggy tells “Oprah: Where […]

We can’t get enough of the epic romance that is Johnny and June. And now, we can live it: The Hendersonville, Tennessee property where the duo spent nearly their entire marriage is up for sale. Johnny Cash purchased the 4.5-acre property shortly before proposing to June Carter in the late ‘60s, according to a spokesperson for the […]

(CNN)Country music star Dolly Parton says she wants to help families in her community in eastern Tennessee whose homes and memories were reduced to ashes this week. She’s created a fund through her Dollywood Companies and hopes to give each family affected by the wildfires $1,000 a month for six months to help them get […]

The Thylacine Awareness Group is dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our most elusive apex predator declared extinct in 1986 Six years ago Neil Waters moved to Tasmania. There, he says, he had a brief encounter with a thylacine, the carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger, declared extinct in 1986. Two years […]

The Oakwood area of Los Angeless coastal resort is changing fast on the back of the Silicon Valley boom and a gang injunction some say amounts to harassment African Americans helped to build Venice a century ago, giftingVenice, a chameleon that has been an oil town, bohemian idyll, crumbling ghetto and tourist mecca, is adopting […]

Accommodation website bans hosts in UK capital from renting out entire home beyond time limit without consent from council Airbnb, the booming accommodation website that has been criticised for exacerbating the housing crisis, has announced it is banning hosts in London from renting out entire homes for more than 90 days a year without official […]

Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba (CNN)Smoke curls toward the sky as the sitting elder lifts the sacred pipe, lowers it to the ground and moves it around him. He’s recognizing the Creator, honoring Mother Earth and calling on spirits to lend support. Ancient songs and drumbeats fill the simple dome-like structure. Constructed of gray willow branches […]

Pakistans government has released details of an extraordinary telephone call between the US president-elect and Pakistans prime minister Nawaz Sharif Donald Trump has heaped praise on Pakistan, traditionally a troublesome US ally, saying it is a fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people according to an official statement released by Islamabad. The US president-elect made […]