A Harrogate woman hopes a giant blanket based on the final telegram sent by her grandmother before she died in a Nazi gas chamber will help to ensure people never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. Michelle Levey, 70, lost her Viennese Jewish grandparents Gisela and Josef Schwarz and her…
Dates and names spin out of control in your head, trying keep straight the who’s and what’s of the Pollocks, an early pioneer family that came to western Colorado from
Tropical forests harbor around two-thirds of the world’s biodiversity. The Neotropics comprising Central America, the Caribbean and South America are home to a third of the world’s known bird species, the highest among all biogeographical realms. Some families of birds such as toucans, manakins and antbirds are only found in the Neotropics. With its rich bird diversity, […]
According to a new study done by the University of Illinois, 70 percent of understory bird species disappeared in the forest between 1977 and 2020. And the great majority have been reduced by half or more.