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More than a third of the 47,000 animal and plant species tracked by the International Union for Conservation of Nature face extinction, according to the group's latest Red List--a study used to help governments identify species in need of protection.
In his era, Jacques Plante was seen as a wimp. After the Montreal Canadiens goalie was struck in the face by a flying puck while playing against the New York Rangers on Nov. 1, 1959, the future Hall-of-Famer refused to return to the ice sans protection. Much to...
Modern masks have come a long way from Plante's first design. In the 1970s, goalies started to replace the eyeholes with steel cages, improving a goalie's ability to see the puck (a major criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of...
We elect politicians to protect our interests. On Monday evening, Nov. 2, London's flamboyant mayor Boris Johnson spontaneously extended that remit to include the bodily protection of a woman he spotted being threatened by teenage hoodlums, one of them wielding an iron bar. Their would-be victim, Franny Armstrong...
This agreement, in which Harvard will acquire over 30 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, slates the University to become the largest institutional buyer of wind power in the region, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.