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Cyprus Activists Say Hunters' Lead Pellets Threaten Flamingos February 28, 2021 Flamingos walk at a salt lake in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:56 0:00 Pop-out player Animal activists in Cyprus are asking officials to expand a hunting ban throughout a group of salt lakes near the coast. They are worried that migrating flamingos could possibly eat deadly amounts of lead shotgun pellets. A flamingo is a large bird, usually brigh...

In a Greek Detention Center, an Official Uses TV to Teach Prisoners February 28, 2021 Prisoners sitting in a room while they watch a recorded music lesson in Avlona prison, north of Athens, Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:00 0:00 Pop-out player The director of a detention center in Greece is using television to teach the young men there who have no other way to get an education. Petros Damianos is the director of the school at Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center. He started the school in 2000. The men held at ...

NASA Releases First Video and Color Photos from Mars Explorer February 25, 2021 A portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape, Feb. 20, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:26 0:00 Pop-out player The U.S. space agency NASA has released the first video, pictures and sound captured by its Mars explorer Perseverance. The video shows the explorer, or rover, at different points during its landing on the Red Pla...

Sheep with 35 Kilograms of Wool Finally Gets a Haircut February 25, 2021 width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:04 0:00 Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:02:21 0:00 Pop-out player Sheep do not normally make news, but video of a sheep with a huge amount of hair in Australia has been popular on social media. The sheep had gone wild years ago. A member of the public found him 60 kilometers north of Melbourne. The person contacted Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary near Lancefield, Victoria. The sanctuary rescues and takes care of animals that are lost or a...

How Will We Know When We Reach Herd Immunity? The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:56 0:00 How will we know when we reach herd immunity? That is the question people are asking as governments race to vaccinate people around the world to stop the spread of COVID-19. Herd immunity is when a large number of people in a community will either have recovered from infection or been vaccinated. Herd immunity does not mean everyone is protected from the virus. It means that the coronavirus can no longer spread easily, helping to protect those who are at risk. Once people are sick or rece...