A rare spotless giraffe was born recently at Brights Zoo in Tennessee. The last known spotless giraffe was born in Japan in 1972. Starting Tuesday, the zoo is letting the public vote on its name. People can submit their picks on the zoo's Facebook page through Labor Day. The choices are:
1. Kipekee, meaning unique
2. Firali, meaning unusual or extraordinary
3. Shakiri, meaning she is most beautiful
4. Jamella, meaning one of great beauty
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Mike Whitlatch, vice president of global energy and procurement at UPS, discusses the parcel service's investment in the new trucks burning cleaner fuel.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.
SpaceX, over the weekend, unveiled its new prototype spaceship: Starship. The ship is set to be the most powerful rocket in the world and is the latest development in the company's decades-long pursuit to facilitate interplanetary travel.
The latest tally represents about a 50 percent surge in illnesses and deaths since the CDC last took stock of the damage. As illnesses mount, regulators have stopped short of issuing a ban on vaping, recommending instead vape users abstain from vaping until the cause of the illness is identified.
The idea: force companies to publicly disclose how their valuation would fare should climate change continue versus how they would do should temperature rise be capped at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels.
The acclaimed Swedish teen climate activist slammed world leaders on Monday at the United Nations' Climate Action Summit in New York, condemning governments across the board for political apathy on the crisis.
‘We can either wait on Mother Nature — or we can give it a shot ourselves.’
New York City’s march was led by renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, who arrived in the U.S. late last month after a two-week journey across the Atlantic in a solar-powered yacht in an effort to draw attention to her cause.
In a resolute response, California said it is set to launch a major legal challenge — one that will surely be lengthy and have broad implications on the way the U.S. confronts the climate crisis and on state's rights.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Monday, September 9, 2019.
