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- 'Reconstruction' begins of stone age lands lost to North Sea https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/08/mapping-begins-of-lands-lost-to-north-sea-during-the-stone-age 6 comments
- 10,000 years ago 57% of the world's habitable land was covered by forest. That's 6 billion hectares. Today, only 4 billion hectares are left. The world has lost one-third of its forest – an area twice the size of the United States. https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation 20 comments environment
- Brazil's indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated in recent years. Of the 266,000 square miles of Amazon lost in the past 30 years, just 1.6 percent was indigenous lands https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220419-indigenous-lands-block-brazil-deforestation-study 9 comments worldnews
- Forest fires take hold across Turkey’s south as more evacuate. Over 580,000 hectares of land has now been lost. http://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/forest-fires-take-hold-across-turkeys-south-as-more-evacuate/news/amp 9 comments worldnews
- [Stein] "Almost everyone you speak to in Lakers circles is convinced that the offense is woefully behind where it will ultimately land because the team lost considerable practice time during its chaotic trip to China last month." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/sports/basketball/lebron-james-anthony-davis-lakers.html 138 comments nba
- India's attempt to become the first country to land a robotic mission at the Moon's south pole has failed, after engineers lost contact with the Vikram lander — part of the Chandrayaan-2 probe. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758419791/indias-attempt-to-land-rover-at-moon-s-south-pole-fails?utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news 7 comments worldnews
- We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too. You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change - Raoni Metuktire, chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/02/amazon-destruction-earth-brazilian-kayapo-people 22 comments climate
- “We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too. You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change” • Raoni Metuktire is chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/02/amazon-destruction-earth-brazilian-kayapo-people 21 comments environment
- An anguished man offers his house and land as a reward for his lost dog https://dogsrescues.com/dogs-rescue/an-anguished-man-offers-his-house-and-land-as-a-reward-for-his-lost-dog/ 6 comments nottheonion
- 24 billion tons of fertile land lost every year, warns UN chief on World Day to Combat Desertification https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/06/1040561 15 comments worldnews
- D-day: US Soldier parachuted in two days before. Set up cameras to film Omaha Beach landing from the cliffs above the beach. Film is lost somewhere in a government archive. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-23-me-35295-story.html 6 comments history
- Mapping begins of lands lost to North Sea during stone age: Scientists set out to reconstruct submerged Mesolithic landscape of Doggerland https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/08/mapping-begins-of-lands-lost-to-north-sea-during-the-stone-age 13 comments worldnews
- Post-coal prom queen: Romania's lost lands – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/apr/25/post-coal-prom-queen-romanias-lost-lands-in-pictures 28 comments europe
- SpaceX lost a rocket booster during landing for the first time since 2016 https://qz.com/1485420/spacex-lost-a-rocket-booster-during-landing-for-the-first-time-since-2016/ 12 comments worldnews
- Thirty-three Ryanair passengers were treated in hospital, some bleeding from their ears, after their Croatia-bound plane lost cabin pressure and made an emergency landing in Frankfurt on Friday, German police said on Saturday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ryanair-emergency/ryanair-flights-loses-cabin-pressure-33-hospitalized-police-iduskbn1k40e1?utm_campaign=trueanthem:+trending+content&utm_content=5b49dc6904d3012c50a3e23d&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter 105 comments worldnews
- WW2 Mystery about D- day landings lost footage's https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/8wn7em/ww2_mystery_about_d_day_landings_lost_footages/ 7 comments history
- Ancient people brought a line of lost dogs to the Americas. North America's first dogs trace their ancestry back to Siberian dogs who arrived with humans who crossed a land bridge, not North American wolves. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/north-america-earliest-dogs-came-siberia?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science 3 comments science
- TIL: Operation Storm was the largest land battle in Europe since the end of WWII. It resulted in a decisive victory for Croatia, recapturing 18% of lost territory (10,400 sq.km) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/operation_storm 42 comments europe
- SA's Julius Malema ""If you are a farmer and you have lost ownership of the land to the state, then the portion of the farm you are using to produce whatever you are producing should continue uninterrupted" https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/farming-must-continue-uninterrupted-malema-20180228 108 comments worldnews
- Reminder: Brazil hosts Argentina as the biggest rivalry in international football resumes for a 99th time. Brazil has never lost a home World Cup Qualifier as they return to the scene of their greatest ever nightmare looking to land a major knockout blow on their rivals qualifying hopes. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/5c7x2n/reminder_brazil_hosts_argentina_as_the_biggest/ 140 comments soccer
- John Paulson Lands Spot On Trump Economic Team Despite Having Lost Donald All That Money http://dealbreaker.com/2016/08/john-paulson-donald-trump-economic-team/ 3 comments politics
- Parts of NSW koala habitat lost as illegal land clearing continues: 'It would take the army to police these blokes' http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/nsw-koala-habitat-lost-as-land-clearing-continues-it-would-take-the-army-to-police-these-blokes-20160802-gqjjm6.html 12 comments worldnews
- SpaceX's luck runs out, Falcon 9 lost in attempted landing - CNET http://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-misses-falcon-9-landing-ending-streak/?ftag=cos-05-10-aa0a&linkid=25574962 16 comments space
- Earth has lost 1/3 of all arable land in the past 40 years. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage 47 comments worldnews
- The world lost a South Africa-sized area of forest since 1990, says the U.N.: the world’s forested area declined from 31.6 to 30.6 percent of the Earth’s land surface. This represented a loss of 129 million hectares of forest — equivalent to nearly 500,000 square miles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/08/the-world-lost-a-south-africa-sized-area-of-forest-since-1990-says-the-u-n/ 4 comments worldnews
- Rosetta probe has bounced away from landing site and lost contact, admit scientists http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/11227176/rosetta-probe-has-bounced-away-from-landing-site-and-lost-contact-admit-scientists.html 5 comments technology
- Earth lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF | Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf 2006 comments worldnews
- Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/americas/land-carvings-attest-to-amazons-lost-world.html 6 comments worldnews
- The Brazilian tribe that played by our rules, and lost: The Kayapó people's battle to save their land from flooding as the Bel Monte dam is built follows a pattern across the Americas http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/03/amazon-tribe-kayapo-people-bel-monte-dam 135 comments worldnews
- More than 90 countries have 'lost' the lunar rocks given to them by the United States after the success of the Apollo moon landings. A NASA sting operation(!) recently busted a woman claiming to be selling a moon rock for $1.7M. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110521/ap_on_fe_st/us_moon_rock_sting;_ylt=aneemaifalwz_fwijbghp7cs0nue;_ylu=x3odmtntymu1nzkzbgfzc2v0a2fwlziwmtewntixl3vzx21vb25fcm9ja19zdgluzwrjy29kzqntb3n0cg9wdwxhcgrjcg9zazkecg9zazyechqdag9tzv9jb2tlbhnlywn5bl9ozwfkbgluzv9saxn0bhnsawnjyxdvbwfudg91dgk- 4 comments space
- The Americans, beginning 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, killed wantonly, tortured. The people of that unhappy land lost everything - their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment... http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer85.html 18 comments politics
- Canada, Land of Smaller Government, Has Regained All Jobs Lost in 2008-09 vs. U.S. Still Down By -8m http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/08/canada-land-of-smaller-government.html 17 comments economy
- "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/ 4 comments politics
- The American people are lost in la-la land. They have no idea that their civil liberties have been forfeited. http://www.infowars.com/a-plague-upon-the-world-the-usa-is-a-failed-state/ 4 comments politics
- Ron Paul misses vote on aviation saftey bill because Ron Paul had to make an emergency landing after Ron Paul's plane lost cabin pressure. Ron Paul http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news//local&id=6280419 2 comments reddit.com
- Lost Moon Landing Tapes Discovered http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/818 14 comments science
- Lost with the lingo and solutions for a landing page, analytics, email lists and providers. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/6aanpr/lost_with_the_lingo_and_solutions_for_a_landing/ 2 comments startups
- How much new land is formed due to tectonic or volcanic activity? Is it enough to offset the land lost to rising sea levels? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5g2lig/how_much_new_land_is_formed_due_to_tectonic_or/ 4 comments askscience
- An Afghan Muslim who lost both his hands while trying to defuse a land mine gets the hands of a Christian who had brain death and the operation was successfully conducted in a hindu spiritual leader led hospital http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/this-afghan-captain-goes-home-with-indian-hands/articleshow/47314462.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=toi 1037 comments worldnews
- Lost civilisations under the waves: from Atlantis to Noah’s Ark, we have long been drawn to stories of submerged lands. What lies beneath the flood myths? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/lost-civilisations-under-the-waves-still-fascinate-us/ 13 comments history