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  1. Blueberries Information (North American Blueberry Council)
      Provides recipes, information on growing blueberries and schedules for going to pick blueberries (U-pick).

  2. Kinnewick Man - Court Rules Ancient North American Can Be Studied (BBC News)
      "A US appeals court has given permission to scientists to study a 9,000-year-old skeleton - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes."

      "Appeal judges ruled it was impossible to establish a relationship between the Indian tribes and 'Kennewick Man'." 2-04

  3. Migration and Seasonal Change Research Projects (Annenberg Foundation - Journey North)
      Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate. 8-04

  4. Scientist: Man May Have Settled North America 50,000 Years Ago (CNN News)
      "Archaeologists say a site in South Carolina may rewrite the history of how the Americas were settled by pushing back the date of human settlement thousands of years."

      "An archaeologist from the University of South Carolina on Wednesday announced radiocarbon tests that dated the first human settlement in North America to 50,000 years ago -- at least 25,000 years before other known human sites on the continent." 11-04

  5. Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA.org)
      Provides information on the organization and its work.

  6. -08-11-05 South Korea Backs North on Nuclear Program (International Herald Tribune)
      "South Korea objected Thursday to a vital American stance in deadlocked nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea, saying that the North should be allowed to run a nuclear program so long as it is for peaceful use." 8-05

  7. Chinese and Americans See Differently, Literally (Scientific American)
      "A study of Chinese and American students has found that the two groups looked at scenes in photographs in distinct ways. The findings indicate that previously observed cultural differences in judgment and memory between East Asians and North Americans derive from differences in what they actually see." 9-05

  8. Permafrost Disappearing (Scientific American)
      "The top 11 feet of soil in the Arctic continues to thaw. Sinkholes are opening, highways buckling, houses and forests tilting, all of which is wreaking havoc on landscapes, wildlife and cities from Murmansk to Juneau. This permafrost layer--defined as soil that remains icy cold for more than two years--covers nearly a quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere. But that total is shrinking and new models show that it may nearly disappear by the end of this century."

      "Even more troubling, this permafrost layer contains anywhere from 20 to 60 percent of the carbon trapped in soils in the world." 12-05

  9. Stone Tools Found 200,000 Years Earlier in Europe (Scientific American)
      "Now archaeologists have discovered proof that ancient humans lived there too—some 200,000 years earlier than they were believed to have penetrated northern Europe."

  10. Ancient Native Americans - Daily Life (Donn) star
      Provides information on the daily lives of the ancient Iroquois, Anasazi, Pacific Coastal, Ojibwa/Chippewa, Pueblo, Inuits, Cherokee, Hopi, Far North, Seminole, Apache, Incas, Plains People, Navajo, Mayas, Sioux, California, and Aztecs.

  11. Northwest Pacific Coastal - Daily Life (Donn)
      Provides information on the daily lives of the ancient Northwest Pacific Coastal Indians. 03-06

  12. Far North Indians - Daily Life (Donn)
      Provides information on the daily lives of the ancient Far North Indians. 03-06

  13. Poll: Americans Divided on Gay Marriage (CBS News)
      "Regionally, same-sex marriage is most popular in the Northeast (44 percent support) - where Massachusetts and Connecticut have already established same-sex marriage as legal – and it is popular in the West (38 percent support). Same-sex marriage is far less popular in the Midwest (30 percent) and the South (25 percent)." 04-09

  14. -06-09-09 North Korea's Grim Prisons (Time.com)
      "Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the American journalists who were each handed 12 years in prison yesterday by a North Korean court for committing "hostile acts" by allegedly overstepping the border in March, have received a harsh sentence by Western standards of justice. The news is grim, to be sure. But former prisoners in Pyongyang's horrific penal system speculate that the pair may not have to endure the grimmest conditions, which very few have emerged to talk about."

      "Kyohwaso life is extremely harsh: scholars estimate only 50% of prisoners survive their first year. One of the first accounts of the North Korean prison system, a 2000 memoir called The Aquariums of Pyongyang, tells of routine torture and deprivations on par with those of Nazi concentration camps." 06-09

  15. -08-04-09 Behind the Scenes on North Korea Deal (ABC News)
      "All the diplomacy of the Obama administration failed to move North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to release two American journalists. In the end, it was the reclusive tyrant's desire to be seen with former president Bill Clinton that created a deal to let them go free."

      "Ground rules were agreed upon at the White House and with North Korea: Clinton's trip would be described as a private mission and there would not be any negotiations about North Korea's nuclear weapons." 08-09

  16. Runestones of North America (Sunnyway.com)
      "Several rune stones have been found in the United States, most notably the Kensington Runestone in Minnesota and the Heavener Stone in Oklahoma. There is considerable debate over their age and validity." 02-10

  17. -11-21-10 North Korea Reveals Vast New Nuclear Capabilities (New York Times)
      "North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb." 11-10

  18. American Obesity Is a Global Problem (Time.com)
      "Researchers say that rising rates of overweight and obesity — especially in the U.S. — will threaten the world's food security and environmental resources."

      "Most of the world’s excess weight can be found in the U.S. The average weight of an adult anywhere in the world is about 137 lbs., but the average weight of an adult in the U.S. is 178 lbss, according to the new study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Also, consider this: while North America has only 6% of the world’s population, it accounts for 34% of the world’s weight due to obesity. In contrast, Asia has 61% of the world’s population, but 13% of its weight due to obesity."

      "“If every country in the world had the same level of fatness that we see in the U.S.A., in weight terms that would be like an extra billion people of world average body mass,” Professor Ian Roberts, who led the research at LSHTM, told the BBC."“If every country in the world had the same level of fatness that we see in the U.S.A., in weight terms that would be like an extra billion people of world average body mass,” Professor Ian Roberts, who led the research at LSHTM, told the BBC." 06-12

  19. Meghana Rao: Scientist, Helping Other Children (North American Biochar Symposium 2013)
      "Our youngest presenter, Meghana Rao, age 17, already has quite an impressive resume. Meghana hails from Portland Oregon and was introduced to the world of biochar more than three years ago by Tom Miles and John Meidema, both of whom are also presenting at the Symposium. Based on winning the Young Naturalist Award when she was a sophomore in high school, Meghana was asked to go to the White House earlier this year with about 100 other winners of various prestigious science awards. Only twelve students actually got to speak to President Obama about their experiments and Meghana was the very first!"

      "Besides biochar research Meghana founded and chairs a non-profit organization called Portland Junior Scientists which now includes more than 40 high school students that voluntarily run four different after school science programs at under-privileged elementary schools which recently had their science program funding gutted. The students teach everything from conductivity, building circuits, building water filtration systems, to rockets and, no doubt there is a little bit of biochar thrown in at some point! Funding for the program has stepped up from her own pockets to winning different grants (e.g. Pepsi Refresh and Case Foundation). If you would like to find out more about her organization or even help with funding check out their website here: http://www.portlandjuniorscientists.org/" 08-13

  20. Horse Evolution in North America (StateLineTack.com)
      Provides descriptions of each stage in the horse's evolution. Provides a listing of resources on horses at the end of the article.

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