Ruth Sherlock
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How far-right parties are using extreme weather events to boost their cause (opens the original)
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The news all summer has been full of record-breaking heat waves, drought and wildfires in Europe. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: A fire emergency across Southern Europe, forcing 175,000 people to evacuate. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Red heat alerts have been issued in parts of Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans. PFEIFFER: Europe went through its fifth major heat wave of the year last week. That extreme weather is linked to human-made climate change and political parties are capital
Greetings from Jerusalem, whose holy sites host some of the oldest colonies of nesting swifts (opens the original)
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This spring, I was in Jerusalem reporting a story on the common swift. These scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites here for thousands of years. The faithful have adapted to the swifts' presence, prayers mixing with the bird calls. And the swifts have adapted to live with humans, raising their young in the nooks and crannies of buildings and other structures. Every year, they migrate thousands of miles to return to the same city, town or village, w
'It's all literally rubble': Lebanese poet returns to see what has become of her home (opens the original)
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President Trump is pledging more support for Lebanon after a White House meeting with the country's leader on Tuesday. Trump said Lebanon has become, quote, "a very badly treated place and country." Israel's military has systematically demolished entire villages in southern Lebanon, using explosives and bulldozers to try to wipe out Hezbollah. Most of that destruction is in areas Israel still occupies. NPR's Ruth Sherlock and Jawad Rizkallah followed a Lebanese poet as she returned home to see t
An Israeli paraglider tries to save migrating swifts that nest in the Western Wall (opens the original)
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JERUSALEM — Every spring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a rabbi presides over a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the common swift in its great migration about 2,800 miles from Africa. Between February and June, men's and women's prayers at the wall mix with the calls of the birds that swoop and dart above this ancient religious site. These scythe-winged birds, researchers believe, have raised their young in the nooks and crannies of these stones since Herodian times, two millennia ago. Rese
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