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BALTIMORE, Md. -- Wednesday was international recognized as World Kindness Day. That's when WMAR's Erin MacPherson met a 10-year-old girl 150

Bird populations in the United States and Canada have dropped by 29% since 1970, signifying 2.9 billion birds lost in almost 50 years, according to a new study.The scientists involved in the study warn that like a canary in a coalmine, birds reveal environmental health. This steep loss of bird populations, including some of the most common birds like sparrows and finches, shows that human impacts on the continent's environment mean it can no longer support the wildlife systems it once did.Normally, it's hard to track animal populations this way. But birds are much easier to monitor. The study combines almost 50 years of data, including information collected by citizen scientists and weather radar data of migratory birds from 143 stations across North America. Observations by people were shared with the North American Breeding Bird Survey at the US Geological Survey, the Canadian Wildlife Service, the Audubon Christmas Bird Count and Manomet's International Shorebird Survey."Citizen-science participants contributed critical scientific data to show the international scale of losses of birds," said John Sauer, study co-author at the US Geological Survey. "Our results also provide insights into actions we can take to reverse the declines."The study was published Thursday in the journal 1315

As signature cherry blossom trees go through peak bloom in the nation’s capital, officials in the District of Columbia are resorting to mass street closures to keep large crowds away in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.Public officials are publicly pleading for low turnout and one prominent local chef has launched the #StayHomeCherryBlossomsChallenge to make low visitation numbers into some sort of community goal. Health officials have said limiting public gatherings and keeping a distance of about 6 feet from others would help stop the spread of the disease which has sickened about 300,000 worldwide.The Metropolitan Police Department closed down a a dozen different streets, bridges and traffic circles Sunday morning trying to limit the traditional crowds who pack the area around the Jefferson Memorial and the tree-lined Tidal Basin. The iconic cherry blossoms reached peak bloom on Friday and should stay that way for about 10 days.“It’s getting weirder and weirder,” said National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst of his unprecedented challenge to keep one of Washington’s crown jewels as empty as possible.Officials are instead steering cherry blossom fans to their 1201

As some students navigate between classes at Temple University in Philadelphia, they have the option to stop at a food truck for a quick meal, while others have to pause and ask themselves if they can afford to eat today. The answer to that question for someone like Temple sophomore Agnes Williams is no some days. However, at Temple, she can turn to the university’s food pantry. Food is donated there and students in need are allowed to stock up on a limited amount of food each week. This week, Williams was able to get three packages of ramen noodles, two individual-sized boxes of cereal, a can of soup, two tea packets, and feminine hygiene pads. The items are essentially enough to get her through the next two or three days.“There are times when I won’t eat, and time where I just don’t feel like I need to spend this much money to eat something,” said Williams.About 200 Temple University students come to the food pantry every week, because they are making the similar choice of whether to spend money on food or save it for bigger expenses like tuition, rent, or books.Even a student like Matthew Dougherty, who gets financial help from his parents and has a meal plan, says he still can only afford a plan with 10 meals a week. So, without the food pantry, he rations himself down to one to two meals a day.“A lot more universities should start reaching out and find a way to get something like this, because it’s a great resource, especially for kids who are not as fortunate and are just scraping the bottom of the barrel to even get to college,” Dougherty said.More than 600 colleges and universities across the country have opened food pantries for students. It is estimated that 50 percent of community college students and 33 percent of student who go to a four-year institution are struggling with food insecurity in America. Food insecurity, for college students or any American, is defined as being without reliable access to sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.“Food pantries, you know, they are really nice people. It is a nice idea, but it does not end food insecurity; not even close,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab.Goldrick-Rab is the founding director of Temple University’s Hope Center, which is an action-research center that, in part, studies the long-term effects of food insecurity amongst colleges students.“It’s entirely possible that because a student was food insecure in college they developed health conditions that will make them not as healthy at work and unable to pay their bills,” said Goldrick-Rab. “I see tackling this issues as an educational issue, of course, as an economic issue, but also as a public health issue.”Legislators are trying to address this issue. Currently there are about a half-dozen bills sitting in congress, some with bi-partisan support, that range from making it easier for students to get snap benefits to expanding the national school lunch program to include higher education.“We have people who if we invest in them will be self-sufficient for the rest of their lives, especially if you’re not burdened with student loan debt,” Goldrick-Rab added, “or we can have people be impoverished during college, drop out because they didn’t get enough food and go on to lean on us taxpayers for the rest of their lives because their jobs don’t pay enough.” 3342

At least 28 churches around the country have now opened their doors to people fearing deportation and family separation. First Unitarian Church in Denver was one of the first to adopt the designation.Reverend Mike Moran with First Unitarian Church says it hasn’t always been easy.“We have received threats. We have received bomb threats, personal threats,” he explains.Members of the church formed a volunteer guard network, partly because of those threats. They patrol the church and guard the door almost 24-hours per day.Randy Chase, 69, is one of the guards. He spends much of his time on duty checking to make sure doors are closed and locked.“These instructions envision talking to officials and officers through the door, through this crack in the door and passing paper back and forth,” says Chase, pointing to a piece of paper taped to a wall.Chase says he worries his friendly nature may be taken by immigration agents as an invitation to come in. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have come under scrutiny in the past for what some critics say are tricky tactics.Chase says he’s concerned those tactics could affect Jeanette Vizguerra, the woman he is trying to protect.Vizguerra has spent more than two decades in the U.S. and hasn’t been able to get citizenship. She has a stay order, which allows her to remain in the U.S. She’s living in sanctuary at First Unitarian Church.“I am an activist for more than 25 years,” Vizguerra says in Spanish. She’s worried her position as an activist makes her one of ICE’s targets.“I am of 10 people around the country who are very vocal. My social media accounts are monitored,” she explains.Vizguerra sees the church as the safest place she can be while her case plays out. She says it won’t impact her activism.“I see my future as continuing to help people because it is my nature,” says Viguerra. “That is my challenge to achieve solutions to the issue of immigration.” 1947

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