If you have 2 minutes to be charmed, watch the video of this Dr. Livingston in the making, who can name all 195 flags of the world at just 4 years old. Arthur Weekley has been interested in flags since he was 3 after his dad Bobby bought him a puzzle with different flags on […] The post 4-Year-old Brit Taught Himself All 195 World Flags And Knows Every Country on the Map (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network.

Mother Earth is often taken advantage of by its inhabitants, so in order to care for it, we need to be aware of the climate change facts before it is too late. The Earth is constantly changing and so is our climate. Be informed and spread awareness. Here are 7 climate change effects and facts. 7 Climate Change Facts To Know And Its Effect On Us 1. It's Getting Warmer Every year, the temperature in all parts of the world is getting higher. Since the 1950s, atmospheric CO2 levels are sharply rising and continues to grow. 2016 was the hottest year since 1880, as recorded by both National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA. 2. The Arctic is Melting The Arctic sea is greatly affected by the rapid and continuous rise in temperature. Because of this, ice and glaciers are melting, which causes avalanches, rise in sea level, and the displacement and starvation of animals in the area. This year, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have both announced the Arctic sea ice maximum record low for three consecutive years. 3. Sea Levels are Rapidly Rising Because the Arctic is melting, the surrounding sea levels are increasing. Every year, the sea level rises at least 3.4 mm. In fact, just July this year, the Larsen C ice shelf has cracked, which created a trillion-tonne iceberg. Mother Nature is unpredictable. Be prepared for whatever may come your way way this season and check out our 10 blizzard survival tips on our website (link in bio). | : ctto A post shared by Homesteading (@homesteadingusa) on Feb 2, 2017 at 1:27am PST 4. Ocean Acidification is Getting Worse Ocean acidification (OA) occurs when the seawater's pH is reduced through chemical reactions. This happens when seawater absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide is produced by burning fossil fuels. The increased acidity will affect marine life such as corals and shellfish, and their ability to build protection. Corals are important because they provide shelter for a lot of sea creatures. 5. Coral Bleaching has Greatly Damaged The Great Barrier Reef One of the seven wonders of the natural world has reached its terminal stage due to coral bleaching. This is caused by global warming, which also affects sea surface temperatures. In April 2017, it was reported that two-thirds of The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has been affected by back-to-back severe bleaching events. 6. Floods are Getting Worse Just a few weeks ago, Houston and nearby areas of Texas were hit by Hurricane Harvey. Floodwaters kept on rising which left several residents stranded and in danger. Houses, properties, and even lives were lost and destroyed. Unfortunately, according to a study by the World Resources Institute, the current number of people who are exposed to flooding every year, will soon triple. From 21 million, it is expected to increase up to 54 million by 2030. 7. Global Temperature Will Rise Up to Six Degrees As a result of the continuous release of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the Earth's temperature is expected to rise up to six degrees this century.   Watch this video from CNN for more climate change facts: Climate change is real and it affects each and every one of us who inhabit the Earth. So instead of ignoring all of these climate change facts, it may be better to make conscious moves and lifestyle decisions that benefit the environment and always be prepared in case of emergency situations. Here's the latest forecast at the climate change conference. Do you have other climate change facts to add? Share it with us in the comments section below! Up Next: A Brief History of Climate Change Denial: Part 2  Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook!

A sick dog in China, the definition of “loyalty”, was found guarding her owner’s grave for two years before being rescued and taken care of by his new owner. The South China Morning Post reported that a Chinese influencer and an owner of a stray dog relief center in eastern China’s Jiangxi province rescued the loyal yet sick dog. The influencer, @ganpojiege on Chinese social media platform Douyin, posted a video of the loyal dog’s story on November 05. The video has since gone viral, garnering 85,000 likes and thousands of comments. The Chinese influencer first heard of the dog, who he later named Zhongbao (“Loyal Baby”), in 2022 from locals. He found her at the cemetery with a crippled leg and severe skin issues. The locals then told @ganpojiege that Zhongbao has been guarding her owner’s grave after she passed away. For Zhongbao, her owner’s grave in the cemetery is her home, and she only leaves the grave to go to the village to find food. Some have tried to adopt her, but to no avail, Zhongbao kept escaping and going back to her owner’s grave, so people just gave up any attempt of adopting her. Credit: Douyin But in a touching and heartwarming move before rescuing Zhongbao, the influencer made a promise at the previous owner’s gravesite that he will take care of the pooch, but will often bring her back to visit the grave. The influencer patiently helped Zhongbao heal from her skin disease, which took about four months to completely heal. Now, Zhongbao has a long, healthy coat and has been living with hundreds of other dogs that the influencer has rescued. And staying true to his promise, @ganpojiege often brought the pooch back to her owner’s grave to visit her. The influencer has likened the pooch’s loyalty to her previous owner to Hachiko, the famous Japanese dog who waited for his late owner at the Shibuya Station for 10 years. Thus, touching the hearts of many Chinese online users. One user wrote, “It is nice that Zhongbao met a kind-hearted man who continued looking after her on behalf of her previous owner.” “Sometimes dogs are more loyal than humans,” another wrote.

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One name is notably missing from the headlines and coverage swirling around Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Defense. That person is former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). This doesn’t mean he’s not up to his old games, however. The rapidly weakening Senate resistance to Trump’s pick bears all his hallmarks. Sure, McConnell (reluctantly) stepped aside from officially leading his party, but that doesn’t mean you can write off the least popular senator in America. While he’s given up the title, he hasn’t relinquished all that much. This January, he’ll run the influential defense appropriations committee as well as the very influential Rules Committee. You don’t get to be the longest-serving Senate leader without winning most of your fights. "He’s still very powerful,” one longtime Senate observer told Blaze News. “He's got de jure power, and he’s also got de facto power.” And he’s far from happy that Trump is coming back to Washington. A week after Trump won the popular vote, the first time a Republican candidate had done so in 20 years, joining Ronald Reagan 1988 and Richard Nixon 1972 in the pantheon of GOP electoral wins, McConnell bragged that his own unpopularity was a sign of his principled stands — and promised the American Enterprise Institute’s annual gala he’d be a thorn in the side of the incoming Republican administration. “I now am going to place my focus [on] shoring up American promises [and] combatting the dangerous tendency toward isolationism,” he told the room full of neocons. “This is how I will spend a great deal of my time.” If you’re not sure, that’s Washington speak for intensifying involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East regardless of the incoming president's foreign policy. Since then, he’s been quiet — but his Senate loyalists have not. McConnell ally Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) took the lead when she signaled her opposition to Hegseth’s nomination after voting to confirm President Joe Biden’s disastrous nominee, Gen. Lloyd Austin. Ernst gravely miscalculated the national mood, however, and faced immediate and fierce pushback from Republicans of all stripes, including BlazeTV host Steve Deace, an influential Iowan who threatened a Trump-backed primary if she didn’t change her tune. By the start of the week, Ernst had reversed her public statements on Hegseth and was also eagerly showing her support for other Trump nominees, including Kash Patel for FBI director. McConnell’s name was noticeably missing from the coverage. The old man kept his peace and let his little helper take the fall. That’s his style, anyway. Remember Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford’s amnesty-and-border deal? That disaster was all McConnell, but when it blew up in Lankford’s face (and was then featured in seemingly every Democrat-leaning ad and debate talking point of the election), McConnell vanished. Of course, you don’t get to be the longest-serving Senate leader without winning most of your fights. When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) dared hold up military promotions until the Pentagon ended its illegal pro-abortion policies, McConnell was incensed. But reading the headlines, you might think it was all Ernst, Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who turned on their colleague to add more generals to the rolls. McConnell is happy to let you think that. It’s not like he’s simply twisting arms and scaring children, either. McConnell often succeeds with a simple suggestion: “Do you like what you’re seeing here from Trump? ... Do you think Tuberville ought to be ‘risking national security’ over there? ... You should do something about that. Take the lead!” Fail, and it’s your butt, though. Ernst ended up shaking like a leaf on this last one, and she’ll shake alone until the cold wind blows over. When Lankford’s immigration bill went down, McConnell even joined in voting against it. As “The Departed’s” Frank Costello rasps, “I never gave up anybody who wasn’t going down anyway.” McConnell may have relinquished the title, but he’s maintained power. More, he’s committed his remaining years to promoting and protecting a foreign policy directly at odds with the incoming administration. It will be a difficult terrain to navigate for the new Senate leader and longtime McConnell loyalist John Thune (R-S.D.), who will have to prove he’s his own man — especially if his old boss decides to burn it all down to resist the returning president. The election is over, but the battle for who controls D.C. is just beginning. Punch Bowl: The Hegseth vibe shift The Hill: McConnell receives medical attention after falling Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS Introducing Josephine Jeanne Bedford I’ve been absent the past month, I know, and as much as I truly missed the thrill of the of those post-election weeks, nothing can beat the time at home taking care of my wife, Sarah, and a daughter so tiny I can hold her in the crook of my arm. Thanksgiving (and its leftovers) didn’t hurt, either! While leaving it all behind for the wee one is tempting, there’s been a fight brewing in Washington since I first arrived more than 20 years ago, and I’m not about to call it a day just as it kicks off. So let me introduce the newest member of our family, Josephine Jeanne Bedford. And now back to the fray.

Path of Exile 2 early access has been bigger than developer Grinding Gear Games could possibly have hoped for, with more than a million keys sold and player numbers pushing it into the upper echelons of Steam’s most-played list. But as the Diablo 4 rival succeeds beyond expectations, that means even more work on the table for GGG. While it managed to get early server hiccups largely under control in remarkably short order, it’s still having trouble keeping up with the vast number of support requests coming in from players. Continue reading Path of Exile 2 dev apologizes for delayed responses to support requests MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Path of Exile 2 builds, Path of Exile 2 classes, Path of Exile 2 quests

More evidence is adding up to the new Intel Arc B580 being a fast graphics card for its modest $249 price, as a new gaming benchmark leak has shown it being not only faster than the GeForce RTX 4060, but also quicker than the $399 RTX 4060 Ti. The benchmark in question is 3DMark Time Spy, which has been used for years as a general gauge of gaming performance. If this leak is genuine, then it looks as though Intel has the best graphics card for budget gamers under its belt, but there are a few caveats to point out. Firstly, Time Spy is an old benchmark that only tests rasterization performance, giving no indication of ray tracing performance, which may well be better on the Nvidia GPUs. Secondly, of course, this is a leak, and as such needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Continue reading This new $249 Intel GPU beats the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in benchmark leak MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

While the recent Assassin’s Creed Shadows delay pushed our trip to feudal Japan back a few months, there’s still plenty to get excited about with Ubisoft’s flagship series. Jade will take the Assassin’s Creed series to mobile, while codename Hexe promises a very different style of adventure from the norm. But, if waiting for all these isn’t enough for you, two AC games just got important updates. Both Assassin’s Creed Black Flag and Unity finally have Steam achievements - giving you the perfect reason for a revisit. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Black Flag and Unity just got surprise Steam updates MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best pirate games, Best RPG games, Best sandbox games