Norway’s ‘doomsday’ seed bank, which seeks to protect the world’s crops from natural disasters, on Monday said it had gathered more than a million varieties as it marked its 10-year anniversary. Dubbed the “Noah’s Ark” of food crops, the Global Seed Vault is located deep inside a mountain on Svalbard, a remote Arctic island in a…
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‘Noah’s Ark’ seed vault chalks up a million crop varieties
United passenger opens door, uses inflatable slide to get off flight at Newark
A passenger who said he boarded the wrong United Airlines flight exited the plane in an unconventional way — by opening the emergency door and zipping down the inflatable chute. Troy Fattun, 25, made the mad dash off flight 1640, according to NBCNewYork.com He was arrested by Port Authority police when after he reached the ground.…
NJ Spotlight: New Jersey Evaluates “Get Out Jail” Bail Reform Program After First Year
After One Year, NJ Evaluates Judicial Reform Program
The state performed well for its first year of criminal justice reform, according to the New Jersey judiciary, but key data is missing from the report and the picture is incomplete. To keep the program successful, the state is going to need to spend more money and provide more services, noted the report issued by the…
New Jersey lawmakers are still in the bag for the liquor lobby | Mulshine
(ABOVE: Because of New Jersey’s outmoded laws, Hoboken has a bar one every block while many suburban towns have almost no places to drink.) I was driving past a strip mall in Brick Township that is now half-empty because a supermarket closed. My goal was another strip mall in Toms River that is now half-empty, also…
Toms River joins growing stand against pot at the shore
The council is scheduled for a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting Tuesday at Town Hall, which could be followed by a vote on second reading of an ordinance that would, “establish prohibitions on the sale, dispensation, and cultivation of marijuana in the Township of Toms River.” The measure was approved 6-0 with one abstention…
‘There’s no closure,’ say families of missing fishermen after search ends
In the year before he went missing in choppy waters 40 miles off the coast of Barnegat, Paul Alexandre Matos bought a house, had a daughter and got licensed to commercially fish on his own boat. He had been working as a fisherman for other people, said his girlfriend, Amy Romano, but he decided last summer…
