PHOTOS: Meet the dogs and cats of the DC Council

By Jack Pointer
June 21, 2018 | 10:00 AM

WASHINGTON — There’s never a bad reason to run a gallery of pet photos.

Fortunately, some members of the D.C. Council recently offered the Humane Rescue Alliance and WTOP a very good reason to run one: They posed for portraits with their four-legged pals.

All cats and dogs included here are reportedly well-versed in the nuances of municipal policy, and they went on-record confirming their support for a frequent-skritch ordinance.

Learn how you can adopt a lovable critter of your very own on the Humane Rescue Alliance website.

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The Mediterranean’s warming waters are drawing hundreds of invasive species

By The Associated Press
July 30, 2026 | 12:58 AM

ROME (AP) — The Mediterranean of our ancestors is no more. Scientists say climate change, caused mainly by burning oil, coal and gas, is making the Mediterranean Sea hotter, bringing hundreds of new and invasive fish species that decimate indigenous populations. As biodiversity diminishes, coastal communities will struggle to make ends meet in the ways they’ve known for generations. “The Mediterranean of our grandfathers, of our elders, and of the Greeks, of ancient Greece is lost forever. So many of those changes are irreversible,” said Ernesto Azzuro, a marine biologist with the Italian National Research Council's Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology.

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