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This two picture combination shows scenes from a mild day on Feb. 13, 2023, at left, and a snowy day on Feb. 9, 2015, at right, as people walk through the Boston Common in Boston. Snow totals are far below average from Boston to Philadelphia in 2023 and warmer temperatures have often resulted in more spring-like days than blizzard-like conditions. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Snow has been a no-show for some traditionally wintry cities
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Mon,03/06/23-2:06AM , 376 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Growing up in New England, Leah Ofsevit's most cherished childhood memories were blanketed in snow. She remembers running barefoot outside with her brother at the first sign of it, building snowmen and ice castles most winters, strapping on skis as a toddler.
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An empty pitcher and shot sized cups sit on an altar during an ayahuasca ceremony hosted by Hummingbird Church in Hildale, Utah, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that contains an Amazon shrub with the active ingredient, DMT, and a vine containing monoamine oxidase inhibitors that prevents the drug from breaking down in the body causing visions lasting several hours. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries of religion
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Thu,02/02/23-7:32AM , 349 Reads
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing experience, which is how he found himself inside a tent with two dozen others waiting for the psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca to kick in.
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Colombian shaman Taita Pedro Davila, leads an ayahuasca ceremony with Hummingbird Church, in Hildale, Utah, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Following the traditions of his grandfather in Colombia, Davila prays, chants, and sings in Spanish and the language of the Kamëntsá people over the psychoactive brew before serving it to individual participants. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries of religion
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Thu,02/02/23-7:29AM , 578 Reads
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing experience, which is how he found himself inside a tent with two dozen others waiting for the psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca to kick in.
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Eve Bazaiba Masudi, Vice-Prime Minister and Environment Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, center, and Brazil Foreign Minister Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde, left, and Daniel Tumpal Sumurung Simanjuntak of Indonesia raises their arms following a discussion at the COP15 U.N. conference on biodiversity in Montreal, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Historic biodiversity agreement reached at UN conference
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Sun,12/18/22-10:10AM , 221 Reads
MONTREAL (AP) — Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
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