Inside Fairfield Chair’s five-generation legacy

[ad_1] In a small North Carolina town that has long been the heart of American furniture making, Fairfield Chair is doubling down on what it does best: Handcrafted pieces touched by more than 100 pairs of hands before they leave the factory floor. As the U.S. furniture market grapples with a new 30% tariff on upholstered…

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New list of threatened species includes arctic seals, majority of bird species worldwide

[ad_1] Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, according to an annual assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially…

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Philippines jolted by powerful earthquake and aftershock, triggering tsunami alert

[ad_1] A powerful 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines late Friday, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an earlier warning was lifted, authorities said. The tremor struck at 7:12 p.m. local time, prompting the Philippine seismology office to warn of “life-threatening wave heights” and urge coastal residents to “immediately evacuate to higher grounds…

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