MELTING OF POLAR GLACIERS INDIRECTLY TRIGGERING FOREST FIRES

Sun 24 March 2024: Climate change causes a significant rise in glacial melting, and this indirectly triggers wildfires, said a Turkish academic, Anadolu Agency reports. The increasing melting of the polar glaciers, which prevent the world from overheating by reflecting about 80 per cent of the sunrays, is increasing the number and frequency of extreme weather events […]

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NASA SPIES SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE UNLIKE ANY OTHER

  Image is for illustration purposes only. Sat 23 March 2024: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a supermassive black hole, classified as a quasar, which has confounded scientists’ expectations.  On its official website, NASA reported H1821+643, the closest quasar to Earth, located 3.4 billion light-years away within a cluster of galaxies, but seemingly less […]

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GLOBAL WATER SCARCITY IS FUELLING MORE CONFLICTS, UN REPORT WARNS

Sat 23 March 2024: Increasing global water scarcity is fuelling more conflicts and contributing to instability, the United Nations warns in a new report, which says access to clean water is critical to promoting peace. The UN World Water Development Report 2024, released on Friday, said 2.2 billion people worldwide have no access to clean drinking […]

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#NOFRIENDS: WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY’S ROLE IN THE LONELINESS CRISIS?

Fri 22 March 2024: In an age where technology is allowing people to connect in more ways than ever, why is concern over loneliness on the rise? The #IHaveNoFriends declaration is common on social media and experts say trends in friendlessness have only been made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. Now in the US, the nation’s surgeon […]

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IS MY WATER SAFE TO DRINK? EXPERT ADVICE FOR RESIDENTS OF SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES

Fri 22 March 2024: In early March 2024 the residents of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city and the economic capital of the country, were hit by extended cuts in water supplies. This was a new low after months of continuous deterioration. Professor in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand […]

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E-WASTE IS PILING UP WORLDWIDE AS RECYCLING RATES REMAIN LOW, UN SAYS

Fri 22 March 2024: UN agencies have warned in a new report that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery, including mobile phones, electronic toys, TVs, […]

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FINLAND REMAINS HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR 7TH YEAR

Fri 22 March 2024: Nordic countries kept their places among the 10 most cheerful, with Denmark, Iceland and Sweden trailing Finland. Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, stayed at the bottom of the 143 countries surveyed. Compiled by using data from more than 140 countries, the report is published […]

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MUSK’S NEURALINK HOSTS A LIVESTREAM OF A QUADRIPLEGIC PLAYING ONLINE CHESS

Fri 22 March 2024: Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup, has broadcast a patient who appears to be playing online chess with just his mind. Neuralink announced Noland Arbaugh, 29, as the first patient in a video on the social networking platform X on Wednesday. Arbaugh is the 29-year-old patient who was implanted with the company’s […]

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RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WARNS US AGAINST USING ELON MUSK’S SPACEX FOR SPYING

Thu 21 March 2024: Russia has said it is aware of US intelligence efforts to use commercial satellite operators such as SpaceX and has cautioned that such moves made their satellites legitimate targets. The Reuters news agency reported this month that SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract […]

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