Sat 23 May 2020: A mass amount of forest land is still being lost each year despite a slowdown in deforestation trends in recent years, a United Nations agency report said Friday, while the destruction of tropical forests has accelerated rapidly during the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Some 420 million hectares of forest have been lost […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: Emirati specialists have confirmed that food waste in the country is estimated at more than ten billion dirhams per year (more than $2.7 billion) and that 30 per cent of this waste occurs during the month of Ramadan. “The amount of food waste and excess in the country exceeds ten billion […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: The skeleton of a mammal nicknamed “crazy beast” that existed alongside dinosaurs has been unveiled by a team of researchers. Palaeontologists* from Monash University in Victoria have revealed the full fossil skeleton of the bizarre creature, which lived around 66 million years ago on the island of Madagascar, off the east […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: COVID-19 is expected to cause global energy emissions to fall a record eight percent this year due to an unprecedented drop in demand for coal, oil and gas, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. IEA executive director Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis marked a watershed moment for the global energy […]
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Sun 12 April 2020: By now we’re all familiar with the guidance that one of the best ways to protect against contracting the novel coronavirus is to stop touching our faces. So what does that mean for contact lens wearers? According to Christopher J. Rapuano, chief of cornea service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, […]
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Sun 12 April 2020: World-renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall says the coronavirus pandemic was caused by humanity’s disregard for nature and disrespect for animals. Goodall, who is best known for trail-blazing research in Africa that revealed the true nature of chimpanzees, pleaded for the world to learn from past mistakes to prevent future disasters. During […]
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Tue 10 March 2020: (AFP) The Canadian government on Monday announced a bill to ban so-called “conversion therapy,” which tries to change the sexual orientation of young LGBT people. The bill would create five new offenses in the Canadian criminal code, including prohibiting subjecting a minor to the practice, either in Canada or abroad. An […]
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Thu 27 February 2020: A homemade vehicle bearing a striking resemblance to the “Batmobile” featured in a recent Batman film has been seized in central Moscow, Russia’s interior ministry announced. Traffic police brought the all-black, lowrider vehicle with giant wheels to a screeching halt as it cruised down one of the main roads into the […]
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Tue 25 February 2020: A Japanese man who received his certificate as the world’s oldest man with a raised fist and big smiles earlier this month has died at 112. Guinness World Records had given the certificate to Chitetsu Watanabe on Feb. 12. The organization and the funeral home handling his services confirmed Tuesday he […]
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Tue 25 February 2020: An Arctic “doomsday vault” is set Tuesday to receive 60,000 samples of seeds from around the world as the biggest global crop reserve stocks up for a global catastrophe. The seeds are to be deposited in the vault inside a mountain near Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, about […]
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