Sun 15 June 2025: The emperor penguin population in Antarctica is declining “worse than the worst-case projections,” according to a new study released on Tuesday. The study, based on a new analysis of satellite imagery by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), found the penguins’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period in a key sector […]
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Sun 15 June 2025: Former England football captain David Beckham was awarded a knighthood on Friday as part of King Charles’ Birthday Honors List, recognizing his contributions to sport and charity. Beckham, 50, received the title of “Sir” more than two decades after captaining the national team and earning global fame through a career that […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s most […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada. This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin. Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of mining life. Then one afternoon, you witness a fellow worker doing something remarkable. With an odd-looking contraption, he […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: You may have come across those “what I eat in a day” videos on social media, where people – usually conventionally attractive influencers wearing activewear – list everything they consumed that day. They might seem like harmless fun but in fact they can reinforce dangerous ideas about food, weight and body […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which they say rewrites the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The discovery was made from two partial skeletons found in Mongolia in the 1970s and later housed in a museum collection, the BBC said, citing a scientific article published […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: At least 123.2 million people worldwide remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations. At least 123.2 million people, or one in 67 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today. The number […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between 2010 and 2020. Christianity grew by 122 million members in that decade, but declined as an overall slice of the world’s population. Still, […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Several countries attending the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in the French Mediterranean city of Nice have called for a binding international agreement to tackle plastic pollution, a growing threat to marine ecosystems and human health. Co-chaired by Costa Rica and France, the conference has brought together leaders and senior […]
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