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MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) — Australian teen Sam Kanizay is recovering in hospital after being severely bitten by marine creatures on Saturday (August 5). The 16-year-old was icing his feet in the waters at Melbourne’s Dendy Street beach after a rugby match when he was attacked by what experts believe to be amphipods, a type of sea scavenging crustacean, commonly known as sea lice. When his legs wouldn’t stop bleeding, Sam’s parents took him to hospital […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A clean-up operation was under way in Hong Kong Monday after a massive palm oil spillage from a ship collision in mainland Chinese waters clogged some of its most popular beaches. The coast was coated with rancid-smelling sticky white clumps of the oil as it washed in Sunday, with 11 beaches still closed to swimmers Monday in the height of a summer heatwave. There are still lumps of the solidified oil […]
SICHUAN Province, southwest China (Reuters) — A total of six giant panda cubs were born in succession from four different giant pandas within a week at the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The giant pandas namely “Jun Zhu”, “Qing Qing”, “Hai Zi” and “Zhen Zhen” gave births to two twins and two singles from July 23 till July 30. “Followed by giant panda ‘Jun Zhu’ giving birth on July 23, four […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (CCTV) — Serbia is seeing its hottest summer in five years, according to experts with the country’s national meteorological observatory. Temperatures surpassed 38 degrees Celsius in three days this summer, and the heat wave this week has brought temperatures up to over 42 degrees Celsius. “In this heat wave, we expect even higher temperatures. On Friday and during the weekend, in most places we expect 39 and 40 degrees [Celsius], and locally, it […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A species of spider that usually travels no further than a few feet from where it was hatched, likely made an epic sea journey on a “land raft” from South Africa to call Australia home, a study said Thursday. The Australian trapdoor spider, known scientifically as Moggridgea rainbow, is only found on Kangaroo Island off the south Australian coast and lives a sedentary land-based lifestyle, rarely moving far. Research in the […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia has seized elephant tusks and pangolin scales from Africa worth almost a million dollars, an official said Wednesday, highlighting the country’s role as a hub for smuggling rare animal parts. The contraband was found in two separate raids in the cargo terminal of Kuala Lumpur’s main international airport on Sunday, customs officials said. In the first raid, authorities found 23 ivory tusks, weighing 75.7 kilograms (167 pounds) with an […]
TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) — The largest heart ever seen has gone on display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The organ belonged to one of two blue whales whose carcasses washed up on the shores of Trout River in Newfoundland and Labrador province three years ago. “Blue whale carcasses are very rare because most of the time they sink, as they don’t have as much fat or blubber as other whale species,” Burton Lim, Assistant […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned Wednesday. Researchers say they still don’t understand how or why carbon dioxide emissions sap protein and other nutrients from plants, but the mystery is one that could have devastating consequences across […]
ATHENS, Greece (CCTV) — A wildfire broke out in the southern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Monday afternoon, prompting local authorities to dispatch dozens of firefighters to the scene. The blaze reportedly occurred around 18:00, about 13 kilometers from the Athens International Airport, and quickly spread through tinder-dry vegetation due to strong winds, which are blowing plumes of thick black smoke into the air. Around 70 firefighters, 30 fire trucks and five helicopters […]
IBAJAY, Aklan (Eagle News) – Isang pawikan ang napadpad sa baybayin ng Aklan noong Linggo, July 30. Sa pahayag ni PO2 Dennis Jabagat ng Ibajay PNP Station, natagpuan ng mangingisdang si Adreano Timbas ang pawikan na naipit sa lambat sa Brgy. Bugtongbato, Ibajay. Tumitimbang umano ito ng 120 kilogram at may habang 49 na pulgada. Dahil sa nanghihina na umano ang naturang pawikan, agad na ibinalik ito sa dagat ng taga-bantay dagat at mga rumespondeng […]
by Dominique Schroeder and Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Out-of-control wildfires like the ones that brought destruction to southern Europe, North America and parts of South Africa in recent weeks will likely become more frequent as global temperatures soar under climate change, experts say. More than 10,000 people had to flee raging fires in southern France this week, and several villages were evacuated in Portugal just weeks after another blaze […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain said Wednesday it will outlaw the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040 in a bid to cut air pollution but environmental groups said the proposals did not go far enough. Environment minister Michael Gove announced the move as part of the government’s keenly-awaited £3 billion ($3.9 billion, 3.4 billion euro) air pollution plan, which will demand that councils propose measures by March next year […]
