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CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A brainless, spineless, pulsating organism has a key behavior in common with humans: sleep. While sleep has been confirmed in other invertebrates such as worms and fruit flies, the jellyfish is the most evolutionarily ancient animal that has been shown to slumber. Jellyfish have thrived in the seas for at least 600 million years, longer than nearly any other animal. By comparison, dinosaurs appeared roughly 230 million years ago […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse Waiãpi, Brazil (AFP) — When Japarupi Waiapi looks into the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest, he sees the equivalent of a supermarket, pharmacy, furniture store — and that’s just the beginning. Food like coconuts, roots and bananas grows plentifully. Animals and fish are readily available for hunting, and the bark of many trees has medicinal uses. Just in terms of different wood types, “we see thatch for our roofs, we see […]
https://youtu.be/66jNt5KLWqI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world’s most endangered great ape, researchers said Thursday. “It’s the first declaration of a new great ape species in about 100 years,” Ian Singleton, co-author of the study and director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, told AFP. The species, called ‘Tapanuli orangutan’, lives in the Batang Toru forest on Sumatra island, and […]
By M.R. Faith Bonalos Eagle News Service Are you looking for a place where you can release your stress away from the city and work? Then take a tour of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur where you can relieve that stress and take away all your worries, even just for a while. The views will surely take your breath away and make your heart flutter. We took a couple of days to check […]
APOYO LAGOON, Nicaragua (AFP) — The Apoyo Lagoon in Nicaragua is one of the 12 lagoons of volcanic origin that run parallel to the Central American country’s Pacific coast, which the government will nominate to become a UNESCO World Heritage site for their astonishing biodiversity. https://youtu.be/c-JMVVQM-Jk
by Siavosh Ghazi Agence France Presse GARMSAR, Iran (AFP) — Iranian environmentalists have mobilized to protect the world’s last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of becoming roadkill, a shortage of prey and farmers’ dogs. “The last time our photo traps caught a cheetah here, it was two years ago. But we’re sure they are still in the region,” said Rajab Ali Kargar, deputy head of the National Protection […]
(Eagle News) — Kumakalat sa social media ngayon ang larawan ng isang maliit na seahorse na may bitbit na maliliit na plastik ng basura sa karagatan. Kuha ito ng isang batikang photographer na si Justin Hofman sa isang karagatan sa Indonesia. Ayon kay Hofman, hindi niya inaasahan ang pangyayaring ito, dahil nung araw na iyon ay kagagaling niya lamang sa isang expedition at sa sobrang pagod at nainitan siya ay lumangoy siya kasama ng kaibigan […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse SORONG, Indonesia (AFP) — Deep in Indonesia’s easternmost province, a group of birdwatchers wait in earnest hoping to glimpse the renowned birds-of-paradise. Once plentiful in Papua’s jungles, rampant poaching and deforestation have devastated populations. The tourists are in luck, their patience is rewarded: Perched on the branch of a tall tree near the remote village of Malagufuk, a red king bird-of-paradise can be seen darting between the leaves. Agricultural plantations, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — An excessive heat warning has been issued in California through Wednesday as the state bakes under extreme temperatures that are shattering records. Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday broke the 1909 record of 99 degrees Fahrenheit (37.2) set for that day as temperatures rose to 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) by early afternoon according to the National Weather Service. Record-shattering temperatures were also recorded in many other cities across the southern part […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore, one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a vehicle, has announced it will freeze the number of private cars on its roads from next year but vowed to expand public transport. The growth cap for all passenger cars and motorcycles will be cut from 0.25 percent a year to zero with effect from February, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said. The affluent city-state of 5.6 million people […]
(Eagle News) — Tinitingnan ng National Irrigation Administration (NIA) na gawing tourist destinations ang mga dam na pag-aari ng gobyerno upang mapalawak ang pagkaka-kitaan ng ahensya. Kabilang dito ang Bustos na itinuturing na pinaka-mahabang rubber dam sa Asia at pangalawang pinaka-malaki sa mundo. Kabilang din sa ikinukunsiderang gawing tourist attraction ay ang Pantabangan dam na siyang pinakamalaking dam sa bansa na kasalukuyang inaayos. Ayon sa NIA, kailangang ayusin at itaas ang uri ng mga dam […]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented “the only international instrument that offers the conditions to face global warming and its effects,” according to a statement read out by Vice President Rosario Murillo. Monday’s announcement leaves the United States and Syria as the only countries holding […]
