JUAREZ, MEXICO (AFP) — A female hippopotamus born two weeks ago, two white tiger puppies and a llama calf are the new inhabitants of the Mexican zoo at Ciudad Juarez (north). https://youtu.be/XzMcZbhcwzo
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WATCH: Newly discovered orangutan species is most endangered great ape: study
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 […]
Take a look: The beauty of Ilocos
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 […]
Take a look: The hidden biodiversity in Nicaragua’s volcanic lagoons
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
WATCH: Saving Indonesia’s birds-of-paradise one village at a time
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, […]
Latest design may help eliminate traffic jams in the future
(Reuters) — Commuters rejoyce! A vehicle traveling above a central reservation line may become the fastest way to travel by public transport in the future. Dahir Semenov, a Turkish engineer of Russian origin and his team have come up with a new concept – a two wheel, gyroscopic vehicle travelling along a suspended monorail. Dahir’s team of twenty engineers have in the past designed futuristic buses and trains and the team is currently working on […]
Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday. Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, it said, with air pollution the main culprit, felling 6.5 million people. Almost half of the total toll came from just two countries — India and China — researchers […]
Thousands of endangered river turtles released into Amazon wild
RIO PACAYA, Peru (Reuters) — Thousands of endangered Taricaya turtles have been released in Peru’s Amazon region as part of efforts to conserve the majestic species on the verge of extinction. On Tuesday (October 17), staff from Peru’s National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SERNANP) released some 5,000 baby turtles as part of an ongoing program. The taricaya eggs were collected from the beaches and incubated until they hatched. The Taricaya were […]
How coffee could power your car
LONDON, England (Reuters) — A new one-step process that turns spent coffee grounds into biofuel could help in the fight to reduce our reliance on diesel made from fossil fuels, say researchers at Lancaster University. Using feedstocks, such as soybean, rapeseed, or corn, grown specifically to extract oils to make biodiesel is controversial because of their cost and because they divert crops from food production. Lead researcher Dr Vesna Najdanovic-Visak told Reuters: “These kind of […]
Scramble for survivors as quake flattens Mexico City buildings
by Carola SOLÉ Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY (AFP) — When the earthquake hit, it sent panicked people running into the street but many weren’t so lucky. The dust settled minutes later to reveal a landscape of flattened buildings and rubble in the heart of Mexico City. “Awful. I think it was one of the strongest we’ve felt. I don’t know what magnitude, but it was awful,” said Pedro Cruz Martinez, a public servant cradling his […]
Chile’s Easter Island declares huge marine protection zone
LA SERENA, Chile (AFP) — Along with a marine park that already exists, the new area will cover 720,000 square kilometers (280,000 square miles) around the island, which sits 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) off the Chilean coast. The waters around the island are a spawning ground for tuna, shark, marlin and swordfish, and they also host shallow-water coral reefs that are home to unique marine species. The seas around the island are under threat from over-fishing, rising […]
Warming the Antarctic 1 C vastly changes seabed life
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Human-driven climate change may substantially alter the seabed ecosystem in the already fragile Antarctic, slashing the diversity of some species and allowing other populations to explode, researchers warned Thursday. The findings of a field study designed to mimic real-world conditions in a warming ocean were published in the journal Current Biology. The experiments, undertaken in marine shallows around the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station, showed some species actually doubled when […]
