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Eagle News — China has discovered the “World’s Largest Hole”, state broadcaster CCTV announced on Wednesday July 27, saying a 300m cavern in a disputed area of the South China Sea is deeper than Dean’s blue hole in the Bahamas, the official world’s deepest salt water blue hole. Named the “Dragon’s hole”, the blue hole lies within the disputed Paracel Islands, administered by china but also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam. Professor Yang Zuosheng of […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Thousands of firefighters battled Monday to contain a blaze tearing through California’s Santa Clarita valley, destroying homes and a popular filming location and threatening actress Tippi Hedren’s animal sanctuary. The so-called Sand Fire in suburban Los Angeles has scorched more than 51 square miles (132 square kilometers) of brush, threatening at least 2,000 properties and forcing an estimated 20,000 residents to flee. About 10,000 homes have been evacuated since […]
by Maria ANTONOVA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s practice of leaving massive wildfires to burn out of control in sprawling stretches of Siberia puts at risk a key global resource for absorbing climate-warming emissions: its trees. The blazes are consuming millions of hectares of pristine Boreal forests in Russia, which are second only to the world’s tropical jungles in capturing planet-warming carbon emissions. At the same time, the drier and harsher conditions associated with a […]
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) — More than 330,000 signatures have been collected calling for the closure of the Grandview Aquarium in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, in which two polar bears and many other animals have been kept for visitors to take selfies with, Hong Kong-based charity Animals Asia said in a press release on July 13. The aquarium has been making headlines since it opened in January, after Chinese netizens posted photos of dead […]
REUTERS — The Antarctic Peninsula, among the fastest warming places on Earth last century, has since cooled due to natural swings in the local climate, scientists said on Wednesday (July 20), adding that the respite from the thaw is likely to be brief. Rapid warming until the late 1990s on the peninsula, which snakes up towards South America, triggered the break-up of ancient ice shelves, which are vast expanses of ice floating on the sea […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Some 70 dead whales have been found in southern Chile less than a year after more than 330 whales washed up in a remote Patagonian inlet. The animals are not of the same species discovered in last December’s die-off, the biggest single event of its kind known to science, the Chilean fisheries service said. “They are smaller than those we saw last time,” national fisheries director Jose Miguel Burgos said. Teams […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Several beaches in the Los Angeles area were shut down on Tuesday after nearly 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million liters) of sewage spilled out from a ruptured line, officials said. The spill — described as one of the biggest in recent memory — began Monday afternoon, when the top of a sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe and causing overflow. Repair crews managed to stop the leak […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Philippines island has the world’s largest collection of unique mammal species, scientists have discovered, as the area’s habitats face danger from hunting and logging. Twenty-eight new species of cloud rats and earthworm-eating mice have been discovered by US and Filipino scientists in a 15-year study, boosting the number of non-flying mammal species on Luzon to 56, the Chicago Field Museum said in a statement released Friday. The team, which published […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — A pair of newborn Bengali tigers and a thirsty orangutan charmed Filipino zoo visitors, as the captive-bred cubs playfully competed with the poney-tailed ape for a milk bottle. The two-month old tigers, named Duterte and Leni after the country’s top two officials, were joined by the orangutan during snack time at a private zoo in Manila. The ape, with a chute of hair jutting up from the top of its […]
REUTERS — Between 2011 and 2014 Greenland shed 1 trillion tons of ice – that’s according to new data from the European Space Agency. The ice loss in those four years alone, corresponds to a 0.75 mm contribution to global sea-level rise each year – about twice the average of the preceding two decades. The latest data was gathered using the space agency’s CryoSat satellite combined with a regional climate model to map changes in […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Authorities will plant 18 million trees in Mexico City and its surrounding suburbs as part of efforts to combat air pollution, the government said Monday. Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano dubbed it a “historic reforestation” to reinforce the “green belt in the megalopolis.” The greater Mexico City area was hit by the worst air pollution in more than a decade in March, prompting authorities to restrict traffic for the 5.4 million […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A New Zealand man whose ambitious crowdfunding campaign raised millions of dollars to buy a pristine South Island beach and make it public parkland said Monday it was “surreal” to see his dream realized. Duane Major’s push earlier this year to take Awaroa beach out of private hands and make it a national park quickly went viral, attracting 40,000 donations to raise a total of NZ$2.3 million (US$1.7 million). Major, […]
