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CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Global methane emissions from agriculture and other sources have surged in recent years, threatening efforts to slow climate change, an international study has found. Researchers led by French Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE) reported that methane concentrations in the air began to surge around 2007 and grew precipitously in 2014 and 2015. In that two-year period methane concentrations shot up by 10 or more parts per […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Beijing-based artist Liu Zhifeng’s show a record of people’s lives through receipts and aims to make people consider what impact they’re making with each transaction. His latest work features familiar scenes from everyday life, painted entirely on receipts collected through daily transactions. Each of his paintings tell a story reflecting the very transaction involved. One painting done on the receipt of an express delivery package features a dump truck dumping flowers […]
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) — Three months after her birth, a rare Malayan tiger cub emerged from her den on Wednesday (December 14) at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, The cub, named Berisi, was born on September 11 and spent the beginning of her life in the den with her mother, Bzui. The cub raced around the enclosure, pouncing on her mother and climbing rocks. Zoo officials said there were only about 250 Malayan tigers left in […]
by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the discovery as it was investigating what was already the largest data breach of a single company. “Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, […]
by Antoine FROIDEFOND Agence France-Presse Palmyra may just have fallen yet again to the Islamic State group, but a new “immersive” 3D show in Paris lets you walk through the Syrian city’s classical colonnades as they were before the jihadists blew them to bits. The “Eternal Sites” exhibition uses high-definition images often shot by drones to allow the public to visit four of the most threatened heritage sites in the world in war-torn Syria and […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — It has been hailed as a revolutionary way to get people moving, using smartphones to pursue cartoon creatures through city parks and streets on foot, instead of taking the car or metro. But has Pokemon Go made people more active and healthy? A study Wednesday reported mixed success. In the first week of playing the game, people took 955 additional steps per day on average — equaling nearly half the World […]
by Sophie LAUBIE / Fiachra GIBBONS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP ) – The waiting is almost over. Hundreds of thousands of fans will finally get to see the new Star Wars spin-off film Wednesday as it opens in cinemas across Europe. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” has already notched up the highest first day pre-sales ever in the US after last year’s “The Force Awakens”. The story, about a maverick Rebel force who […]
by Fanuel JONGWE Agence France-Presse Lions living in the Zimbabwean reserve that was home to “Cecil the lion” are most threatened by human behavior, including trophy hunting, researchers said Monday. Cecil was shot by an American trophy hunter in 2015, sparking outrage after it emerged that the lion was not only a popular attraction for Hwange National Park visitors, but was also part of an Oxford University research project. Human activity including trophy hunting accounted for […]
by Delphine THOUVENOT Agence France-Presse GULF OF THAILAND, Thailand (AFP) — Piercing the water’s surface with its almond-shaped mouth, a giant Bryde’s whale opens wide for one, two, three seconds, gulping in anchovies as a boatload of awed tourist look on in the Gulf of Thailand. It’s a rare glimpse of marine life in its natural habitat, in a kingdom overrun with mass tourist attractions such as aquariums and dolphin shows. Once a dream for scuba […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Some cholesterol-lowering drugs, known as statins, appear to be linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease in certain people, suggested a study out Monday. However, not all patients benefited, and the report stopped short of establishing any cause and effect, so experts said rigorous clinical trials are needed to further explore the issue. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology was based on an […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Global warming is responsible for the melting of mountain glaciers around the world in the last century, scientists said Monday. Since glaciers respond slowly to climate change and are susceptible to yearly weather changes, there has been some debate in the scientific community about whether climate change was entirely to blame for their ice melt. For instance, the last report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded only […]
ARAVA DESERT, Israel (Reuters) — Deep in the heart of an Israeli desert, blue crayfish are helping scientists in the search for treatments of an array of human diseases. Yossi Ben, CEO of Israeli biotech company Amorphical, has been growing blue crayfish for more than a decade in freshwater pools in the Arava desert. Twelve years ago Ben noticed that his band of crustaceans were able to build a new shell at an amazing speed. Other […]
