Greenland’s major ice block saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags over accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday. That equates to an additional 3 million tons of water flowing into global oceans every day, like six Olympic-sized swimming pools every …
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‘Every day we learn about a new loss’: artists unite in Beirut | Theater
The deadly explosion in Beirut on August 4 was compared to 15 years of war in 15 seconds by Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN, Amal Mudallali. “It has been hell,” says Sahar Assaf, an actor, director and theater professor at the American University of Beirut. ‘We are still in disbelief …
Read More »Will Universe end with ‘Black Dwarf’ Supernova explosions? | Astronomy
A series of ‘black dwarf’ supernovae will be the last astrophysical events occurring in our Universe prior to the so-called hot death, when the Universe will be populated only by black holes and ‘frozen’ white dwarfs, according to a paper of Illinois State University Theoretical Physicist Matt Caplan. In the …
Read More »Goal is to kill Amazon and Walmart in this key metric
Purpose (NYSE: TGT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), en Walmart (NYSE: WMT) all wowed investors this earnings season with blowout numbers. Americans turned to these essential retailers to meet their needs during the pandemic, and all three benefited from their strong e-commerce operations, as Americans turned to online shopping to avoid risks …
Read More »Russian doctors remove Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny, still in a coma, to be flown to Berlin after all the poisoning
Russian doctors have given permission for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a critic of President Vladimir Putin who has been in a coma after allegations that he was poisoned in an attack on the Kremlin, to fly to Germany for medical treatment. However, Russian doctors claimed they did not believe he …
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