Monthly Archives: August 2020

Belarussian opposition leader has bled to death after bloody clashes

MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Tuesday she had fled abroad for the sake of her children, after two nights of clashes following the contested re-election of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko. Tikhanouskaya, a 37-year-old former English teacher, came out of obscurity to reach the biggest challenge …

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Satellites record Antarctic melting history

Ice boards can extend hundreds of meters underwater Twenty-five years of satellite observations have been used to reconstruct a detailed history of Antarctic ice sheets. These ice platforms are the driving protrusions of glaciers flowing out of the land, encircling the entire continent. The European Space Agency’s dataset confirms the …

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