British street artist Banksy has funded a boat to rescue refugees trying to reach North Africa, the Guardian can reveal. The ship, named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, set sail on August 18 from the Spanish port of Burriana, near Valencia, and is now in the central Mediterranean …
Read More »Banksy pays for refugee bed operating in the Mediterranean | World news
British street artist Banksy has funded a boat to rescue refugees trying to reach North Africa, the Guardian can reveal. The ship, named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, set sail on August 18 from the Spanish port of Burriana, near Valencia, and is now in the central Mediterranean …
Read More »Mammal-like Triassic creatures defeated polar winters by sleeping
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The branches of a well-built plant-eating mammal that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago provide the oldest known evidence that animals deployed in winter-like states to survive lean periods such as polar winters. The interpretation of an artist shows the mammalian relative Lystrosaurus during the Triassic period …
Read More »Mauritius says autopsy on dead dolphins finds wounds but no oil | Mauritius News
Dead dolphins washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill have so far been wounded on their bodies, but no trace of oil has been released, preliminary autopsy results published on Thursday. Environmental activists are urgently seeking an explanation for the mysterious deaths of 27 dolphins that …
Read More »Leaders of Mali coups, ECOWAS fails to agree on transition | News
Talks between a delegation of West African envoys and the military officers overthrowing Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita have ended without a deal on how the country should return to civilian rule following last week’s coup. The meditation team from the regional block Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) …
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