Portland, Ore. (Reuters) – An unprecedented outbreak of deadly wildfires in Oregon on Friday, with every 100,000 people under evacuation warnings – stable firefighters took advantage of improved weather to advance the blaze. . Thousands of homes have been destroyed in wind-swept hurricanes, large summer fires in the western United …
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 »Nigeria’s wet markets are flourishing despite coronavirus pandemics
LAGOS (Reuters) – Just a few months after Epe Fish Market was shut down to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, vendors on the spot in the southern Nigerian state of Lagos returned to buy, sell and trade animals. Shortened pangolins and a snake are displayed on a table …
Read More »‘Canary in coal’: Greenland ice is shrinking further back, study finds
(Reuters) – Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with ice likely to melt, no matter how fast global warming emits from global warming, new research suggests. A fishing vessel will be in the ice fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland 12 September 2017. Photo taken 12 September …
Read More »Who pays for oil spill from Mauritius and how much?
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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