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Global warming is melting mountain glaciers: study
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…
#WeirdNews: Python eats wallaby on Australian golf course
A routine round of golf has taken a uniquely Australian turn with stunned players finding a giant python wrestling with a wallaby on a fairway. Robert Willemse was on the 17th hole at the Paradise…
#Conservation: Giraffes ‘threatened with extinction’
Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the past three decades and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body said Thursday. The population of the world’s tallest land mammal…
#Conservation: Solio, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy’s oldest rhino, has died
Solio, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy’s oldest rhino, has died at age 42; surpassing the average wild black rhino lifespan of 30-35 years. Nicknamed the ‘grand old lady’ of Lewa, the critically endangered black rhino was…
Earth’s days getting longer, slower: study
Earth’s days are getting longer but you’re not likely to notice any time soon — it would take about 6.7 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday. Over…
#Conservation: Polar bear numbers to plunge a third as sea ice melts
Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released on Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear. There is a 70 percent chance…
#Conservation: Record coral kill-off on Great Barrier Reef
A mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before, with more than two-thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site, scientists confirmed Tuesday. The 2,300-kilometre (1,400-mile)…
Emma Morano, last person alive born in 1800s, turns 117
An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s…
Unbelievable. Morocco TV ‘sorry’ over makeup for battered women
A public television station in Morocco apologised again after uproar on social media followed its broadcast of an item on makeup to hide the bruises of battered women. The sequence — marking last week’s International…