Sydney (AFP) March 24, 2021 Rescue teams delivered food and emergency supplies to Australians isolated by floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that swollen rivers posed an ongoing threat despite blue skies over the east coast following days of torrential rain. Relentless downpours over the past week have caused “catastrophic” flooding in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, with parts of suburbanhttp://dlvr.it/RwGvXc Continue reading Food ferried to isolated Australians as flood threat lingers

The most vulnerable cybercrime victims are young adults and adults over 75, according to the latest research revealed in the LexisNexis Risk Solutions biannual Cybercrime Report. The report reveals how unprecedented global change in 2020 created new opportunities for cybercriminals around the world, particularly as they targeted new users of online channels.http://dlvr.it/RwGvR0 Continue reading Young Adults, Seniors Over 75 Most Susceptible to Cyber Fraud: Report

Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) March 21, 2021 A couple of giant pandas in captivity engaged in a rare weekend of love-making with the hoped-for result, an even rarer panda offspring, still too early to call, a French zoo said on Sunday. Huan Huan, a female panda on loan from China at the Beauval zoo in central France, was “put in contact” eight times on Saturday with … Continue reading ‘Cooperative and active’: Panda couple mates in France

Abuja (AFP) March 22, 2021 Nearly one-third of Nigerian children lack access to enough water, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said Monday, calling for urgent measures to address the problem. In a statement marking World Water Day, UNICEF said more than 1.42 billion people – including 450 million children – are living in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability in the world. “This … Continue reading 26.5 million Nigerian children lack access to water: UNICEF

Paris (AFP) March 21, 2021 An international consortium has suspended a $1.5-billion hydropower dam project in Myanmar in response to last month’s military coup, consortium member Electricite de France, a French utility, said Sunday. Nearly 250 people are confirmed dead in protests since the February 1 military coup, according to tolls compiled by NGOs, and more than 2,300 others have been arrested. International chttp://dlvr.it/RwC5fG Continue reading France’s EDF says Myanmar dam project halted over coup

Sydney (AFP) March 19, 2021 Swathes of Australia’s rural east are battling a “plague” of mice that is infesting crops and producing hair-raising scenes of rodents running amok. Farmers in New South Wales have reported “a drastic increase” in the mouse population, with the creatures invading grain silos, barns and homes, according to the NSW Farmers association. Videos captured on the Moeris family farm in … Continue reading Rodent rampage: Mouse plague sweeps Australia’s east

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 18, 2021 Scientists have discovered a unique movement pattern shared by green sea turtles, sharks, penguins and other marine mammals – they all swim in circles. Using advanced animal-tracking technologies, scientists have managed to precisely measure the three-dimensional movement patterns of a range of marine species. These bio-tracking efforts – detailed Thursday in the journal iScienhttp://dlvr.it/Rw7LPl Continue reading Scientists map enigmatic circle-swimming of whales, sharks, turtles, penguins

Washington (AFP) March 19, 2021 The bushfires that ravaged Australia between 2019 and 2020 were so huge that they spewed as much smoke into the stratosphere as a large volcanic eruption, with serious consequences for the environment, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The stratosphere is the second layer of the atmosphere, right above the troposphere – where we live. “For … Continue reading Australia fires spewed as much smoke into stratosphere as volcano: study

Grindavik, Iceland (AFP) March 20, 2021 A volcano that spewed glowing red lava near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik after awakening for the first time in 900 years appeared to be subsiding on Saturday, posing no danger to people, experts said. Streams of red lava bubbled and flowed out of a fissure in a valley in Geldingadalur, close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern … Continue reading Icelandic volcano subsiding after first eruption in 900 years

Hong Kong (AFP) March 19, 2021 In jade waters off Hong Kong’s eastern shoreline, scientists are thrilled to spot a cuttlefish protecting her eggs inside an artificial, 3D-printed clay seabed helping to restore the city’s fragile coral reefs. On postcards and in the popular imagination Hong Kong is a byword for urban density, a thicket of towering skyscrapers crammed along the harbour or clinging to … Continue reading Hong Kong’s fragile coral reefs boosted by 3D printing