The world of fitness and exercise has been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. People are doing more workouts at home, purchasing home gym equipment, and relying more than ever on remote fitness coaching. The E-Commerce Times caught up with insiders from the health and wellness industry for perspective on how the population is staying active at home.http://dlvr.it/RkYJQw Continue reading At-Home Workouts Reshape the Fitness Industry

Plymouth UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 An international team of coastal scientists has dismissed suggestions that half the world’s beaches could become extinct over the course of the 21st century. The claim was made by European researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change in March 2020 (Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion by Vousdoukas et al). However, academics from the UK, France, South … Continue reading Beaches can survive sea-level rises as long as they have space to move

Miami FL (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researcher Shane Elipot proposes a new approach to monitoring global sea-level rise. Using the existing NOAA Global Drifter Program array of roughly 1,200 buoys that drift freely with ocean currents, Elipot suggests adding additional instruments to record their height, or the “level of the sea” they ride on, … Continue reading UM researcher proposes sea-level rise global observing system

Halle, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Ecosystem services are crucial for human well-being and they depend on a well-functioning ecosystem and complex interactions among many organisms. However, human activities are resulting in biodiversity loss and changes to ecosystems, which threatens the supply of key services. An international team of 32 scientists, from 22 institutions, led by Dr Maria Felipe-Lucia (UFZ, iDiv) and Prof Ehttp://dlvr.it/RkTWnz Continue reading Land management in forest and grasslands: How much can we intensify?

Geneva (AFP) Oct 26, 2020 The World Health Organization chief warned Monday that abandoning efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic, as suggested by a top US official, was “dangerous”, urging countries not to “give up”. “We must not give up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing. He acknowledged that after months of battling the new coronavirus, which has claimed more than 1.1 million lives … Continue reading Giving up on virus control ‘dangerous’: WHO chief

Cancun, Mexico (AFP) Oct 27, 2020 Mexican authorities on Monday warned residents and tourists to shelter indoors as a hurricane barreled towards the Caribbean coast – the second this month. Zeta strengthened from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane packing maximum sustained winds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said. On Monday evening Zeta was located about … Continue reading Hurricane Zeta heads for Mexico’s Caribbean coast

Bunia, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 26, 2020 Two soldiers and 21 militia fighters were killed over three days of clashes in northeastern DR Congo’s restive Ituri province, the army said Monday. The armed forces, known as FARDC, said it launched an offensive which began Friday after several attacks by a dissident wing of the Cooperation for the Development of Congo (CODECO), a notorious armed group. … Continue reading Two soldiers, 21 militia killed in DR Congo clashes

Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 25, 2020 Agricultural department workers wearing protective suits have eradicated the first nest of giant “murder hornets” discovered in the United States, vacuuming them out of a tree in Washington state. The nest of Asian giant hornets was found on Thursday by Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) entomologists on a property in Blaine, near the border with Canada, the agency … Continue reading Workers eradicate first nest of ‘murder hornets’ found in US

Moscow (AFP) Oct 23, 2020 Blooming algae was behind a recent mass death of sea animals that saw octopuses and seals wash up on the shore off a Russian peninsula, scientists said on Friday in the final conclusion to their probe. Locals in Kamchatka, a volcanic peninsula in Russia’s Far East, raised the alarm in September after the animals were found dead and surfers complained … Continue reading Death of sea life off Russia peninsula ’caused by algae’

Brussels (AFP) Oct 23, 2020 The European Parliament easily passed a massive farm subsidy bill on Friday, to the fury of environmental activists who say it falls well short of EU commitments to fight climate change. EU subsidies to farmers are massive, compromising roughly one third all of all bloc spending for member states. In the budget proposal for 2021 to 2027 under discussion, 387 … Continue reading MEPs back ‘veggie burgers’ but ban dairy-free ‘yoghurt’