In Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, a massive mountain of discarded clothing has become a striking symbol of the global fast fashion crisis. Outside the northern city of Alto Hospicio, thousands of tonnes of unwanted garments from around the world now cover the desert landscape. Many clothes arrived through the…
New York City under flood watch. New York City and surrounding parts of the Northeast are bracing for heavy rain and possible life-threatening flash flooding, with authorities warning of hazardous travel, flooded roads and major disruptions through Wednesday morning.According to the New York Post, the National Weather Service has placed New York City, Long Island,…
A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. (AP Photo) Boeing reported a larger-than-expected second-quarter loss on Tuesday as higher costs linked to the delayed Air Force One replacement programme weighed on its results.The US planemaker, however, reported positive free cash flow and maintained its annual guidance as it works to stabilise operations and increase aircraft production. Air…
Redditor says a decent job in Canada is not enough. An Indian Redditor who claimed to have been working in one of the Big 4 companies in Canada after graduating from a university there said the possibility of permanent residency in Canada looks grim. A decent job is not enough to live comfortably as the…
For more than 100 years, Uruguay’s grasslands and river forests were missing a native mammal that once moved through the country in social herds. That animal was the collared peccary, a compact, bristly species that disappeared locally in the late 1800s and is now being brought back through a long and carefully managed reintroduction effort.The…
58-year-old postal worker Umeshkumar Thakkar dies in Little Elm, Texas A 58-year-old man who was delivering mail in Little Elm, Texas, collapsed during his shift and died on July 20. Umeshkumar Thakkar was found unresponsive in his truck and was pronounced dead. The death triggered an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as…
Bill Oliver did not omit AI sentences from his speech that he gave at the Assembly. AI users were quick to catch the language when Bill Oliver, a Canadian politician, said he would present a “more natural, flowing version” of what he already said in his speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature. The incident took…
A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. (AP Photo) Boeing reported a larger-than-expected second-quarter loss on Tuesday as higher costs linked to the delayed Air Force One replacement programme weighed on its results.The US planemaker, however, reported positive free cash flow and maintained its annual guidance as it works to stabilise operations and increase aircraft production. Air…
Fauci diaries released by Sen. Rand Paul reveal COVID origin doubts, evolving Trump ties: Report There are diaries that become part of a particular zeitgeist. The Holocaust had two. On one side, you have The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which captured the horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a…
Millions of tiny oysters are being returned to the Chesapeake Bay in an ambitious conservation effort that scientists hope will transform one of the United States’ most important estuaries. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), in partnership with the Severn River Association, recently planted three million juvenile oysters in a protected sanctuary reef in Maryland’s Severn…