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France24.com (en) 

As ice melts, Everest's 'death zone' gives up its ghosts

Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring some of the corpses down. Five as yet unnamed frozen bodies were retrieved -- including one that was just skeletal remains -- as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse. It is a grim, tough and dangerous task. Rescuers took hours to chip away the ice with axes, with the team sometimes using boiling water to release its frozen grip. Читать дальше...

France24.com (en) 

How restoration can help coral reefs

Here is an overview of how coral restoration is being done around the world: - How is coral sourced? - Restoration begins with obtaining coral, sometimes by breaking it off from a healthy reef. These pieces can be broken into smaller bits in a process called microfragmentation. Each piece can become a new coral. Another option involves collecting "fragments of opportunity" -- coral pieces broken off by natural causes such as storms. Conservationists can also propagate from egg bundles collected during reef spawning... Читать дальше...

France24.com (en) 

Divers turn conservationists as corals bleach worldwide

Nannalin Pornprasertsom is one of a growing number of scuba divers learning conservation and citizen science techniques as coral reefs experience a fourth global bleaching event. After a two-week course in Koh Tao, the 14-year-old can identify coral types, carry out reef restoration, and help scientific research on coral health by recording the colour and tone of outcroppings at dive sites. "It's just something that I can do that will have a good consequence for the environment," Nannalin, who has been diving since she was 12... Читать дальше...

Ksnt.com 

Storm damage affects residents across Topeka

TOPEKA (KSNT) — Throughout early Wednesday morning, severe storms swept through northeast Kansas, causing severe damage to backyards and homes. Residents by Lake Sherwood in southwest Topeka saw multiple uplifted trees, fallen limbs and flipped boats. Larre Betsworth, who's backyard now houses a large toppled tree that's been a landmark at Lake Sherwood for over [...]

Avax.news 

Sunrises and Sunsets

Icelandic horses play on a meadow in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)

BangkokPost.com 

MontAzure’s luxury beachfront community shines

MontAzure is setting new standards in luxury beachfront living, combining residential, commercial, and hospitality components to create a world-class destination on Kamala Beach. The project is a joint venture between three prominent property and hotel investment groups in Asia: the Narai Group (Thailand), ARCH Capital (Hong Kong), and Philean Capital (Singapore), part of the Pontiac Land Group....

Scoop 

Swarbrick’s Rhetoric Doesn’t Befit Position Of Party Leader

“The difference here is that Chlöe Swarbrick has now stepped into James Shaw’s shoes as Green Party co-leader. She could be using her new platform to unify, to build bridges, and to share a positive vision. Instead, she’s brought her divisive, ...