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Oppose genocide and war! Demonstrate in Washington on July 24!

World Socialist Web Site 

The purpose of the July 24 demonstration is to set into motion a new and powerful mass movement of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the global escalation of imperialist militarism by the US ruling class and its NATO collaborators.

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

France24.com (en) 

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...

How restoration can help coral reefs

France24.com (en) 

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...

Divers turn conservationists as corals bleach worldwide

France24.com (en) 

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...

Storm damage affects residents across Topeka

Ksnt.com 

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 [...]

Sunrises and Sunsets

Avax.news 

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)