This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. WASHINGTON: Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility…
Hebo Lift 2 monitors the stretch of sea where the British superyacht Bayesian sunk (AP) LONDON: The superyacht of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, which capsized last August off the coast of Sicily at the cost of seven lives, was knocked over by “extreme wind” and could not recover, British investigators said Thursday. Billionaire entrepreneur…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage. The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires,…
NEW DELHI: India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty in the decade spanning from 2011-12 to 2022-23, according to the World Bank‘s latest “Poverty & Equity Brief.”The report reveals that extreme poverty, defined as living on less than USD 2.15 per day, fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23….
CHANDRAPUR: In view of the sweltering heat, the education department of the Chandrapur Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra has directed schools and colleges to operate in the morning hours from 7 am to 11 am for the safety of students. On Wednesday, Bramhapuri tehsil in Chandrapur recorded the maximum temperature of 45.6 degrees Celsius, while it…
NEW DELHI: La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean that generally favour good monsoon rains in India have ended, the US govt agencies declared late Thursday, with the world’s largest ocean likely to stay in ‘neutral’ phase till winter. This could be good news for India’s monsoon, as it reduces the probability of drought or…
BENGALURU: Space startup GalaxEye, which earlier this year completed analysis of the data from the payload it had deployed and tested aboard Isro’s PSLV Orbital Experiment Module (POEM) platform — on the rocket that launched India’s Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission on Dec 30, 2024 — has achieved another success.The firm, its CEO and co-founder…
Multiple school districts across the United States were forced to close on Tuesday due to extreme weather conditions. Many districts have also announced a two-hour delay as weather conditions are expected to deteriorate in the coming days. Northeast-central Ohio and Chicago are likely to be affected by wind chills, causing temperatures to drop to 0…
Vice President JD Vance told European leaders on Friday that their biggest security threat was not military aggression from Russia or China, or election meddling from Moscow. Rather, he said, it was what he called “the enemy within” — their own suppression of abortion protests and other forms of free speech and the sidelining of…
On Oct. 4, 2019, a 13-year-old British boy called a child welfare hotline from his home in Banks, a village in northwest England, and asked: “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?” The teenager, Axel Rudakubana, said that he had started taking a knife to school because he was being bullied. After…