Mid-September, 2022, was not a good time to be living along the Bering Coast in Western Alaska. That was the week Typhoon Merbok, a Category One storm, struck the region, packing sustained winds of 130 km/h (80 mph), causing 15 m (50 ft.) waves and inundating communities along 1,600 km (1,000 mi.) of coastline. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state of disaster on Sept. 17, saying at the time, “The storm hitting the coastal regions of western Alaska is unprecedented.”
And indeed it was. Merbok was caused by unusually warm coastal waters in the North Pacific, part of the overall change in climate that has been affecting the Arctic region for the past 40 years. On Dec. 13, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released its 2022 “Arcti…
Plenty of factors determine whether someone chooses to wear a mask at this stage of the pandemic: their health, their risk tolerance, where they are, who’s around them—and, according to a recent study, how attractive they think they are.
The study, which was published in January in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, found that people who think they’re attractive tend to be disinclined to wear masks. That seems to be because people who think they’re good-looking don’t believe masks enhance their appearance, while the opposite may be true for people who don’t think they’re as attractive, the researchers concludedคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็…
On the day he was scheduled for a COVID-19 vaccination, 77-year-old Jaikishan Ram wrapped himself in a well-worn wool jacket, cap, and sweater to prepare for the three-hour trek down the mountain.
To access the main road from his home high in the Himalayan mountains of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Ram had to first climb down a mile of steep, unpaved, sloping path. From there, it was another 90 minutes on the main road to the village of Padampuri. That’s where the only government hospital and walk-in COVID-19 vaccination center in the Dhari area—home to some 30,000 people spread across 46 villages—is located.
It was early September, and India was still recovering from a devastating second COVID-19 wave, driven primarily by the Delta variant. According to…
GOME Retail Holdings Ltd and Suning.com Co Ltd plan to hand out over 620 million yuan (74.24 million pounds) worth of vouchers, while Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s Alipay is giving away 10 million discount tokens for 10,000 retailers on its app.JD.com Inc said from Thursday it will give out 1.5 billion yuan worth of coupons for branded goods in categories including electronics.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
Even the railway authority will from Wednesday cut ticket prices by as much as 45%, while local governments such as those of Hebei, Zhejiang and Guangxi provinces are giving out vouchers for tourist attractions, cinemas and shops.”We’ve launched some discounted set offers to consume…
State-backed Zijin’s offer for Continental, announced on Monday, aims to secure Continental Gold’s flagship Buritica gold project in Colombia.”Zijin doesn’t have any experience in Colombia, and we have obviously had some incidents in the past,” Continental Chief Financial Officer Paul Begin told Reuters.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
“But if a major security incident happened at any project, it would be considered a material adverse change and they would have an out if they wanted to,” he said.Four employees of Colombia-focused Continental were killed in a single month last year, one near Buritica and the others at a different exploration site.Zijin’s cash offer of C$5.50 per…
The partnership between the innovation platform and luxury label will officially kick off during the exhibition at the Fashion for Good Experience, an interactive technology-driven museum that opens on 5 October in Amsterdam. The museum will exhibit a dress designed by Stella McCartney and dyed by Colorifix, using engineered microorganisms.Colorifix is a start-up that participated in the second edition of the Fashion for Good-Plug and Play Accelerator Programme. The company’s dying method reduces the environmental impact of the dying process.
The dress is made from organic cotton and was inspired by the Stella McCartney Summer 2018 collection. A similar dress, also created in collaboration with Colorifix, has been on view at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the m…
The European Commission said its Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are a modern rulebook aimed at fostering innovation, growth and competitiveness and provide users with better and reliable online services.The proposed rules are targeted at online gatekeepers, companies which control data and access to their platform on which thousands of companies rely on to do business, and also large online platforms.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
Gatekeepers, defined as companies with an entrenched position, with a signifant impact on the EU market and operate a core platform service, could be online search engines, social networking services, cloud computing services and adverti…
It worked with McCartney “to understand the industry’s needs and to test the platform” and other brands and retailers such as Adidas, Allbirds, H&M Group and VF Corporation, have also been involved pre-releaseคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. It’s now inviting others to register an interest in using it.The tool is intended to help brands understand the environmental issues involved in sourcing the raw materials they use and enable them to make more eco-friendly decisions.
In a blog post, the digital giant said the fashion industry is “one of the largest contributors to the global climate and ecolo…
The company is using a larger number of recycled materials in its products as one of the key elements in the group’s ambition to become 100% circular and renewable and said that “working strategically to reach our sustainability ambitions, using science and partnerships,” will help it get there.But it’s aware that simply diving into textiles recycling could cause problems of its own as “the chemical content of collected pre-owned textiles are unknown, so to ensure the safe reuse of materials in the circular system, we must ensure good chemical management.”
Its large-scale study with Ikea, looking at chemical content in post-consumer textile recycling, has been under way since last year, it has just said. “Recycled materials are key elements in a circular economy. …
The day before, one of the EU’s leaders had confided a contingency plan of “crossing ourselves and praying”. The day after, as they pledged to work with Trump, a senior EU diplomat summed up their dilemma.”Since we have refused to really think through this scenario, we have a list of questions that need to be answered, but almost everything is a big unknown,” the envoy told Reuters.
For some, Europe must now step up and take more responsibility, both for its own security and the wider world, if the entrepreneur makes good on campaign talk of limiting U.S. defence commitments and other engagements abroad.Trade relations, climate change, Russia and tackling Islamic State are all areas where Europe may have to forge its own path if a Trump-led Washington pulls back from the global st…