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Although the main prey of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), migratory ungulates such as blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), now spend substantially less time within hyena territories than they did 30 years ago, hyena clans in the central Serengeti have remained largely stable.
An international team led by Alexander Vorbrugg analyzed (online) media reporting on war-related land changes in Ukraine.
The post Pokemon Home, Pokemon Champions, and Pokemon Sleep go offline following cybersecurity alert appeared first on Nintendo Everything.
A study of 500 Thai retailers has found that businesses with stronger big data analytics capabilities tend to be better at identifying market needs, innovating and executing effective marketing strategies.
The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts like these in a new exhibit of relics that have emerged from Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers over the years, with more expected to come as global warming accelerates the thaw.
New research suggests the same personality traits associated with toxic corporate leaders today may have been present at the very birth of global capitalism 400 years ago.
Authorities in Abyei district said the strike on the Amiet market involved the use of multiple munitions and was carried out by the Sudanese army.
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The patrol found them because analysts at the nonprofit Global Fishing Watch had studied satellite data and worked out where to look.
But it can be hard to know just how bad the problem is, or whether conservation strategies are helping, without relying on lethal traps—which can kill tens of thousands of bees in order to get an accurate count of their populations.
Protest helps close the gap between the promise of democracy and the formal structures we actually have Originally published on Global Voices Image via Canva Pro.
Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years?
2026, an expert writing in The BMJ's climate issue argues that accurate data on greenhouse gas emissions during armed conflict is urgently needed to hold militaries, governments and individuals accountable for the environmental impact of war.
Investing more in the military is not a solution to climate change and may cost us our security, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue.
In a study published in Advanced Optical Materials, researchers at Vilnius University (VU) demonstrated perovskite-based laser structures that maintained stable performance over more than 400 million pulses.
By Lauren Dalban A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme suggests that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is no longer a realistic outcome, even under the most ambitious emissions-reduction scenarios.
Governments and companies are scrambling to protect their websites, as Amazon says it experienced attacks before the warning was made public.
When Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) urged Montrealers to limit outdoor activity during Canada's worst wildfire smoke episodes, the city's travel patterns shifted—but far less than public health officials might have hoped, according to a new McGill University study published in Health & Place.
The Assembly of the Republic approved on Wednesday, in a final vote overall, the new Law of Organization and Process of the Court of Auditors (LOPTC), which amends the model of supervision of public expenditure, raising to 7.5 million euros the threshold from which the
A Assembleia da República aprovou esta quarta-feira, em votação final global, a nova Lei de Organização e Processo do Tribunal de Contas (LOPTC), que altera o modelo de fiscalização da despesa pública, elevando para 7,5 milhões de euros o limiar a partir do qual os
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.By Jalal Abukhater This post is part of Global Voices’ October 2026 Spotlight series, “Big Tech and Authoritarianism.” In this Spotlight, we explore how Big Tech facilitates and hinders authoritarian governments and practices, and how these choices influence the Global South.
A new report by Earth Insight finds more than 61.5 million hectares (151.9 million acres) of protected and conserved areas — an area roughly 2.5 times the size of the United Kingdom — overlap with ongoing and planned oil and gas blocks across the tropical
By the time a child reaches the age of 4 or 5, most parents and caregivers have heard about "kindergarten readiness." But what if a 5-year-old still struggles to count to 10, sing the alphabet song or play cooperatively with other children?
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
Systemic changes are needed across the entire agri-food supply chain to address the global impact of conflict and climate change on food shortages, writes an expert in The BMJ's climate issue.
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his 2022 Bits about Money essay on the infrastructure behind American charitable giving, prompted by the wave of AI-generated wealth expected to flow into philanthropy. He explains donor-advised funds, a chimera that is legally a charity but works for donors like a financial institution that can time travel: someone with a windfall takes the tax deduction now and recommends grants for years afterward. Along the way he covers why the IRS-required donation receipt is simple enough for a seven-year-old to produce while the industry still spends billions on record-
Jessica Fostekew and Adam Rutherford tackle one of the biggest and strangest questions in science: what is nothing? Starting with the earliest philosophers and journeying through to today's cutting-edge experiments, they ask whether true nothingness can ever exist. Joining them to explore one of science's most perplexing and important questions are physicists Harry Cliff and Yvette Fuentes, alongside comedians Hugh Dennis and Ria Lina. Together, they uncover why vacuums are far from empty, how the concept of nothing transformed science, and what the nature of absence can tell us about the orig
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Avi is back from two weeks on the road — Singapore, Istanbul, and Iraq — and Jonah has spent that time doing actual work on the credit problem nobody wants to look at. They open on risk: the donut chain in Iraq pulling ten million a year because nobody else bothered to show up, Paul Tudor Jones’s “losers average losers,” why wealth is self-reinforcing, and the adverse selection problem that explains why the deal in your DMs is still open. Then Jonah walks through CoreWeave. The bonds are in distressed territory, the CDS trades sixteen points up front, and six-year paper is at seventy-nine cent
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