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Climate-change bleaching hits world's southernmost coral reef
AFP, Published on 03/04/2019
» SYDNEY: The world's southernmost coral reef has been hit by bleaching this summer, Australian scientists said on Wednesday, as they warned rising sea temperatures from climate change were affecting even the most isolated ecosystems.
Garfield beach phone mystery solved after 30 years
AFP, Published on 29/03/2019
» PLOUARZEL, France: For more than 30 years bright orange "Garfield" phones have been washing up on the French coast to the bemusement of local beach cleaners, who have finally cracked the mystery behind them.
Plastic microparticles threaten unique Galapagos fauna
AFP, Published on 22/03/2019
» GALAPAGOS, Ecuador: Armed only with gloves and large sacks, park rangers and volunteers are battling the scourge of plastic waste blighting the idyllic Galapagos Islands and their unique creatures.
Dead whale in Philippines had 40kg of plastic in stomach
AFP, Published on 18/03/2019
» MANILA: A starving whale with 40 kilos of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.
Vote banks and cash top-ups: political loyalty up for grabs
AFP, Published on 17/03/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: In his final days as a "Red Shirt" rabble-rouser Suporn "Rambo Isaan" Attawong urged farmers to take up martial arts in defence of Thai democracy as a coup loomed.
American crowned in Pattaya transgender pageant
AFP, Published on 09/03/2019
» PATTAYA: American contestant Jazell Barbie Royale was crowned Miss International Queen on Friday at a beauty pageant for transgender women, becoming the first person of colour to win the competition since it started in 2004.
Warming forcing Arctic animals to change feeding habits
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» TOKYO: Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.
Swastikas and statues, SE Asia's fixation with Nazi iconography
AFP, Published on 03/03/2019
» Teen idol Namsai feared being booted from her band after a photo of her wearing a t-shirt with a Nazi swastika went viral, but without the uproar she says she would have remained ignorant about the offensive implications of her fashion choices.
Blue whales 'hedge their bets' in search for food - study
AFP, Published on 26/02/2019
» WASHINGTON: Every spring, the largest animals in the world, blue whales, migrate north from their winter breeding grounds off Costa Rica to the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Investigators drop probes on Rolls-Royce
AFP, Published on 23/02/2019
» LONDON: Britain's Serious Fraud Office on Friday dropped major investigations into engineering firm Rolls-Royce and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in a move condemned by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.