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Subterranean ‘baby dragons’ found to sneak up to the surface
New York Times, Published on 13/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.
'Where are the mackerel?' Alarm as Bosphorus fish stocks crash
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» ISTANBUL - Despondent Sunday anglers watch crestfallen as a trawler winches an enormous net out of the waters of the Bosphorus.
Women fight for a place at the table as sushi chefs in Japan
AFP, Published on 08/04/2020
» TOKYO - Women have warm hands, their periods alter their sense of taste and they can't work long hours -- just some of the claims from those in Japan who believe women can't be sushi chefs.
Tropical fish swim into Europe's waters as common species head north
AFP, Published on 25/09/2019
» PARIS - Cod, sole and plaice might be regulars on European dinner tables but as climate change heats the oceans common species are heading to cooler northern waters -- with profound potential consequences for fish stocks and consumers.
UK rhubarb growers cash in on culinary renaissance
AFP, Published on 13/02/2019
» PUDSEY (UNITED KINGDOM) - It is rhubarb harvest season in the candle-lit sheds of northern England, where farmers are cashing in on a new trend for the vegetable in modern British cuisine.
The Spanish town that wants to shed 100,000 kilos
AFP, Published on 27/09/2018
» NARóN (SPAIN) - In a remote corner of northwestern Spain, a small town has set itself the ultimate weight loss challenge: by early 2020, its residents must shed 100,000 kilos (220,500 pounds).
Goodbye Denmark? Faroese weigh pulling free of Danish grip
AFP, Published on 19/06/2018
» TóRSHAVN (DENMARK) - Enough is enough: for the Faroese sailor Birgir Enni, having spent more than half a millennium under Danish rule means it's about time for the North Atlantic autonomous archipelago to break away.