The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the very basis of the Antarctic food web. Using a fleet of robotic floats, our study published in Nature today reveals that windblown dust delivers enough iron to support a third of the Southern Ocean’s phytoplankton growth. Knowing this will help us understand how global warming will affect key climate processes phytoplankton are involved in. The Southern Ocean acts as a climate “shock absorber”. Its cold waters and vast area capture up to 40% of human-generated carbon dioxide (CO₂)…
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A Queensland dad recently took his four-year-old son out of the Gold Coast’s A.B. Paterson College because the school had ordered the boy to cut his long hair. “Like other private schools, we have a uniform policy,” school principal Joanne Sheehy said. “Ours is intended to encourage all our students to be well-presented, respectful and unified.” The story is a familiar one. Disputes over school uniform policies are repeatedly making the media. Frequently, these disputes concern hair. This includes students being barred from class photos for “unnaturally” coloured hair or a teacher cutting a student’s long hair. Students have also…
A total of 12 people got injured after turbulence hit a Qatar Airways Doha to Dublin flight, Dublin Airport said on Sunday, May 26. Flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, encountered turbulence while airborne over Turkey, the airport said, adding that the plane landed safely as scheduled shortly before 1pm Dublin time (8pm Singapore time), Reuters reported. The Dublin Airport’s statement also said that six passengers and six crew reported having injuries. The aircraft was met by emergency services upon landing. Eight passengers were taken to hospital in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, it was also reported. Passengers who…
The European Commission is hosting today a technical workshop to launch a targeted consultation on macroprudential policies for non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI). The objective is to gather further insight into the markets and business models of NBFI, and the interconnectedness among them and with banks.The workshop will bring together EU and global experts, policymakers, leading EU and third countries regulators, and representatives from the industry. It will contribute to the international debate on macroprudential policies for NBFI, with a focus on the financial stability in the EU and how to ensure effective monitoring and risk management for investments funds. Commissioner for…
Poland’s former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki from the conservative PiS party in the ECR has also left the door open to a big tie-up on the right, and there is wide speculation that Hungary’s Viktor Orbán will affiliate his Fidesz party there after the election. All of these mergers and reconfigurations are complex and vulnerable to post-election deals and disagreements. The Czechs and Romanians in the ECR don’t want to team up with nationalist Hungarians sympathetic to the Kremlin, for example. Major political gymnastics and resets would be required to get the AfD back in the tent. While losing the…
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently investigated Philadelphia’s use of what it described as a “little-scrutinized, 7,000-camera system that is exposing residents across the city to heightened surveillance with few rules or safeguards against abuse.” The article detailed how Philadelphia narcotics cops not only allegedly failed to disclose their use of video surveillance in arrest reports or to prosecutors, but also that the video footage at times proved officers were lying when they testified. The Conversation U.S. talked to Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a practitioner-in-residence at NYU School of Law, about…
Today (Friday 24th May) the Victims and Prisoners Bill was granted Royal Assent, creating a new arm’s length body called the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). Before the IBCA can make final payments, the Government will need to make the regulations to enact the compensation scheme for victims of the Infected Blood scandal. The legislation also means that the final regulations must be made by the Government – within three months, so by 24 August 2024. The Prime Minister delivered a state apology on the 20th of May, in response to the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry report. The Minister for the Cabinet Office outlined the Government’s…
Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Chisinau, Moldova and Prague, Czechia, May 28-31. In Chișinău, Secretary Blinken will meet with Moldovan President Maia Sandu and other senior officials to reaffirm U.S. support for Moldova’s progress on EU accession and energy security. In Prague, he will meet with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and other senior officials to discuss continued support for Ukraine, collaborative defense modernization, and deepening energy ties. While in Prague, Secretary Blinken will participate in an informal NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting to discuss priorities for the upcoming NATO Washington Summit. Source_link
In 2023, 9.8 million people in the EU worked as ICT specialists, representing 4.8% of the total people in employment. A growth trend in ICT specialists in the EU has been taking place over the past few years, with the number of people working in this area rising by 1.5 percentage points (pp) since 2013 and an increase of 0.2 pp compared with 2022 (4.6%). Among the EU countries, in 2023, the share of ICT specialists was highest in Sweden (8.7%), followed by Luxembourg (8.0%) and Finland (7.6%). The lowest shares were observed in Greece (2.4%), Romania (2.6%) and Slovenia…
Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back? You can read a print version of this story here. The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast is published in partnership with FunKids, the UK’s children’s radio station. It’s hosted and produced by Eloise. The executive producer is Gemma Ware. Email your question to curiouskids@worldnewsintel.com or record it and send your question to us directly at funkidslive.com/curious. And explore more articles from our Curious Kids series on The Conversation. Disclosure statement: During the past 40+ years, William Ausich…