A strong vulcanian explosion took place at Lascar volcano, Chile at 15:36 UTC on December 10, 2022. Lascar is a composite stratovolcano located in Chile’s Antofagasta region. It is the most active volcano in northern Chile, ranking No. 14 in the Volcanic Risk Ranking of Chile The last eruption at this volcano took place in 2017 (VEI 2) The largest historical eruption took place in 1993, producing pyroclastic flows to 8.5 km (5.3 miles) NW of the summit and ashfall in Buenos Aires The Argentine Mining Geological Service (SEGEMAR) through its Argentine Volcano Surveillance Observatory (OAVV), in conjunction with the Chilean…
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Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force’s new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by reiterating accusations of misplaced priorities in a nation where tens of millions of people live in poverty and lack adequate healthcare coverage.Military-industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman is set to introduce its B-21 Raider on Friday. The B-21, whose development was 30 years in the making and whose total project cost is expected to exceed $200 billion, is tapped to replace the aging B-2 Spirit.”One thing the world definitely does not need is another stealth bomber,” Medea Benjamin,…
Results of some end-of-year number crunching at Sabre highlight some interesting travel trends, improving travel confidence, as well as the top 10 destinations travellers are booking for the festive season. The Sabre analytics also reveal that booking windows for the holiday period are nearing pre-pandemic levels, while the number of Christmas and New Year bookings have soared compared to in 2021. A deep dive into Sabre’s booking trends (of bookings made to the end of October) shows that 60% of bookings for the holiday period were made in September and October this year, versus 55% in 2019. While a higher…
Large numbers of businesses in eThekwini on South Africa’s eastern seaboard – which includes the port city of Durban – rely heavily on tourism. It’s a popular holiday destination, only six hours by road from Johannesburg. Millions of people living inland head to the warm coastline over the country’s extended December/January school holiday break. But maybe not this year. As Anja du Plessis explains, many of the beaches along the Durban coastline aren’t safe to swim in. She explains what’s happened, and why. What’s the state of the beaches on the eThekwini seafront? The city’s beaches are facing an ongoing…
Providing water and sanitation for everyone on the planet is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed by all 193 UN Member States in 2015. The report revealed that although more than two billion people gained access to safe drinking water over the past two decades, a quarter of the world’s population is still being left behind. A basic human right Meanwhile, climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of droughts and floods, affecting water security and disrupting supply. Rapid urbanization is also making it hard for cities to deliver water to millions living in informal communities and…
The UNDFF runs through the end of 2028, and the Forum is being convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, pointed out in his video address to the Global Forum’s opening that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. Growing hunger He said the number of people facing hunger increased in 2021, and it risks rising further especially among the most vulnerable, of which almost 80 percent live in rural areas and are small-scale, family farmers. Family farmers around the…
U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva and committee member Rep. Katie Porter are investigating an alleged bribery scheme in which they believe a real estate developer donated to a super PAC aligned in support of former President Donald Trump in exchange for pardons for two other men.”The parallels between the Vigneto case and the Hammonds’ pardons raise significant concerns about another potential case of bribery under the Trump administration.”The two Democrats wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday, calling on her department to release all documents related to the pardons of Dwight and Steven Hammond, who had…
Mr. Guterres has strongly condemned the attacks, which occurred on 29 and 30 November in the villages of Kishishe and Bambo, located in Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province, in the volatile eastern part of the country At least 131 civilians were killed, including 17 women and 12 children, and eight others were injured. Support for investigations “The Secretary-General expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a swift recovery to the injured,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement on Friday. “He welcomes the decision of the Congolese authorities to investigate these incidents with a…
Campaigners across the United States celebrated the Biden administration’s step this week to safeguard Alaska’s Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine long opposed by conservationists, local fishery advocates, and tribal leaders.”We can’t afford to lose any more time to the uncertainty that has hung over Bristol Bay communities for years.”Critics of Pebble Mine warn that any attempts to extract regional copper and gold deposits would endanger the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery, which generates over $2 billion a year, supports thousands of U.S. jobs, and sustains Indigenous communities.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 Regional Administrator Casey Sixkiller on…
DeepMind bt Alphabet recently built a new Artificial Intelligence took that help with starting a rough film or creating stage scripts. This helps human writers with editing, rewriting, and compiling their thoughts into what can function as a proper script. To work the tool, users need an OpenAI API key and the dialogue created can be logical and ‘on the nose.’ DeepMind talks about the development, stating that “One possible mitigation is for the human co-writer to search for substrings from outputs to help to identify plagiarism.” DeepMind notes that Dramatron is able to create fragments of text that were…