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Don’t eat the ORANGE snow! Plume of Saharan sands turns the ski resorts of the Alps ski resorts deep apricot after being blown thousands of miles from Africa Cross-country ski track in Val Ferret, Switzerland, was scattered with the sand A skier in the Pyrenees also captured the blanket of sand covering the snow The … Read more
Covid reaches ANTARCTICA: 36 people stationed at a Chilean research base catch the disease – meaning it has now spread to every continent 36 people at General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base tested positive Monday This includes 26 army personnel and another 10 contractors doing maintenance Chilean army said it had flown back all those who tested … Read more
EU demands that banks move jobs from the City to the continent if they want to continue doing business after Brexit – as hopes of a trade deal grow after ‘France blinks over fishing rights’ The European Central Bank (ECB)addressed UK-based banks today Told City financial institutions not to use Covid as an excuse to … Read more
Protesters have taken to the streets in Spain and Italy to vent their fury at new coronavirus restrictions as Europe teeters on the brink of a second full lockdown. Fireworks were set off in the city of Seville overnight with wheelie bins set on fire before police shut down the demonstrations. Meanwhile protesters clashed with … Read more
Lost continent of Zealandia that sank into the sea 23 million years ago is revealed in unprecedented detail in new maps of the ocean floor Geologists from New Zealand created the new tectonic and bathymetric maps They are available both in print and in interactive from on a new web portal Covering some 1,930,511 square miles, Zealandia … Read more
Flanked by the White Cliffs of Dover, the lorries roared into Britain, laden with the latest Mail Force protective equipment for our healthcare workers. Their arrival marked the end of a 2,000-mile, week-long journey across the continent from Turkey. In their cargo were 100,000 gowns bought by the Mail Force charity to help solve the … Read more
Africa registered a 43 per cent jump in reported coronavirus cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicentre of the global outbreak. African governments reported a total of nearly 26,000 cases as of today, according to the Africa Centers … Read more
While the world gets to grips with living in isolation, Karin Jansdotter has been dealing with very limited social interaction since November – in the icy wilds of Antarctica. The 34-year-old globetrotting chef from Sweden landed a job on the Troll Norwegian research base on Queen Maud Land along with five men, and she is … Read more
Two most powerful men at Royal Mail running service from their homes on Continent during coronavirus crisis By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 22:08 BST, 15 April 2020 The two most powerful men at Royal Mail have been running the crucial service from their homes on … Read more
Diamond-encrusted rock samples that have been found on a Canadian island fill ‘a piece in the puzzle’ to reconstruct an ancient part of Earth’s continental crust. A fragment of the North Atlantic Craton (NAC) was found by geologists who were sifting through diamond exploration samples from the southern Baffin Island, Canada. The NAC is an … Read more