# A forest fire that broke out overnight on Crete, Greece’s largest island, led to the evacuation of tourists and citizens on the south coast. Firefighters battled through the night against the rapidly spreading fire. Some people were treated for breathing difficulties, but there were no immediate reports of more serious injuries. Authorities say at […]
# The Devil Wears Prada Two is one step closer to the big screen, and it’s coming during a huge shift in the fashion industry that inspired it. 20th Century Studios announced the sequel is currently in production, and dovetails with the news that Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue after almost […]
# Professore Gerhard Steenkamp en Adrian Tordiffe van die Universiteit van Pretoria se Fakulteit Veeartsenykunde in Onderstepoort het na Kambodja in Asië gereis om ‘n tandtrek-prosedure op ‘n olifant uit te voer. Steenkamp sê die reis wat tot dié reusetaak gelei het, het bykans 18 maande gelede begin toe dokter Navaneetha Roopan die Kulen-olifantwoud besoek […]
# Professor Gerhard Steenkamp and professor Adrian Tordiffe from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort, have travelled to Cambodia in Asia, to perform a tusk extraction procedure on an elephant. Steenkamp says the journey leading up to this huge undertaking began about 18 months ago, when doctor Navaneetha Roopan visited the […]
# ‘n Wêreldwye studie het lugbesoedeling aan DNS-mutasies gekoppel wat longkanker veroorsaak, veral in mense wat nog nooit gerook het nie. Navorsers het bevind hoër besoedelingsvlakke stem ooreen met meer mutasies wat kanker veroorsaak, insluitend in die TP-53-geen, wat algemeen aan rook gekoppel word. Die studie, wat 871 longkankerpasiënte oor vastelande betrek het, het ook […]
# Die Verenigde Koninkryk is meer as halfpad na ʼn netto-nul-koolstof-ekonomie met aansienlike vordering na skoner energie en toenemende verkope van elektriese voertuie. Positiewe punte soos goedkoper, beter elektriese voertuie wys selfgedrewe verandering is moontlik. Gebruik van hittepompe is egter stadig en bedreig teikens vir 2030. Dit kan verander as aanvraag, vertroue en bekostigbaarheid toeneem. […]
# A global study has linked air pollution to lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, particularly in people who have never smoked. Researchers found higher pollution levels correspond to more cancer-promoting mutations, including in the TP53 gene, commonly linked to smoking. The study, involving 871 lung cancer patients across continents, also found air pollution shortens telomeres, a […]
# ʼn VN-verslag het bevind die Horing van Afrika beleef sy ergste droogte in 70 jaar. Dit volg na talle swak reënseisoene in Kenia, Ethiopië en Somalië. In Somalië is sowat 43-duisend mense in 2022 dood aan hongersnood wat deur droogte veroorsaak is. Die krisis het ʼn verwoestende uitwerking op mense en die natuur. Seekoeie […]
# Minstens vier mense is dood en tientalle word vermis nadat ʼn veerboot by die Indonesiese eiland Bali gesink het. Die Nasionale Soek- en Reddingsagentskap sê die boot het 53 passasiers en 12 bemanningslede aan boord gehad toe dit gister op pad van Banyuwangi aan die ooskus van Java-eiland na Bali gesink het. Owerhede sê […]
