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A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content,…

Even before Celine Dion announced Thursday that she had been diagnosed with a rare and progressive neurological disorder known as Stiff-Person Syndrome (SPS), she has faced a series of heartbreaking challenges throughout her life, including the 2016 death of her husband René Angélil. In an emotional videotaped announcement on Instagram, Dion, 54, said she had been dealing with health problems “for a long time” that have forced her to cancel her European tour in February. The Canadian “My Heart Will Go On” singer said the…

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that Mars wasn't always the desiccated dustbowl it is today.In fact, the red planet was once so wet and sloshy that a megatsunami was unleashed, crashing across the landscape like watery doom. What caused this devastation? According to new research, a giant asteroid impact, comparable to Earth's Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago – the one that killed the dinosaurs.Researchers led by planetary scientist Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona have located an…

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For the last two years, Thanksgiving served as a sobering reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic’s staying power.For each, the holiday essentially marked the turbocharged start of the severe fall-and-winter COVID-19 wave, which both resulted in the deadliest surges of the pandemic, killing thousands of Americans a day.But there’s some guarded optimism that this winter might be different — or at least not as bad as the 2020 and 2021 surges.“You never can definitively say what to expect,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, President…

The English translation of the title of Cédric Klapisch’s latest could be a little more evocative. The original French title, En Corps, is a kind of double entendre, both something related to the body and also the company of a dance troupe. Appropriately so, as this film is all about the self-discovery journey of Elise (Marion Barbeau), a classical ballet prima donna who struggles to reclaim her place in the dance world following an injury on stage.Her affliction is emotional as well as physical; it occurs right after…

Peter Apps’ book about the Grenfell Tower fire and the subsequent inquiry is an essential work of journalistic scrutiny. The author is deputy editor at Inside Housing and has covered the story meticulously over the past five and a half years. His account is extraordinarily difficult to read, not because his writing isn’t clear and direct throughout – it is – but because Show Me the Bodies is a document not of a tragedy, but of an atrocity.Overnight on 14 June 2017, 72 people – elderly, middle-aged, young, newborn – died…

Kevin Winter/Getty Images The Russo brothers are huge Hollywood directors and responsible for one of the highest-grossing movies of all time in Avengers: Endgame. What a lot of people don’t know is their first movie was an indie about a fake wig shop called Pieces. A word from a famous Hollywood director changed the course of their careers. The duo made Pieces when they were in college and broke. The film cost $30,000 to make, most of which was put on credit cards. They also used incredibly expensive music that…

A composite image showing a tree ring and flames – UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. Credit: The University of QueenslandNew light has been shed on a mysterious, unpredictable, and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event, thanks to a University of Queensland (UQ) study.A team of researchers, led by Dr. Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, applied cutting-edge statistics to data from millennia-old trees,…

Insecticides containing flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor can have devastating effects on honey bee health, resulting in them becoming more susceptible to disease and therefore shortening their life span.Insecticides containing flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor, chemicals considered harmless to bees and bumblebees when approved, can have devastating effects on honey bee health. The substances damage the insects’ intestinal flora, especially when used in conjunction with a common fungicide. This makes them more susceptible to…