Giorno: 16 Gennaio 2022

Covid Italia, bollettino del 16 gennaio: 149.512 casi e 248 decessi

Read More I tamponi effettuati sono stati 927.846. Il tasso di positività è al 16,1% (+1,3%). I guariti delle ultime 48 ore sono stati 79.207. I ricoverati con sintomi salgono a 18.719 (+349). In terapia intensiva ci sono 1.691 persone (+14). VALLE D’AOSTA Sono 461 i nuovi positivi al Covid rilevati in Valle d’Aosta nelle […]

Paying the real price of living in the most expensive city in the world

Read More One of the most complicated sagas in Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s recent past concluded last week when a local planning committee approved a massive plan to build 1,800 homes in south Tel Aviv’s Ha’argazim neighborhood. This was a historic step that will upgrade a neglected, dilapidated area. A significant portion of the neighborhood still consists […]

Rushing to ink Netanyahu plea deal, can anyone stop Israel’s attorney general?

Read More An attorney general who tiptoes around the corruption of politicians and tends to accept their narrative, needs people around who will protect him from himself and protect the public interest. State Prosecutor Dorit Beinisch, who stood in former Attorney General Yosef Harish’s way when necessary, is the most prime example of this. But […]

Kazakhstan Puts Unrest Death Toll at 225

Read More A burnt vehicle near the mayor’s office building following the protests triggered by fuel price increase, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 6, 2022. (Mariya Gordeyeva/Reuters) ALMATY—The bodies of 225 people killed in recent unrest in Kazakhstan, including 19 members of the security forces, were delivered to morgues throughout the country, the prosecutor general’s […]

Former quarry turned into haven for endangered UK birds

Read More Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in England that is being transformed into a reserve offering sanctuary to endangered birds. With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens near Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the bittern, which was, until 2015, on the United Kingdom’s red list of […]

Snap a butterfly and Whatsapp it to global census

Read More In an effort to map out the global butterfly population and aid conservation efforts, scientists rely on people to send a picture of a butterfly sighting along with the coordinates.  Friend of the Earth, an initiative of the World Sustainability Organisation, has launched a Global Butterflies Census as part of a drive to […]