Environmentalists remove 40 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Environmentalists removed about 40 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets last month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Non-profit group Ocean Voyages Institute removed the rubbish during a 25-day expedition by attaching GPS trackers to nets so they could be later located and removed.
Ocean Voyages founder Mary Crowley says its success should herald the way for us to inspire and do larger clean-ups throughout the world.
Up to half of China's breeding pigs dead as a result of African swine fever
As many as half of China’s breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or have been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, according to four people who supply large farms.
The reduction of sows is expected to impact Chinese meat consumption by increasing food prices and decreasing livelihoods in an economy employing 40 million pig farmers.
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs says the disease has been “effectively controlled.”
Rainbow Chan: Pillar
- What is love? Is it at the basis of everything we do? Or is it an illusion, in the end, just a performance? When we last caught up with Rainbow Chan, the Cantonese-Australian r’n’b chanteuse was locked in combat, a mighty confrontation with life’s largest questions. What is reality? What is truth? How does every element of it -a constant, swirling struggle- fit together, creating me and all that I am? It imparted a certain world-weariness to her 2017 record, Fabrica, that complemented her stylings as a smoky, barroom diva.
The Steady As She Goes: Caldera
- It’s been getting hard to keep up with the unholy enthusiasm of The Steady As She Goes. Brisbane’s one-man-goth-band, Tal Wallace, has been a prolific source of doomy, swampy, bluesy horror since he first started really putting stuff out, back in 2013. His release schedule reached a new, alarming pace, last year, when he groaned out two whole albums and a fifteen minute, standalone single, to boot. Given that, the whole year between his last, Warlock Radio and the just-released Caldera might have some wondering what the hold-up is.
Pixx: Small Mercies
- The inventive second album by London based Pixx weaves together many different threads from pop and electronica’s past to make something precise, beautiful and new. The adventurous sonic environment and broad scope of Hannah Rodgers’ songs hints at strong potential for epics, but the thirteen tracks here are honed into tightly structured, radio-friendly lengths. This discipline lends focus and urgency to an album that should find a wide audience.
Syrup, Go On: Last Light
- In the time since yesteryear’s Joyful Hesitation EP, Syrup, Go On’s sound hasn’t changed, but has certainly become more polished. Indeed fans of the EP may find their wishes well served by this debut full-length effort, assuming their wishes were “this, but more and better”.
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Dutch Railway Company to Pay Compensation for Holocaust Victims
The Dutch national railway company will pay tens of millions of Euros of compensation for Jews transported to Nazi death camps during World War II.
The payment by NS will go to the survivors who were taken to the camps, plus the relatives of those who died.
It is estimated that several thousand people are eligible for the allowance, including and estimated 500 survivors.
Bodies of Drowned Father and Daughter Have Been Returned to El Salvador
The bodies of a father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande while fleeing to the US have been returned to their home of El Salvador.
26 year-old, Óscar Martínez and his 23 month-old daughter Valeria were transported home, accompanied by Martínez’s wife, who was on the riverbank as her husband and daughter were swept away.
A US humanitarian worker who runs a shelter in Mexico, where the migrants died, says Donald Trump is responsible for the chaos at the US-Mexico border, and consequently, innocent migrants are dying.
Death of Infant Who Contracted Meningococcal B
A baby who contracted meningococcal B has died; this the fifth case of the disease that has presented in the Northern Territory.
The people who had any contact with the infant were contacted and provided antibiotics to prevent any further transmission.
The Centre for Disease Control says the cases are not linked.