The country has been suffering from a severe drought and was hit by a “massive, almost total economic implosion that’s occurred in the last two months,” Richard Trenchard, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) envoy and director for Afghanistan, told RT. Most foreign aid has been suspended after Afghanistan …
Read More »Iran military vessels enter Atlantic Ocean for first time (VIDEO)
On Thursday, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, the deputy chief of Iran’s Army for coordination, announced that two vessels, both indigenously developed, had reached the Atlantic Ocean following a near 6,000 nautical mile journey. “The 77th strategic naval fleet of the Navy, comprising of the ‘Sahand’ destroyer and the ‘Makran’ ship, …
Read More »As challenging as making a ‘man-made sun’: China plans to extract uranium from the ocean to end its energy dependency on the West
Can the ocean fuel China’s nuclear boom? According to a report from the South China Morning Post, Beijing is looking to build a device that can extract uranium from seawater, which has an estimated 1,000 times more reserves than on land. It comes amid the country’s push on multiple fronts …
Read More »China says Long March 5B rocket BURNED UP over Indian Ocean near Maldives
The much-covered piece of space junk, which used to be the Long March-5B Y2 rocket that delivered part of China’s space station into orbit on April 29, was expected to come down during the night between Saturday and Sunday. Initial estimates from the China Manned Space Engineering Office, a department …
Read More »Japan bears responsibility for all of mankind with plan to dump nuclear wastewater into ocean, China says
Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that Japan had not reached a consensus with the international community or its neighbors on the best and safest way to dispose of the “treated” wastewater from the defunct Fukushima nuclear plant. Wang said that Japan had five options available to …
Read More »Dumping of Fukushima radioactive water into ocean ‘unavoidable’, Japanese PM says, as country’s fisheries reject plan
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met with the head of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, Hiroshi Kishi, on Wednesday, discussing the options for disposing of the radioactive waters – described by the government as “treated” – that have accumulated in storage tanks around the nuclear power plant. The …
Read More »USA we take aim at Russia from the Pacific ocean
America intends to reflect a possible attack Russia and China on the distant approaches. For this the US army will deploy in the Pacific Islands of special forces, equipped with long-range and precision weapons, including hypersonic missiles. On this January 10, reported Bloomberg, citing the head of the Federal Agency, …
Read More »French traveller crossed the ocean in a barrel
It took him 122 daysFrench traveler Jean-Jacques Savin crossed the Atlantic in a barrel, it took him 122 days. “The French traveller, 72-year-old Jean-Jacques Savin, before it completed its 122-day trip in a barrel over the Atlantic ocean. He went in December, having sailed from the Canary Islands, and a …
Read More »In the World ocean was found nearly 200 thousand kinds of marine viruses
Before that it was known only 15 thousand types of viruses. According to the researchers, about 60% of the biomass of the oceans has on microbes, which play a key role in oceanic ecosystems, however, they have been studied only in selected areas. On the life of these organisms affect …
Read More »At the bottom of the ocean noticed a strange creature. Video
Scientists believe they could find a new species of living beings. Scientists discovered in the Sunda trench, the deepest part of the Indian ocean – an unusual creature that looks like a balloon on a string. According to one of the researchers, Alan Jamison, they found a group of Japanese …
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