Wind farms along the Atlantic coast — including offshore Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey — are facing major opposition from commercial fishermen. Since the Block Island Wind Farm began operating off the coat of Rhode Island in 2016, many commercial fishermen have pushed back against the industry. They claim the turbines are navigational hazards and obstacles to ocean access. Michael Marchetti, a Rhode Island commercial fisherman, said commercial fishing requires larger areas of space to accommodate fishing gear. He said the turbines are an obstacle to catching fish. “There’s no way you’re going to build a major…
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Darnelle Beckford was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 2 and has been fighting the disease’s effects all his life. How he’s choosing to deal with it can serve as an inspiration to others. He refuses to let the seizure-causing malady beat him. Setting his sights on graduating from college — and going in with a bit of a chip on his shoulder — Beckford surpassed even his doctors’ expectations. He made Berkeley College’s Dean’s List last year. And earlier this year, he released an inspirational and motivational book “Let’s Be Realistic: Battling Epilepsy and Other Limitations,” which details how he…
WASHINGTON — By carrying a 25-foot-long and 5,000-pound traditional totem pole some 20,000 miles from Washington State to Washington D.C., members of the Lummi Nation wanted to deliver a message: when public works are forced upon their sacred lands, the burden they bear is heavy. The Pacific Northwest indigenous nation’s “Red Road to D.C.” journey finally reached the nation’s capital on Thursday after two weeks and eight stops at sacred sites threatened by oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure. The journey of the totem pole stopped briefly at the National Mall in D.C., before being transported to the National Museum…
Sixty percent of the world’s food production originates from just five countries: the United States, China, Brazil, India and Argentina. However, climate change has effectively increased the frequency of drought periods in some of these regions, harming crop harvest in the process. Although changes in temperature affect each crop differently, rice, corn and soy–three of the four most globally consumed grains–are experience the most severe impacts. Add these factors to rising population growth, and smaller countries will have to grow their own produce sustainably, reducing reliance on exports from the world’s major breadbaskets. Agricultural technologies are essential to achieving that…
The U.K.’s Royal Navy and the Indian Navy have teamed to carry out war games in the Bay of Bengal. The exercises reflect the growing ties between the two countries spelled out in a comprehensive strategic partnership their leaders entered into earlier this year. The games underscore the U.K.’s growing presence in the region, as well as a desire to counter Chinese aggression, according to published reports. “Watch HMS Queen Elizabeth lead a close formation of ships from the Royal Navy and Indian Navy as the two countries carried out training during a two-day exercise,” the navy said in sharing…
VIENA, Austria — The teeth of a previously undiscovered shark species considered to be the oldest to have existed in Austria provide evidence of a global freeze that occurred about 325 million years ago, forming glaciers in the mountains of the tropics. The Carboniferous Period — roughly 358 to 298 million years ago — experienced some dramatic climate changes. Ice caps formed several times at the poles, leading to a dramatic sea-level drop and, consequently, to the extinction of many prehistoric sharks species, scientists say. A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum in Vienna, the University of Vienna, the State…
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of Nepalese were observed queuing in serpentine lines facing the scorching sun and uncertainty over the chance to get the jab outside vaccination centers on the morning of July 30. As per the latest data, Nepal has 690,642 confirmed Covid-19 cases and has experienced 9,807 deaths. As many as 1.4 million Nepalese were vaccinated with the first dose. However, later Nepal experienced a shortage in doses. As per Amnesty International, only 2.4 percent of the total population of about 30 million is fully vaccinated. The visuals of long lines have become commonplace throughout all vaccine centers since…
WASHINGTON — The United States House of Representatives passed a bill that called for the prohibition of the use of public funds to buy, make or display any map showing Taiwan as part of Chinese territory. The House resolution, 4373, introduced by Republican lawmakers Tom Tiffany, Steve Chabot, Scott Perry, Kat Cammack, and Mike Gallagher, was adopted on Capitol Hill by a vote of 217 to 212. The motion “prohibits the expenditure of funds to create, procure or display any map that depicts Taiwan as part of the People’s Republic of China,” as per a media report. “This is a…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The global banking sector is finding its way back to normalcy, as per a new report by S&P Global Ratings. The strong support by authorities for households and corporations over the course of Covid-19 has clearly helped banks, the report said. Lenders were also well-positioned going into the pandemic after banks bolstered their capital, provisioning, funding, and liquidity buffers in the wake of the global financial crisis. S&P Global Ratings expects normalization to be the dominant theme of the next 12 months as rebounding economies, vaccinations, and state measures help banks bounce back much more quickly than was…
NEW DELHI — An Indian Court on July 30 adjourned the hearing on the pleas by social media platforms WhatsApp and Facebook challenging the central government’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The pleas are regarding a clause in the new rules that would require messaging services to trace the origin of particular messages sent on the service. The pleas have been adjourned till Aug. 27. A division bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh at the Delhi High Court adjourned the matter after Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta, appearing for the…