Makeup & Skincare

SHORTEST WORKOUT EVER: 3 SECONDS OF EXERCISE 3 TIMES A WEEK GROWS MUSCLE 08 August 2023

19 AUG 2023                         Bicep curls aren’t the only way to strengthen your arm muscles. A recent study demonstrates an effective alternative technique that achieves results after just three seconds of working out three times a week. That’s just 36 seconds of weight work over the course of a month, according …

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WORLD IS LOSING FORESTS, BUT SOME ARE ACTUALLY GROWING LARGER

17 AUG 2023 In 2015, research on global forest cover revealed a concerning fact: 70 percent of the world’s remaining forest now lies within 1 kilometer of the forest’s edge. This process, called fragmentation, is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink. Forest fragmentation is bad news …

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WHAT HAPPENS IF THE NORTH ATLANTIC’S CIRCULATION SHUTS DOWN?

09 AUG 2023  Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether grander scale. New findings published in Nature Communications suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc, could collapse within the next few decades – maybe even within the next …

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JAPANESE TEAM DEVELOPS “GAME CHANGER” FLOATING VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES

08 AUG 2023  A consortium of Japanese companies is working to develop a new concept in floating offshore wind turbines that they report will be easier to manufacture while also costing less to build and maintain. Known as a vertical axis wind turbine, they believe it will be the next …

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CARGO LIQUEFACTION REMAINS THE MOST DANGEROUS HAZARD FOR BULKERS

05 AUG 2023  Cargo liquefaction remains the single biggest risk for loss of life in the bulk carrier trade, according to a new long term casualty report from Intercargo. The long-term rolling report covers vessel losses from 2013-22. During the period, 26 seagoing bulkers went down, costing 104 lives and …

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CREWMEMBER KILLED AS BURNING CAR CARRIER IS EVACUATED IN THE NORTH SEA

01 AUG 2023  Dutch authorities are leading the response after a car carrier caught fire off the northern coast of The Netherlands around midnight on July 25. As the fire continued to spread, the decision was made to evacuate the ship. One crewmember was killed and several others injured at …

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NATO STEPPING UP BLACK SEA SURVEILLANCE

30 JULY 2023 NATO said on Wednesday it was stepping up surveillance of the Black Sea region as it condemned Russia’s exit from a deal assuring the safe passage of ships carrying Ukrainian grain. The announcement came after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a body established earlier this month …

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CONTAINERSHIP SINKS IN TAIWAN ANCHORAGE

26 JULY 2023  Efforts to stabilize a containership anchored near the entrance to Taiwan’s Kaohsiung port failed overnight. The feeder ship which had been abandoned on Thursday continued to take on water and sunk early Friday, July 21, with empty boxes scattered into the busy waterway. Port officials had suspended …

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HOW MARINE HEAT WAVES AFFECT THE OCEAN – AND WHAT CAN BE DONE

23 JULY 2023 As we enter El Niño, periods of surging temperatures at sea are predicted to grow more frequent and intense. On 4 July 2023, the World Meteorological Organization declared the beginning of an El Niño phase, a climate pattern that drives up temperatures across land and sea. Past weather events provide …

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NON-PROFIT PLANS TO CONVERT BULKER INTO PLASTICS RECYCLING CENTER

22 JULY 2023  A German non-profit environmental group is developing a plan to convert an existing bulker into a floating environmental center as part of their system to capture and recycle ocean and on shore plastics. According to the group in addition to the mobile nature of the vessel, it …

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