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Mathias Labah normally catches fish in the Baltic Sea but today, the rope he is pulling out of the water a few kilometres off Germany's north coast is not a net filled with herring or cod, but a plastic cylinder about 30 centimetres long. Labah carefully hoists the device onto the deck of the Solea research vessel, frees it from the water and reveals an innovative probe which could play a vital role in how the crisis-ridden coastal fishermen and women of northern Germany could earn more money and attract new recruits in the future. The device measures oxygen, temperature, salinity and pressure...
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More than a third of the great ape population in Africa is endangered by mining, according to a new study. The threat to these 180,000 chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas has so far been underestimated, wrote scientists from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the journal Science Advances. The increasing demand for important minerals such as copper, lithium, cobalt and rare earths, which are needed for the large-scale transition to clean energy, has led to a boom in mining in Africa, they say. There are also other direct and indirect effects, such as the constructio...
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Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years from 1990 to 2021, despite a pandemic-related dip between 2019 and 2021, a new study published in The Lancet has found. The overall rise in life expectancy worldwide over the past two decades was helped by several factors, including a decline in deaths from intestinal infections such as diarrhoea, a research team led by Simon Hay from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said. This decline alone was responsible for an increase of 1.1 years in life expectancy during the period. "The second-largest ef...
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After nearly 100 days at sea, the crew had given up. Since early September, they had logged nearly 19,500 kilometres aboard the Offshore Surveyor, crisscrossing the equator near the 180th meridian. Now a few days past Thanksgiving, the time had come to move on. They had worked hard under a tropical sun, days becoming weeks, a familiar routine offloading their unmanned submersible and watching as its sonar became their eyes on the ocean floor, recording all that it saw. There'd been hiccups along the way. Crew had gotten sick. The underwater camera had broken, and after one dive, the data had c...
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