Wed.May 18, 2022

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A “Hunger Catastrophe” in the Making

Legal Planet

The World Food Programme has called the current situation a “ hunger catastrophe ,” noting that since 2019, the number of people facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled— from 135 million to 276 million , and that almost 50 million people are currently facing emergency levels of hunger.

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Concerning primordial black holes

Physics World

Most prominently, the gravitational-wave signal GW190521 detected by LIGO on 21 May 2019 resulted from the merger of two black holes, weighing 85 and 65 solar masses, with the resulting black hole coming in at 142 solar masses. Several IMBH candidate objects have been discovered in our galaxy and others nearby. Supermassive black hole (SMBH).

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Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

Frontiers

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

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