Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors say

Assessment finds global heating is endangering 96% of coral reefs across 80 countries – a figure scientists say should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet, including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, faces a high risk of ecosystem collapse before 2075 because of global heating, according to an assessment by United Nations nature advisers. About 24% of the planet’s reefs

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Apple Reveals More Than 50 Apps That Will Be Updated for iPhone Duo

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Apple is rolling out a new badge in the App Store to indicate whether an app is optimized for its new foldable. The new "Made for iPhone Duo" badge will appear across apps and games that work with the device's extra screen real estate. Though Apple doesn't include an image of what this badge might look like, it highlighted some of the ways apps are taking advantage of the Duo's inner and outer screens. Netflix, for example, will display shows and movies that take up the whole inner display,…

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Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

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YEREVAN, Armenia — Nearly all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs face an “extremely high risk” of collapse by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Thursday. In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet’s coral reef systems as “critically endangered” — its highest risk category. Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate…

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Top-ranked Rybakina into Ningbo quarter-finals on return from injury

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SHANGHAI–World number one Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals of the Ningbo Open on Thursday on her return from injury when opponent Polina Kudermetova retired. The top seed and defending champion was cruising 5-0 in eastern China when the world number 105 from Uzbekistan called it quits because of injury. Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina will face Poland’s unseeded Katarzyna Kawa in the last eight. Rybakina, 27, won the US Open for her third Grand Slam crown in September and usurped Aryna…

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ICC: Delivering justice for the world's worst crimes

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Sakharov Prize for the International Criminal Court comes as the institution endures the toughest period in its history, reeling from a damaging sex scandal, hemorrhaging members, and bracing for potentially crippling US sanctions. The ICC, housed in a shiny glass building on the outskirts of The Hague, was set up in 2002 to try people accused of the world’s worst crimes — war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Its founding treaty, the Rome Statute,…

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Anambra deploys health surveillance officers at airport, motor parks over ebola threat

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By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — The Anambra State Government has announced plans to deploy health surveillance officers to strategic locations, including the Chinua Achebe International Airport, Umueri, motor parks, banks and other public gathering places, following the reported confirmation of an Ebola case in Abuja. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Ben Obidike,…

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‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Heading to Theaters Ahead of Season 2

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Regal will be screening all of Season 1, broken into three pairs of episodes, across more than 650 theaters in…

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