The deadliest year on record for the world’s largest polluter recently ended with extremely scorching temperatures.
According to official media this week, China experienced its warmest year on record in 2023 as the world's largest polluter dealt with a string of unrelenting heat waves and other extreme weather phenomena brought on by the climate disaster caused by human activity. As the year went on, the nation struggled with intense heat waves that, according to authorities, had arrived earlier and been more widespread and extreme than in previous years. As a result, daily and monthly temperature records were regularly broken. China's unusual temperature coincided with worldwide trends; scientists have confirmed that 2023 will officially be the warmest year on record due to El Niño and climate change coupled. 10.7 degrees Celsius was China's average temperature last year, the highest since records have been kept in 1961
Amid a rise in border crossings, over 11,000 migrants are waiting in northern Mexico.
According to community leaders, over 11,000 individuals are still waiting in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the border, despite the fact that thousands of migrants enter the US illegally every day. Those seeking to join the US through legal avenues set by the Biden administration remain hopeful despite the division in Washington on the direction of US immigration policy. Municipal Migration Affairs Director Enrique Lucero estimates that 3,800 migrants from countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela are lodging in shelters in Tijuana, Mexico, which is located over the border from San Diego, California. Another 3,273 migrants are awaiting placement in Senda De Vida shelters in Reynosa, Mexico, which is located over the border from McAllen, Texas, according to priest Hector Silva, who oversees They have little chance. Over 445,000 migrants have been deported or repatriated by the US Department of Homeland Security since May; the great majority of these individuals entered the country through the southern border, according to the agency's website. In an effort to make the most of its limited resources, the federal government has also blocked ports of entry in a number of states and reassigned staff to process and transport migrants. Additionally, rail services in Eagle Pass and El Paso were temporarily suspended by the Biden Administration but were restored on Friday. Although one group of migrants who were detained in Eagle Pass, Texas, for several days has been cleared and processed, US Customs and Border Protection Although US Customs and Border Protection has cleared and processed one group of migrants who had been detained in Eagle Pass, Texas, during the previous few days, the agency is still dealing with the ongoing
A floating town becomes stranded on a parched lakebed while the Amazon is severely drought-stricken.
In the Brazilian Amazon, a floating community is currently stuck on a lakebed as a result of a severe drought that is making it difficult for locals to obtain fuel, fresh water, and food. Boats and floating structures are stranded in the mud of Lake Puraquequara, which is located east of Manaus, the state capital of Amazonia, due to drastically declining water levels. More than a hundred river dolphins washed up dead earlier this month as water temperatures climbed, and experts believe the situation is only going to get worse. This is just the most recent illustration of the catastrophic effects of heat and drought on this region of Brazil. The state's civil defense office reports that since the end of September, the Rio Negro river system, which includes Lake Puraquequara, has been almost record-low. "Declining water
At least 13 people were killed as fierce winds hit Argentina
According to Mayor Federico Susbielles and local authorities, a violent storm in Argentina has left at least 13 people dead and dozens injured in the harbor city of Bahía Blanca in the southwest. At least 300 people had been evacuated as of 3.30 a.m. local time (1 a.m. ET) on Sunday due to winds that had reached as high as 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour) in the city on Saturday, according to local authorities. Late on Saturday, the municipal council said on social media that the storm's aftermath was a "catastrophe," citing several injuries, some of which were "extremely serious." The council also stated that there were emergency medical personnel and civil defense personnel at the sports club Bahiense del Norte, where the most urgent scenario existed.In a declaration published on X, the former Twitter.
Police said a Boston woman was murdered by a shark attack while paddleboarding near a Bahamas resort.
According to local authorities, a 44-year-old American who was traveling from Boston to the Bahamas was attacked by a shark on Monday while paddleboarding close to a beach resort. According to a press release from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, the woman had gone to the islands with a male relative. According to the announcement, "preliminary reports indicate that the victim was bitten by a shark while paddle boarding away from the shoreline in waters at the rear of a resort in western New Providence with a male relative." Upon witnessing the incident, a resort lifeguard launched a boat into the ocean in an attempt to save the victim and their relative. According to the police, the woman received CPR from the lifeguard. "The victim endured severe
The 2023 world cheese champion has been revealed
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Pizza Hut selling snake pizza in Hong Kong
Pizza Hut, an American corporation, has partnered with a century-old Hong Kong restaurant to create a modern take on a classic dish called snake on a pizza. The new dish includes Chinese dried ham, black mushrooms, and shredded snake meat—all essential components of a real snake stew—and is a cornerstone of the Hong Kong franchise's internet marketing strategy. For a long time, certain diners in Hong Kong and the surrounding areas of southern China have loved snake stew, particularly in the winter. A local Cantonese tradition states that the greatest time to eat snake is "when the autumn wind begins to blow," which refers to when the snakes have gained weight in anticipation of hibernating. Many people think that eating snake flesh can treat skin ailments. Hong Kong resident Mabel Sieh, a self-described…
‘King of fruit’: Azerbaijan’s love affair with the pomegranate
Pomegranates are a wonderful gift of nature, delicious, easy on the eyes, and full of therapeutic powers. Throughout history, faiths and cultures all over the world have mythologized and cherished them. While Jewish beliefs thought that it contained 613 seeds, which reflect the number of commandments in the Torah, ancient Greeks associated it with the underworld. Pomegranate shrubs (Punica granatum) are thought to have originated in the area that now extends from northern India to Iran. They quickly moved eastward to China and westward to the Mediterranean. The fruit is still highly valued in nations like Turkey, Armenia, and Iran and is a beloved mainstay of many Middle Eastern cuisines. But it would be difficult to locate a location that extols the pomegranate more than Azerbaijan, the South
Vintage images provide a unique look at Mumbai’s red-light area from the 1970s.
The late American photographer was renowned for her ability to make subjects feel comfortable, but initially she had trouble making friends in the infamous red-light district on the outskirts of Mumbai society. She subsequently noted in the foreword to her 1981 book "Falkland Road, Prostitutes of Bombay" that "for ten years I tried to take photographs on Falkland Road and each time (I was) met with hostility and aggression" (Bombay being the name the British gave Mumbai before its name change in 1995). She described her early visits to the most populated city in India in the late 1960s. "The women pinched me and flung water and trash. Men would assemble in droves around me. My address book was once taken by a pickpocket; another time. A reprint of the book with over 70 of Mark's photos was widely praised for bringing attention to the predicament of sex workers, many of whom were forced into prostitution by pimps and madams and were physically and mentally ill. The book was "meant almost as a metaphor for entrapment, for how difficult it is to be a woman," she said in an interview with the New York Times magazine in 1987. President of the Mary Ellen Mark Foundation, Meredith Lue, told me via video conference that the photographer, who had a difficult upbringing, gravitated toward and connected with those who were vulnerable. "These are typically small communities of people, mostly young people or women who have kind of fallen behind or not given much thought."
