The number of firefighters in the EU is declining, even as the bloc faces more wildfires as a result of climate change.
The bloc counted a total of 360,000 firefighters last year — 2,800 fewer than in 2021, according to new data released by EU statistics office Eurostat.
“Cutting the number of firefighters in the midst of a climate crisis is a recipe for disaster,” Esther Lynch, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, said in a statement Tuesday.
The shortest people in the world live on the 11,883-square-mile Southeast Asian island of Timor-Leste.
The average Timorese man is just five feet 2.9 inches tall, while the average woman stands four feet 11.5 inches.
Several other countries in Southeast Asia also made the list, including Laos and the Philippines, which experts believe is because their ancestors adapted the smaller stature to withstand the overwhelming heat.
The US did not make rank among the 25 nations with the shortest people
Residents of Buenos Aires were wearing shorts and fanning themselves as they struggled to cope with unusual heat on Tuesday. By Thursday, they were back in the jackets and scarves that they would normally wear at this time of the year.
The sudden change in wardrobe was the result of a heat wave gripping portions of South America, including Argentina, Chile and Paraguay, that are supposed to be experiencing winter.
Argentina’s capital city broke an 81-year-old daily temperature record on
Tudor Dixon and Peachy Keenan analyze the new Barbie movie and the woke themes present in the film on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
Warner Brother’s main Middle East distribution partner has delayed the premiere of “Barbie” in that part of the world for almost another month as both the studio and distributor attempt to edit the film to the satisfaction of the region’s censors.
The original premiere date of July 19 meant that Middle
Many European countries have systems to help unhoused people that put our society to shame. When will we change?
A tent city in Culver City, Calif.
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For the past several weeks, I have been traveling around Europe, visiting three countries—Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Greece—with different levels of wealth and inequality, and different political ideologies animating their governments. As someone coming from California, where homelessness and endemic on-the-street drug
It’s the first time Christopher Nolan has directed a sex scene.
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In the Cretaceous Period, roughly 100 million years ago, the dinosaur Ubirajara jubatus probably turned heads with its feathers, shoulder rods and flashy displays. In 2020, the petite theropod made headlines as the first feathered dinosaur discovered in the Southern Hemisphere (SN: 12/14/20).
Today, the dinosaur is notorious for different reasons: Shortly after the news of its discovery, its backstory quickly drew some red flags.
The fossil had been unearthed in Brazil’s Araripe Basin, yet no Brazilian researchers
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Demetrio, der Protagonist von Javier Fuentes‘ Debütroman „Countries of Origin“, war 13 Jahre alt und auf einer Reise zu den Niagarafällen in New York, als sein Onkel verriet, warum sie nicht nach Kanada gelangen konnten. „Dann verstand ich, dass wir keine Papiere hatten“, erinnert er sich, „und dass die Undokumente uns anders und eingeschränkt machten.“
Es war eine erschreckende Erkenntnis, aber seitdem versucht Demetrio, sich von seinem Staatsbürgerschaftsstatus nicht zurückhalten zu lassen. Als wir ihn treffen,
Countries with the world’s fattest kids are today named and shamed in a startling analysis which comes amid spiralling obesity rates across the planet.
Neither Britain or the US feature in the top 20 of a new league table based on data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) — but Australia comes in at second.
Instead, Libya takes the top spot.
Almost three in ten under-5s (28.7 per cent) are classed as overweight in the African nation, according to
‘Every video is an experiment. Is it as dangerous as they say? Let’s find out.’
So says videomaker Conner McBee, who is drumming up a following on YouTube by sharing footage of his travels to places that are generally considered to be unsafe for tourists.
Over the past two years, the 29-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, has shared videos from Iraq, war-torn Ukraine, Colombia and the Mexican city of Tijuana, among other locations, under the username ‘Small Brained American’.
Speaking to
