Newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the country’s first female president and first Jewish president, has a background in environmental policy, including work for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Sheinbaum earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in energy engineering before serving as Environment Minister for Mexico City from […]

Australia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with a number of extinct megafauna in its natural history. Huge, flightless ‘thunderbirds’ or mihirungs once roamed the rugged Australian outback. The last remaining mihirung species was the approximately 2.5 meter high Genyornis newtoni. These stocky birds became extinct about 45,000 years ago and lived alongside humans for

New genetic analysis of two princes within some of Germany’s best-preserved Celtic burial mounds confirms a long-suspected family connection – one that could shake up our understanding of gender relations within Iron Age societies. Based on DNA reconstruction efforts, it appears that at least some Celtic clans revolved around matrilineal rather than patrilineal dynasties. In

South Korea will suspend a 2018 joint military agreement with North Korea amid rising tensions in the region, the National Security Council (NSC) decided on Monday. The NSC had decided to suspend the agreement “until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored,” President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office announced. A proposal on the suspension will

Johannes Olivier was hit on Sunday against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism and censorship “Last week tonight.” The British-American comedian noted that India’s election results will be announced on June 4 and this is almost a guarantee that Modi will remain in power. “One polling organization found that he has a 74% approval

Several Japanese automakers, including Toyota and Suzuki, have come under fire for allegedly failing to conduct proper safety testing before certifying some vehicle models. Similar cases were also found at Honda, Mazda and Yamaha, Japan’s Transport Ministry said on Monday. Sales of three models produced in Japan will be temporarily stopped, Toyota announced on Monday.

Read the full story on Modern Car Collector Ferrari seized after driver exceeded the speed limit by 76 km/h A 61 year old South Australian The man faces severe penalties after his Ferrari 812 GTS was reportedly caught speeding 76 km/h over the legal limit. The incident occurred on May 11, 2024 in Paracombe, about

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned on Monday of a wave of nuclear proliferation if Iran builds a nuclear weapon. “Many countries have said that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they will do the same. I think we heard it very clearly from many countries,” Grossi said on the

An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich became adapted to water, says a team of researchers who recently studied fossils of creatures that went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on the bones of Genyornisnewtoni found in Lake Callabonna in South Australia, the animal weighed about 230 kilos, making it

Russia knows Putin’s Crimean Bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist. Dmitry Pletenchuk said Russia is using a new railway line because it knows the bridge is in trouble. Ukraine has long threatened to destroy the bridge and could use US-supplied long-range ATACMS. Russia knows its Crimean bridge is doomed, forcing the country