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Europa may hold more water than Earth, but a new study suggests its hidden ocean is almost impossible to reach |

Representative Image of Europa’s hidden ocean beneath its icy surface (AI-generated image) Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, may hold more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, sealed beneath a thick shell of ice. For years, one of the most promising ideas for studying that hidden ocean was that water rising through cracks…

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How a tiny South African fishing village solved its water crisis by turning seawater into drinking water using solar power | World News

In the small coastal village of Witsand, at the mouth of the Breede River in the Western Cape’s Overberg region, sits Africa’s first desalination plant powered entirely by solar energy. Witsand has a low-season population of only around 300 people, but that number swells to more than 3,000 during the busy summer tourist months, placing…

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North America once had 400 million beavers. Nearly wiped out by the 1900s, they are now restoring rivers, wetlands and wildlife one dam at a time | World News

For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping for fur had reduced populations so severely that, in many regions, the animal almost vanished from landscapes where it had once been common. Rivers continued to flow, but they did so without one of the species that…

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Meet Alexander Zanders: The founder revolutionising Africa’s ‘unbankable’ farmers into a $100 billion opportunity with just a credit assessment

Africa is currently abuzz globally due to a race for its rare earth minerals. But within the nation there lies another opportunity worth approximately $100 billion, that one man is benefiting from. Smallholder farmers on the continent produce food and support rural economies across the land, yet millions of them remain excluded from finance because…

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Delhi riots 2020: Why Tahir Hussain escaped death penalty in IB officer Ankit Sharma murder case | India News

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, rejecting the prosecution’s plea for the death penalty after holding that it had failed to prove the convicts were beyond…

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Flagstar’s 2021 data breaches affected nearly 2.2 million people; eligible Americans have until August 11 to claim documented losses up to $25,000 from a proposed $31.5 million settlement

Flagstar Bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over two cyberattacks in 2021. Millions of Flagstar Bank customers who were affected by two cyberattacks in 2021 could be eligible for compensation under a class action settlement. The American bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle claims linked…

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