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Plastic Pollution

Alessandra Ambrosio Saving the Oceans!

Alessandra Ambrosio paid homage to the worlds oceans by posting a heartfelt message to her Instagram on International Oceans Day. The Victoria’s Secret model is spending her quarantine in her home country of Brail, which makes it pretty easy for her to spend time in the ocean. She put on…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Scotland

Coronavirus Worklife: Midas PR’s Jason Bartholomew: After the ‘Blind Panic’

‘Midas had to quickly pivot our business model,’ says Jason Bartholomew in London, ‘to think of a new type of proposals that fit a rapidly changing economic landscape.’ Jason Bartholomew. Image: Midas By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Wildly Uncertain Financial Landscape’ While our Coronavirus Worklife series so far…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Peace

The future ain’t what it used to be in first Bill & Ted Face the Music Trailer

If there’s one lesson I’ve learned these last few months, it’s that life rarely works out as planned. One minute you’re the sole two members of the band whose music has been prophesied to heal the world and usher in a new era of peace, and the next you wake…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Green Deal

Curtain time for an EU budget without fossil fuels

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/PA Images Once every seven years, a uniquely European courtship ritual takes place. Member States iron out the details of the bloc’s seven-year, long-term EU budget, outlining how much to spend on everything from railroads to farming and space exploration.Typically the waltz includes infighting between the ‘frugal’ northern states…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Tesla

Cyberattack forces Honda to suspend global production for a day

Honda was forced to suspend global production for a day due to a cyberattack that infiltrated the company's internal servers in Tokyo, Financial Times reports. Honda detected the virus on Monday and was forced to send some employees home for the day as the attack impacted email and other systems…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

The Queen

Prince Philip releases photograph with the Queen to celebrate his 99th birthday

The Duke of Edinburgh has released an official photograph of himself and the Queen to mark his 99th birthday. The photograph shows Prince Philip and Her Majesty posing side-by-side outside Windsor Castle in celebration of the royal’s milestone birthday, which falls on 10 June. In the birthday photo, the Queen…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Yellow Vests

America Has a National Guard. France Has National Riot Police.

As the United States tries to prevent public protest following the killing of George Floyd from spiraling into further violence, it’s tempting to think of French policing as an example to be followed. France’s long history of street protest, from the ritual to the insurrectional, dovetails with its history of…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Little Italy

NYC Restaurants Pull Out Patio Seating Early, Flouting Rules as Business Struggles

Outdoor dining may not officially be allowed in NYC until phase two of reopening — which is still weeks away — but that hasn’t stopped many restaurants and bars in lower Manhattan from leapfrogging the rules and setting out seating for customers ahead of time. Many restaurant owners and managers…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Climate Change

Patterns in permafrost soils could help climate change models

The Arctic covers about 20% of the planet. But almost everything hydrologists know about the carbon-rich soils blanketing its permafrost comes from very few measurements taken just feet from Alaska's Dalton Highway. The small sample size is a problem, particularly for scientists studying the role of Arctic hydrology on climate…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama to Release First Album in July

This article is republished here with permission from The Associated Press. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors. NEW YORK (AP) — Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle…

bubmagJune 9, 2020

Alessandra Ambrosio Saving the Oceans!

Coronavirus Worklife: Midas PR’s Jason Bartholomew: After the ‘Blind Panic’

The future ain’t what it used to be in first Bill & Ted Face the Music Trailer

Curtain time for an EU budget without fossil fuels

Cyberattack forces Honda to suspend global production for a day

Prince Philip releases photograph with the Queen to celebrate his 99th birthday

America Has a National Guard. France Has National Riot Police.

NYC Restaurants Pull Out Patio Seating Early, Flouting Rules as Business Struggles

Patterns in permafrost soils could help climate change models

The Dalai Lama to Release First Album in July

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