Cloaked in white dust and surrounded by expansive plains, the town of Lightning Ridge produces the bulk of the world’s precious black opal. This rare gemstone, prized for its dazzling play of color, hides out of sight in the Australian outback beneath a town roughly 450 miles northwest of Sydney. And for more than 100 years, people have come to the Ridge to find their fortune chasing prec…
Read moreIt’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floorคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the systematic collection of core samples from the deep seabed. This re…
Read moreMounting evidence is pointing towards the nerve gas sarin as the chemical behind the attack that killed more than 80 people, including at least 27 children, in Syria’s Idlib province earlier this week.
Early assessments by U.S. intelligence officials, Doctors Without Borders and the U.N. health agency suggested that chlorine gas and traces of sarin were used in the bombing, which Pr…
Read moreIn one sense, Ukraine’s delegation to the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, has a complicated task: to convey to the world the interconnections of war and climate change, the scale of the environmental destruction that Russia’s invasion has unleashed, and the determinedness of this nation of 44 million to carry out its decarbonization goals anyway‚ building b…
Read moreAnd it seems that the number of Black Friday weekend cross-border purchases soared by 545% compared to November’s first weekend. The sales reached a three-week peak late in the month but had started to climb earlier in the month ahead of the main shopping period as retailers started promotions in advance of the day itself.That’s according to the latest data from cross-border e-commerce solu…
Read moreAdding to the bleak mood, figures earlier on Tuesday showed monthly car sales had dropped to their lowest since 1946 due to the closure of showrooms, while around a quarter of workers are now on a government-funded furlough.IHS Markit said its Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the services sector fell to its lowest since the survey started in 1996, dropping to 13.4 in April from 34.5 in Ma…
Read moreEffective January 1, 2020, the new law makes it illegal for cosmetic manufacturers to sell cosmetics in the state if the final product or any of its ingredients were knowingly tested on animals, with some exceptions for regulatory requirements. The bill, known as Senate Bill 1249, was written by Senator Cathleen Galgiani and co-sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and…
Read moreThe companies are pitching new online subscription services, which promise stable revenues, lower delivery costs and valuable data about customers.Unilever on Monday will launch its Skinsei brand in the United States after testing, offering “personalised” skincare by subscription. Unilever expanded its Dollar Shave Club subscription razor service to include cologne and beard oil in 2018 and too…
Read moreMeanwhile, IMRG also said that we might just be entering “a new retail era” where physical stores decline even faster, while Capgemini said retailers who ignore changing consumer behaviour do so at their peril.The good e-tail news came as the high street reported the steepest year-on-year drop in footfall since 2010 during March. Online retail sales picked up much of the slack, it seems, to…
Read moreThe minister said this during a meeting with the delegation of Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, which was led by its vice-chairman Michael Sommer.Factories were turned green after the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 that claimed the lives of 1,130 people, with a view to improve workplace safety and environment. Multiple steps were taken to ensure workers’ safety after this incident.
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