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Colin Heathcock (L) of the United States and Park Sangwon of South Korea compete during the team final at the Men's Sabre World Cup in Budapest, Hungary, on March 24, 2024. Attila Volgyi/Xinhua and Mitchell Saron compete in team final. Eli Derschwitz of the united States posed during awarding ceremony.
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1 year ago Read more at Xinhua

FIS Snowboard Alpine Junior World Championships 2024 in Lachtal (AUT) The event features exhilarating snowboardcross and slopestyle final events in Mt. St. Anne (CAN) and Silvaplana (SUI). The event is a cornerstone competition for the upcoming generation of athletes. The competition kicked off on Friday with the parallel giant slalom.
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Jacob Kiplimo is a senior men’s champion and world half marathon record-holder. The Ugandan grew up in Bukwo on Mount Elgon, living at high altitude. In 2016 he became Uganda’s youngest Olympian, contesting the 5000m at Rio Games.
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1 year ago Read more at World Athletics

This year's theme is even less relevant to actual water issues than last year’s “Be the Change” message. This is just a redirection ploy from the elites. It says, if you want things to be different, then you do something. But individuals are not creating the most stress to water and other planetary systems.
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1 year ago Read more at Resilience

The best snowboard’s future stars from around the world gathered at the Kitzsteinhorn in Zell am See-Kaprun from 17th to 22nd March 2024 for the World Rookie Snowboard Finals. The decision in Slopestyle was on Wednesday with the best weather and parking conditions. In the rookies category, 15-year-old Norwegian Fabian Hertzberg impressed with a frontside and backside 1080 on the kicker.
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1 year ago Read more at worldrookietour.com

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. If you’re curious about the soil and dirt in your area, the University of California, Davis has a website where you can learn more about local soils.
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1 year ago Read more at The Conversation

The European Deforestation Regulation or EUDR will outlaw sales of products like coffee from December 30, 2024, if companies can't prove they are not linked with deforement. In Peru, collecting information about hundreds of thousands of small farmers is difficult. Brazil, where coffee makes up about a third of total export earnings, is better placed.
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1 year ago Read more at ABC News

The University of Auckland invited American political psychology star John Jost to present several nights of talks for the Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture Series. The first was in 2003 when he co-authored a paper synthesising decades of work on “conservatism” to make the argument that political attitudes and behaviours serve a psychological function. In this political moment, there’s a lot of chatter about entitlements – whether about the prime minister for claiming for using his own Wellington flat or tightening access to welfare
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1 year ago Read more at New Zealand Herald

La Course des Cafes has returned to the streets of Paris with waiters challenged to deliver a tray of food 2km along a gauntlet. Samy Lamrous was named toast of the town, delivering the perfect trio of croissant, coffee and a glass of water in a winning time of 13 minutes, 30 seconds flat. Having started waitering at 16, she is now 34 and says she cannot imagine any other life for herself.
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1 year ago Read more at New Zealand Herald

International Maritime Organisation (IMO) – which regulates shipping worldwide – inched closer toward such a levy at talks held in London this week. The United Nations agency plans to finalise the detail of the measure next year, and have it introduced in 2027. Countries including the Marshall Islands earlier submitted a proposal for a minimum emissions charge of US$150 per tonne of CO2-equivalent.
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1 year ago Read more at The Star Online