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For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records. The last month that didn't set a record for hottest month was in May 2023. February was 1.77 degrees Celsius (56.37 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late 19th century, Copernicus said.
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World Rugby has announced the latest ten coaches to be inaugurated into the Gallagher High Performance Academy, in 2024. All ten women are sevens coaches, fresh from completing their first in-person workshops and having been embedded with their respective nations for the HSBC SVNS Series. The programme is part of World Rugby’s strategic plan to accelerate the development of women’s rugby.
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Three Pipiwai youth are getting their best bombs ready for the World Manu Champs in Auckland. Saturday’s event at the Viaduct Harbour is “the light at the end of the tunnel”. Brooklyn Kay, Tawhai Rakich and Navaeh Rikihana-Yates will be supported by a large contingent of extended whnau and friends.
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The planet just experienced the hottest February on record, with global average temperatures rising 1.77°C above the pre-industrial average for the month Chile experienced a severe wildfire earlier this year. That makes it the ninth month in a row to set a monthly heat record. The ocean heat was even more extreme, with average sea surface temperature of 21.09°C recorded on a single day at the end of February edging out August 2023. El Nio emerged in June 2023 and helped make last year
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South Africa asks the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order additional emergency measures against Israel, which it says is breaching the measures already in place. South Africa warned that Palestinians in Gaza were facing starvation.
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New satellite data from the European Copernicus Climate Change Service shows the global average sea surface temperature in February was 21.06C, higher than the previous record of 20.98C set in August last year. Maps released by the organisation show huge areas of the world's oceans were much warmer than the long-term average. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned sea temperatures are now so high that the global coral reefs face their fourth known mass bleaching event.
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Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Luca Brecel 5-2 to win the inaugural Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker. Brecel had the first chance of the best-of-nine encounter but managed just three points before missing with the rest. O'Sullivan is now the first player in the history of the sport to win a tournament in Saudi Arabia.
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A group of 50 seventh and eighth-grade girls from Marian Middle School got hands-on lessons about the effects acid and sugars have on enamel. All activities were led by faculty and students at the Missouri School of Dentistry and Oral Health – part of A.T. Still University (ATSU) in St. Louis. The field lacks diversity. According to the Touro College of Dental Medicine, only 4% of U.S. dentists are black.
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Jeff Bezos founded the e-commerce platform Amazon in 1994. He also owns Blue Origin, an aerospace company and The Washington Post. Amazon had reported a revenue of $574.8 billion in 2023, compared with $514 billion.
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MIGA is prepared to stand guarantor for up to $8 billion of loans taken by state-owned infrastructure builders and local government bodies. In an interview, Junaid Kamal Ahmad, vice-president, operations at the bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) said the agency’s focus on underwriting loans aligns with India’s infrastructure development strategy at the national and sub-national levels. As a start, the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCCIL) last
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