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Heavy machinery moves soil at a makeshift dam while workers hoist giant pipes over mounds of earth at two construction sites in the south of Uruguay, as the South American country struggles to enhance its aging water delivery infrastructure to cope with an unprecedented three-year-long drought that has put at risk the supply of tap water for about 60% of the population. IMAGES
Inondations : Nîmes sauvée des eaux
The United States has now recorded more than 13 million coronavirus cases. These cases representing around 4% of the country’s total population, according to HuffPost. The milestone means that the U.S. is now adding around 1 million new cases per week. This is an alarming reality as the Christmas and New Year’s holidays approach. The temptation to gather indoors with loved ones at the end of a difficult year is high. Millions traveled for Thanksgiving despite urging from public health experts not to do so.
Business Insider contributor Alexis Rhiannon's cooking style can be likened to a pendulum. One day, she's an ambitious gourmet. The next day, she orders takeout. But Rhiannon decided to get focused at the start of 2020, and chose to cook her way through, start to finish, a single vegetarian cookbook. Now it's nearly the end of the year, and Rhiannon noticed something everyone interested in personal finance and frugality will be delighted to hear. She cut her grocery bill in half. Half! Going vegetarian, by means of working through 'The New Moosewood Cookbook' by Mollie Katzen, has saved Rhiannon tons of money. But that's not all. She also says such focus leads one to shop smarter by using ingredients already on hand--and to avoid dropping loads of cash on indulgent holiday meals.
Scientists used to say there were millions of tons of ice in the permanently shadowed craters of the moon’s poles. Now, HuffPost reports a pair of studies in the journal Nature Astronomy says there's far, far more potential water available. Twenty percent more, to be exact. A team led by the University of Colorado's Paul Hayne says more than 15,400 square miles of lunar terrain have the capability to trap water in the form of ice. However, lead researcher Casey Honniball says the molecules are so far apart that they are in neither liquid nor solid form. To be clear, this is not puddles of water. Casey Honniball, Lead Researcher Postdoctoral fellow, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland Greater access to water could allow astronauts and robots more places to land, and support future lunar bases. Scientists believe the moon's water came from comets, asteroids, interplanetary dust, solar wind, or even lunar volcanic eruptions.
Leonardo DiCaprio is rumoured to be starring in Guillermo del Toro's remake of 1947 con-man flick 'Nightmare Alley'.
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