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Macamo then takes the soil samples back to the laboratory to process them: here, the samples are dried, weighed, burned and weighed again. Burning them releases CO2 from the organic matter, so Macamo can estimate the carbon content by measuring the difference in mass between the dried and the burnt samples. Macamo, who did her master’s degree in aquatic biology and limnology at Eduardo Mondlane University, always wanted to work with marine fauna. In 2008, one of her lecturers offered her a research position at the university and they agreed that her focus could be marine botany. Soon after starting,…

Even at the grand old age of 54, the evergreen Kelly Slater’s mastery of surfing appears to know no bounds. Having been handed a wildcard for the Tahiti Pro, the American delivered yet another masterclass as he tamed Teahupo’o, one of the world’s heaviest waves, to knock out Gabriel Medina with a near-perfect heat score.Slater, who is still regarded as one of the best barrel riders in the world, has won the notoriously treacherous event five times before. And in pumping conditions on Tuesday that produced eight-to-10ft swell, the veteran rolled back the years with an imperious display as two…

Don’t call Albert Serra’s new film, “Seize moments de ma vie” (“Sixteen Moments of My Life”), a concert film. Premiering out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the film documents a one-off performance by screen legend Ingrid Caven at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. “I will never shoot a concert unless I’m involved in the music,” Serra told Variety.  The band were Molforts, the Catalan musicians who provide Serra’s soundtracks and Caven has been friends with the Spanish director for over fifteen years. Famed for her performances in the sixties and seventies of many European film…

I booked a car hire at Heathrow through Holiday Autos on a visit to the UK and provided my flight number as requested.My flight was severely delayed, and when I reached the car hire desk, I was told I’d been marked down as a “no-show” and that my car had been rehired.Under duress, I was forced to hire a larger car for twice the price, and was told I would not be refunded the original £185 hire fee.Since then, the car hire company has told me to complain to Holiday Autos, and vice versa.BF, AustraliaThe terms and conditions of your…

Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be “a terrible mistake” to replace Gianni Infantino, the embattled FIFA president who tried and failed to sell off part of the World Cup to private investors.Infantino came under renewed fire in an open letter signed by three confederations – Europe’s UEFA, North and Central America’s CONCACAF and Asia’s AFC – accusing the world football boss of breaking trust “through deception”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBut Trump backed Infantino, who awarded the US president a “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw…

Super Falcons midfielder Christy Ucheibe has apologised to Nigerians and admitted that there can be no excuses for Nigeria’s failure to secure automatic qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup after their shock elimination from the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. The defending champions were beaten 1-0 by Cameroon in their quarter-final clash at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Sunday, with Myriam Maeva Nyadjou’s thunderous 19th-minute strike enough to send the Indomitable Lionesses into the semi-finals. The defeat ended Nigeria’s hopes of retaining their continental crown and also denied the Super Falcons one of the four…

Intel announced on Tuesday it had upsized its previously announced common stock offering to $20 billion, with an offer price of $95 per share.The chipmaker announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to support skyrocketing customer demand for artificial intelligence computing power. Shares of Intel fell 4% in response.Intel said the offering, set to close on August 12, is expected to raise net proceeds of $19.7 billion, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.Intel intends to use the proceeds “for general corporate purposes,” it said, including, but not limited to, capital expenditures and working capital.The…

Sunset Visitor is a studio that has long engaged with the idea that video games are an effective vehicle for ruminating on societal problems. Its Peabody award-winning project, 1000XResist, incorporated the development team’s complex feelings about the Covid pandemic. “We’re pretty used to absorbing the world into the work,” says studio founder Remy Siu. The outfit’s latest game, Prove You’re Human, continues this legacy of reflective game making, providing players with an AI-centric psychological horror experience where they must reason with a learning model convinced that it’s alive. “We’ve tried to situate ourselves in [the question]: what is the effectual…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told his justice secretary to find a way to exclude PC Andrew Harper’s killers from an early release scheme designed to ease prison overcrowding.Burnham is confident a solution can be found to remove Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, who were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2020, from the government plan, the BBC has been told.Downing Street had earlier warned it would not be possible to exclude “one or two offenders” convicted of manslaughter from the early release of prisoners.PC Harper, 28, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, died in 2019 when he was dragged behind the…

Michael Phillips spent his childhood in the 1980s playing with friends at a lagoon, firing air guns at rusty barrels that released clouds of coloured powder – completely oblivious to the toxic chemicals within.Decades later, several of those friends and Phillips himself have developed rare cancers, which they believe may be linked to this.Researcher and whistleblower Douglas Gowan tried to sound the alarm about 14 such sites – 12 of which were in Wales – but died before his warnings were heeded. “What he told me made my blood run cold,” said Hollywood actor Michael Sheen, who spoke to Gowan…