Tourist coins pose giant problem at N. Ireland's famous causeway site
Bushmills, United Kingdom (AFP) July 13, 2025
Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks - to bring love or luck - is damaging the world-famous wonder. ... more
Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University has revealed that the North Atlantic Ocean holds an estimated 27 million ton ... more
'Happy suffering': the Brazilian gold rush that spawned iconic pictures
Serra Pelada, Brazil (AFP) July 3, 2025
Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in the middle of the Amazon, some of the "garimpeiros," now into their 70s, are still hoping to get lucky. ... more