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Three scuba divers were safely rescued after becoming separated from their dive boat around six miles off the Yorkshire coast.
The incident highlights how quickly divers can drift away from surface support in offshore conditions and why equipment such as DSMBs, audible signalling devices and personal locator beacons can make all the difference during a recovery.
Fortunately, all three divers were located safely by rescue crews.
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Miles Teves is an American artist specialized in concept art, creature design, sculpture, and visual effects for film. 
Born in 1963, he began his career working alongside Rob Bottin on Legend, where he helped create the iconic character Darkness.
Which singer has the biggest vocabulary? Jim Morrison came in #4 with 177 words.
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Erin Brockovich is now tracking more than 5,000 concerns about AI data centers.
The environmental activist has launched a nationwide tracker showing where AI data centers are operating, under construction, proposed, or drawing concern from nearby communities.
And the reports are pouring in.
Brockovich’s project had just over 3,000 community reports on June 2. By June 9, that number had climbed past 5,000.
The concerns are not abstract.
People are reporting worries about electricity demand, water use, noise, local infrastructure, electronic waste, flooding risks and the pressure these facilities can place on towns that were never built for them.
Data centers are the physical backbone of artificial intelligence. Every chatbot response, AI image, cloud service and video model depends on buildings packed with servers running around the clock.
But keeping those servers online takes enormous resources.
Large data centers can use up to 5 million gallons of water a day, roughly the daily water use of a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
They also consume a growing share of U.S. electricity. The Department of Energy says data centers used about 4.4 percent of all U.S. electricity in 2023, and could rise to between 6.7 and 12 percent by 2028.
That is why local backlash is growing.
Some cities and counties have already moved to pause or restrict new data centers while they study the impact on water, power grids and household utility bills.
Seattle approved a one-year moratorium. Some communities in Kentucky, California and Georgia have taken similar steps.
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This week in 1981, the Kim Carnes single “Bette Davis Eyes” was in the #1 spot again on the US Billboard Hot 100 (June 27)
The cover version of the 1974 Jackie DeShannon song found itself in the #1 spot in the US for nine non-consecutive weeks.
It was also a #1 hit around the world in places like Australia, Spain, South Africa, Norway, Canada, Italy, and France.
“Bette Davis Eyes” won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, and also ranked at #12 on Billboard's list of the Top 100 songs in the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
After the song became a hit, legendary Academy Award-winning actress Bette Davis actually wrote letters to Kim Carnes and songwriters Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon to thank them for making her "a part of modern history”, and that her grandchild thought she was "cool" for having a hit song written about her.
After their Grammy wins, 73-year-old Davis sent them roses and happily accepted the gift of gold and platinum records from Kim Carnes, hanging them on her wall.
This iconic early 80s song for the gravel-voiced singer came with an MTV-favourite film clip directed by Aussie Russell Mulcahy, which contained a memorable dance-floor face-slapping sequence...
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Every day is a chance to let go of what you cannot control and focus on what you can.
You cannot rewrite your past, but you can choose your next step. You cannot control what others think, but you can choose to live according to your values. Your thoughts shape your words, your words shape your actions, and your actions shape your character.
Overthinking keeps you trapped in imagined problems, while mindful action creates real progress. And no matter how hard you try, you will never make everyone happy. Seeking everyone's approval only costs you your own peace.
The happiest life is not one without challenges. It is one where you stop fighting reality and start living with wisdom, gratitude, and compassion.
Read these reminders every morning, and return to them whenever your mind begins to wander.
#Buddhism #Mindfulness #Wisdom #InnerPeace
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Today’s Exhibit of the Day? It’s one of the largest amethyst geodes in the world! At about 13 ft (4 m) tall and 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), this giant weighs about as much as three compact cars.
It was "born" when molten magma poured from the Earth’s crust some 135 million years ago. While its dazzling purple crystals might catch your eye, this geode would have originally been composed of colorless quartz—its distinctive amethyst color deriving from millenia of natural radiation, heat, and trace contaminants.
You can spot this geode, and other sparkly specimens, in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals!
Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH
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The science behind El Niño is a well-documented pattern stretching back nearly three decades. What makes this moment particularly significant is the timing. 
The fourth global coral bleaching event (the most severe on record) only ended in mid-2025. Reefs around the world are still in the early stages of any potential recovery from heat stress that affected 84% of global reef area across 83 countries and territories.
Recovery from widespread bleaching takes a minimum of 9-12 years under ideal conditions. Reefs haven't had a fraction of that time.
Now, just months later, @NOAAClimateGov has officially declared the return of El Niño conditions, with a 63% probability that the event will reach "Super" status – defined by Pacific Ocean temperatures rising more than 2°C above average – by winter 2026-27. If that forecast holds, it would rank among the largest El Niño event in the historical record going back to 1950.
What's important to understand is that each successive global bleaching event has been more widespread and severe than the last. The 1998 event was unprecedented at the time. The 2010 event surpassed it. The 2014-2017 event lasted three years and shattered previous records. The 2023-2025 event broke records again. The trend is obvious: as climate change raises baseline ocean temperatures, El Niño events are stacking heat stress on top of an already warming ocean, pushing reefs into bleaching conditions faster, more often, and more severely.
We can't stop El Niño – it's a natural climate cycle that has existed for millennia. But we can prepare. We can reduce the local pressures (pollution, physical damage, unsustainable tourism) that make reefs more vulnerable to heat stress and less able to recover when conditions improve.
Reef-World and Green Fins are working with marine tourism operators to do exactly this. Because in the face of a crisis we can't prevent, local action is what we can control.
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Linguistics is a scientific discipline that deals with the nature of language and its development, evolution and usage by individuals.
Word formation is one of the important areas in linguistics that accounts for the process of creation of new words. New words are coined through neologism and coinage whereas the study of the origins of words comes under etymology.
The process of expansion of vocabulary is achieved through borrowing, which is taking words from another language. The translation of words word by word into another language is called loan translation (calque). Compounding, clipping, hypocorisms, blending, backformation and conversion are some of the techniques by which new words are coined.
Moreover, the creation of acronyms occurs through the initial letters of phrases whereas derivation involves the use of prefixes and suffixes in creating new words. Infixes which are inserted in words are also used in some languages.
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The most valuable infrastructure in the world isn't made of steel, concrete or glass. 
It's forests that clean our air. Wetlands that filter our water. Pollinators that help grow our food…It's all the healthy ecosystems quietly at work every day, asking for little and giving so much.
The value of these services is enormous. And when nature breaks down, the expenses add up quickly—higher bills, more expensive food, lost jobs and greater disaster recovery costs.
Protecting and restoring nature is about more than caring for our planet. It is one of the smartest investments we can make.
Here are 6 ways nature supports economies big and small: 
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"Queen of Colours" by @dankitchener brings a vibrant burst of light and color to Rochford, Essex.
A beautiful mural that transforms an everyday space with bold energy and striking composition.
#DanKitchener #StreetArt #Mural #UrbanArt #EssexMurals #Rochford #PublicArt
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While many visit Asia for its festivals, ancient ruins, and high-tech cities, few realize that some of its most captivating destinations are its libraries.
From floating wood structures to futuristic halls of light, these libraries are quiet wonders, waiting to be explored.
One library in Yusuhara, Japan, is wrapped in thousands of locally sourced cedar logs, stacked to evoke the feeling of stepping into a forest.
Curious what other extraordinary spaces are hidden across Asia? Explore the full article and step inside its most breathtaking libraries.
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The Tropics are the region of Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Most of the world's population lives here, alongside extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Tropical climates vary, but are typically warm with little seasonal change in temperature.
Yet the region faces mounting pressure from climate change, deforestation, urbanisation and changing demographics.
On #TropicsDay, learn why the Tropics matter for people and planet.
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