Day: November 24, 2021

Royal Society: Albatross Homosexual Relations Increase Due to Global Warming , abandon their partners more often and start homosexual relationships. Experts from the Royal Society called the warming of the water in the habitat the reason for the atypical behavior of monogamous birds. The Guardian writes about it. Researchers have observed 15 thousand individuals for 15 years that nest in the Falkland Islands. Scientists have noticed that under normal conditions, only one to three percent of pairs of albatrosses part, and in years with unusually warm water, this figure increased to eight percent. As the ocean temperature rises, birds suffer from food shortages – off the coast there are fewer fish, the hunt lasts longer, and it becomes more difficult to feed the offspring. Against the background of problems finding food in albatrosses, the stress hormone increases and reproductive function decreases – some diverge after unsuccessful attempts at conception. Climatic

Russian family stuck on the yacht: we were escorted by radio despite a request for help autonomous navigation for more than three months, they were not allowed to replenish supplies to Christmas Island. The details of the situation were revealed by the journalist, documentary photographer and close friend of the Klochkov family, Yulia Galushina, who spent more than a year on the Lady Mary yacht. Her message appeared at the disposal of Lenta.ru. Trapped in the middle of the ocean, the Russians told a friend that they requested an emergency stop on the island a few days ago. “According to the maritime legislation, every vessel in any country of the world has the right to it,” said Marina Klochkova, the captain's senior mate. However, the authorities denied their request, despite the family being isolated in the ocean for more than 80 days. Later, the Klochkovs anchored, despite the ban, to

Daily Mail: a DPRK resident will be shot after a copy of the Squid Game was brought in from China A DPRK resident was sentenced to death he smuggled into the republic the South Korean TV series Squid Game, which topped the international top streaming platform Netflix. The Daily Mail writes about this. It is known that a North Korean from Hamgyongbuk-do province returned to his homeland from China with a digital copy of the show stored on a hidden USB flash drive, and then distributed it among his friends and was caught by law enforcement officers. Subsequently, the young man was executed. … At the same time, another student who bought a copy of the series was sentenced to life imprisonment, and six others who only watched the show were sentenced to five years of hard labor. Searches are currently underway in the educational institution. According to some reports,

Roskosmos on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched the last module of the ISS Prichal Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Progress M-UM transport cargo vehicle and the Prichal nodal module launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos reports. The launch took place at 16:06 Moscow time. Undocking of Progress MS-17 together with the attachment of the passive docking unit of the Nauka module from the ISS is scheduled for November 25 at 14:18 Moscow time. Docking of the Progress M-UM module spacecraft with the Prichal to the ISS is scheduled for November 26 at 18:26. The separation of the instrument-assembly compartment from the Prichal is scheduled for December 22 at 01:20. In November, astronautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told TASS that during the launch of the Prichal nodal module to the ISS using a Russian rocket ” Soyuz-2.1b ”a record can be set. The agency recalled that the maximum