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Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts The bright green Hägglund, a staple of Antarctic transport, is pulled up alongside a crack in the sea ice. The crack runs for hundreds of metres, pointing towards Mount Erebus in the distance. Nearby a group of Weddell seals are hanging out on the ice - mostly mums with pups taking advantage of the crack to gain access to the sea below. A group of NIWA scientists are also taking advantage. They've used a pit saw to make a rectangular hole out of the crack, just large enough for a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to fit neatly into. At Cinder Cones, the team use a natural crack in the ice to make a hole for the ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Photo: Claire Concannon / RNZ A thin yellow tet...

By Sam Tobin, Reuters Andrew Tate (L) and Tristan Tate (R) in December 2023. Photo: DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP British police can seize nearly 2.7 million pounds (NZ$5.9 million) from internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan over unpaid tax, a London judge ruled. Britain's Devon and Cornwall Police took legal action at Westminster Magistrates' Court against the Tates and an unnamed third person earlier this year. The force's lawyers said the Tates had not paid any tax on around 21 million pounds of revenue from online businesses between 2014 and 2022 and that funds in seven accounts should be forfeited. Judge Paul Goldspring said in a written ruling that the Tates had been liable to register with the tax authorities and declare and pay tax on revenue in Britain and/or Ro...

By Dee Ninis of This screengrab taken from handout video footage posted on the Facebook account of Michael Thompson on 17 December, 2024 shows people inspecting a damaged car trapped underneath a collapsed building in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila after a powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island. Photo: MICHAEL THOMPSON / AFP The death toll from Vanuatu's earthquake disaster continues to rise, with international search and rescue operations underway to help people hit by the initial quake and its aftershocks. On Tuesday afternoon, a powerful earthquake struck 30 kilometres off the west coast of Efate, the main island of Vanuatu. At a magnitude of 7.2 and a depth of just 50km, the earthquake damaged many buildings and injured dozens of people in Port Vila, the Pacif...

Photo: NZ Defence Force / Sergeant Maria Eves The search for people trapped in rubble and landslides is continuing to day as the New Zealand Defence Force arrives in Port Vila. The Defence Force was delayed arriving into Vanuatu after a fault on one of the older Hercules plane. Labour said it was embarrassing, but a new Hercules plane has landed in Port Vila and a second is on the way to Noumea. More than 300 after shocks have been felt since the big quake on Tuesday. And the official death toll was revised down to 9, though it was expected to rise. Two Chinese nationals were among the dead. Follow RNZ's liveblog for the latest updates: Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. Source link...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek, Reuters A digitally-colorized microscopic image of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus particles (seen in gold), grown in epithelial cells (green). Photo: CDC/ Cynthia Goldsmith, Jacqueline Katz, Sherif R Zaki The US has reported its first severe human case of bird flu in a Louisiana resident who is hospitalised in critical condition after suspected contact with an infected backyard flock. The illness shows increased risks from the virus that previously caused eye redness, or conjunctivitis, in infected farm workers. H5N1 bird flu still represents a low risk to the general public, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said. CDC has confirmed 61 human cases since April, mostly in workers on dairy farms where the virus infected cattle. Workers c...

By Jackie Wattles and Ross Levitt, CNN In this photo from NASA, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams appear inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June. Photo: NASA/AP via CNN Newsource NASA has announced that it is delaying the SpaceX Crew-10 launch, a move that will keep astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - who already had their stay aboard the International Space Station unexpectedly extended - in orbit even longer. Williams and Wilmore launched to space in June, piloting the first crewed test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Their trip, expected to last about a week, ballooned into a monthslong assignment after their vehicle experienced technical issues en route t...