China hit by worst sandstorm in a decade
China hit by worst sandstorm in a decade
AP / Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
Visibilty affected; hundreds of
BEIJING
China’s capital and a wide swath of the country’s north were enveloped on Monday in the worst sandstorm in a decade, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
Skyscrapers in the centre of Beijing appeared to drop from sight amid the dust and
sand. Traffic was snarled and more than 400 flights out of the capital’s two main airports were cancelled amid high winds and low visibility.
The National Meteorological Centre said Monday’s
Wide focus needed on Whanganui s Castlecliff Beach, district councillor says
16 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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New arrangements at Castlecliff Beach are worth talking about, Whanganui District councillor James Barron says. Photo / Bevan Conley
New arrangements at Castlecliff Beach are worth talking about, Whanganui District councillor James Barron says. Photo / Bevan Conley
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Any talk about grooming Castlecliff Beach needs to go wider than just saying Whanganui District Council shouldn t clear sand away, councillor James Barron says. During the workshop that preceded the Coastal Restoration Trust conference in Whanganui on March 9, coastal scientist Jim Dahm said the best way to capture windblown sand was to use a spinifex dune.
Once
Shameless made the decision to have Liam’s stray bullet paralyze rather than kill Terry Milkovich, I knew there had to be a reason.
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Killing Terry at that point would have been perfectly acceptable as a story development. He’s a racist homophobe who was last seen before this season trying to kill his son for having the gall to be gay and get married, so his death would have been welcomed in the grand scheme of things. But the writers clearly believed that there was something else that needed to be accomplished with Terry, and so after he returned from the hospital the story shifted toward Mickey’s sense of family responsibility to the man who made his life a living hell in more ways that I have time to recount right now, which confounded me. What did the show think needed to be resolved in this story that Terry dying wouldn’t have accomplished?
Sand crisis: Mafias thrive as shortages loom
Demand for construction sand is rising faster than supply, pushing even countries in the Middle East to import it from as far away as Australia and Canada.
Mining so much sand is destroying ecosystems and fueling violence
It makes up the concrete of our houses, the tarmac of our roads, the glass in our windows and the silicon chips in our phones.
But sand, a building block of modern life that sits at the heart of a destructive and sometimes illegal industry, is in increasingly short supply and nobody knows how soon it will run out.