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☆ Archaeologists in Germany find centuries-old skeleton with prosthetic hand
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a centuries-old skeleton complete with a metal prosthetic hand to replace four missing fingers. This would make the prosthetic hand potentially almost 600 years old. A bandage-like fabric was found inside the prosthetic hand, suggesting that it was used to cushion the stump. And an even older, 3,000-year-old prosthetic wooden toe was uncovered by archaeologists in Egypt in 1997. Worn by a priest’s daughter, the toe was was made to both enable walking and look aesthetically natural, archaeologists later discovered.
Persons: ” Walter Irlinger, Bayerisches, für, für Denkmalpflege Freising, Götz von Berlichingen Organizations: CNN, Archaeologists, Bavarian State Office, Monument Preservation Locations: Germany, Bavarian, Freising, Munich, für Denkmalpflege, Central Europe, Friesing, Egypt
☆ New York Governor Hochul directs agencies to probe toxic lead cables
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
July 20 (Reuters) - Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday directed the public service, health and environmental conservation departments to investigate risks associated with old lead-clad cables left by telecommunication companies following a recent report. The Wall Street Journal earlier this month reported that telecom companies including AT&T (T.N) had left toxic lead cables on poles, underwater and buried under ground across the U.S. including the State of New York. The purpose of the investigation is to better understand the inventory and ownership of such cables in New York, according to a statement from the governor's office. "Lead-covered cables pose a serious threat to communities across New York ... We will hold the telecommunication companies responsible and take swift action to remediate any problems," Hochul said in a statement. Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru Editing by Vinay DwivediOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Kathy Hochul, Hochul, Mrinalika Roy, Vinay Dwivedi Organizations: Democratic, Street, Thomson Locations: New York, Bengaluru
☆ Yellow-crested cockatoos find an unlikely urban refuge in Hong Kong
  + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +18 min
Hong Kong CNN —It’s dusk in Hong Kong Park. On a sweltering summer day in Hong Kong Park, nestled between skyscrapers in the urban center of the Asian metropolis, a yellow-crested cockatoo perches on a branch. Noemi Cassanelli/CNN Yellow-crested cockatoos nest in old trees, typically more than 100 years old, which form cavities in the trunk. Hong Kong, despite its urban sprawl and concrete veneer, is a stronghold for several endangered species, including Chinese pangolins, Hong Kong groupers, and the black-faced spoonbill. (According to the AFCD, it has “not received any report related to poaching of yellow-crested cockatoos in the past three years.”)Extremely picky about where they roost, the yellow-crested cockatoos use cavities that form in the trunks of trees that are typically older than 100 years.
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☆ These strange-looking turtles in Hong Kong could soon be extinct
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +10 min
Hong Kong CNN —One of the world’s most densely populated cities might seem an unlikely refuge for endangered wildlife. While in Hong Kong, the unlikeliness of the setting has enabled them to fly largely under poachers’ radar. Professor Sung Yik-hei with a Big-headed turtle at a lab at Lingnan University in Hong Kong on April 13, 2023. Courtesy Sung Yik-hei Professor Sung Yik-hei monitors an area near a river in Hong Kong on April 13, 2023. A few hundred are left in Hong Kong, and perhaps even fewer in its other homes of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
☆ Recycling plastic can be a little confusing. Here's what the numbers inside the recycling symbol mean
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Lindsey Jacobson | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Plastics labeled with a number 1 are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to the Greenpeace report. It is still important to know the difference between the types of plastics, since municipalities handle each type of plastic differently. This type of plastic film is often collected separately from plastics labeled 1 and 2. Polystyrene, or PS, is labeled number 6 and can be used to make takeaway containers, coffee cups, insulation and disposable coolers. Finally, plastics labeled number 7 are a mixture of various types of plastics.
☆ Hong Kong to resume hamster imports a year after mass cull over Covid
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Marie Brockling | Dorothy Kam | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
HONG KONG — Hong Kong is lifting a ban on the importing of hamsters for sale, a year after it ordered more than 2,000 hamsters and other small mammals to be culled in an effort to prevent pets from spreading Covid-19 to people. The Hong Kong government ordered the culling last January after a small virus outbreak was traced to a pet shop called Little Boss that had imported hamsters from the Netherlands. Hong Kong residents who had recently purchased hamsters were advised to surrender their pets, shops selling hamsters were temporarily shut down and an import ban was enacted. But at the time of the Hong Kong government’s decision last year, the Chinese territory was following a strict “zero-Covid” approach in line with mainland China, leading officials to act aggressively. In recent weeks both Hong Kong and mainland China have relaxed anti-Covid restrictions that minimized cases and deaths but also caused widespread public frustration.
☆ Hong Kong to allow import of hamsters after year-long COVID ban
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Pedestrians walk past a closed pet shop in Mong Kok district after a hamster cull was ordered to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Hong Kong, China, January 19, 2022. The government aims to "resume commercial imports of hamsters around mid-January," it said in a statement to Reuters. In January 2022, Hong Kong ordered a hamster cull amid an outbreak of Delta variant cases in humans that was traced back to a pet shop worker in the Chinese special administrative region. Hong Kong's pet rodent clampdown had echoed the mainland's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19. Little Boss, the operating company which owned the pet shop at the heart of Hong Kong's hamster cull last year, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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