Nigeria: Degrees of Heat – Northern Nigeria Students Wilt in Climate Extremes

“Whenever the weather is hot, students’ performance declines,” says Abubakar Kawu Monguno, Director of the Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies at the University of Maiduguri. He says that daily temperatures in the north can surpass 40°C and go as high as 45°C. This makes life harder for students in both direct and indirect ways. “The issue of malaria is common during this period, [while] mosquitoes and the presence of power outages will all add to the problem,”

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BRICS: 30 Countries Participate to Ditch the U.S. Dollar as Global Reserve Currency

According to the latest report, the BRICS alliance has formally received applications from 25 countries to join the bloc. The 25 nations that expressed their interest to join are Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.

#BRICS #GlobalsCurrency #USDollar #Brazil

At least 78 dead, hundreds feared missing after migrant boat sinks off Greek coast

At least 78 people are confirmed dead and hundreds of others, including children, are feared to have drowned after a fishing vessel crowded with migrants and asylum seekers capsized and sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, according to Greek and UN officials.

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Scientists Discover Massive “Ocean” Near Earth’s Core

Jacobsen and his team were able to make this discovery though the use of 2000 seismometers, which they used to study the seismic waves that were generated by more than 500 earthquakes. These waves move throughout Earth’s interior. “They make the Earth ring like a bell for days afterwards,” says Jacobsen. By measuring the speed of the waves at different depths, the team could figure out which types of rocks the waves were passing through, which is how they determined that there is ringwoodite in the transition zone 400 miles (700 km) down.

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