The unprecedented global shutdown has had some surprising effects on the environment. On the upside, less commerce and commuting has resulted in lower pollution. On the downside, the lockdown has translated into fewer volunteers for conservation efforts and a serious lack of ecological law enforcement. So as we pause, amid this great pause, to celebrate Earth Day, here are some of the pandemic’s less obvious effects on our common home.
To borrow and slightly modify a famous quote from Napoleon “The Greeks’showed themselves worthy of victory, but the Romans showed themselves worthy of being invincible.”
The Romans were the most powerful fighting force the world had ever seen. There was simply no stopping their expansion.
Wouldn’t you say that it just looks like a blurry picture of Albert Einstein? Maybe even ghostly with the shadowing.
Only if you do not mind contaminating the pool
…and in the process pissing off a lot of people for it.
SINGAPORE – A man appeared in a district court on Friday (April 24) after he allegedly left home about 30 minutes before his period of isolation ended during the coronavirus outbreak.
Cape Town, a city of some 4 million people, is on the verge of running out of water. Terrifying as it may sound, water scarcity never happens by surprise. At the national, provincial, and municipal levels, South Africa’s leaders ignored Cape Town’s shrinking water supply until it became a crisis.
After the largest downward difficulty adjustment since ASICs started mining Bitcoin, the network difficulty has recorded two consecutive upward adjustments. Our latest Miner Insights piece details several factors likely playing into the higher hash rate and faster block times which drove the upward difficulty adjustments.
Yesterday (22 Apr) there were 1,016 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore with 967 involving foreign workers residing in dormitories.
The extension to circuit breaker measures could have a devastating impact on the motor trade and transport sectors, both of which are already reeling from a downward spiral in demand.