North Korea forced to cut food rations to record low after 'worst harvest in a decade'
North Korea’s daily food rations have been cut to a record low this year after experiencing the worst harvest in a decade. The Hermit State has rations to 300 grams a day — or 11 ounces - with further cuts likely the United Nations said on Friday. According to US organisation The Nutrition Centre, a good mix of proteins, carbohydrates, fruit, vegetables and dairy products weighs 2 kilos per day per person. The UN conducted a food assessment between March 29 to April 12, at the request of North Korea.
An American diver broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever and found something disheartening at the bottom of the ocean — a plastic bag. Victor Vescovo traveled seven miles down to the deepest part of the ocean, Mariana Trench in the Pacific, BBC News reports.
Deep sea diving : American undersea explorer Victor Vescovo, pictured, has completed the deepest sea dive ever recorded .(Photo Credit: Discovery/Five Deeps Expedition). As well as several potential new species, Vescovo said he saw a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the deepest place on the
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An American diver broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever and found something disheartening at the bottom of the ocean — a plastic bag. Victor Vescovo traveled seven miles down to the deepest part of the ocean, Mariana Trench in the Pacific, BBC News reports
During his four-hour excursion, Vescovo spotted new sea creatures — as well as a plastic bag and candy wrappers. The dive was recorded for "Deep Planet," a series that will air on Discovery Channel later this year.
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The scientists plan on testing the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics. This is a widespread problem for sea creatures, even those living extremely deep in the ocean, a recent study has found.
"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did," Vescovo told BBC News. "This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving — rapidly and repeatedly — into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean."
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An American undersea explorer has completed what is claimed to be the deepest manned sea dive ever recorded As well as four new species that could offer clues about the origins of life on Earth, Vescovo said he observed a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the deepest point on the planet.
It was the voyage to break the record for the world's deepest ocean dive . But at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, in among the discovery In an interview with CNN, the American diver said his team were going to perform tests on the creatures to determine the percentage of plastics
The team dove to the bottom of the Mariana Trench five times, BBC News reports. It was part of Vescovo's "Five Deeps expedition," his attempt to explore the deepest parts of all five oceans. Vescovo, a private equity investor, is funding the expeditions. Previously, he climbed the highest peaks on each of the planet's seven continents.
The first deep dive into the Mariana Trench was in 1960, when U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard ventured into the deep abyss of the Pacific Ocean.
In 2012, movie director James Cameron made a solo trip into the Mariana Trench.
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Just 10 brands account for half of litter which ends up on beaches and riverbanks, according to a report of a huge UK-wide clean-up involving 45,000 volunteers of who collected the waste.
According to CNN, An American undersea explorer has completed what is claimed to be the deepest manned sea dive ever recorded -- returning to the surface
An American diver set a new record for the deepest dive in history. Victor Vescovo plunged nearly 36,000 feet in his watercraft to the lowest part of the
Vescovo has lead dives in the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench, the South Sandwich Trench and the Indian Ocean's Java Trench. Next, he will attempt to reach the bottom of the Arctic Ocean's Molloy Deep.
The extreme pressure and darkness make it extremely challenging to travel deep beneath the sea and capture images. The pressure at the bottom of the ocean is equal to about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person, according to BBC News.
When the Five Deeps expedition is complete, the researchers plan to pass their findings onto science institutions, which will continued to use their information for studies.
Plastic has had a far-reaching effect on the landscape of earth, with South Pacific’s Henderson Island being the most plastic polluted island in the world. Scientists have discovered that the island, whose beaches were once UNESCO World Heritage sites, is now littered with approximately 37.7 million pieces of plastic.
Here’s a look at some other places where the indiscriminate use of plastic is taking a toll on the planet, and how countries are reacting to the mounting global crisis.
(Pictured) Piles of garbage at the Korgashino solid waste landfill in the town of Mytishchi, outside Moscow, Russia.
On March 27, 2019, the European parliament voted to ban single-use plastics across the EU by 2021. The law was passed in an attempt to tackle increasing plastic pollution on beaches and in oceans.
(Pictured) Plastic waste sits on a freshly cultivated field in Nauen, Germany on September 9, 2018.
In December 2018, Peru passed a law banning the single-use plastic bags. The country has also restricted the use of single-use plastics in its natural and cultural protected areas and national museums.
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A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million with fees, breaking the record at auction for a work by a living artist, set just last November by David Hockney. Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer. It was the ultimate prize among six works offered at Christie’s from the collection of the magazine publisher S.I.
(Pictured) Groups of volunteers clean up plastic waste on a beach in Lima, during the World Environment Day on June 5, 2018.
According to studies by World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, some remote beaches along the coast of the country such as Gwadar and Kund Malir are littered with plastic, posing serious risk to marine life.
(Pictured) Ragpickers collect recyclable materials from plastic bags in Karachi on May 14, 2018.
In 2014, the government of the African country introduced a ban on plastic bags used for packaging water to reduce pollution.
(Pictured) Plastic items and other debris are seen on Vridi beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on November 21, 2018.
Scale of plastic pollution ‘underestimated’ as scientists find 414 million pieces on remote island
Researchers found 4154 million pieces of plastic pollution from bottles to straws to toothrburshes, littering two tiny, remote coral atolls. The sheer scale of the debris on Australia’s Cocos Islands has made scientists reassess the amount of plastic pollution that may already be in the world. The researchers say that much of the waste is buried beneath the surface, meaning that previous surveys may have missed it. Even the figure of 414 million may be an underestimate, the researchers warned. The researchers surveyed seven out of 27 Cocos Islands, and found 262 tons of plastic, including 977,000 shoes. The researchers say that 93% of the debris was below the surface.
In February 2016, the country launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags and asked retailers to charge consumers up to $0.37 (IDR 5,000) for each plastic bag used.
(Pictured) Plastic waste that washed ashore following strong waves on Sanur beach in Bali on April 12, 2018.
According to Ocean Conservancy, a non-profit environmental group, more than half of the plastic waste in the oceans comes from five countries — Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
(Pictured) A reservoir area with various types of marine fish seen contaminated with plastic waste in Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia on March 22, 2019.
The Thames Estuary shoreline, a feeding ground for wading birds and other marine wildlife, has been battling plastic pollution. According to Thames River Watch surveys, plastic bottles make up 10 percent of all litter items on the river shore.
(Pictured) Plastics and other detritus line the shore of the Thames Estuary in Cliffe on Jan. 2, 2018.
The government promised $81.5M (£61M) to fight plastic pollution in the world's oceans in April 2018, and in October 2018 joined over 250 organisations in signing the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to tackle global plastic waste and pollution.
‘Literally drowning in plastic’: 414 million pieces of trash washed up on remote islands
Working among the debris, researchers found 373,000 toothbrushes and 977,000 shoes. It would take the population of Cocos 4,000 years to produce an equivalent amount of trash, the study said. “They did not create this problem and they cannot undo it on their own,” Lavers said. In videos taken of the isolated beaches, hermit crabs could be seen scuttling among discarded flip-flops and crumpled bottles. Nearby, clumps of sun-bleached rope lay tangled in what appeared to be fishing nets.
(Pictured) Volunteers pose for photographers with a Valentine's Day heart-shaped collection of plastic bottles they made from bottles that were lying washed up nearby on the north bank of the River Thames in London on Feb. 9, 2018.
More than two thousand volunteers turned up for a mass rubbish clean-up at Turtle Cove in Lamma Island after environment campaigners warned that plastic is killing marine wildlife, especially sea turtles who consume bags mistaking them for jellyfish.
(Pictured) Items collected by participants taking part in the beach clean-up drive on Lamma Island on May 27, 2018.
In an attempt to curb plastic pollution, fishermen in Livorno organized a project called Arcipelago Pulito in 2018, in which they collect plastic caught in their fishing nets and bring ashore to recycle at a specialized plant. Each fish haul contains around 10 percent plastic waste.
(Pictured) A view of bales of plasmix ready to be recycled in Pontedera on May 24, 2018.
Scientists at the University of Bergen retrieved 30 plastic bags from the stomach of a dead whale on the west coast in 2017. The country manages to recycle over 90 percent of its plastic bottles. They have installed reverse vending machines at places for people to throw their waste. These machines are later taken to specialized recycling areas. Over 600 million plastic bottles were recycled in 2016.
(Pictured) Waste is seen during a beach clean-up drive off the coast of Norway, on April 25, 2018.
Approximately 10 million plastic bags are used every day in the country’s capital Phnom Penh alone, according to anti-poverty organization ACRA in 2015.
(Pictured) Trash strewn on Long Beach in Koh Rong Island on Feb. 14, 2018.
Out of all the European nations, the highest demand of plastic is in Germany, according to PlasticsEurope. Their 2018 plastics report stated that Germany accounts for 24.6% of European plastic converter demand.
(Pictured) Bits of plastic and other trash lie gathered during a clean-up on a riverfront public area on March 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
On Jan. 1, 2018, the country imposed a ban on recycling the globe’s dump, leaving many nations, like the U.S., in the lurch. The U.S. had been exporting more than 1.42 million tons of scrap plastics annually to China for recycling.
(Pictured) Plastic waste washed ashore on the coastal strip of Shanghai on May 13, 2018.
The country discards about 1.83 tons of plastic waste that winds up in the oceans.
(Pictured) A woman gathers shells in a coastal forest littered with waste stuck in branches, after it was washed up by rising coastal tide in Thanh Hóa on May 18, 2018.
The country banned single-use plastic products from Jan. 1, 2018, after joining the CleanSeas campaign against ocean pollution, during the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, in December 2017. The goal of the country is to make its ocean and coastline pollution-free by 2030.
(Pictured) Egrets gather in a garbage dump at Kadirana on May 6, 2018.
As part of World Earth Day 2018 celebrations on April 22, Afghanistan joined other nations by carrying out a clean-up operation at Hashmat Khan Lake in conjunction with the theme "End Plastic Pollution."
(Pictured) A woman walks next to a pile of plastic bags in Kabul on May 6, 2018.
The country’s Pollution Control Department has reported that its plastic waste is increasing at the annual rate of 12 percent, or around 2 million tonnes.
(Pictured) Bottle caps are collected to be sent to recycle factory for processing in Nakhon Pathom on Aug. 4, 2017.
A sperm whale was found dead on a Spanish beach in April 2018. An autopsy revealed that the whale had 29 kilos of plastic in its stomach, which blocked its digestive system and caused its death.
(Pictured) Waste lies on the ground during the Tamborrada, the Drum Festival held in the city of San Sebastián on Jan. 20, 2018.
In 2017, volunteers collected 148,636 pieces of plastic, 77,434 food wrappers and 46,041 plastic bottle caps during a one-day coastal clean-up operation at a California beach.
(Pictured) Plastic bottles wash into the Tidal Basin after heavy rains in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2018.
Stores across the country began charging for plastic bags from Jan. 1, 2018. Notably, only 16 percent of the country’s trash is recycled, compared to the EU’s average of 44 percent, according a news report published by the Associated Press.
(Pictured) Earthmovers push mountains of garbage as seagulls fly over the country's largest landfill at Fyli, Attica on Feb. 7, 2018.
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‘Literally drowning in plastic’: 414 million pieces of trash washed up on remote islands.
Working among the debris, researchers found 373,000 toothbrushes and 977,000 shoes. It would take the population of Cocos 4,000 years to produce an equivalent amount of trash, the study said. “They did not create this problem and they cannot undo it on their own,” Lavers said. In videos taken of the isolated beaches, hermit crabs could be seen scuttling among discarded flip-flops and crumpled bottles. Nearby, clumps of sun-bleached rope lay tangled in what appeared to be fishing nets.
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North Korea’s daily food rations have been cut to a record low this year after experiencing the worst harvest in a decade. The Hermit State has rations to 300 grams a day — or 11 ounces - with further cuts likely the United Nations said on Friday. According to US organisation The Nutrition Centre, a good mix of proteins, carbohydrates, fruit, vegetables and dairy products weighs 2 kilos per day per person. The UN conducted a food assessment between March 29 to April 12, at the request of North Korea. 
Data from the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory found that every school in the capital is over the WHO limit of 10mg of PM2.5 per cubic metre. 
More than 180 countries have agreed to include plastic in a treaty regulating exports of hazardous waste. 
Just 10 brands account for half of litter which ends up on beaches and riverbanks, according to a report of a huge UK-wide clean-up involving 45,000 volunteers of who collected the waste. 
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A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million with fees, breaking the record at auction for a work by a living artist, set just last November by David Hockney. Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer. It was the ultimate prize among six works offered at Christie’s from the collection of the magazine publisher S.I. 
Researchers found 4154 million pieces of plastic pollution from bottles to straws to toothrburshes, littering two tiny, remote coral atolls. The sheer scale of the debris on Australia’s Cocos Islands has made scientists reassess the amount of plastic pollution that may already be in the world. The researchers say that much of the waste is buried beneath the surface, meaning that previous surveys may have missed it. Even the figure of 414 million may be an underestimate, the researchers warned. The researchers surveyed seven out of 27 Cocos Islands, and found 262 tons of plastic, including 977,000 shoes. The researchers say that 93% of the debris was below the surface. 
Working among the debris, researchers found 373,000 toothbrushes and 977,000 shoes. It would take the population of Cocos 4,000 years to produce an equivalent amount of trash, the study said. “They did not create this problem and they cannot undo it on their own,” Lavers said. In videos taken of the isolated beaches, hermit crabs could be seen scuttling among discarded flip-flops and crumpled bottles. Nearby, clumps of sun-bleached rope lay tangled in what appeared to be fishing nets. 
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