The situation of the european seas must be improved urgently with decisive measures in view of comprehensive problems such as overfishing, climate change and pollution.
This is the conclusion of the copenhagen-based EU environmental agency EEA in a report on the situation of europe’s seas. Otherwise, time is running out to reverse decades of failures and excessive exploitation.
Heroic action without a happy ending: two surfers fought a rough shark off the east coast of australia on sunday and pulled another surfer, who had been bitten by the animal, to the beach.
But his left leg injuries were too severe – the 60-year-old from the state of queensland died despite immediate treatment, police reported. It is assumed that the three meter long attacker was a female shark. The attack occurred at the popular salt beach near kingscliff, 800 kilometers north of sydney.
The time is ripe: at the top-four tournament for the german basketball cup, the FC bayern munchen hoopers want to end their 50-year curse and take home the trophy for the second time since 1968.
"We have to be mentally ready for the weekend and focus on ourselves," said bayern coach sasa djordjevic ahead of the semifinals against host ratiopharm ulm this saturday (16.00 a.M.).
The youth summer vacation program in the community of altenkunstadt went into its next round. This time, the children and young people were given the opportunity to make a boomerang, which used to be the weapon of such well-known tribes as the aborigines. Gerhard kunze shows how it's done.
The oldest boomerangs made of wood were unearthed during excavations in australia, they are about 10 000 years old. Even older are boomerang finds, which were made from the stob tooth of a woolly mammoth, and even in agyptian burial chambers litter woods belonged to the grave goods. The traditional shape of a boomerang, explained gerhard kunze, resembles the letter "L"; however, there are now designs that have three and more "poor" ants. But all of them have a rather similar shape, which creates a dynamic buoyancy. It resembles the wing profile of an airplane. There were always two main distinctions: the hunting boomerangs, which could fly farther and more unerringly, and the so-called "return boomerangs" which returned to their launcher.
The authorities have been investigating the gleusdorf case for two years. The information about inadequate and unworthy care of residents of the senior residence love the authorities after a report of the french day in september 2016 for the first time become bright-eyed.
A police raid followed, including arrests on suspicion of manslaughter, which in the meantime is no longer upheld due to an expert opinion. However, there are still accusations of mistreatment of the warded as well as other crimes, which have recently been fueled by recent incidents and testimonies of completely new witnesses.
For the summer, they still expect unemployment to fall and new jobs to be created, but at a subdued pace, according to the labor market monitor published by the institute for labor market and occupational research (IAB).
The labor market barometer, based on a survey of the heads of the 156 german employment agencies, fell for the second time in succession in may. It decreased slightly by 0.4 points to 104.1 payers. In april, the value had fallen by 0.9 points to 104.5 payers. The barometer scale ranges from 90 (very poor development) to 110 (very good development). He thus continues to indicate a positive climate.
The vdk local association of bad kissingen, with over 1900 members, elected a totally younger board of directors at its general meeting. Only lorette weib, who already held the office of deputy chairwoman, remained from the old kissingen executive committee.
But from the beginning: a few weeks ago, the garitz vdk local association, with its over 200 members, unanimously broke up. "This would not have been absolutely necessary, because actually the two local federations garitz and bad kissingen wanted to merge", dear district secretary manuela metz the present know. "It's great how the vdk in kissingen has run so far", praised the geschaftsfuhrerin further, only that for the association with its scarcely 1700 members because of illness and age hardly still a new executive committee found itself. So the vdk local association in bad kissingen gained well over 200 new members virtually overnight, who also made up a large part of the new executive committee in the upcoming election.