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Headline:
You could soon be a victim of cybercrime--- here's how to try to stop that happening..
WHO: Social media users
WHAT: There have been more than 13,500 reports of cybercrime to the ACSC in the past three months.
WHERE: Australia
WHEN: Since july 29
WHY I CHOOSE THIS STORY: I feel that , before social media cyberbullying or cybercrime was something only done face-to-face. However, now someone can be bullied online. Today everyone knows what cyberbullying is ,and we know what it can do to a person. The online attacks
often leave deep mental scars and even drive people to suicide in some cases. Cyberbullying isn't just affecting kids, but also full grown adults..

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Posted October 07, 2019 06:00:43

A survey by the ACSC found people lost $700 on average to cybercrime, and two thirds of victims were aged between 25 and 34 years.

Topics: consumer-protection, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia

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Posted October 07, 2019 06:00:43 A survey by the ACSC found people lost $700 on average to cybercrime, and two thirds of victims were aged between 25 and 34 years. Topics: consumer-protection, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia

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Headline:
Doctors and engineers end up taxi drivers.
WHO: Manal Aqrawe
What:She was born Iraq and left her hometown  because of war. She became a new migrant in Australia. However, even she has more than 20 years of doctor's experience,she  can't find relevant jobs so far. By the end, she becomes driver and still looking for job opportunity. She is not only one case.
Where: Australia
Why i choose this stroy:
i quit my job and come to Australia for studying Master. I have some years of accounting experience so i would like to get relevant job experience here.
When i saw this headline, i was shock, so i want to read more to find out the reasons why it happened.

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Posted October 31, 2019 06:30:00

Manal Aqrawe is a doctor with more than 20 years of experience, but she can't get a job in Australia - even outside medicine.

Born in Iraq, she left when Mosul fell to Islamic State - losing her home, job and "anything related" to her previous life "within minutes".

Manal now calls Brisbane home, and she feels lucky to have "a second chance in a safe place".

But despite passing stringent medical qualifications here, she's found it difficult to get a hospital position.

"The reason was due to lack of local experience or local referees, and huge competition for limited job vacancies," she tells RN's This Working Life.

Even with an unpaid stint as an observer at a hospital, she's still unemployed and is now looking for "any opportunity" for work.

It's a sobering story, but not an isolated one.

New migrants trying to negotiate Australia's workforce face a litany of uphill battles: lack of skills recognition; uncertainty of work; a greater risk of vulnerability and exploitation.

According to the Australia Talks National Survey, 86 per cent of new migrants think companies will always try to exploit workers if they can.

And 68 per cent said they'd be happier with a better job.

So what are some of the barriers to entry for newly-arrived migrants in Australian workplaces - and the challenges they face once they're there?

'Doctors end up driving taxis'

Mohammad Al-Khafaji, the CEO of the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia, says qualification recognition is just one reason migrants find it hard to gain relevant work.

"There is a culture in Australia where qualification doesn't really mean much," he says.

"In Australia, we have this obsession with 'Australian experience'."

Chirag Khunt, a pharmaceutical science graduate who migrated to Australia from India in 2011, experienced this first-hand.

"The biggest question [which was a] challenge to me was: 'do you have local experience?' which I don't," he says.

He's since been able to secure a job in his field: working in quality control and assurance for a multinational pharmaceutical company.

But it hasn't come easily.

When he first moved to Australia, applying for work was a "challenge" because he wasn't sure how to format a CV and had "no clue" about cover letters.

"I started applying for jobs and ended up applying for 250 plus jobs in four to five months," he says.

"Every day I was getting emails saying my application was unsuccessful.

"Even though I have good experience, my experience was overseas."

Mr Al-Khafaji sees this as a "missed opportunity" for employers, particularly in fields where there are skills shortages.

"If we continue on the path that we are continuing on now, we will miss out on a huge percentage of very qualified, very innovative people that we should be welcoming," he says.

"It's making some of our doctors or engineers end up driving taxis or Ubers."

Temporary visas

While Chirag has permanent residency status, many other new migrants arrive on temporary visas.

Joanna Howe, from the faculty of law at the University of Adelaide, says such visa conditions can result in a "restricted job market".

"One of the things that we've seen over the last two decades is a real shift to temporary visa holders being the mainstay of the labour migration program," she says.

"For international students, they can only work 40 hours a fortnight, so they need to find an employer willing to hire them for that amount."

In such cases, Dr Howe says employers are "much less likely" to hire migrant workers who are on temporary visas.

"They'd rather go with someone who's a sure bet and going to stay in Australia for longer."

And once hired, new migrants on temporary visas are exposed to a greater degree of job insecurity and vulnerability - as the 2019 Migrant Workers' Taskforce report highlights.

The report found 50 per cent of almost 880,000 migrant workers in the country may be being underpaid.

"While we know that there are many good employers across the country, the fact of the matter is ... and the taskforce report highlights this, that some aspects of our visa design creates these structural vulnerabilities for temporary migrants," Dr Howe says.

Employers become in effect the "immigration sponsor as well as an employer" and that creates "additional vulnerabilities" for migrant employees.

"There's lots of incentives for these workers not to complain, because if they do complain and they report exploitation, they will lose their job and therefore possibly their right to stay," Dr Howe adds.

'A sense of resilience'

For Chirag, part of the learning curve has been around learning "interpersonal skills" at work.

"That's hard for migrant to understand," he explains, "because they're coming from one part of the world to another part of the world with the same mindset".

Coming from India, he had the requisite technical skills.

"But when it comes to talking with people, that's the scary part. I was good with computers, but I was not good with people," Chirag says.

New migrants like Candida Rego say network-building has been key to her transition to working in Australia.

She arrived in Darwin on a skilled regional sponsored visa from Dubai, requiring her to work and live in the Northern Territory for a number of years.

"Personally I think there are many advantages I have had that have helped me over here in Darwin," she says.

Knowing English from a young age has made things easier, as she says "communication is key as you're looking for employment".

But it was more than that.

"Although I was looking for a job, which is important, I used my time to integrate into the community and to learn the culture well rather than just sitting at home in front of a computer applying for jobs every day," Candida says.

She joined a local choir and badminton club - and experts say it's these kind of informal community support networks that can make a big difference when it comes to finding work.

"As Candida's story shows, it is through word-of-mouth, letting people know your skills ... and that's what newcomers don't have in being disconnected, particularly in the regions," says Carmen Garcia, the CEO of Community Corporate, a diversity and inclusion firm.

Mr Al-Khafaji agrees.

"It's critical to make sure that new migrants feel welcome and part of a community that can support them," he says.

"I remember when we came to Australia, the Iraqi community in Adelaide got around us ... and we just felt at home because we knew people that spoke our language and understood where we came from and we just could build that trust right away, and I think that's really critical."

He thinks regional settlement can't happen successfully without the right kind of investment.

"What we have with migrants is that sense of resilience and sense of appreciation for the opportunity that they've been given, because they know what it's like to not have those opportunities."

Manal continues to search for work.

It's a disheartening struggle - but despite everything, she maintains a kernel of hope.

"I do still feel lucky," she says.
The Australia Talks National Survey asked 54,000 Australians about their lives and what keeps them up at night. Use our interactive tool to see the results and how their answers compare with yours - available in English, Arabic, Vietnamese and simplified Chinese. Then, tune in at 8.30pm on November 18, as the ABC hosts a live TV event with some of Australia's best-loved celebrities exploring the key findings of the Australia Talks National Survey.
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Topics: work, community-and-society, workplace, human-interest, people, business-economics-and-finance, discrimination, immigration, australia, melbourne-3000, vic, nt, darwin-0800, sa, adelaide-5000

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Manal is a doctor with decades of experience. But she can't get a job in Australia

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Posted October 31, 2019 06:30:00 Manal Aqrawe is a doctor with more than 20 years of experience, but she can't get a job in Australia - even outside medicine. Born in Iraq, she left when Mosul fell to Islamic State - losing her home, job and "anything related" to her previous life "within minutes".

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Climate change: the effect of sea-level will increase three times.
Who:  Climate central, US-based non-profit news organisation.
What:  190 millions people from other countries will be living under water in 2100.
When: By 2100.
Where: China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand.
Why i choose this story: we know, we are facing with climate change that affect on our's life. This is real, however, we are less action that protect environment. We always talk to protect it, but we do not doing. Using private car, using plastic and destroying rain forest that we are demolished eco-system. I hope we should make an action in stead of theory.

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Millions more people will be at risk of coastal flooding from climate-driven sea-level rise later this century.

That's the conclusion of new research conducted by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit news organisation.

It finds that 190 million people will be living in areas that are projected to be below high-tide lines come 2100.

Today, the group calculates roughly 110 million are presently occupying these lands, protected by walls, levees, and other coastal defences.

The future at-risk total assumes only moderate global warming and therefore limited ocean encroachment.

Climate Central's investigations, published in the journal Nature Communications, have sought to correct the biases in the elevation datasets previously used to work out how far inland coastlines will be inundated.

UN panel signals red alert on 'Blue Planet'

Warming to drive 'robust increase' in UK flooding

Satellites sense Earth's lumps and bumps

The most famous of these datasets comes from a space shuttle mission.

The Endeavour orbiter used a radar instrument in 2000 to map heights across the globe. This 3D model of the planet has become one of the most used Earth observation datasets in history.

But the Climate Central team, of Scott Kulp and Benjamin Strauss, says it suffers from biases that in places make the land look higher than it really is.

This problem occurs particularly in locations where there is thick vegetation, such as forests; the radar tends to see the tree canopy, not the ground.

Kulp and Strauss used more modern, higher-resolution information from airborne lidar (laser) instruments to train a computer to make corrections to the shuttle's digital elevation model (DEM).

When this new CoastalDEM is used in tandem with population statistics and the latest forecasts for sea level rise, it becomes apparent that many more people are entering a precarious future.

The improved elevation data finds that even with moderate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, six Asian countries (China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand), where 237 million people live today, could face annual coastal flooding threats by 2050. That's roughly 183 million more than assessments based on prevailing elevation data.

New estimate versus old estimate

1. China - 93 million vs 29 million

2. Bangladesh - 42 million vs 5 million

3. India - 36 million vs 5 million

4. Vietnam - 31 million vs 9 million

5. Indonesia - 23 million vs 5 million

6. Thailand - 12 million vs 1 million

The team has produced an interactive map that illustrates the difference between estimates based solely on the shuttle legacy data and the reworked elevations.

And it's possible to see on this map how circumstances change depending on how well the world manages to constrain climate warming, which is pushing up ocean levels by heating the seas and melting ice stored in Antarctica and Greenland.

Under a pessimistic future of continued high emissions, CoastalDEM suggests up to 630 million people live today on land that is projected to have annual flood events by 2100.

For 2050, this number is 340 million, up from the estimated 250 million people who already live in this predicament.

In general, the CoastalDEM-derived estimates of the global population at risk from coastal flooding are three times greater than the values produced using just the shuttle information.

"We estimate one billion people now occupy land less than 10m above current high tide lines, including 250 million below 1m," the team tells Nature Communications.

Sea levels have been rising globally by over 3mm per year in recent decades, with an acceleration in this trend now observable.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated last month in a special report on the oceans that global average sea levels could rise by up to 1.1m by 2100, in the worst warming scenario.

Kulp and Strauss stress some limitations in their analysis.

For example, it assumes a static population - future growth and migration are not considered. Nor are improvements in coastal defences.

On a regional basis, the Climate Central analysis will be less surprising where coastal lidar surveys are already used to assess future flood risk. But its value is significant for those places which don't enjoy such good coverage.

And in a number of locations, the future risks are only partly to do with sea-level rise. Some of the world's coastal megacities have the additional challenge of subsidence;

In places, the ground is going down 10 times faster than the water is coming up.

This has been true of places like Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok where too much groundwater has been extracted from underlying soils.

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Sea level rise to affect 'three times more people'

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Millions more people will be at risk of coastal flooding from climate-driven sea-level rise later this century. That's the conclusion of new research conducted by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit news organisation. It finds that 190 million people will be living in areas that are projected to be below high-tide lines come 2100.

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Headline:
Qantas to inspect about 30 Boeing 737s after structural cracks discovered

WHO:  Qantas Airline
WHAT: Qantas had an inspection for 33 of its boeing after a crack are found in one plane during the mantainance.
WHERE: NSW, AUS
WHEN: Webnesday 30th, 2019
WHY I chose this story: I'm an International Student so that I often flight back to my home country after every school break. It is significant to update the news from airline industry that I am able to pick the preeminent airlines and good reputation to flight with.

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Updated October 31, 2019 08:03:08

Qantas will undertake an immediate inspection of 33 of its Boeing 737 aircraft after structural cracks were found in one plane during a scheduled maintenance check.

It comes after global concerns about cracks on some Boeing 737 aircraft that had completed more than 30,000 take-offs and landings.

Qantas said none of its planes had completed that many flights, but it had found cracking in one of its planes during a routine maintenance check.

It said it would inspect 33 of its fleet by the end of the week.

"We have found one example of cracking in an aircraft with just under 27,000 cycles (take-offs and landings), and this aircraft has been removed from service for repair," the airline said in a statement to the ABC.

"None of Qantas' 737s have reached the 30,000 cycle mark. However, out of an abundance of caution, we will have inspected 33 aircraft with more than 22,600 cycles by the end of the week rather than the seven months required."

The airline reiterated that there were no immediate safety risks associated with the cracks.

"Qantas would never operate an aircraft unless it was completely safe to do so," the statement said.

"Detailed analysis by Boeing shows that even when a crack is present, it does not immediately compromise the safety of the aircraft, as indicated by the timeframe given by regulators to perform the checks."

Topics: air-transport, business-economics-and-finance, air-and-space, nsw, australia

First posted October 30, 2019 21:52:16

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Updated October 31, 2019 08:03:08 Qantas will undertake an immediate inspection of 33 of its Boeing 737 aircraft after structural cracks were found in one plane during a scheduled maintenance check. It comes after global concerns about cracks on some Boeing 737 aircraft that had completed more than 30,000 take-offs and landings.

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Headline:

Mobile phones banned at WA schools to 'create the best possible learning environment'

WHO: Students at public schools
WHAT: Will not be allowed to use mobile devices.
WHEN: From 2020
WHERE: Western Australia.
WHY I chose this story: Because is interesting how mobile devices have break into our lives at the point that kids are using them at school and disturbing their natural learning process. I am convinced that mobile devices could be helpful for communications and also used as a tool to make some practice at school for example. But there are some studies warning that mobile devices are dangerous and may cause injuries in so many ways. In addition, their own designers didn't allow their children to use this mobile devices so, why our children should use them?? I think is an excellent new policy but I'm worried about how new generations are growing up leading with their addiction to mobile devices at the point that are disturbing their own learning process.

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Mobile phone use will be banned during school hours at West Australian public schools from next year, with the state government saying it will reduce distraction from studies and encourage face-to-face social interaction.

Students will also be prohibited from using smartwatches, earbuds, headphones and tablets during class.

Pupils from kindergarten to Year 6 will not be permitted to have mobile phones in their possession at all, while students from Years 7 to 12 must have them turned off and out of sight.

Smartwatches must be set to aeroplane mode.

Those who contravene the rules will, in the first instance, be forced to hand over the device, which will be returned at the end of the day.

A parent will have to go to the school to collect the device for second contraventions.

Exemptions can be made by teachers including for educational use or medical conditions.

"We want to create the best possible learning environment for WA kids, and our policy will allow students to focus on their school work, without the distraction of a mobile phone," Premier Mark McGowan said.

"The policy will improve the health and wellbeing of students, by encouraging children to connect socially in class and in the schoolyard."

The "off and away all day" policy follows consultation with teachers, parents and students.

The announcement on Wednesday was made at Ocean Reef Senior High School, which has had its own ban since the start of 2018.

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Mobile phone use will be banned during school hours at West Australian public schools from next year, with the state government saying it will reduce distraction from studies and encourage face-to-face social interaction. Students will also be prohibited from using smartwatches, earbuds, headphones and tablets during class.

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Headline:
Illegal immigration consequences, new research shows
WHO: people in developing countries
WHAT: many people were tried to entry Europe countries illegal and hope for better future
WHEN: in 2019
WHERE: British
Why I chose this story: I'm really regret for 39 people who found dead inside the truck bin in Essex (British), some of them are Vietnamese and it was so terrible to know that there are many more people, not only Vietnamese but also Chinese, Philippines, ... put their life in danger to find a new opportunity.
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British police have charged the 25-year-old driver of a container truck in which 39 people were found dead four days ago.

Maurice Robinson will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffick people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering.

The bodies were discovered on Wednesday after emergency services were alerted to people in a truck container on an industrial site in Grays, about 32km east of central London.

Police initially believed the dead were Chinese but Beijing said the nationalities had not been confirmed and on Saturday, a senior British police officer in charge of identification asked for help from Britain's Vietnamese community.

Chinese and Vietnamese officials are now both working closely with British police, the two countries' embassies have said.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered government officials to help establish the identities of the victims and look into cases of Vietnamese citizens sent abroad illegally.

Father Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest in the remote town of Yen Thanh in northern central Vietnam's Nghe An province, 300km south of Hanoi, said he believed most of the dead were likely from Vietnam. He told Reuters he was liaising with family members.

"The whole district is covered in sorrow," Nam said, as prayers for the dead rang out over loudspeakers throughout the misty, rain-soaked town on Saturday.

"This is a catastrophe for our community."

Nam said families had told him they knew relatives were travelling to Britain at the time the container truck was on the road, and had been unable to contact their loved ones.

The British police officer in charge of identifying the victims, Detective Chief Inspector Martin Pasmore, said very few of the victims were carrying official identification and he hoped to identify the dead through fingerprints, dental records and DNA, as well as photos from friends and relatives.

Police have found more than 500 items within the truck including bags, clothing and mobile phones, that need to be assessed. Once a preliminary identification has been made, liaison officers will be deployed to support families.

Apart from the man charged, who will appear in court on Monday for an initial hearing, three other people are under arrest in Britain on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking. A fourth person is under arrest in Dublin.

How the victims came to be in the truck is not yet known.

British police sought to reassure anyone living in Britain illegally that they would not be investigated if they came forward to help with the identification.

"If you come to us, we will do all we can to put our arm around you and take you through this process, and establish as quickly as possible whether or not we have your loved involved in this tragic incident, and try and reunite you," Pasmore said.

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British driver charged over 39 people found dead in truck as families mourn

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British police have charged the 25-year-old driver of a container truck in which 39 people were found dead four days ago. Maurice Robinson will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffick people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering.

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Headline:
Climate change melting the glaciers
Who:
By Kate Ramsayer,
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
What:
Helheim Glacier has retreated approximately 4.7 miles and Midgard glacier has retreated 10 miles
When:
From last five decades
Where:
Greenland
Why i choose this story:
I am very concerned about climate change which is changing rapidly. Glaciers are melting because of climate change which increases the sea level. We have to take some quick steps to stop climate change.
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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in the last half-century. Comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019, those changes and more come into view.

The glaciers appear brownish grey in this true-color Landsat 8 satellite image from Aug. 12, 2019. The color indicates that the surface has melted, a process that concentrates dust and rock particles and leads to a darker recrystallized ice sheet surface.

The darker melt surface in 2019 extends much farther onto the ice sheet than it did in 1972, when the first Landsat satellite gathered data on the area, said Christopher Shuman, a glaciologist with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Landsat is a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Helheim Glacier, one of the largest and fastest flowing of its kind in Greenland, has retreated approximately 4.7 miles (7.5 kilometers) up a wide fjord in the time between the two scenes, leaving a jumble of sea ice where its calving front used to be. To the east, Midgard Glacier has retreated approximately 10 miles (16 kilometers), splitting into two branches farther up the fjord. Changes to the rocky outcrops of the area's mountains and smaller tributary glaciers are also visible by comparing the two Landsat images.

"There's a lot more bare rock visible now, which used to be covered with ice," Shuman said. "And all these little glaciers are all getting slammed, as well as the bigger ones like Helheim, Fenris and Midgard. There are scores of examples of change just in this one area."

In a close-up of the Helheim Glacier, a patch of open water is visible right at the calving front. Three days after Landsat 8 collected the image over Helheim and its neighboring glaciers, NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project flew over that open patch of water in an airplane and dropped a temperature-measuring probe that detected warm water at the ice front. OMG is examining how oceans melt glaciers from below, even as air temperatures warm the ice from above.

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign flew over a region of open water at the calving front of Helheim Glacier on Aug. 15, 2019, dropping a temperature probe that detected warm water. The open water is visible in the 2019 Landsat image above. Credit: NASA /Josh Willis

Unusually warm air temperatures this summer have caused record melt across Greenland. Approximately 90 percent of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet melted at some point between July 30 and Aug. 2, during which time an estimated 55 billion tons of ice melted into the ocean, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Shuman also tracked the unusually warm weather at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, 10,550 feet (3,216 meters) above sea level, where temperatures were above freezing for more than 16.5 hours total during July 30 and 31.

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Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in the last half-century. Comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019, those changes and more come into view.

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Headline: Rumors Killed K-POP Stars
Who: A K-pop star found  death at her home.
What: Many stars in showbiz become stressful because their rumors (privacy stories) was public to social media, then communities attacked their spirit.
Where: Showbiz in Korea, China, Vietnam
Why i chose this story: I read 1 post of my young sister about this issue, I am surprised to know that many stars in Korea, China and Vietnam ended their life by suicide. I research this problem, and know that it relates to mental health, and the other negative aspect of social media, it causes many stars suffering with mental health because they shared their feeling, and emotion to social communities website.
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An undated file photo of South Korean singer and actress Sulli, who was found dead at her home on Monday. (Yonhap/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

SEOUL - Leading South Korean K-pop singer and actress Sulli was found dead in her house south of the capital on Monday in what police said may have been suicide.

The 25-year-old started her career as a child actress in 2005 and later joined a girl group as a teenager, before announcing she was quitting the entertainment industry in 2014. She said then that she was mentally and physically exhausted after suffering from malicious comments and false rumors online. She formally left her band the following year to resume an acting career.

Last year, she took the rare step of speaking out about her mental health issues, saying she had suffered from panic disorder since she was young and also had social phobia.

If she is found to have taken her own life, it would highlight the huge pressures on K-pop stars exerted by exploitative management companies and demanding fans and the lack of mental health support.

The star, whose legal name is Choi Jin-ri, was found dead by her agent on Monday afternoon in a two-story house in Seongnam.

A note believed to have been written by Choi has been found at the house, which described her state of mind but was not a suicide note, according to the police.

"Choi seemed to have lived alone in the house, and no signs of a struggle or forced entry has been identified to suggest homicide," said Kim Seong-taek of Seongnam Sujeong Police Department. But Kim said police had not concluded it was definitely a suicide and continued to investigate the case.

Sulli challenged the notions on how a female Kpop star should behave, but she suffered massively as a result.

She was viciously attacked online in 2014 after paparazzi photos revealed she was dating an older rapper. In a rare move, she later publicly acknowledged the couple's relationship. K-pop stars usually face pressure not to date because it can disillusion their fans and undermine their career.

She would also often appear without a bra, saying she felt more comfortable without one, something that some Korean women found liberating but others savagely criticized.

In June, she became a co-host of a TV show entitled "The Night of Hate Comments," in which celebrity guests discussed their reactions to hateful comments, malicious rumors and cyberbullying.

Yonhap news agency said Choi had suffered criticism and drawn support for what it called her "bold and carefree character."

"Even close people left me," Choi said in an Instagram video posted last year. "I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart."

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SEOUL - Leading South Korean K-pop singer and actress Sulli was found dead in her house south of the capital on Monday in what police said may have been suicide. The 25-year-old started her career as a child actress in 2005 and later joined a girl group as a teenager, before announcing she was quitting the entertainment industry in 2014.

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Headline : Greta Thunberg knocks back environmental prize because 'the climate doesn't need more awards'
WHO : Greta Thunberg
WHAT :  She has refused to accept an environment reward because she think the climate movement doesn't need any more reward but they want our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current science.
WHEN : 2019
WHERE :  -
Why I chose this story: I admire this young girl that have strong standpoint in climate movement. This expression shows that she didn't interest in reputation or award or money but she just want people to have awareness in climate change.

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to "listen" to "science" and not awards.

The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her "Fridays for Future" movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.

Ms Thunberg had been nominated for her efforts by both Sweden and Norway and won the organisation's annual environment prize.

But after it was announced, a representative for her told the audience that she would not accept the award or the prize sum of 350,000 Danish kroner ($AUS75,920), the TT news agency reported.

She addressed the decision in a post on Instagram from the United States.

"The climate movement does not need any more awards," the activist wrote.

"What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science."

While thanking the Nordic Council for the "huge honour," she also criticised Nordic countries for not living up to their "great reputation" on climate issues.

"There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words. But when it comes to our actual emissions and our ecological footprints per capita... then it's a whole other story," Ms Thunberg said.

Still only 16-years-old, Ms Thunberg rose to prominence after she started spending her Fridays outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018, holding a sign reading "School strike for climate".

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Greta Thunberg knocks back environmental prize because 'the climate doesn't need more awards'

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to "listen" to "science" and not awards. The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her "Fridays for Future" movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.

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Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows

WHO: Climate Centre scientists
WHAT: some cities will be under water, displacing up to 150 million people
WHEN: By 2050
WHERE: Vietnam, Thailand and India could be affected
Why I chose this story: I am interested in climate change and found this story quite shocking! It was also upsetting to think about all the refugees and loss of cultural heritage
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Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.

The authors of a paper published this week developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea-level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by mid-century.

Southern Vietnam could all but disappear.

More than 20 million people in Vietnam, almost one-quarter of the population, live on land that will be inundated.

Much of Ho Chi Minh City, the nation's economic centre, would disappear with it, according to the research, which was produced by Climate Central, a science organization based in New Jersey, and published in the journal Nature Communications. The projections don't account for future population growth or land lost to coastal erosion.

Standard elevation measurements using satellites struggle to differentiate the true ground level from the tops of trees or buildings, said Scott A Kulp, a researcher at Climate Central and one of the paper's authors. So he and Benjamin Strauss, Climate Central's chief executive, used artificial intelligence to determine the error rate and correct for it.

In Thailand, more than 10 per cent of citizens now live on land that is likely to be inundated by 2050, compared with just 1 per cent according to the earlier technique. The political and commercial capital, Bangkok, is particularly imperiled.

Climate change will put pressure on cities in multiple ways, said Loretta Hieber Girardet, a Bangkok resident and United Nations disaster risk-reduction official. Even as global warming floods more places, it will also push poor farmers off the land to seek work in cities.

"It is a dire formula," she said.

In Shanghai, one of Asia's most important economic engines, water threatens to consume the heart of the city and many other cities around it.

The findings don't have to spell the end of those areas. The new data shows that 110 million people already live in places that are below the high-tide line, which Strauss attributes to protective measures like seawalls and other barriers. Cities must invest vastly greater sums in such defences, Mr Strauss said, and they must do it quickly.

But even if that investment happens, defensive measures can go only so far. Mr Strauss offered the example of New Orleans, a city below sea level that was devastated in 2005 when its extensive levees and other protections failed during Hurricane Katrina. "How deep a bowl do we want to live in?" he asked.

The new projections suggest that much of Mumbai, India's financial capital and one of the largest cities in the world, is at risk of being wiped out. Built on what was once a series of islands, the city's historic downtown core is particularly vulnerable.

Overall, the research shows that countries should start preparing now for more citizens to relocate internally, according to Dina Ionesco of the International Organisation for Migration, an intergovernmental group that coordinates action on migrants and development.

"We've been trying to ring the alarm bells," Ms Ionesco said. "We know that it's coming." There is little modern precedent for this scale of population movement, she added.

The disappearance of cultural heritage could bring its own kind of devastation. Alexandria, Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great around 330 BC, could be lost to rising waters.

In other places, the migration caused by rising seas could trigger or exacerbate regional conflicts.

Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq, could be mostly underwater by 2050. If that happens, the effects could be felt well beyond Iraq's borders, according to John Castellaw, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general who was chief of staff for US Central Command during the Iraq War.

Further loss of land to rising waters there "threatens to drive further social and political instability in the region, which could reignite armed conflict and increase the likelihood of terrorism," said Mr Castellaw, who is now on the advisory board of the Center for Climate and Security, a research and advocacy group in Washington.

"So this is far more than an environmental problem," he said. "It's a humanitarian, security and possibly military problem too."

By Denise Lu and Christopher Flavelle © 2019 The New York Times

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Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows

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Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.