AI is transforming conservation in Hong Kong. According to the article, startups like Robotics Cats are employing AI-powered systems to more effectively monitor habitats and estimate animal populations.

These systems use advanced surveillance technology and computer vision to detect wildfires, count birds, and track other species.

While there are challenges such as power supply issues in remote areas and accuracy limitations in certain environments, AI offers significant potential to enhance conservation efforts.

The Roman Republic describes the period in which the city-state of Rome existed as a republican government, from 509 B.C.E. to 27 B.C.E.

Etruscan kings who lived nearby in central Italy ruled Rome. These assemblies decided important matters for the city on behalf of its population.

The plebeians, who made up the majority of the soldiers in the Roman army, staged protests outside the city walls.

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It was told by ocean park on 20th June-international horseshoe crab day.

Over the years, Ocean park has been using the technology to look at the endangered species, they used drones to look over the horseshoe crabs and to see how they are doing.

Horseshoe crabs are becoming extinct because their blood has a component that can used to test for toxic materials and bacteria in vaccines, it can also be used for healthcare. In HK, there is less than 10,000 horseshoe crabs.

The Department of Humanities promotes research and training in liberal arts and social science disciplines such as, Humanities, History and Cultural Heritage, creating among them a connection based on these shared programmatic principles: the importance of documents and sources (written, visual, iconographic, monumental, material, landscape, oral, and media sources); the importance of historical and diachronic research, of philology and interdisciplinarity, as a methodological research and teaching approach to understand complex intellectual and cultural phenomena; the sensitivity towards an articulated reading of modernity and contemporaneity as well as towards the different forms of political, social and territorial organisation, through an innovative study of history and the past, as a way to amplify the perception and understanding of the present; the constant reference to the evolution and the multifaceted meaning of linguistic and literary tradition, to the huge literary, archaeological and artistic heritage, to territorial assets, and the deep cultural roots of our societies.

The Department achieves a coherent and harmonic synthesis of specialised knowledge and it is committed to translating the results of research into appropriate didactic forms, in the belief that the relationship between research and training is inseparable. In this perspective, the mission of the Department - which emphasises the importance of training future scholars, researchers, teachers and cultural experts in the various humanities disciplines - is to provide analytical, critical, communicative and educational skills through the development of specific basic and applied expertise, to encourage active participation in training processes, to develop creative and experimental abilities, with the aim of training highly specialised and informed citizens and to promote a culture of responsibility and social solidarity.

Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.

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Multiplayer shooter game Fortnite is available again on iPhones in the European Union and worldwide on Google's Android devices after a gap of four years, following legal measures by the EU, developer Epic Games said on Friday.

Fortnite, created by Epic, a U.S.-based studio, and backed by China's Tencent, the world's largest game studio, launched in 2017 and its last-player-standing, "battle royale" format became an instant hit, drawing in millions of dedicated players.

But in August 2020, Apple and Alphabet's Google removed Fortnite from their app stores for violating their guidelines by launching a payment feature, prompting several lawsuits challenging their rules of charging up to 30% commissions on payments.

At the time of the ban, Epic had 116 million users just on Apple's platform.

The EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) law is allowing Epic to launch its game store in the bloc, though Apple is still blocking users outside Europe from accessing Fortnite and its games store, the company said.

"We are really grateful to the European Commission for not only passing the DMA and enabling store competition, but also going in and robustly holding Apple and Google's feet to the fire to ensure that they can't just obstruct competition," Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told reporters.

"They were going to great efforts to slow us down, and tried to stop us several times, and the European Commission always stepped up and ensured that competitors were able to enter the market," he said.

The store is launching with Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and the all-new Fall Guys for mobile, and Epic is working with other developers to launch their games and apps through its store.

Epic, which has 75 million monthly active users in its PC store, expects to add 100 million new mobile users by the end of the year.

The games would also be available through independent mobile stores such as AltStore.

However, the installation process is lengthy with a 15-step installation process on iOS devices, confusing device settings and scare screens, Epic said.

Apple said that to enable the new capabilities for developers in the EU, it worked to make them as easy as possible for users while also trying to protect their privacy and security.

"We probably lost over a billion dollars of revenue by losing access to the iOS customer base worldwide for four years, but what's the cost of freedom?," Sweeney said.

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Related to geography history.

Cyclone Biparjoy was a storm that occurred in Pakistan, it happened during June 6 2023 to June 19 2023. It was a powerful tropical cyclone that had formed over the east-central Arabian Sea. Intensifying into a cyclonic storm. It caused a large flood was suppose but that night was a full moon which means the moon’s gravity pulled the flood creating tidal waves which made the flood higher.

81,000 people were evacuated from Pakistan southeast coast. At least 23 people were injured as well as 4,600 villages were affected by power outages in India. 12 people were confirmed to have been killed in India.

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast. The remains of the Limes today consist of vestiges of built walls, ditches, forts, fortresses, watchtowers and civilian settlements. Certain elements of the line have been excavated, some reconstructed and a few destroyed.

These timber castles were quite cheap and very quick to build. However, the timber castles did have disadvantages. They were very vulnerable to attacks using fire and the wood would eventually start to rot. Due to these disadvantages, King William ordered that castles should be built in stone. Many of the original timber castles were replaced with stone castle

This is about the humans and the wild animals coexisting in year 2070

As the human population grows, more than half of Earth’s land will experience an increasing overlap between humans and animals by 2070, according to a University of Michigan study.

Greater human-wildlife overlap could lead to more conflict between people and animals, say the U-M researchers. But understanding where the overlap is likely to occur—and which animals are likely to interact with humans in specific areas—will be crucial information for urban planners, conservationists and countries that have pledged international conservation commitments. Their findings are published in Science Advances.

“We found that the overlap between populations of humans and wildlife will increase across about 57% of the global lands, but it will decrease across only about 12% of the global lands. We also found that agricultural and forest areas will experience substantial increases of overlap in the future,” said Deqiang Ma, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at the U-M Institute for Global Change Biology in the School for Environment and Sustainability.

The study showed that the human-wildlife overlap will be driven by human population growth rather than climate change. That is, the increase of people settling in previously undeveloped areas will drive the overlap rather than climate change causing animals to shift where they live.

“In many places around the world, more people will interact with wildlife in the coming decades and often those wildlife communities will comprise different kinds of animals than the ones that live there now,” said Neil Carter, principal investigator of the study and associate professor of environment and sustainability. “This means that all sorts of novel interactions, good and bad, between people and wildlife will emerge in the near future.”

This article is related to geography.

The storm, located 121 nautical miles southeast of Yokosuka, Greater Tokyo, has intensified to the equivalent strength of a Category 4 hurricane, bringing winds of up to 212 kilometers per hour (131 mph) as it moves north at 18 kph (11 mph), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).

Ampil has rapidly intensified over the past two days, partly because it moved over very warm water – meaning more moisture in the air to fuel the typhoon. It could strengthen further in the next 12 hours, with the storm reaching peak intensity as it passes by Japan.

Researchers have reported that deforestation during the last two decades increased a higher warming temperature and cloud level rise than that caused by climate change, which threatens biodiversity and water supply in African montane forests.

As part of the ambitious project, the team employed cutting-edge technology, including ground-penetrating radar to detect structures buried beneath the surface. The advanced method allowed researchers to identify wall structures used by the Romans that were not visible to the naked eye.

The Roman settlement of the Guadalete River is believed to date back to the Roman conquest of Spain in 264BC, but researchers are still working to confirm the exact dates of the newly discovered structures.Professor Lara said the data uncovered so far represents a meaningful foundation for their ongoing research.

The accident was rated level 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, due to high radioactive releases over days 4 to 6.

All four Fukushima Daiichi reactors were written off due to damage in the accident .

After two weeks, the three reactors were stable with water addition by july.

84% of Gaza is currently covered by evacuation orders throughout the past month according to the UNRWA, the humanitarian zone has also been reduced by 38% by the IDF.

Because of the humanitarian zone being reduced, that zone only makes up 10% of Gaza now. Lots of Gazans had to evacuate over and over again, and some didn't even know where to go but they had to evacuate anyways. Food and health is a big problem as well.

This article is related to geography.

The article explains that the ocean covers 70% of the Earth and before 1972 humans around the world already started to throw trash such as chemicals, radioactive wastes, sewage wastes and etc into the ocean.

It explains how bad Marine pollution is. For example trash/waste can harm animals/creatures below the ocean like how plastic bits can accidentally get eaten or sucked in by turtles which can cause them to get injured or even death.

The pollution is really hard to remove, it might even take centuries to be fully removed.

They also warned of a flash flood

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“Showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad trough of low pressure are affecting the coast of Guangdong and the northern part of the South China Sea,” the Observatory said.

“Showers will be heavy at times with squally thunderstorms in the next couple of days.”

The accident at the Chornobyl nuclear reactor that occurred on 26 April 1986 was the most serious accident ever to occur in the nuclear power industry. The reactor was destroyed in the accident and considerable amounts of radioactive material were released to the environment. The accident caused the deaths, within a few weeks, of 30 workers and radiation injuries to over a hundred others. In response, the authorities evacuated, in 1986, about 115,000 people from areas surrounding the reactor and subsequently relocated, after 1986, about 220,000 people from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The accident caused serious social and psychological disruption in the lives of those affected and vast economic losses over the entire region. Large areas of the three countries were contaminated with radioactive materials, and radionuclides from the Chornobyl release were measurable in all countries of the northern hemisphere.

Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2–9.3 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America,^[2]

A lot of people died from earthquake and their house have been destroyed house

In Prince William Sound, Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide, resulting in the deaths of 32 peoples

The earthquake is the biggest earthquake in history.

also known as the Great Chilean Earthquake

The weather watchdog said the quake hit at 7.58 am about 15km southeast of the Taiwanese county of Hualien and had an epicenter spanning 10km.

香港天文台稱，台灣東南沿海週三發生里氏7.3級地震，超過100名香港人報告感到震顫。

氣象監督機構表示，地震發生在上午 7 點 58 分，距離台灣花蓮縣東南方約 15 公里，震央長達 10 公里。

In August 19, 2024, researchers report that deforestation during the last two decades led to a higher warming and cloud level rise than that caused by climate change, which threatens biodiversity and water supply in African montane forests.

Montane forests are often cloudy, wet, cold, and occur on isolated mountains in Africa. They are rich in biodiversity and act as water towers by trapping water from fog and clouds, providing high quality fresh water for millions of people in the lowlands of Africa.

So in the last two decades, as much as 18 percent of Africa's montane forests were lost due to deforestation, which resulted in a warming and cloud level rise two times higher than that caused by climate change. Research resulted that air temperature has increased by 1,4 centigrades, while cloud level has risen by approximately 230 meters during the last 20 years.