Ace Breaking News – From today (31st October), families of workers who have died from asbestos-related diseases before claiming compensation will now receive the full award. In 2025, workers who developed asbestos-related or dust-related diseases, such as mesothelioma and pneumoconiosis, received average payments of around £17,700 through the Government’s compensation schemes where compensation had not […]
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GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – “The History of Concrete” Highlights a Material We Depend Upon But Rarely Think About John Wilson’s new film reveals the poetry of the mundane, and an environmental crisis hiding in plain sight. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration provided by Mother Jones […]
Ace History Desk – BHOPAL: The UK’s Debt Management Office (DMO) has said it can find no evidence that a 109-year-old Indian War Loan, in which a Bhopal merchant invested Rs 35,000 in 1917, was or is an obligation of British govt, leaving a Madhya Pradesh family’s claim unresolved Times India News By P Naveen […]
Ace History Desk – In short: A fossil of an ancient mammal relative with platypus-like appendages has been found in China. Megacauda sungei appears to be an early example of a semiaquatic mammal-like creature according to ABC Science News By environment reporter Peter de Kruijff Published: Thu 8 Oct 2026 at 1:58am The ancient animal lived about […]
Ace Breaking News – In short: Australia is no longer promising to ban domestic trade of elephant ivory: By environment reporter Peter de Kruijff Published: Sat 3 Oct 2026 at 5:00am There is no domestic ivory ban in Australia despite a promise seven years ago to create one. Roughly $1.2 million worth of elephant ivory objects […]
Ace History Desk – In the hills of north-west Morocco, overlooking the river that gives the site its name, research at Oued Beht is bringing to light a previously unknown chapter of the region’s past. The discovery of a substantial built structure suggests that, during the second millennium BC, communities in north-west Africa were actively […]
