Fish poop generates 1.65 BILLION tons of carbon in the ocean that helps regulate water levels

Fish poop, breath and other excretions produce over a billion tons of carbon every year, according to a new study. That’s more than 15 percent of all the carbon in the ocean, the planet’s largest active carbon ‘sink,’ or absorber of carbon dioxide. That makes fish an important component of the carbon cycle, researchers say, … Read more

Trump threatens to ‘regulate’ social media after Twitter labels two of his tweets misleading

Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that social media platforms ‘clean up your act’ as he warned his administration will begin to regulate and even shutter such websites after Twitter, for the first time ever, fact-checked his tweets. He lamented in the Twitter thread that conservatives are being silenced and disproportionately regulated on social media websites like … Read more

Government could regulate prices of key goods to stop profiteering as coronavirus spreads

Rogue retailers should not ‘cash in on fear’ and panic-buying by imposing big mark-ups on household essentials, a watchdog warned yesterday. The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) also said the Government may regulate the price of key products to prevent rip-offs. The goods affected could include everything from hand sanitiser, toilet paper and painkillers to … Read more