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Undefeated no more? Warzone footage shows destruction of Challenger 2 main battle tank during combat in Ukraine

September 12, 2023 -

The combat footage posted on the social media page shows a Challenger 2 tank that was allegedly destroyed in fighting near Robotyne, Ukraine. The video is short and partly obscured by smoke, but it shows the partial yet distinctive outline of the British-built main battle tank.

Several reports claim that the video makes it a "confirmed loss."

Once the authenticity of the footage is verified, the destruction of the MBT will officially be considered the first ...

Nonprofit group cleaning up plastic waste from Great Pacific Garbage Patch

October 22, 2020 -

The cleanup, made possible by a large device designed by Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat, successfully captured and held debris ranging from large cartons, crates and abandoned fishing gear to microplastics, according to a press release published by the nonprofit.

“Today, I am very proud to share with you that we are now catching plastics,” Slat said.Novel device allows for large scale oceanic trash collection

Slat described the Ocean Cleanup ...

Did eco-fascist Greta Thunberg just call for the EXECUTIONS of world leaders who don’t comply with her climate change demands?

December 17, 2019 -

The 16-year-old TIME magazine "Person of the Year" pulled from various revolutionary speeches of old in declaring that she and her fellow climate lunatics will "make sure" that world leaders deal with what she believes is an impending climate emergency, or else "we will make sure that we put them against the wall and they will have to do their job to protect our futures."

"Against the wall," in case you're unaware, is a longstanding trope that basically implies execution....

The Ocean Cleanup’s revolutionary machine, which aims to collect some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash, is ready to take its first voyage

May 24, 2018 -

The revolutionary machine is the brainchild of Boyan Slat. He came up with the idea in 2012 after hearing it would take nearly 80,000 years to clean up 1.8 trillion pieces of ocean plastics.

Gathering plastic trash with nets was considered futile since there was so much of the garbage spread through the water. Furthermore, the plastics are always in motion due to the action of ocean currents. (Related: EU sets a 70 percent recycling target for waste by 2020, starts ...

The Pacific Ocean is becoming the world’s largest trash dump

April 26, 2018 -

Research published in Scientific Reports call it the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (GPGP) and that it is twice as big as Texas, and thrice the size of France. The worst part is, the area shows no sign of shrinking. Environmentalists aired their concern after researchers from The Ocean Cleanup Foundation examined the trash building up between California and Hawaii. The chunks of plastic they saw glued together measured over a yard.

Boyan Slat, founder of Ocean ...