It’s a new low point. The area of the world’s oceans covered by floating sea ice is the smallest recorded since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s. That means it is also probably the lowest it has been for thousands of years.
The latest observations from the US National Snow & Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, show how the ice extent has fallen to a new low this year (bright red trace in the graph below).
A woman’s stomach cramps turned out to be 150 worms wriggling around in her belly. And if that wasn’t bad enough, they were all around ten inches long. Neha Begum, 22, from Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, went to hospital on January 2 after suffering extreme abdominal pains and vomiting for more than a month. She was rushed into surgery after an intestinal obstruction was diagnosed, but doctors were not expecting to find what they did. A team at KG Nanda Hospital discovered 150 live worms in her stomach. Dr Anand Prakash Tiwari, a medic at the hospital, said: ‘I was shocked. This was an extremely unusual case. ‘We have come across cases with three or four earthworms but this is the first time we have come across such a huge number.’ |
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