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- 27 September 2018 | Environment
For many historians, Coco Chanel is responsible for setting a new tan fashion. In 1923, she returned from a Mediterranean cruise looking bronzed, and the trend stuck.
In Western societies, and 100 years later, people still associate beauty with tanning. But make no mistake: a tanned skin always means damaged skin.
Dermatologists and scientists say there is no such thing as a healthy or safe tan. There is a real, scientifically proven link between ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer.
- 25 September 2018 | Environment
The jellyfish is a dangerous carnivorous marine predator. Learn how to treat and soothe the jellyfish sting before it gets painful and harmful.
They don't have teeth, but their small stinging harpoons - the nematocysts - can quickly pierce the human skin and inject a poisonous venom.
The jellyfish is one of the 10,000 members of the phylum Cnidaria, a group that also includes the Portuguese man-o-war, the sea anemones, and the fire corals.
- 25 September 2018 | Environment
An Indonesian teenager survived seven weeks adrift at sea. Aldi Novel Adilang had a week's worth of supplies.
The young man from Sulawesi, who works as a lamp keeper on a floating fishing trap called "rompong," was found and rescued in the waters off Guam by "Arpeggio," a commercial tanker ship flying Panama's flag.
In July, Aldi Adilang was working lonely shifts 80 miles off the coast of North Sulawesi, in Indonesia, when strong winds blew the mooring and pushed him far out to sea.
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