Academics claim Dakota pipeline disturbs Native American artifacts More than 1,200 archaeologists, museum directors and historians have denounced the "destruction" of Native American artifacts during the construction of the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline, which will funnel oil from the Bakken oil fields in the Great Plains to Illinois, will run next to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The tribe has mounted a legal challenge to stop the project and claimed that several sacred sites were bulldozed by Energy Transfer, the company behind the pipeline. Archeologists denounce Dakota Access pipeline for destroying artifacts UN calls superbugs 'fundamental threat' All 193 UN member states are presenting a united front against the spread of drug-resistant infections that are estimated to kill more than 700,000 people each year. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said antimicrobial resistance was a "fundamental threat" to global health. Without containment, the economic impact of the crisis makes it unlikely for the UN to reach its sustainable development goals for 2030, says the World Bank, while the World Health Organization director general, Margaret Chan, said that common diseases like gonorrhea may become untreatable. "Doctors facing patients will have to say, 'I'm sorry – there's nothing I can do for you.'" UN meeting tackles the 'fundamental threat' of antibiotic-resistant superbugs Wells Fargo CEO endures tough questions One after another, members of the Senate banking committee peppered Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf with questions on Wednesday, demanding explanations for Wall Street's latest banking scandal. Just why had thousands of Wells Fargo employees fraudulently opened credit and deposit accounts in customers' names, without the knowledge of those customers? Stump largely failed to craft the kind of articulate and convincing responses that legislators, bank customers and Americans as whole have demanded. Wells Fargo's toxic culture reveals big banks' eight deadly sins Grapes from space In its bid to produce a world-beating wine, China has looked to the lush foothills of the Tibetan plateau, the sun-scorched Gobi desert, and the rocky slopes of Ningxia province. Now, Chinese researchers have sent a selection of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and pinot noir vines into orbit with the country's newest space lab, Tiangong-2. DecanterChina.com, a bilingual website about the Chinese wine industry, said researchers hoped exposure to "space radiation" might trigger genetic changes in the vines that would help them "evolve new resistance to coldness, drought and viruses". The red planet: China sends vines into space in quest for perfect wine Indigenous Australians 'most ancient' people Claims that Indigenous Australians are the most ancient continuous civilisation on Earth have been backed by the first extensive study of their DNA, which dates their origins to more than 50,000 years ago. Sifting through clues left in the DNA of modern populations in Australia and Papua New Guinea, analysis showed that their ancestors were probably the first humans to cross an ocean, and reveals evidence of prehistoric liaisons with an unknown hominin cousin. The findings appear in one of four major human origins papers published in Nature this week Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms |
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