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Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

Frontiers

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. In 2009 for example, data breaches dropped to 498 million (from 656 million in 2008) but the number of records exposed increased sharply to 222.5 million in 2008).

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4 of the Biggest Data Breaches in Banking

Smart Data Collective

In 2008 they suffered a cyber incident which impacted more than 130 million debit and credit cards. Since the 2008 breach, Heartland Payment Systems suffered another data breach in 2015, when their Santa Ana, California office experienced a break-in. Heartland Payment Systems.

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Measles cases rise by 20 percent worldwide: WHO

The Hill

During the COVID-19 pandemic, global vaccination rates with the first dose of the measles vaccine dropped to 81 percent — the lowest they have been since 2008, according to a report from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released concurrently.

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Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the 'warm blob' in the Pacific Ocean

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 finds that colony size in the Gulf of Alaska dropped by half after the marine heat wave. Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.'

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The Role of Blockchain in the Launch and Growth of Cryptocurrency

Smart Data Collective

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Satoshi saw how reckless banks were with people’s money. In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote a paper that laid out a plan for what would later become Bitcoin and the role that blockchain would play in its inception. He wanted to do something about this, and his writings make this very clear.

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AI Data, Traditional Trading, and Modern Investments

Smart Data Collective

Fortunately, the first robo-advisors were created in 2008. Even after stocks and other assets could be purchased through an online brokerage, seeing consistent returns still required some knowledge of the stock market. Robo-advisors were a unique service that simplified investing for the masses.

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