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A Caribbean reef shark at the surface near the Bahamas.(Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images)A massive new survey of nearly 400 coral reefs around the world reveals sharks once common in those waters are vanishing, a troubling sign that the fearsome fish are at a much greater risk of going extinct than previously thought.

A mother and her son play in the sea at Liido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia.Despite decades of conflict and ongoing security threats, some Somalis are carving out a middle-class lifestyle in the Somali capital.Luke Dray for NPR Friday is beach day in Mogadishu.Early in the day before Friday prayers and before the sun gets too hot, people flock to Liido Beach on the eastern side of the city.

French president begins four-nation tour of Africa to renew frayed ties, while anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies.President Emmanuel Macron has said the era of French interference in Africa was well over as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.

A hefty chunk of the massive rocket used to deliver the third module of China's Tiangong space station has fallen back to Earth uncontrolled, triggering the closure of some of Spain's airspace and leading to hundreds of flight delays.Four days after blasting off from southern China, a large part of the Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket broke up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the south-central Pacific ocean at 10.01 UTC, according to European and US space authorities.

Littering Rocket Parts
A gigantic piece of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has seemingly plummeted back down to Earth and lodged itself in a crop in the northwestern province of Gansu, as seen in images shared on Chinese social media.The images show a massive metal structure lodged vertically in some freshly tilled soil, sticking out some 20 to 30 feet.

COP15 A green sea turtle swims near Gorgona Island in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern Colombian coast, on December 2, 2021.AFP file As the UN's COP15 talks on biodiversity got under way in Montreal on Wednesday, FRANCE 24 spoke to marine biologist Francoise Gaill about marine dead zones and their link to global warming.

You don't have to travel far from the sprawling convention center that's staging the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to see what's at stake.This coastal resort town is fringed by an ecosystem seemingly facing worldwide cataclysm from global heating  coral reefs.As negotiators haggle over an agreement that may or may not maintain a goal to restrain global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the nearby corals face a more brutally unyielding scenario.

LILONGWE, Malawi Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, swept in from the southeastern coast of Africa and traveled to the landlocked nation of Malawi, where by Monday it was responsible for at least 66 deaths, the Red Cross said.Large swaths of Blantyre, the second-largest city in Malawi, were hit by flooding and mudslides, and the government declared a state of disaster.

When it comes to illegal fishing, London's ancient business of ship insurance may not get much attention.But according to a new complaint, the UK capital's insurance industry is partly to blame when fishing vessels go dark at sea by turning off their mandatory satellite tracking equipment.In a filing to City of London watchdogs, the ocean conservation charity Blue Marine Foundation has argued that EU-flagged vessels operating in the Indian Ocean that go dark are in likely breach of international, flag state and coastal state law, and that the UK insurance industry is enabling them by continuing to provide cover, thereby putting seafarers' lives at risk.

Animals Yi-Kai Tea recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean.They gathered thousands of specimens.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.A cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station Wednesday morning, despite making its two-day trek through space with only one functioning solar panel.

The Chinese rocket that will fall back to Earth in a few days is equivalent in size to two semi-truck trailers, and as much as 40 percent of this metal will reach the Earth's surface, experts say.Although the overall risk of harm to people is low-there is only a 0.5 percent chance of injury or death to a human, based on one model-these risks are nonetheless higher than accepted by most spacefaring nations, said Ted Muelhaupt, a reentry and debris expert at The Aerospace Corporation.

On Monday, China's space program successfully launched another large piece of its space station.The 23-ton Mengtian module will provide pressurized volume for scientific experiments and is the final large living area to be added to the Tiangong space station.China has constructed its modular space station-similar in form and function to the International Space Station, although smaller-on time and with few major issues.

On Monday, China's space program successfully launched another large piece of its space station.The 23-ton Mengtian module will provide pressurized volume for scientific experiments and is the final large living area to be added to the Tiangong space station.China has constructed its modular space station-similar in form and function to the International Space Station, although smaller-on time and with few major issues.

China launched the third and final module of its space station on Monday, a significant step as the country expands its extensive scientific research outside the Earth's atmosphere.State television broadcast the launch live, showing a rocket roaring into a gray layer of clouds above Hainan Island in southernmost China, with the module aboard.