Lucas Moreau

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Latest piece · “From a distance football becomes a spectacle of architecture: huge roofs, colourful seats and carefully mown grass.” From: Match day at the stadium: stands, turf and floodlights
  1. Sports · 6 photos · Match day at the stadium: stands, turf and floodlights From a distance football becomes a spectacle of architecture: huge roofs, colourful seats and carefully mown grass.
  2. Business · Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
  3. World · Shipping lines agree voluntary slow zones on North Atlantic whale routes Member states of an international maritime body have backed seasonal slow-speed areas along whale migration corridors in the North Atlantic, asking ships to cut speed to 10 knots where humpbacks gather.
  4. World · Scientists install new sensors on the remote volcanic island of Skarvøy A team of volcanologists spent ten days on the uninhabited island setting up seismometers and gas detectors that will send readings by satellite every few minutes.
  5. Technology · Drones begin carrying blood samples from Tarnmere to Wrenhaven General A six-month trial cuts the journey for test samples from the village health centre to the hospital laboratory from over an hour by road to about 18 minutes.
  6. World · Forest corridor of 40 km reconnects fragmented rainforest in Southeast Asia A conservation trust has completed a 40 km wildlife corridor linking two isolated areas of rainforest in Southeast Asia, and camera traps are already recording animals crossing between them.