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Daniel Naroditsky, populary known as Danya, had worn the hats of author, commentator, and content creator apart from being the chess U.S. Grandmaster. In a recent shock to his fans and fellow chess champions, Daniel's family announced that he had passed away on October 19, 2925. Although the cause of death has not been revealed yet, Russian Grandmaster, Vladimir Kramnik has hinted towards foul play. Daniel's fans have also raised questions about his strange behaviour

Daniel Naroditsky was also a Twitch streamer and YouTube content creator, apart from a Grandmaster. His content revolved around chess. Daniel often played the game on Chess.com and Lichess.com. He was ranked very high frequently on both the website's leaderboard. The Grandmaster also used to educate his subscribers about chess through these streams. Daniel's easy and educational way of making people understand chess had made him one of the most popular streamers of the game around the world.

However, during his last stream, the viewers had found his behaviour to be strange. One Redditor wrote, "He just uploaded a new speedrun video a few days ago after being MIA for months. He didn’t look well. Really looked disheveled." Another comment said, "If you watched his last stream, you'd understand. He was indeed having a bit of a mental break it seems. His jaw was rocking back and forth and his eyes were super wide while he spoke noticeably incoherently, sometimes in Russian. I was really worried since watching it." Another Redditor stated:

"He streamed a few days ago and was very clearly unwell. Falling asleep, rambling, tilting, it looked really bad and someone had to go to his place to get him to end the stream and he was talking about Kramnik. I’d imagine since that he may be pulling back from his online presence."

In 2024, Daniel got into a controversy when he was accused of cheating in online chess by World Champion and Russian Grandmaster, Vladimir Kramnik. Daniel, who was known for not holding back and being upfront, called the Russian Grandmaster 'worse than dirt'. Now, after the passing of Daniel, Vladmir took to his X account and posted a screenshot of a text that he had received from someone after Daniel's last stream on Twitch. The texts showed concern about Daniel and alleged that it looked like he was on some substance. Vladimir then tweeted with the screenshot:

"What exactly happened? Because I received this two days ago from a friend of mine chess fan, and at least did what I could to warn people to do something urgently in my posts. To those who prefer blaming and shaming instead of helping. Awfull tradegy, hope properly investigated."

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these swamps has switched to carbon neutral.

A palm swamp peatland in the Peruvian Amazon that normally absorbs more carbon than it releases each year has switched to being carbon neutral, even with no major disturbance by local people.

On their face, the findings, reported June 30 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, may seem like a sign of trouble. However, experts say there's more to the story.

Peatlands play a crucial role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide. In Peru, they cover some 22,000 square miles (56,000 square kilometers) — less than 5% of the country's total area. Yet they store about 5 gigatons of carbon belowground — roughly equivalent to all of the carbon stored aboveground in vegetation in Peru.

It's a similar picture globally, where, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, peatlands cover about 3% of the world's land area but store at least 550 gigatons of carbon — more than twice the carbon stored in all the world's forests.

"Peatlands represent such a small land area on Earth, but they are massively important as stocks of carbon," Jeffrey Wood, a biometeorologist at the University of Missouri and lead author of the new study, told Live Science. "These systems have accumulated gigatons of carbon over tens of thousands of years."

So what has happened in Peru?

Key ecosystems

Wood and his colleagues have been studying the dominant kind of Amazonian peatland in Peru's Quistococha Forest Reserve. These swampy ecosystems, known locally as aguajales, are dominated by moriche palms (Mauritia flexuosa).

These key ecosystems develop in areas that flood seasonally, with the palms providing a fruit called aguaje for locals, as well as for macaws, monkeys, tapirs and agoutis. These areas are densely vegetated havens for many birds, reptiles and mammals.

Crucially, the plants that grow there absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. But because the area is waterlogged, their dead leaves and other fallen matter usually accumulate as peat in the low-oxygen environment, which traps carbon instead of fully decomposing and releasing it back into the atmosphere.

Wood and his colleagues found that the peatland switched from being a strong carbon sink in 2018 and 2019 to being about carbon neutral in 2022.

Yet there were no obvious signs of human effects on the ecosystem, Wood said. "The peatland hadn't been drained and the trees hadn't all been cut down or taken down by a storm," he said. "It also wasn't a major drought year or a major heat wave."

**Instead, the researchers found that two factors led to the change. The first is that prolonged cloudless periods and higher sun intensities limited the photosynthesis of the plants, thus restricting their growth and how much carbon dioxide they absorbed.

The second was that lower water levels left more of the top of the peat exposed. This meant more oxygen was available to bacteria in the decaying matter, which decomposed faster, releasing more carbon dioxide and methane gases than usual.**

The extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink, exposing an estimated 650,000 people to the risks of subsidence and freshwater depletion.

The depletion of Iran's underwater aquifers is driving the ground to sink rapidly throughout the country, new research shows.

More than 12,120 square miles (31,400 square kilometers) of the country — an area roughly the size of Maryland — is now moving downward faster than 0.39 inches (10 millimeters) per year. In a more extreme example, the ground level has dropped by over a foot (34 cm) per year near the city of Rafsanjan, in central Iran.

This sinking, known as subsidence, exposes an estimated 650,000 people to a higher risk of other threats caused by changes in ground level, such as water scarcity and food insecurity, experts say. And part of the cause is ongoing drought in the country.

In Iran, about 60% of the water supply comes from underground aquifers. To study what effects this is having on the surface, Jessica Payne, a doctoral candidate in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the U.K., and her colleagues used radar data from the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 satellite constellation to map how the ground level in Iran has changed over eight years between 2014 and 2022.

The researchers found 106 regions of subsidence covering a total of 12,120 square miles, or about 2% of the country.

"The rates of subsidence in Iran are some of the fastest in the world," Payne told Live Science. "We found about 100 sites across Iran where subsidence is faster than about 10 millimeters [0.4 inches) a year. In Europe, case studies are considered extreme if they exceed 5 to 8 millimeters [0.2 to 0.3 inches] a year."

The ground is sinking due to groundwater extraction, she said, with 77% of incidences of subsidence faster than 10 mm per year correlating with the presence of agriculture.

Two tropical cyclones are barreling through the Atlantic on a potential collision course — and in the unlikely event that they clash, a freak weather event merging them into one monster storm could wreak havoc along the East Coast.

Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the North Atlantic Ocean Wednesday and is expected to become a major hurricane this weekend, while another system looming in the Caribbean may strengthen into Tropical Storm Imelda in the coming days, according to Fox Weather meteorologist Greg Diamond.

But if these two storms get too close, they could trigger the rare phenomenon known as the Fujiwhara Effect.

What is the Fujiwhara Effect? The wild weather anomaly — named after Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara in 1921 — sparks when two cyclones come within 900 miles of each other and begin spinning around a shared center in what meteorologists liken to an erratic dance.

His daughter, Nakita Colville, 27, who witnessed the ordeal in July, claimed the "unbothered and clueless" staff on board "just stood there watching". She said the barman declared him dead before staff covered his body and face with a towel.

The coastguard arrived and Peter was taken to hospital where he was confirmed to have died. And while the family - including two of his grandchildren - were taken off the boat, the party continued, with crew hosting a foam party for the remaining traumatised passengers, Nakita claims.

Nakita, an admin assistant, from Woking, Surrey, said: "When my brother-in-law came back out the sea after swimming, he turned around when he realised my dad was no longer behind him. Then we heard people yelling for help and saw my dad in the water, face up, with people trying to get him out.

"One of the other guests began giving CPR while the crew members just stood there with their arms crossed. Other guests were screaming and crying, my family was hysterical. We were living the worst moments of our lives but as soon as we were taken off, the crew just apologised to guests because the foam party was delayed, I've been told.

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One Tripadvisor review from the day read: "He was laid on the deck – and then nothing. No proper procedures, no clearing the deck from onlookers, no immediate CPR. A crew member looked into his eyes and declared him dead."

Another said: "After the life guard come to take the guy away we were simply told the emergency was over and they continued to play loud music and try to sell more photos."

A third added: "The way it was handled by the crew was nothing short of horrifying. It is unsafe, unprofessional, and the crew is neither trained nor emotionally capable of handling emergencies - or tragedies. A man died. And they carried on like it meant nothing."