Emma Gillespie

I'm Lucy Tassel.

It's Thursday the 28th of May.

Here's what's making headlines this evening.

The US military has carried out new strikes in Iran targeting a military site that officials believe posed a threat to American forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

That's according to an anonymous US official speaking to Reuters.

The strikes come hours after US President Donald Trump dismissed an Iranian report of a deal to restore traffic through the strategic waterway.

Iranian state media cited a military source as saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy fired towards a US oil tanker that was trying to transit the strait, forcing it to turn back.

The US military also carried out strikes in southern Iran on Monday in what it described as defensive action and Iran described as a gross violation of the ceasefire.

And today's good news, the levels of forever chemicals in the eggs of a colony of wild seabirds have dropped by 70% over the last 55 years, according to a new study.

Forever chemicals, or PFAS, are a group of chemicals that have been used in household products since the 50s.

They don't break down easily in the environment and have been linked to a range of diseases.

Environment and Climate Change Canada scientists studied a colony of northern gannets on an island off Canada's east coast and found the levels of 17 forever chemicals in their bodies had decreased significantly since 1969.

The level of chemicals peaked in the 90s but dropped off after scientists raised the alarm about PFAS and governments acted to regulate.

It's a great question and one I did not know the answer to myself.

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