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  Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2018 US President Donald Trump on Saturday once again attacked the Paris agreement on fighting climate change, citing ongoing protests in the French capital as proof that he was right to reject the pact. His tweets came in the middle of UN climate talks in Poland, where nearly 200 nations have gathered to agree on a universal rulebook to make good on promises they signed up to in the 2015 Paris climate deal to cap global warming at well under two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). "Very sad day & nigh ... read more |
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Brazil's Bolsonaro completes cabinet with rightist environment chiefSao Paulo (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime climate-change skeptic, has named a rightist lawyer with a contentious background to be environment minister in the country whose Amazon rainforest is under threat. ... more  
Slow recycler Turkey seeks better uses for its trashIstanbul (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 Turkish woman Tulay Gercek stands in front of a vending machine at a busy Istanbul metro station but instead of putting coins into a slot, she crams plastic bottles into a hole. ... more  
German farmers sue government over missed climate targetsVetschau, Germany (AFP) Dec 8, 2018 Dismayed by the German government's failure to meet climate protection targets, dairy farmer Heiner Luetke Schwienhorst has filed a lawsuit against Berlin to force it into action. ... more  
Atmospheric scientists find causes of firenado in deadly Carr FireReno NV (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 A destructive fire-generated vortex - a massive stream of rising, spinning, smoke, ash and fire - that topped out at 17,000 feet above the earth, accelerated the Carr fire that killed eight people a ... more |
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An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic EuropeansWashington DC (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, in DNA extracted from 5,000-year-old human remains. Their ana ... more  
Black Forest sanctuary for IS-abused Yazidi womenDonaueschingen, Germany (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 After surviving torment and rape at the hands of her Islamic State captors, Nadia Murad rebuilt her life at a trauma centre in Germany's Black Forest which became her sanctuary. ... more 
Nobel peace prize shines light on rape in conflictOslo (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, an IS sex slave survivor, will be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Monday, as they challenge the world to combat rape as a weapon of war. ... more  
At least 3 dead in north Cyprus floodingNicosia (AFP) Dec 6, 2018 At least three people were killed in flooding of the Kyrenia region of northern Cyprus as heavy rains lashed the Mediterranean island, local officials said Thursday. ... more 
Wildfire ash can bind to, trap mercuryWashington DC (UPI) Dec 05, 2018 New research suggests the particulate matter released by wildfires can trap mercury and prevent its absorption into local waterways. ... more |
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Mukwege saviour to dozens of 'little sisters' raped in DRC villageBukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 Lucie was just seven years old when the men took her. She was found the next day, naked and bleeding, on the edge of the vast forested hills of Kahuzi Biega Park, in violence-plagued eastern DR Congo. ... more  |
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Great strides for carbon capture using earth-abundant elements as photocatalytic systemTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed a CO2 reduction method based only on commonly occurring elements. Achieving a 57% overall quantum yield of CO2 reduction products, it is th ... more 
Boko Haram raids kill soldier in NE Nigeria as attacks intensifyKano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Boko Haram jihadists have attacked two military bases in Nigeria's restive northeast, killing one soldier and injuring two, security sources told AFP Wednesday, in a week that saw insurgent assaults on troops intensify. ... more 
E.Guinea army chief-of-staff fired: presidencyMalabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 Equatorial Guinea's army chief-of-staff, who was only appointed to the post in October, has been sacked by the president, state television has reported. ... more  
Thousands of Myanmar women forced into marriage in China: studyBangkok (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands. ... more 
EU should worry about Huawei, other Chinese firms: officialBrussels (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 The European Union and its citizens should be "worried" about telecoms giant Huawei and other Chinese firms that cooperate with Beijing's intelligence services, a senior EU official warned Friday. ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Dec 10, 2018  Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, an IS sex slave survivor, will be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Monday, as they challenge the world to combat rape as a weapon of war.
Mukwege, dubbed "Doctor Miracle" for his work helping victims of sexual violence, and Murad, who has turned her experience into powerful advocacy for her Yazidi people, will receive the pr ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
The world's smallest wearable, battery-free device has been developed by Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering scientists to measure exposure to light across multiple wavelengths, from the ultra violet (UV), to visible and even infrared parts of the solar spectrum. It can record up to three separate wavelengths of light at one time.
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
The jury is still out as to whether climate change will lead to stronger El Nino events, but while representatives from around 200 countries at the COP24 conference are working to breathe life into the 2105 Paris Agreement, there is a 75-80% chance that a fully-fledged event could be with us in the next couple of months.
El Nino and its cooler cousin, La Nina, are complex naturally occurri ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover.
As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the expanse of frozen seawater that blankets the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas has shrunk and thinned over the past three decades ... more |
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 Kafr Al-Dawar, Egypt (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 
Lush green fields blanket northern Egypt's Nile Delta, but the country's agricultural heartland and its vital freshwater resources are under threat from a warming climate.
The fertile arc-shaped basin is home to nearly half the country's population, and the river that feeds it provides Egypt with 90 percent of its water needs.
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 Nicosia (AFP) Dec 6, 2018 
At least three people were killed in flooding of the Kyrenia region of northern Cyprus as heavy rains lashed the Mediterranean island, local officials said Thursday.
Tufan Erhurman, prime minister of breakaway northern Cyprus, visited the Ciklos and Dogankoy areas where the three, including an 18-year-old woman, were killed in flash flooding that swept away cars.
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 5, 2018  Boko Haram jihadists have attacked two military bases in Nigeria's restive northeast, killing one soldier and injuring two, security sources told AFP Wednesday, in a week that saw insurgent assaults on troops intensify.
Riding in trucks fitted with anti-aircraft guns, fighters from the self-styled Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of Boko Haram launched a raid late Tuesday o ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018  As humans continue to alter the landscape and transform environments, ecosystems across the globe are becoming increasingly homogenous.
New research suggests the same cosmopolitan species are taking advantage of humankind's environmental disruption. And as the same cosmopolitan species thrive across planet Earth, more unique species are disappearing.
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 Wellington (AFP) Dec 6, 2018 
The New Zealand Defence Force identified climate change as one of its biggest security challenges Thursday, warning that responding to global warming will increasingly stretch its resources.
The NZDF said the impact of climate change in the neighbouring Pacific islands promised to be so extreme that providing humanitarian assistance could limit its ability to perform its traditional defence ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
Ball Aerospace has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched, TEMPO will be a space-based ultraviolet/visible light air quality spectrometer in geostationary orbit over greater North America.
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
The largest extinction in Earth's history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.
Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine ecosystem, then a swath of corpses. Some 96 percent of ... more |
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 Behror, India (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
With India's AC market expected to explode from 30 million to a billion units by 2050, the world's second-most populous country could become the planet's top user of electricity for cooling. ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
The chemical element that makes up most of today's batteries, lithium, may soon be challenged by its polar opposite on the Periodic Table: fluoride. Yes, the same stuff in toothpaste.
The two elements would be in competition for helping electronics last longer on a charge, such as electric cars that need to travel more miles than is possible with lithium-ion batteries on the market.
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 Port Dickson, Malaysia (AFP) Dec 6, 2018  Malaysia on Thursday torched nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9 million in a bid to deter illegal wildlife trafficking from Africa.
The Southeast Asian nation is battling to clamp down on rife trafficking through its borders of the ant-eating mammals, whose scales are highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine.
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 Brussels (AFP) Dec 7, 2018  The European Union and its citizens should be "worried" about telecoms giant Huawei and other Chinese firms that cooperate with Beijing's intelligence services, a senior EU official warned Friday.
Huawei quickly hit back at European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip's warning, saying it was "surprised and disappointed" while rejecting any charges it posed a security threat.
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 Sao Paulo (AFP) Dec 9, 2018 
Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime climate-change skeptic, has named a rightist lawyer with a contentious background to be environment minister in the country whose Amazon rainforest is under threat.
As with all his major announcements, Bolsonaro used Twitter to appoint Ricardo de Aquino Salles and fill the final vacancy of his 22-member cabinet.
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