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  Davis CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 What does a "resilient" forest look like in California's Sierra Nevada? A lot fewer trees than we're used to, according to a study of frequent-fire forests from the University of California, Davis. More than a century ago, Sierra Nevada forests faced almost no competition from neighboring trees for resources. The tree densities of the late 1800s would astonish most Californians today. Because of fire suppression, trees in current forests live alongside six to seven times as many trees as their anc ... read more |
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UN plans zero-Covid Tonga relief effortGeneva (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 The United Nations said Friday it was adopting zero-Covid methods of delivering badly-needed food, fuel and clean water to Tonga as the volcano and tsunami disaster relief efforts finally get rolling. ... more 
'Proud' Tongans determined to rebuild battered homeland after eruptionNuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Jan 22, 2022 Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week's devastating eruption and tsunami as a massive clean up continued Saturday in the Pacific kingdom. ... more  
Oil cleanup crews replace bathers on Peru beaches; While floods damage Machu PicchuAncon, Peru (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 At Miramar Beach in Peru's popular resort of Ancon, there are no bathers despite the summer heat. Instead, it teems with workers in coveralls cleaning up an oil spill. ... more  
Tonga volcano eruption was like 'atomic bomb'Sydney (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 Tonga's volcanic eruption felt like an "atomic bomb" that shook "the whole island", an aid worker told AFP on Friday, as the Pacific nation raced to address a drinking water shortage. ... more |
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Militaries come to aid of Asia flood victims as toll nears 1,000
Death toll from Sri Lanka floods, landslides rises to 334: disaster agency Indonesia, Thailand race to find missing as flooding toll tops 600 Floods hit Sri Lanka's capital as cyclone deaths top 200 Indonesia, Thailand race to find missing as flooding toll rises to 480 Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage island Floods hit Sri Lanka's capital as cyclone deaths near 200 Floods hit Sri Lanka's capital as cyclone death toll rises to 159 Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought Sri Lanka declares emergency as toll from floods, mudslides hits 153 |
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Hong Kong warns animal lovers not to obstruct hamster cullHong Kong (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 Hong Kong's government Friday warned local animal lovers not to obstruct its ongoing cull of small animals, a policy triggered when hamsters in a pet shop tested positive for the coronavirus. ... more  
Myanmar sentences lawmaker from Suu Kyi's party to death: statementYangon (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 Myanmar's junta sentenced a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted party to death for terror offences on Friday, a statement said. ... more 
Dynamics of mega earthquakes and tsunamis unraveledMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 Earth's strongest earthquakes occur in so-called subduction zones, where one Earth plate dives beneath another and megathrust faults occur. Despite major advancements in earthquake monitoring and wa ... more  
Mega Iceberg A68A released 152B tons of fresh water as it scraped past South GeorgiaLeeds UK (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 152 billion tonnes of fresh water - equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when the megaberg A68A ... more 
Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapseBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona has revea ... more |
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Increase in marine heat waves threatens coastal habitatsGloucester Point VA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 Heat waves-like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June-also occur underwater. A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science paints a worrisome picture of recent and projected trends in ... more  
New simulations can improve avalanche forecastingBurnaby, Canada (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 Computer simulations of snow cover can accurately forecast avalanche hazard, according to a new international study involving researchers from Simon Fraser University. Currently, avalanche for ... more  
Particles formed in boreal forests affect clouds in the troposphereHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 A new study shows that through aerosol formation and growth, the forests are capable of mitigating climate change and have a regional effect on the climate of an entire continent at the most. Prior ... more 
Three arrested at Myanmar media outlet: editorYangon (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Myanmar authorities have arrested three employees at a local media portal in nighttime raids, an editor at the outlet said on Thursday, as the junta continues its crackdown on independent media. ... more 
No more politics for Hong Kong barristers, As EU calls for sanctions Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 The newly elected leader of Hong Kong barristers said Thursday that his profession should avoid politics and build closer ties to mainland China, as concerns grow about rule of law in the financial hub. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 
In 2021, NASA technology saved 330 lives in the U.S. network region of the international satellite-aided search and rescue effort, Cospas-Sarsat. NASA has lent technical expertise to the Cospas-Sarsat program since its founding, aiding in the rescue of over 48,000 individuals globally.
Users purchasing commercially available 406 MHz frequency Cospas-Sarsat beacons have free access to the n ... more |
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University. Yet space assets-equipment that is placed in space such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our society daily-are threatened by space debris.
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona has revealed that marine heatwaves associated with the climate crisis are bringing down the populations of coral in the Mediterranean, the biomass of which in some cases has been reduced by 80 to 90%.
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 21, 2022 
In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named A-68, snapped off Antarctica's Larsen-C ice shelf and began an epic journey across the Southern Ocean. Three and a half years later, the main part of iceberg, A-68A, drifted worryingly close to South Georgia. Concerns were that the berg would run aground in the shallow waters offshore.
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 Pudsey, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 
Robert Tomlinson picks rhubarb stalks by candlelight in the dark, carrying on a century-old family tradition that survives today despite the challenges posed to his business by Brexit and climate change.
For four generations, Tomlinson's family have been cultivating "forced rhubarb" in the winter months at their farm in Pudsey, northern England, and are profiting from a resurgence in the pla ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
Earth's strongest earthquakes occur in so-called subduction zones, where one Earth plate dives beneath another and megathrust faults occur. Despite major advancements in earthquake monitoring and warning systems, earth scientists struggle to predict large earthquakes, especially tsunami generating subduction events, because relatively little data exists.
LMU geophysicists Thomas Ulrich and ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 
The US army has confirmed the presence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group in Mali, which the African nation's government has denied amid increasingly strained relations with the West.
"Wagner is in Mali," General Stephen Townsend, the head of US Africa Command, said in an interview with Voice of America, "They are there, we think, numbering several hundred now."
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 
China's birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns.
Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country's weakest population growth in decades.
The birth rate of the world's second-bigges ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA's baseline period, according ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Euroconsult, the leading space consulting and market intelligence firm, has released its eagerly awaited ''Earth Observation Satellite Systems Market'' report, providing a sweeping review analysis of the Earth Observation (EO) upstream ecosystem and breaking down government and commercial programs in exhaustive details.
With the Earth Observation manufacturing market gearing up for another ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more ?inhospitable?to life than scientists previously thought, according to?new?computer simulations.
Using a state-of-the-art climate model, researchers now believe the level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth's surface could have been underestimated, with UV levels being up to ten times higher.
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
European Union environment ministers gathered in France Thursday to mull climate policy and the merits of a carbon border tax, while airing differences on whether nuclear energy can be classified as "green".
The two-day informal talks in Amiens, hosted by France as it takes the rotating reins of the EU presidency, will look for a unified path toward achieving the 27-nation bloc's ambitious t ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 
The energy systems that power our lives also produce wasted heat - like heat that radiates off hot water pipes in buildings and exhaust pipes on vehicles. A new flexible thermoelectric generator can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces and convert wasted heat into electricity more efficiently than previously possible, according to scientists at Penn State and the National Renewable Energy La ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
An elephant in Kenya has given birth to twins, an extremely rare event, conservationists said Thursday.
Conservation group Save the Elephants said the twins - one male and one female - were born to a mother named Bora.
They were first spotted by lucky tourist guides on a safari drive at the weekend in Samburu reserve in northern Kenya.
Videos show the days-old newborns getting accu ... more |
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 Nicosia (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 
A Chinese mother and son's fight against extradition from Cyprus to face fraud charges at home took a twist Friday when the court bailed them after not receiving the necessary paperwork.
The mother, 61, and her son, 39, were arrested on December 8 under a warrant issued by Chinese authorities for alleged investment fraud in China between March 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014.
The pair, who re ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 
Tens of thousands of Indonesia's indigenous people are at risk of being expelled from their lands to make way for the construction of a new capital on jungle-clad Borneo island, a rights group warned on Friday.
At least 20,000 people from 21 indigenous groups live in the area designated for the construction of the new capital with laws enabling the move from Jakarta not providing enough prot ... more |
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