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  Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 Storms over the waters around Antarctica drive an outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international study with researchers from the University of Gothenburg. The research group used advanced ocean robots for the study, which provides a better understanding of climate change and can lead to better global climate models. The world's southernmost ocean, the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, plays an important role in the global climate because its waters conta ... read more |
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Covid-hit Australian warship delivers disaster aid to TongaNuku'alofa, Tonga (AFP) Jan 26, 2022 A coronavirus-hit Australian warship docked in Tonga on Wednesday, delivering desperately needed aid to the volcano-and-tsunami-struck nation under strict "no-contact" protocols. Tongan Health ... more  
Study probes Earth's turbulent past to explain where oceans came fromMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the origin of life on Earth, and potential habitability of other Earth-like planets. ... more  
Tropical storm kills 46 in Madagascar, Mozambique, MalawiAntananarivo (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 Tropical storm Ana has killed at least 46 people in Madagascar, and Mozambique along with Malawi, which lost most of its power because of flooding, authorities in the three countries said Tuesday. ... more  
NASA Spinoffs help fight coronavirus, clean pollution, grow food, moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research - which show up in daily life. The agency's Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and en ... 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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Oil spill tars Peruvian seaside towns, leaves fishermen joblessAncon, Peru (AFP) Jan 23, 2022 Thousands of barrels of crude oil that were spilled off Peru's central coast have taken a grim toll: dead birds adrift in the sea and irate fishermen stuck on the docks. ... more 
Tonga eruption equivalent to hundreds of Hiroshimas: NASANuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Jan 24, 2022 The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on Monday described how the devastating Pacific blast "messed up our brains". ... more 
Trickle of residents return to Fukushima's last deserted townTokyo (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Five former residents of the last remaining uninhabited town near Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant returned on Thursday to live there for the first time since the 2011 disaster. ... more  
Nine Senegalese soldiers 'missing' in The GambiaDakar (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 Nine Senegalese soldiers serving in a regional peacekeeping force in The Gambia have gone "missing" during an operation against illegal timber traffickers, the West African state's army said Tuesday. ... more 
Uganda replaces military intelligence chief hit by US sanctionsKampala (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday removed the country's powerful military intelligence chief, just weeks after he was sanctioned by the United States over human rights violations. ... more |
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Burkina junta faces worldwide criticism but wins popular supportOuagadougou (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 Supporters of Burkina Faso's new junta rallied on Tuesday as the UN, France and the poor Sahel country's neighbours condemned its latest coup. ... more  
Iraq's top court upholds re-election of parliament speakerBaghdad (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 Iraq's top court on Tuesday confirmed the re-election of Mohammed al-Halbussi as parliament speaker, following appeals against its conduct, paving the way towards the formation of a new government. ... more  
Communist Party expels 3 senior Chinese officials for corruptionBeijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2022 Three senior Chinese officials - including a former top banking regulator - have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for alleged corruption and placed under criminal investigation, the country's graft watchdog said Monday. ... more 
China warns of 'no mercy' in corruption and monopoly crackdownBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 China has vowed to ramp up its regulatory crackdown and show "no mercy" against corruption as the ruling Communist Party gears up for a key meeting that could secure President Xi Jinping a third term. ... more  
EU nations quarrel over whether nuclear, gas are 'green'Amiens, France (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 Hours before the window for lodging objections closes, EU environment and energy ministers meeting in France Friday differed sharply on a European Commission provision that would classify nuclear and natural gas energy as "sustainable". ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
A Chinese satellite had a near collision with one of the many chunks of debris left by the fallout of a recent Russian anti-satellite missile test, state media reported.
Moscow blew up one of its old satellites in November in a missile test that sparked international anger because of the space debris it scattered around the Earth's orbit.
US officials accused Moscow of carrying out a "d ... more |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
After three consecutive years of worldwide declines, the number of shark bites picked up in 2021, with a total of 73 unprovoked incidents. The data, published this week by the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File, also included 39 provoked shark bites and nine fatalities that occurred throughout the year.
The number of unprovoked bites in 2021 aligns with the ... more |
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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.
This would not only cause damage to the seafloor ecosystem but also ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research - which show up in daily life. The agency's Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.
"The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos bu ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
When a volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga began erupting in late-December 2021 and then violently exploded in mid-January 2022, NASA scientist Jim Garvin and colleagues were unusually well positioned to study the events. Ever since new land rose above the water surface in 2015 and joined two existing islands, Garvin and an international team of researchers have been monitoring changes ... 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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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
Chimpanzees don't automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now used field experiments to show that chimpanzees thus do not simply invent nut cracking with tools, but need to learn such complex cultural behaviors from others. Their culture is therefore more similar to human culture than often assumed.
Humans have a com ... 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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 Milan, Italy (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analysed the orientation of ancient Japanese tombs - the so-called Kofun. This study has never been carried out before, due to the very large number of monuments and the fact that access to these areas is usually forbidden.
For these reasons, high-res satellite imagery was used. The results show that these tombs are oriented towards the arc of ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the origin of life on Earth, and potential habitability of other Earth-like planets. In a recent study in Physical Review Letters, a Skoltech professor and his Chinese colleagues suggest a chemical compound that - although now extinct - could have preserved water deep underground in ... more |
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 Amiens, France (AFP) Jan 21, 2022 
Hours before the window for lodging objections closes, EU environment and energy ministers meeting in France Friday differed sharply on a European Commission provision that would classify nuclear and natural gas energy as "sustainable".
The controversy pits countries led by France - where nuclear generates a world-leading 70 percent of electricity - against Germany, Austria and others in ... 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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 Bela Bela, South Africa (AFP) Jan 24, 2022 
A 10-year-old rhino that had its horn brutally hacked off returned to the wild Monday, after 30 operations over six years to repair the gash in its face.
His rescuers named the bull Sehawukele, meaning "God have mercy on us".
Called Seha for short, he was found by police stumbling near a fence in a reserve, so disfigured that he could barely hear or eat.
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 
The first rule of Fight Club in China? Don't mention the original ending. The second rule of Fight Club in China? Change it so the police win.
China has some of the world's most restrictive censorship rules with authorities only approving a handful of foreign films for release each year - sometimes with major cuts.
Among the latest movies to undergo such treatment is David Fincher's 199 ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 
Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will use a newly awarded $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with 13 other land-grant universities in the eastern U.S. to create an education program that would help private forests owners adapt to and mitigate climate change.
The funding comes from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agricult ... more |
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