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  Brasilia (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro launched a plan Monday to expand gold mining in the Amazon rainforest, drawing criticism from environmentalists for bolstering an industry accused of rampant deforestation, pollution and attacks on indigenous peoples. Bolsonaro signed a decree creating a program to support the development of artisanal mining, a controversial activity known as "garimpo" that occupies something of a legal gray area in Brazil. The decree says the aim is to "propose public policies ... read more |
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Sea level projected to rise a foot on US coasts by 2050Washington (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050 because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday. ... more 
Where on Earth did the water come fromLivermore CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from? Was it present when Earth formed or was it delivered later by meteorites or comet ... more  
Computing carbon storageAustin TX (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 The road to a stabilized climate is challenging and contentious. A number of solutions will be needed to enable a fast, equitable transition away from fossil fuels: among them the development of sus ... more  
Hunger crisis threatens half of Somalia's young children: UNGeneva (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Severe drought risks pushing nearly half of Somali children under five into acute malnutrition this year, with hundreds of thousands needing life-saving treatment, the UN warned Tuesday, calling for urgent action. ... more |
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Japan warns of tsunami waves up to 1m after quake off Russian coast
Pacific tsunami alert after magnitude 8.7 quake off Russia coast: USGS Nigeria flash floods kill 23: UN Heavy rains kill 15 in Guinea since late June Heavy rain, landslides kill more than 30 in northern China LA wildfires push insurance losses to highest since 2011: Munich Re Over 30 dead as northern China hit by heavy rain, landslides Fukushima radioactive debris removal delayed until 2037 'Once in a hundred years': villagers clean up after deadly China floods Vietnam flash flood kills five, dozens evacuated |
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Earth from Space: Hereford, TexasParis (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 Hereford, which is the county seat of Deaf Smith County in Texas, is widely known for its agriculture industry. Known as the beef capital of the world owing to its large number of cattle fed, Herefo ... more  
DR Congo flouting forest protection deal: GreenpeaceKinshasa (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday said the Democratic Republic of Congo has failed to respect a multi-million-dollar agreement signed with Britain last year to finance protecting its ecologically vital forests. ... more  
Kacific and Farmer Charlie team up to boost agricultural output across PacificSingapore (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Kacific Broadband Satellites and Farmer Charlie will bring affordable satellite-powered agricultural information and expertise to farmers in remote and isolated places across South East Asia and the ... more 
Satellite imagery gives researchers timeline of when swine waste lagoons were builtRaleigh NC (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an automated technique that uses satellite imagery to determine when swine waste lagoons were constructed, allowing researchers to deter ... more  
Volcano damage to Tonga undersea cable worse than expectedNuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 The volcanic eruption near Tonga shredded an 80-kilometre (50 mile) stretch of undersea cable, complicating efforts to reconnect the Pacific kingdom after a month of digital darkness, the company overseeing repairs says. ... more |
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Hong Kong leader rules out China-style lockdown as virus spreadsHong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday said she would not impose a mainland China-style hard lockdown as the city faces its worst coronavirus wave to date, even as she vowed no switch to living with Covid-19. ... more  
Faroe Islands begin review of controversial dolphin huntCopenhagen (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 The Faroe Islands, a Danish autonomous territory, said Tuesday it had begun discussions about the future of its controversial dolphin hunt, with a decision expected in the coming weeks. ... more  
Mali orders graft probe into social housing scandalBamako (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 Mali's strongman leader Colonel Assimi Goita has ordered a probe into social housing that was allegedly awarded to people considered close to the ruling junta, one of his staff members said Tuesday. ... more  
Former Hong Kong teen pop star arrested by security policeHong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 A former boyband member turned democracy campaigner was arrested by Hong Kong's national security police on Tuesday on charges of sedition and money laundering. ... more  
China-born billionaire denies Australian election interferenceSydney (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 A Chinese-Australian billionaire on Tuesday denied being the unidentified "puppeteer" accused by Australia's top spy of trying to buy off election candidates on behalf of a foreign power. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 
As a pioneer in so-called attribution science - establishing a link between extreme weather and climate change - Friederike Otto is adamant that the rising toll of heatwaves and hurricanes cannot be explained by global warming alone.
AFP spoke to Otto, a physicist at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, ahead of the release of a major UN climate report on c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2022  Astronomy experts say they originally misread the secrets of the night sky last month: it turns out that a rocket expected to crash into the Moon in early March was built by China, not SpaceX.
A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on March 4, but contrary to what had been announced, it was built not by Elon Musk's company, but by Beijing, experts now say.
The rocket is now said t ... more |
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 Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from? Was it present when Earth formed or was it delivered later by meteorites or comets from outer space?
The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they found it by look ... more |
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 Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
The first atlas to measure the movement and thickness of the world's glaciers gives a clearer, but mixed picture of the globe's ice-bound freshwater resources, according to researchers from the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) and Dartmouth College.
The worldwide survey, published in Nature Geoscience, measures the velocity and depth of more than 250,000 mountain glaciers. The ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 09, 2022 
The Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions measure and image our planet in different ways to return a wealth of complementary information so that we can understand and track how our world is changing, and how to better manage our environment and resources. Thanks to the benefits of different types of data from two particular Copernicus Sentinel missions and an ingenious new dataset tool, people ... more |
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 Nuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
The volcanic eruption near Tonga shredded an 80-kilometre (50 mile) stretch of undersea cable, complicating efforts to reconnect the Pacific kingdom after a month of digital darkness, the company overseeing repairs says.
Tonga Cable Limited chief executive James Panuve said a repair ship had located the severed ends of the 840 kilometre-long cable linking Tonga to Fiji that was cut in the Ja ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2022  French troops in an anti-jihadist mission have killed 40 militants in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighbouring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said Saturday.
The French-led Barhane force in the Sahel region "engaged its air intelligence capacities to locate the armed group" responsible for the attacks, before on Thursday carrying out air strikes that ... more |
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 Osnabruck, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
For the first time, researchers observed chimpanzees in Gabon, West Africa applying insects to their wounds and the wounds of others. In a study published February 7 in the journal Current Biology, scientists describe this wound-tending behavior and argue that it is evidence that chimpanzees have the capacity for prosocial behaviors that have been linked with empathy in humans.
In November ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 
The stakes in the fight against global warming are higher than ever, the UN's climate science chief said Monday as nearly 200 nations met to finalise what is sure to be a harrowing report on climate impacts.
"The need for the Working Group 2 report has never been greater because the stakes have never been higher," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Hoesung Lee said in a l ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Earth's core, the deepest part of our planet, is characterized by extremely high pressure and temperature. It is composed of a liquid outer core and solid inner core.
The inner core is formed and grows due to the solidification of liquid iron at the inner core boundary. The inner core is less dense than pure iron, and some light elements are believed to be present in the inner core.
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
A new study leaves large tooth marks in previous conclusions about the body shape of the Megalodon, one of the largest sharks that ever lived.
The study, which makes use of a pioneering technique for analyzing sharks, has now been published in the international journal Historical Biology.
Megalodons swam the Earth roughly 15 to 3.6-million years ago, and are often portrayed as super- ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
Construction of a 42-floor, pyramid-shaped skyscraper began in Paris on Thursday despite objections from local politicians and associations, and environmentalists who have branded the project "catastrophic".
The Triangle Tower (Tour Triangle) in the 15th district on the city's southwestern edge will, at 180 metres (590 feet), become the city's third-highest building after the Eiffel Tower, c ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 16, 2022 
NASA is inviting students to participate in an essay contest to explore how it powers some of its most famous missions. The contest also encourages participants to learn something about themselves in the process. The Power to Explore Challenge, open to K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and homeschools, is accepting entries from Tuesday, Feb. 15 through Wednesday, April 13.
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 
Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as "endangered" on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease.
Conservationists said koala populations had crashed in much of eastern Australia over the past two decades, warning that they were now sliding towards extinction.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
A former boyband member turned democracy campaigner was arrested by Hong Kong's national security police on Tuesday on charges of sedition and money laundering.
Local media said one of two people arrested was Tommy Yuen, a former member of Cantopop boyband "E-Kids".
A police source confirmed to AFP that Yuen was among those arrested.
Yuen had been largely out of the spotlight since ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
Environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday said the Democratic Republic of Congo has failed to respect a multi-million-dollar agreement signed with Britain last year to finance protecting its ecologically vital forests.
The DRC and Britain approved funds worth $500 million as part of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) two months ago in Glasgow, which hosted the COP26 climate change ... more |
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