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  Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2022 When China's President Xi Jinping issued his traditional Lunar New Year wishes from the country's coal heartland in January, the subtext was clear: Beijing is not ready to kick its coal addiction, despite promises to slash emissions. The ink had barely dried on the hard-fought deal struck at last year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow when Beijing's backslide on pledges began. The country's central economic planner has watered down a roadmap to slash emissions, greenlighted giant c ... read more |
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China should eventually 'co-exist' with Covid: top scientistBeijing (AFP) March 1, 2022 China should aim to co-exist with the virus and could move away from its zero-Covid strategy "in the near future," a top Chinese scientist said in a possible sign that the country's leadership is rethinking its strict approach. ... more 
UN chief slams world powers for 'criminal' lack of climate leadershipParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 UN chief Antonio Guterres blasted world powers for a "criminal" abdication of leadership after the release Monday of an extensive new report on climate change impacts, accusing major polluters of fuelling devastating warming that threatens people and planet. ... more 
Climate migrants could face a world of closing doorsParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 People driven from their homes as global warming redraws the map of habitable zones are unlikely to find refuge in countries more focused on slamming shut their borders than planning for a climate-addled future, according to a top expert on migration. ... more  
Australia tells tens of thousands to flee floodsGrafton, Australia (AFP) March 1, 2022 Deadly floods swept Australia's east coast Tuesday, stranding residents on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. ... more |
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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 Thailand, Indonesia begin clean-up after massive floods kill hundreds |
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Australia tells tens of thousands to flee floods Grafton, Australia (AFP) March 1, 2022 Deadly floods swept Australia's east coast Tuesday, stranding people on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. ... more 
Planet 'fire alarm': world reacts to UN climate reportParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 A chorus of alarm from across the planet on Monday met the highly anticipated release of the most complete picture yet of the devastating scope of climate change impacts. ... more 
UN report a reminder that 'climate crisis threatens us all': USWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 The devastating UN report on climate change released Monday should serve as a wake-up call for more aggressive action to fight global warming, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. ... more 
'Liveable future' at risk, UN climate report warnsParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 A landmark UN report said Monday that time had nearly run out to ensure a "liveable future" for all, detailing a horrifying "atlas of human suffering" and warning that far worse was to come. ... more |
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Nations approve major UN report on climate impactsParis (AFP) Feb 27, 2022 Nearly 200 nations approved a major UN climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming on Sunday, at the end of a sometimes fraught two-week meeting overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ... more 
UN report to lay bare harrowing scale of climate impactsParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 The devastating scale of climate change impacts will be unveiled Monday in a landmark UN report expected to show that warming already threatens billions of people and crucial ecosystems. ... more 
Landmark UN report a harrowing catalogue of climate miseryParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 After decades of talking tough on global warming while greenhouse gas emissions rose, the world and its leaders were confronted Monday by a horrifying "atlas of human suffering", and the promise of far worse to come. ... more  
G7 meeting to focus on Ukraine aid: World BankWashington (AFP) Feb 27, 2022 Finance ministers of the Group of Seven most developed nations will meet Tuesday to discuss urgent aid for Ukraine, World Bank president David Malpass announced Sunday. ... more |
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Virus-hit Hong Kong considers lockdown as bodies pile upHong Kong (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 Hong Kong may impose a China-style hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday, with the city's zero-Covid strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals. ... more 
12,000 displaced by floods in MalaysiaKuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 27, 2022 About 12,000 people in Malaysia have been evacuated from their homes, officials said on Sunday, after heavy rains caused flooding in the country's northern states. ... more 
Rooftop rescues in Australia as tens of thousands evacuated from floodsBrisbane, Australia (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 Tens of thousands of Australians were ordered to flee their homes Monday, as torrential rain sent floodwaters to record levels, leaving residents stranded on the rooftops of their homes. ... more 
Lockdown fears spark panic buying in Hong KongHong Kong (AFP) March 1, 2022 Hong Kongers stripped shop shelves bare Tuesday as panic buying set in following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a China-style hard lockdown this month. ... more
Lockdown fears spark panic buying in Hong KongHong Kong (AFP) March 1, 2022 Hong Kongers stripped supermarket shelves bare Tuesday as panic buying set in following mixed messaging from the government over whether it plans a lockdown this month. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2022  China's envoy to Ukraine said Sunday current conditions were too unsafe to evacuate citizens, days after the embassy said it would prepare plans to help people leave after the Russian invasion.
In a lengthy video message on the embassy's official WeChat account, Chinese ambassador Fan Xianrong sought to dispel rumours he had left Kyiv and reassure Chinese nationals left stranded in the war-t ... more |
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 Swindon UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd (PPM) has been working with Aston University through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop a game-changing approach to technology used in the radio-over-fibre communications industry. The project will look to transform the connection between low earth orbit (LEO) satellite antenna dishes and modems through optics rather than electronics, delivering per ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Reconstruction of natural streamflow without water management, e.g., irrigation and reservoir regulation is fundamental to the sustainable management of water resources. In China, previous reconstructions from sparse and poor-quality gauge measurements have led to large biases in simulation of the interannual and seasonal variability of natural flows.
In the current study, the researchers ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Researchers at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) of the Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have proved that satellite-derived salinity improves marine circulation prediction in the Arctic, which, as in the rest of the planet, is directly influenced by this and other parameters such as temperature.
The scientific team has incorporated sea salinity data obtained from measurements by the ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the cusp of driving an agricultural revolution, and helping confront the challenge of feeding our growing global population in a sustainable way. But researchers warn that using new AI technologies at scale holds huge risks that are not being considered.
Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, being grown for flour that will be made into bre ... more |
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 Grafton, Australia (AFP) March 1, 2022 
Deadly floods swept Australia's east coast Tuesday, stranding people on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.
Dozens of emergency warnings are in effect across the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where a week-long "rain bomb" has dumped a metre (3.2 feet) of water on some areas.
Several waterways have burst their banks or broken through levees, ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) Feb 26, 2022 
A demonstration of "mothers and fathers" took to the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum Saturday to support the young anti-coup protesters who have for months rallied against the military.
"We are demonstrating today to tell our sons and daughters that they are not alone," Faiza Hussein, one of the protesters, told AFP.
She added that they are also calling on the authorities to "st ... more |
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Oxford UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2022
Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans: a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of us. The study has been published in Science.
The past two decades have seen extraordinary advancements in human genetic research, generating genomic data ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 
A divided US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in an environmental regulation case with potentially far-reaching implications for the Biden administration's fight against climate change.
The high-stakes case concerns the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, which produce nearly 20 percent of the electr ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 1, 2021 
NASA plans to launch the latest in an advanced series of weather satellites, the GOES-T, from Florida on Tuesday to improve weather forecasting over the Pacific and western United States.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is prepared for liftoff during a two-hour window starting at 4:38 p.m. EST from Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
A team of French, American and Turkish palaeontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers the present-day Balkans and Anatolia. Formerly inhabited by a highly specific fauna, they believe that it enabled mammals from Asia to colonise Europe 34 million years ago. Their findings are publis ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 21, 2022 
Australia's largest energy firm and biggest carbon emitter AGL on Monday rejected a takeover bid from green-minded tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes, who planned to shutter the firm's coal-fired power plants.
Atlassian co-founder Cannon Brookes had teamed up with Brookfield Asset Management to offer US$5.8 billion for the electricity production and distribution firm with a view to shuttin ... more |
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 Tampa FL (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
Researchers have developed a new metasurface-based antenna that represents an important step toward making it practical to harvest energy from radio waves, such as the ones used in cell phone networks or Bluetooth connections. This technology could potentially provide wireless power to sensors, LEDs and other simple devices with low energy requirements.
"By eliminating wired connections an ... more |
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 Gbarpolu County, Liberia (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 
Clutching a single-barrelled rifle in lush northern Liberia, Emmanuel says his 10 children were able to get an education thanks to his gun.
The small wiry man, whose full name AFP is withholding, ignores a ban on hunting bushmeat and earns most of his cash catching pangolins or monkeys in the surrounding jungle.
In the dry season, Emmanuel waits for dark and then hikes into the jungle wi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2022 
Beijing's anti-graft body has criticised more than 20 state banks, regulators, insurers and bad-debt managers following an investigation into corruption and financial risks, citing "many outstanding problems" in their work.
The probe of some of China's most important financial bodies comes amid a sweeping regulatory crackdown on major tech and property firms, and an ongoing debt crisis in th ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
New research from Northern Arizona University shows rising temperatures are causing Earth's coldest forests to shift northward, raising concerns about biodiversity, an increased risk of wildfires and mounting impacts of climate change on northern communities.
Logan Berner, assistant research professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) and Scott Goetz, Regen ... more |
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