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  Hong Kong (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 A research team led by Dr Celia SCHUNTER at School of Biological Sciences (area of Ecology and Biodiversity) and The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), in collaboration with researchers from The University of Adelaide, James Cook University in Australia, IRD Institute in New Caledonia, and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan, revealed the basis to variability across different fish species and uncovered that some species evolve more ... read more |
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Ice-free in icy worldsMainz, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 Antarctic waters have conditions in which objects and living creatures can freeze even under water. This is a major problem for marine travel in polar regions. So-called supercooled water has a temp ... more  
Doctors in Croatia warn against using iodine amid nuclear war fearsZagreb (AFP) March 3, 2022 Croatia's doctors on Thursday warned the public against consuming iodine as demand surged for the substance over fears that Russia may use nuclear weapons during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. ... more  
NASA to share tools, resources at upcoming agriculture conferenceWashington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 NASA will participate in the 2022 Commodity Classic conference, America's largest farmer-led, farmer-focused educational and agricultural experience. Agency representatives will discuss inform ... more  
California fire led to spike in bacteria, cloudiness in coastal watersPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 04, 2022 The November 2018 Woolsey Fire in Southern California's Los Angeles and Ventura counties left more than a nearly 100,000-acre burn scar behind: It also left the adjacent coastal waters with unusuall ... 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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Corals can be "trained" to tolerate heat stress, study findsMiami FL (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that corals that underwent a stressful temperature treatment in the laborator ... more  
12 big cats evacuated from Ukraine arrive in PolandRzeszow, Poland (AFP) March 3, 2022 Six lions and six tigers from a shelter for abused animals near Kiev arrived in Poland on Thursday morning, a spokeswoman for Poznan Zoo which organised the evacuation told AFP. ... more  
Top Hong Kong Covid expert says mass-testing plan 'unhelpful'Hong Kong (AFP) March 3, 2022 One of Hong Kong's top coronavirus experts on Thursday joined a growing chorus of criticism over plans to test the entire city, saying doing so during its worst-ever outbreak would have little impact. ... more  
W.Africa bloc, UN 'concerned' about Guinea's democratic transitionConakry (AFP) March 3, 2022 West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS and the United Nations voiced deepening concern on Thursday about a stalling democratic transition in Guinea following a military coup last September. ... more |
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Mali armed groups criticise junta, call for clarityBamako (AFP) March 3, 2022 Armed groups in Mali that signed a landmark peace deal have intensified criticism in recent days of the country's military rulers, calling Thursday for them to clarify their position on the agreement. ... more  
How solar storms can destroy satellites with easeMorgantown WV (The Conversation) Mar 03, 2022 On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk's Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failu ... more  
Heritage of Iraq's last few Jews at riskBaghdad (AFP) March 3, 2022 In a busy district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, there is little to distinguish the faded brick building, except for a Hebrew inscription above the entrance. ... more  
Planet Labs PBC launches next generation PlanetScope with Eight Spectral BandsSan Francisco (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced the general availability of the next generation of its PlanetScope Monitoring product, offering high quality, analysis-ready data to all existing PlanetScope ... more |
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Google Maps and Tripadvisor nix war news in reviewsSan Francisco (AFP) March 4, 2022 Google on Thursday said it has stopped allowing reviews to be added to its online Maps service in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to prevent them from being used for war news. ... more 
800 Iraqi refugees return home from SyriaQamishli, Syria (AFP) March 3, 2022 Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region's Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. ... more  
Stora Enso suspends Russia forestry operationsHelsinki (AFP) March 2, 2022 Major Finnish paper and packaging producer Stora Enso will stop all production and sales in Russia in response to Moscow's assault on Ukraine, the group announced Wednesday. ... more 
New astrobiology research predicts life 'as we don't know it'Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for "life as we know it" beyond Earth. For astrobiologists looking for life on other planet ... more 
These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desertThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia created a solar-driven system that successfully grows spinach by using water drawn from the air while producing electricity. The proof-of-concept ... more |
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 Yangon (AFP) March 1, 2022  At least 17 people are feared dead after a landslide trapped dozens of workers inside a Myanmar jade mine, sources and local media said Tuesday.
The incident came on Monday evening near Hpakant township in northern Kachin state - the same region where a massive landslide in 2020 entombed 300 workers in the country's worst ever mine disaster.
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 Washington (AFP) March 3, 2022 
Helium is the second most-abundant element in the known universe, but to the semiconductor fabricators and doctors who rely on it for their businesses, it is better known as the latest raw material to grow scarce - and the war in Ukraine could make the shortage worse.
Russia is expected to eventually begin producing the equivalent of a third of the world's current helium production from a m ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that corals that underwent a stressful temperature treatment in the laboratory for 90 days were more tolerant to increased water temperatures.
These findings offer coral restoration scientists with a new approach to potentially increase the success rate of planting nurse ... 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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 Lawrence , Australia (AFP) March 2, 2022 
Emergency services ordered some Sydney residents to prepare to flee Wednesday as heavy rainfall barrelled down Australia's east coast, burying towns in floodwater, killing 13 and putting hundreds of thousands at risk.
A week-long torrential downpour has swollen rivers and reservoirs past bursting point, causing chaos in an area 800 kilometres (500 miles) long.
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) March 1, 2022 
Burkina Faso's junta chief on Tuesday signed a charter setting a three-year transition period before the country holds elections, an AFP journalist said, just over a month after he led a coup to overthrow the country's elected leader.
"The duration of the transition is set at 36 months from the date of the inauguration of the president," according to the transition charter signed by Lieutena ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Mar 02, 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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 Paris (AFP) March 2, 2022 
Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans.
All forms of life on Earth are linked together by a vast web of causes and consequences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sai ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 
China on Sunday morning launched a Long March-4C rocket to place a new land-observation satellite in space.
The rocket blasted off at 7:44 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon sent the L-SAR 01B satellite into its preset orbit.
The satellite will be used to monitor Earth's geological environment, landslides and earthquakes.
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 
The end of the Permian was characterized by the greatest mass extinction event in Earth's history. 252 million years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions in Siberia led to a massive release of greenhouse gases. In the course of the next several millennia, the climate ultimately warmed by ten degrees. As a consequence, on land, roughly 75 percent of all organisms went extinct; in the oceans, the n ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 
Do two promising structural materials corrode at very high temperatures when in contact with "liquid metal fuel breeders" in fusion reactors? Researchers of Tokyo Tech, YNU and QST now have the answer. This high-temperature compatibility of reactor structural materials with the liquid breeder-a lining around the reactor core that absorbs and traps the high energy neutrons produced in the plasma ... more |
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 Rzeszow, Poland (AFP) March 3, 2022 
Six lions and six tigers from a shelter for abused animals near Kiev arrived in Poland on Thursday morning, a spokeswoman for Poznan Zoo which organised the evacuation told AFP.
The Ukrainian truck, which covered nearly 1,000 kilometres (over 600 miles) from Kiev to bypass the central region of Zhytomir which has been shelled by Russian forces, was also carrying two caracals and an African w ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 2, 2022 
A pro-democracy Hong Kong radio DJ was convicted of seditious speech on Wednesday under a British colonial-era law that authorities have embraced as China flattens dissent in the business hub.
Tam Tak-chi, 49, is among a growing number of activists charged with sedition, a previously little-used law that prosecutors have dusted off in the wake of massive and sometimes violent pro-democracy p ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) March 2, 2022 
Major Finnish paper and packaging producer Stora Enso will stop all production and sales in Russia in response to Moscow's assault on Ukraine, the group announced Wednesday.
The forestry giant, with 1,100 employees at three packaging plants and two sawmills in Russia, will also freeze all its Russian imports and exports.
"The war in Ukraine is unacceptable and we are fully behind all s ... more |
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