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  Vienna (AFP) March 9, 2022 The announcement on Wednesday that electricity had been cut to Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant has revived concern over the effect Russia's invasion may have on it's neighbour's nuclear installations. But experts have cautioned that for now the lack of electricity at Chernobyl - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - does not pose a major security risk at the plant itself. But last week's shelling at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - was a reminder that the ... read more |
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UN worried about lack of funds to tackle Somalia droughtNairobi (AFP) March 9, 2022 The United Nations warned Wednesday that it faces a crippling lack of funds to tackle Somalia's devastating drought, which has been "overshadowed" by other humanitarian crises including the war in Ukraine. ... more  
Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinctCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteori ... more  
Filling the GOCE data gap unearths South Pole's geological pastParis (ESA) Mar 10, 2022 It's very difficult to know what lies beneath a blanket of kilometres-thick ice, so it is hardly surprising that scientists have long contested the shape and geology of the ancient supercontinent fr ... more 
Thawing permafrost could leach microbes, chemicals into environmentPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022 Trapped within Earth's permafrost - ground that remains frozen for a minimum of two years - are untold quantities of greenhouse gases, microbes, and chemicals, including the now-banned pesticide DDT ... more |
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Landslide kills four as rains lash northern China
Blazing heat in Iraq as Baghdad, south top 50C Four killed in landslide as heavy rain drenches northern China Four killed as heavy rain, flooding soaks northern China Four dead, eight missing in China landslide after heavy rain 4 dead, 8 missing in north China landslide after heavy rain Three drones detected in Japan nuclear plant Hundreds protest over water shortages in drought-hit Iraq Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims |
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Preparing for when lightning strikes the same place twice, then strikes againMillbrook NY (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 Disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and droughts are not only increasing in intensity and frequency, they are also striking the same place multiple times. Yet, to date, disas ... more  
A surprisingly soft mineral may control how Earth recycles rocksSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 The geological events we see on the surface of the Earth as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are expressions of processes that are happening deep in our planet. Here on the Earth's crust, we're ... more  
Mosul's Old City rises from rubble in war-scarred IraqMosul, Iraq (AFP) March 9, 2022 Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists. ... more  
Conservative Yoon wins tight South Korean presidential raceSeoul (AFP) March 10, 2022 Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol won South Korea's presidential election Thursday, with the political novice and avowed anti-feminist immediately promising a more hawkish policy on the nuclear-armed North. ... more |
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Explorers find shipwreck of Endurance more than 100 years after it sank near AntarcticaWashington DC (UPI) Mar 9, 2021 The wreckage of a legendary exhibition ship that was lost more than a century ago - when it was crushed by ice during an exhibition to Antarctica and sank in the waters around the South Pole - has finally been located, scientists said Wednesday. ... more  
Endangered bat not seen in four decades found in RwandaKigali (AFP) March 9, 2022 A critically endangered species of bats not sighted in 40 years has been found in Rwanda, with the "incredible" discovery delighting conservationists who had feared it was already extinct. ... more  
Brazil stars protest Bolsonaro environmental policyBrasilia (AFP) March 9, 2022 Iconic Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso led a star-studded protest Wednesday against President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy, seeking to block a series of bills that activists say would be devastating for the Amazon rainforest and beyond. ... more  
US veterans sick after burn pit exposure want recognition -- and compensationWashington (AFP) March 9, 2022 Back in 2006, US National Guard sergeant Heath Robinson oversaw the burning of waste at a military base in Iraq. ... more |
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Fresh evacuation efforts for devastated Ukraine citiesKyiv (AFP) March 9, 2022 Russia and Ukraine agreed to open more humanitarian corridors on Wednesday to evacuate terrified civilians from bombarded cities, while new concerns emerged over the Chernobyl nuclear plant after a power cut. ... more  
Over 200 flights cancelled in Istanbul because of snowIstanbul (AFP) March 9, 2022 More than 200 Thursday flights have been cancelled at Istanbul's two airports because of expected snowfall, Turkey's top airlines said. ... more 
Iraqis protest rise in food prices, officials blame Ukraine warNasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) March 9, 2022 Protests erupted Wednesday in Iraq's impoverished south over a rise in food prices that officials attributed to the conflict in Ukraine. ... more  
Music icon Caetano Veloso urges Brazil to stop BolsonaroBras�lia (AFP) March 10, 2022 Singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, a living legend of Brazilian music, was jailed and exiled by his country's military dictatorship in the 1960s. ... more 
IAEA says loses contact with Chernobyl nuclear data systemsVienna (AFP) March 9, 2022 The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN's atomic watchdog, the agency said Tuesday, as it voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the Ukrainian facility. ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) March 9, 2022 
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN's atomic watchdog, the agency said Tuesday, as it voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the Ukrainian facility.
On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west across Europe.
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, has announced its new Radiation Tolerant version of its industry leading Nano ultra-pure light tunable laser which has been designed for use in low earth orbit satellite co ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
Global weather fluctuations called El Nino events are likely to become more frequent by 2040, a new study shows.
El Nino - the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean -affects climate, ecosystems and societies worldwide.
The study examined four possible scenarios for future carbon emissions, and found increased risk of El Nino events in all four.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 9, 2021 
The wreckage of a legendary exhibition ship that was lost more than a century ago - when it was crushed by ice during an exhibition to Antarctica and sank in the waters around the South Pole - has finally been located, scientists said Wednesday.
The Norwegian-built Endurance was headed for Antarctica in 1915 during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and was led by British explore ... more |
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 Washington 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 information, tools, and resources, drawn from the NASA's Earth observation satellites and science research. Farmers and others regularly make decisions about water management, planting, and market decisions ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 09, 2022 
By examining earthquake models from a fresh perspective, Cornell University engineers now show that the earthquake fracture energy - once thought to relate to how faults in the Earth's crust weaken - is related to how quakes stop.
This modeling revelation could help science inch closer to making accurate earthquake forecasts.
"We realized that observations we thought were related to ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 7, 2022  Airstrikes have killed at least 304 civilians since late November in Ethiopia's war-torn north, especially in the Tigray region, the UN human rights chief said Monday.
The rights and security situation in Ethiopia had "deteriorated significantly" since late November, Michelle Bachelet told the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Bachelet said her office had "continued to receive reports ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
There is no other place where so many Neolithic pile dwellings have been uncovered as around the Alps. It is a mystery, however, how this "building boom" came to be. Researchers at the University of Basel have now uncovered new clues, and say that settlers at Lake Varese in northern Italy may have played a leading role.
When workers discovered the first pile-dwelling settlement on Lake Zur ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) March 9, 2022 
The United Nations warned Wednesday that it faces a crippling lack of funds to tackle Somalia's devastating drought, which has been "overshadowed" by other humanitarian crises including the war in Ukraine.
The troubled Horn of Africa nation is being ravaged by drought, which has affected 4.5 million people - nearly 30 percent of its population - as of February, following three consecutive ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 09, 2022 
China has received the first batch of data from its newly launched land observation satellite, scientists in charge of the spacecraft said Tuesday.
The satellite L-SAR 01B was sent into orbit atop a Long March 4C rocket on Feb. 27.
China's L-SAR 01 is a satellite group composed of two satellites equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), namely the L-SAR 01A and the L-SAR 0 ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
Researchers at Yale and Caltech have a bold new theory to explain how Earth transformed itself from a fiery, carbon-clouded ball of rocks into a planet capable of sustaining life.
The theory covers Earth's earliest years and involves "weird" rocks that interacted with seawater in just the right way to nudge biological matter into existence.
"This period is the most enigmatic time in ... more |
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.
Mathematicians from the University of Nottingham used data from smart meters to track how grid composition changes over time and found resilience varies over the course of a day and that a high uptake of solar panels can leave the grid more suscep ... 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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 Reading UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals - short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form - have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published research paper supports the idea that even these abrupt changes are underpinned by a gradual directional process of successive incremental changes, as Darwin's theory of evolution assumes.
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2022 
The CIA's director said Tuesday he believes China leader Xi Jinping has been "unsettled" by Russia's difficulties in invading Ukraine, and by how the war has brought the United States and Europe closer.
"I think President Xi and the Chinese leadership are a little bit unsettled by what they're seeing in Ukraine," Central Intelligence Agency boss William Burns told US lawmakers during a heari ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
The Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience, data analysis from high-resolution satellite images suggests. This is due to stress from a combination of logging and burning - the influence of human-caused climate change is not clearly determinable so far, but will likely matter greatly in the future.
For about three quarters of the forest, the ability to recover from perturbation has b ... more |
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