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  Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Scientists have produced a map showing where the world's major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and minimise environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural use of freshwater to zero. The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western US, and below the Sahara desert. Huge areas of farmland in Europe and India would be restored to natural habita ... read more |
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Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the airCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Even under ice age conditions will plants, plankton, and other life forms be able to increase production whenever atmospheric carbon concentrations rise. The mechanism will not prevent an ongoing tr ... more  
Long look at Hawaiian corals suggests reasons for optimism amid warming seas, ocean acidificationCorvallis OR (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 The longest experimental study on corals to date, a 22-month project that replicated current and future ocean conditions, suggests Hawaiian corals can remain resilient as climate change makes seawat ... more  
"Seafloor fertilizer factory" helped breathe life into EarthLeeds UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth's seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago. The f ... more  
Russia ramps up ties with Sudan as Ukraine war ragesKhartoum (AFP) March 11, 2022 As much of the West seeks to isolate Russia after it invaded Ukraine, experts say Moscow is boosting relations with its longtime African ally Sudan, eyeing its gold wealth and strategic location. ... 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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Researchers detail causes of glacier retreat in West AntarcticaIrvine CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 An analysis of Antarctica's Pope, Smith and Kohler glaciers by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Houston and other institutions ... more 
Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thoughtBoston MA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a decades-old equation used to describe ice flow. Stress ... more 
Icesat-2 data shows Arctic sea ice thinning in just three yearsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to ... more  
Radioactive fuel, contaminated water: the Fukushima clean-upFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan (AFP) March 11, 2022 Eleven years after a devastating tsunami hit Japan's northeast, thousands of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are involved in the complex and decades-long process of decommissioning the site. ... more |
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Prayers in Japan 11 years after tsunami and nuclear disasterTokyo (AFP) March 11, 2022 People in Japan's northeast offered prayers and carried out searches for the missing on Friday, 11 years after an earthquake and tsunami left 18,500 people dead or unaccounted for and triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. ... more 
Hundreds flee their homes as Indonesian volcano eruptsJakarta (AFP) March 10, 2022 Indonesia's Mount Merapi unleashed a torrent of hot clouds, turning the sky a fiery red, as molten lava flowed down its slopes on Thursday with the eruption forcing over 250 people to flee their homes, authorities said. ... more  
Gorillas in our midst: Baby apes boost Congo wildlife havenGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) March 10, 2022 Two baby gorillas have been born in the Virunga National Park, the world-renowned wildlife haven in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the park said on Thursday. ... more 
Elephant kills Maasai man in Tanzania's NgorongoroDar Es Salaam (AFP) March 10, 2022 Elephants in Tanzania's famed Ngorongoro conservation area have killed a Maasai man who had gone there hunting for firewood, police said Thursday. ... more |
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Free trains for Ukrainians leaving Poland for GermanyWarsaw (AFP) March 10, 2022 Polish state railway company PKP said on Thursday it was offering free tickets to Ukrainians travelling onwards to parts of Germany. ... more  
Four killed in Malaysia landslide due to 'unusual' heavy rainsKuala Lumpur (AFP) March 11, 2022 Four people were killed after a massive landslide triggered by "unusual" heavy rains buried their homes in a township outside the Malaysian capital, a senior rescue official said Friday. ... more  
Elderly care homes in eye of Hong Kong's deadly Covid stormHong Kong (AFP) March 11, 2022 Kathleen Wong thought her 89-year-old mother was lucky to get a coveted spot in a government nursing home, but now she watches in horror as a coronavirus wave tears through Hong Kong's elderly population. ... more 
Chinese city locks down, Shanghai shuts schools as Covid spikesShanghai (AFP) March 11, 2022 A Chinese city of nine million was ordered into lockdown on Friday and Shanghai shut its schools as authorities scrambled to halt a Covid-19 outbreak that has pushed nationwide cases to their highest levels in two years. ... more  
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 |
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 Warsaw (AFP) March 10, 2022 
Polish state railway company PKP said on Thursday it was offering free tickets to Ukrainians travelling onwards to parts of Germany.
As of Wednesday, Ukrainian citizens can travel free by second class on the nine daily intercity trains linking the Polish cities of Warsaw, Przemysl (via Krakow) and Gdynia to the German capital Berlin and the border town of Frankfurt (Oder).
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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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 
Scientists have produced a map showing where the world's major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and minimise environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural use of freshwater to zero.
The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western U ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 11, 2022 
People in Japan's northeast offered prayers and carried out searches for the missing on Friday, 11 years after an earthquake and tsunami left 18,500 people dead or unaccounted for and triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.
A minute's silence will be held at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT), the moment a 9.0-magnitude quake - among the strongest ever recorded - struck off northeastern Jap ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 10, 2022 
US officials said in a scathing critique Thursday that poor command, inadequate security and a "climate of complacency" prevented US forces from adequately repulsing a 2020 attack by militants in Kenya that killed three Americans.
Multiple US military commanders, speaking after the release of an independent review on findings about the attack on Manda Bay airfield and the attached Camp Simba ... 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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 Redlands CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 
Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute to climate change. To support these efforts, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, is releasing a globally consistent 2017-2021 global land-use and land-cover map of ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2021 
Scientists have named a now-extinct relative of the octopus that has 10 arms after President Joe Biden - the syllipsimopodi bideni - according to a study released Tuesday.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, said the vampyropod fossil was discovered in the Bear Gulch Limestone in Fergus County, Mont., and donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada in 1988. ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 9, 2022 
The Fukushima region affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster has invested heavily in renewable energy - a sector Japan was slow to embrace, but now considers key to reaching carbon neutrality.
Here are some things to know about renewables in Japan, which remains one of the top emitters of planet-warming CO2:
- Carbon-neutral goal -
Japan aims to become carbon-neutral by 2050, the same ... 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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 Paris (AFP) March 11, 2022  Global efforts to cut plastic and agricultural pollution, protect a third of wild spaces, and ultimately live "in harmony with nature" will dominate UN biodiversity negotiations starting Monday, held in person after a two-year pandemic delay.
Almost 200 countries are due to adopt a global framework this year to safeguard nature by mid-century from the destruction wrought by humanity, with a ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2022 
China's President Xi Jinping has his sights on domestic critics' riches as a corruption crackdown gathers pace to consolidate his power and secure an unprecedented third term.
The anti-graft campaign has already taken down big-name detractors but experts say Xi will use the crucial months ahead of a key leadership summit this autumn to cement his grip.
"This period is the closest thing P ... 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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