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  Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 The tectonic plates that form the Earth's surface are like puzzle pieces that are in constant, very slow motion - on average, they move only up to around 10 centimeters a year. But these puzzle pieces don't quite fit together: there are zones on one plate that end up plunging under another - the so-called subduction zones, central to the dynamics of the planet. This movement is slow, but it can lead to moments of great energy release and, over thousands of years, large mountain ranges or marine trenches ... read more |
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Wildfire Workshop Accelerates NASA Firefighting SolutionsEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 In a changing climate, wildfires are becoming more widespread and devastating, threatening more people and land than ever before. In response, NASA is stepping up to the plate to determine what we c ... more  
Record deforestation in Brazilian Amazon in FebruaryRio De Janeiro (AFP) March 11, 2022 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new record for the month of February, according to official data released Friday, the latest sign of a surge in destruction under President Jair Bolsonaro. ... more  
France to cull 'millions' more poultry as bird flu flaresParis (AFP) March 11, 2022 France will drastically step up the culling of chickens, ducks and other poultry to contain a bird flu outbreak worse than last winter's, the agriculture ministry said Friday. ... more  
Humanitarian situation in some Ukraine cities 'catastrophic': Russian militaryMoscow (AFP) March 12, 2022 The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is deteriorating quickly and has become catastrophic in a number of cities, the Russian military said on Saturday, speaking on the 17th day of what Moscow has termed a "special military operation". ... more |
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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 Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Samoa coast: USGS |
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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  
Cyclone kills eight in MozambiqueMaputo (AFP) March 11, 2022 A cyclone struck northern Mozambique leaving at least eight people dead on Friday, the national institute for risk management said. ... more  
Chad peace talks start in QatarDoha (AFP) March 13, 2022 Chad's military government and dozens of opposition groups started peace talks on Sunday in Qatar as a first step towards ending a rebellion and holding elections. ... more  
Vietnam bans new Tom Holland film over South China Sea mapHanoi (AFP) March 12, 2022 Vietnam has banned a new Hollywood film starring Tom Holland over scenes with a map showing Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, state media reported Saturday. ... more |
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Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientistsCambridge 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 bi ... more  
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 |
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Russia ramps up ties with Sudan as Ukraine war rages Khartoum (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 
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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 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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 Paris (AFP) March 11, 2022 
France will drastically step up the culling of chickens, ducks and other poultry to contain a bird flu outbreak worse than last winter's, the agriculture ministry said Friday.
It is the fourth major flu epidemic for French poultry farms since 2015, mainly in the country's southwest, home to the lucrative yet controversial foie gras liver pate.
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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:
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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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 Hanoi (AFP) March 12, 2022 
Vietnam has banned a new Hollywood film starring Tom Holland over scenes with a map showing Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, state media reported Saturday.
The action-and-adventure caper "Uncharted" shows a map featuring the so-called nine-dash line, which sets out Beijing's expansive claims to the disputed waters, where Hanoi has rival claims.
Sony's movie, starring Mark Walhbe ... 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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