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  Cordoba, Spain (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 The construction sector is a major source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide, to the extent that, according to estimates by the International Energy Agency, 8% of all global carbon dioxide emissions are related to the cement industry. Thus, the development of new sustainable building materials and processes is one of its great environmental challenges going forward. A research project at the University of Cordoba has managed to dose concrete through a new procedure that removes carbon dio ... read more |
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China to 'stick with' zero-Covid strategy, President Xi saysBeijing (AFP) March 17, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday the country will "stick with" its zero-Covid strategy, state TV reported, as the world's most populous nation battles its largest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. ... more  
Determining the weight of Earth from spaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 At first glance, masses appear rigid and immobile. However, this is deceptive because they are constantly in motion. Liquid rock shifts in Earth's interior, water is redistributed in large quantitie ... more  
DLR measures flow phenomena around wind turbines with a swarm of dronesOberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by building ... more  
U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Fires have gotten larger, more frequent and more widespread across the United States since 2000, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder-led paper. Recent wildfires have stoked concern tha ... 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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Ancient El Ninos reveal limits to future climate projectionsAustin TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 The climate pattern El Nino varies over time to such a degree that scientists will have difficulty detecting signs that it is getting stronger with global warming. That's the conclusion of a s ... more  
Hong Kong leader defends mainland medics; Shenzhen eases lockdown Hong Kong (AFP) March 18, 2022 Hong Kong's leader on Friday warned against making "divisive comments" about mainland medics helping battle the city's deadly Omicron-fuelled wave after questions of accountability were raised by the press. ... more  
Black swifts descended rapidly during lunar eclipseWashington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to ... more  
A fabric that "hears" your heart's soundsBoston MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That's the idea behind a new "acoustic fabric" developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design. The team has d ... more |
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Astranis Space Technologies first MicroGEO Satellite completes final testingSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Astranis Space Technologies Corp. has announced that the first MicroGEO satellite is ready for launch after successful completion of final testing. Astranis has now completed all major tests necess ... more  
Residents survey damage after powerful Japan quakeSoma, Japan (AFP) March 17, 2022 People in northeast Japan were cleaning up and surveying the damage on Thursday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude quake derailed a bullet train, opened cracks in highways and initially cut power to over two million homes. ... more  
Tanzania Maasai torn over possible eviction from Ngorongoro reserveNgorongoro, Tanzania (AFP) March 18, 2022 For over a century, Tanzania's Maasai pastoralists have shared the famed Ngorongoro conservation area with zebras, elephants and wildebeests. But now they face the prospect of eviction as their exploding population poses a threat to wildlife. ... more 
Malian junta orders French broadcasters RFI, France 24 off airBamako (AFP) March 17, 2022 Mali's ruling junta has ordered French broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air, complaining they had falsely accused the army of committing abuses, it said in a statement issued on Thursday. ... more |
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China accused of harassing ex-dissident running for US CongressWashington (AFP) March 17, 2022 US prosecutors accused China on Wednesday of spying on pro-democracy activists in the United States and seeking to harass and intimidate a former Tiananmen Square dissident who is running for Congress. ... more 
Satellogic to launch five satellites on SpaceX Transporter-4 MissionNew York NY (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, reports it has shipped five satellites to be launched in early Q2 from Cape Canaveral. The launch will ... more 
Unwed and unwanted, Chinese single mothers fight for rightsShanghai (AFP) March 18, 2022 Li Meng is a devoted mother trying to support her two-year-old daughter, but in the eyes of Chinese society and the state, she is almost a second-class citizen. ... more 
CH4 responsible for more than 80% of recent atmospheric methane growthWashington DC (UPI) Mar 16, 2021 Tropical terrestrial methane emissions were the driving factor of changes in methane growth over the past decade, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more  
New predictive model helps in identify ancient hunter-gatherer sitesBurnaby, Canada (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult 'finds' in archaeology -including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities-are tapping technology to help in the search. Arc ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 16, 2022 
A hundred technicians are working under armed guard to maintain the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, held hostage for three weeks by Russian forces who seized the compound in the first hours of the invasion.
Tired and poorly fed, they were working the night shift when Russia captured the site of the 1986 core meltdown that sparked the worst nuclear reactor catastrophe in ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 
There's a powerful new member of NASA's family of giant antennas that enable engineers and scientists on Earth to communicate with the growing number of spacecraft exploring our solar system.
Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). It's now operational at the network's facility outside Madrid, one of three such gr ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Marine cold spells are cold versions of heat waves: periods of exceptionally cold water, able to hurt or help the ecosystems they hit. As the atmosphere and oceans warm, marine cold spells are becoming less intense and less frequent overall, according to a new study.
Today, the oceans experience just 25% of the number of cold spell days they did in the 1980s, and cold spells are about 15% ... more |
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 Moss Landing CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2022 
A new study from MBARI researchers and their collaborators is the first to document how the thawing of permafrost, submerged underwater at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, is affecting the seafloor. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on March 14, 2022.
Numerous peer-reviewed studies show that thawing permafrost creates unstable land which negatively ... 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 16, 2022 
Authorities lifted a tsunami advisory and electricity was restored after a powerful 7.4-magnitude quake jolted northeastern Japan on Wednesday night in waters near the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
At least one person died in the coastal city of Soma and dozens more were injured in the quake, local news agency Kyodo reported, as authorities said emergency departments in affected ar ... 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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 Burnaby, Canada (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult 'finds' in archaeology -including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities-are tapping technology to help in the search.
Archaeologists at the Max Planck Institute and Simon Fraser University are gaining new insights from a computer predictive model that can assess the likelihood that landscapes contain such well-sought si ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
A massive release of greenhouse gases, likely triggered by volcanic activity, caused a period of extreme global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 56 million years ago. A new study now confirms that the PETM was preceded by a smaller episode of warming and ocean acidification caused by a shorter burst of carbon emissions.
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2022 
China launched a remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi Desert on Thursday afternoon, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The State-owned space contractor said that the Yaogan 34-02 satellite was placed in a preset orbit aboard a Long March 4C rocket that lifted off at 3:09 pm.
The satellite will team up wi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and shaped itself into a disk revolving about the highest gravity mass at its centre, which would become our Sun.
Our solar system inherited all of its chemical composition ... 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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 Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 
Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have advanced NASA technologies to develop a power suit for an electric car that is as strong as steel, lighter than aluminum and helps boosts the vehicle's power capacity.
The suit is made of layered carbon composite material that works as an energy-storing supercapacitor-battery hybrid device due to its u ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 16, 2022 
Europe's bird of prey population is around 55,000 lower than it should be due to contamination of their food by lead from gun ammunition, a study reported on Wednesday.
The University of Cambridge study collected data on lead levels in the livers of thousands of dead raptors to calculate the impact of poisoning on population size.
It found that Europe was missing around 55,000 adult rap ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Li Meng is a devoted mother trying to support her two-year-old daughter, but in the eyes of Chinese society and the state, she is almost a second-class citizen.
Millions of single mothers like her have it rough in a country where out-of-wedlock births are frowned upon, and where only married women can claim maternity benefits.
Li, a Shanghai resident, got pregnant with her boyfriend, but ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
Decades of logging and fire suppression have left California's forests prone to drought, infestation and catastrophic wildfire. Climate change is only exacerbating these impacts. But for thousands of years before, during and after European colonization, Indigenous tribes have lived within and among these forests, intentionally lighting fires to manage landscapes and ecosystem mosaics, enhance ha ... more |
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