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  Paris (AFP) March 21, 2022 Nearly 200 nations gathered Monday to grapple with a question that will outlive Covid-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine: how does a world addicted to fossil fuels prevent carbon pollution from making Earth unliveable? A partial answer is set for April 4, in the form of a 3,000-page report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to be approved after two weeks of closed-door, virtual meetings that began Monday. The assessment will detail options for drawing down gre ... read more |
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New insight into the possible origins of lifeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 Researchers at the University of Tokyo have for the first time been able to create an RNA molecule that replicates, diversifies and develops complexity, following Darwinian evolution. This has provi ... more  
Remote sensing satellite lifted successfully into orbitBeijing (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 ... more  
Body composting takes root in US 'green' burial trendKent, United States (AFP) March 21, 2022 A woodpecker settled on a branch overhead as Cindy Armstrong stood near a grouping of trees, gazing at a patch of soil that contained bits of her son's composted remains. ... more  
UN weighs listing Great Barrier Reef as 'in danger'Sydney (AFP) March 21, 2022 The United Nations began a monitoring mission on the Great Barrier Reef Monday, assessing whether the World Heritage site is being protected from climate change as it suffers further widespread bleaching. ... 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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Plastic pollution cuts power in DR CongoBukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) March 22, 2022 Among rolling hills around the southern tip of majestic Lake Kivu, huge layers of plastic waste ride the water and block the turbines of the largest hydroelectric plant in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more  
DARPA gives new life to old concrete structures through "vascularization"Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Concrete is a ubiquitous building material, and it is often cited as the most consumed commodity on Earth, second only to potable water. As this inherited concrete infrastructure continues to age, m ... more  
US drought pushes cotton prices to ten-year highNew York (AFP) March 22, 2022 Cotton prices rose to their highest level in more than a decade on Monday, due to a prolonged drought in parts of the central United States. ... more  
China locks down city of 9 million as virus ripples across countryBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2022 China locked down an industrial city of nine million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases on Tuesday, as the nation's "zero-Covid" strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave. ... more |
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Four dead, one missing, as storms batter New ZealandWellington (AFP) March 21, 2022 Wild storms lashed New Zealand's North Island Monday, claiming at least four lives when a fishing vessel sank and causing chaos in the country's biggest city Auckland, officials said. ... more  
Jihadist ambush in Burkina leaves 13 troops deadOuagadougou (AFP) March 21, 2022 Thirteen soldiers have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in eastern Burkina Faso, the armed forces said Monday, amid a surge of violence. ... more 
Tunisian eco-pioneers battle to save Sahara oasis lifeNefta, Tunisia (AFP) March 20, 2022 A remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture - but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. ... more  
Freak Madagascar flash flood kills family of five, guideAntananarivo (AFP) March 19, 2022 A freak early afternoon flash flood has killed a family of five and a guide out on a hike in Madagascar, witnesses said. ... more |
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A new brain-computer interface with a flexible backingSan Diego CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Engineering researchers have invented an advanced brain-computer interface with a flexible and moldable backing and penetrating microneedles. Adding a flexible backi ... more 
Two injured as quake rocks Algeria port cityAlgiers (AFP) March 19, 2022 An earthquake rocked the Algerian port city of Bejaia Saturday injuring two people, emergency services said. ... more 
Guinea rights groups demand renconciliation processConakry (AFP) March 18, 2022 Rights groups in Guinea on Friday demanded a reconciliation process as a condition for participating in a national conference planned by the military junta, which seized power six months ago. ... more  
Setting carbon management in stoneBoston MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Keeping global temperatures within limits deemed safe by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change means doing more than slashing carbon emissions. It means reversing them. "If we want to ... more  
Ancient ancestors evolved to be strong and snappy, study findsBristol UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength and their speed. Almost all vertebrat ... more |
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 Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Ukraine on Friday said "hundreds" of civilians were trapped in the wreckage of a theatre bombed by Russia, as the United States demanded China get tough with its "war criminal" allies in the Kremlin.
Russian missiles struck an aircraft repair site close to Lviv's airport in Ukraine's far west, extending the war to a relatively unscathed region near the border with NATO member Poland.
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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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 Paris (AFP) March 19, 2022  Eastern Antarctica has recorded exceptionally high temperatures this week, more than 30 degrees Celsius above normal, say experts.
The Concordia research base at Dome C of the Antarctic, which is at an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), on Friday registered a record -11.5 degrees Celsius (11.3 Fahrenheit), Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist from France-Meteo tweeted.
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 New York (AFP) March 22, 2022 
Cotton prices rose to their highest level in more than a decade on Monday, due to a prolonged drought in parts of the central United States.
The plant fiber reached $1.3171 per pound (about 453 grams) on the key US futures contract, the highest since July 2011.
Rainfall has been exceptionally low since early January in the northwest part of Texas - which produces about 40 percent of all ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the University of Copenhagen physicists behind the research, these eruptions can teach us about our planet's sensitivity to climate change.
For many people, the mention of a volcanic eruption conju ... more |
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 Bamako (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.
The government in Bamako "categorically rejects these false accusations against the courageous FAMA (Malian Armed Forces)," spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga said.
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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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 Berlin, 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 quantities across the oceans and on the continents, and air masses are constantly in flux. This uneven distribution means that Earth's gravitational field is not constant across the globe. In locations with mo ... 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:
- Carbon-neutral goal -
Japan aims to become carbon-neutral by 2050, the same ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities in the U.S. and around the globe.
Fusion energy research seeks to harness the energy that powers the sun and stars as an abundant and clean source of power on Earth. Creating condit ... more |
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 Kent, United States (AFP) March 21, 2022 
A woodpecker settled on a branch overhead as Cindy Armstrong stood near a grouping of trees, gazing at a patch of soil that contained bits of her son's composted remains.
Armstrong is one of a growing number of Americans embracing environmentally low-impact burials for their loved ones.
Armstrong recalled that her son Andrew insisted on the so-called "terramation" process after the west ... 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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 Manaus, Brazil (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the Amazon rainforest, where they ate fruit and drank rainwater to stay alive, officials said Friday.
Brothers Glauco, 7, and Gleison, 9, were found Tuesday 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the spot where they went missing, famished and dehydrated but otherwise fine.
"They are suffering from ma ... more |
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