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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface height data collected by other satellites will be compared to the information produced by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich to ensure their accuracy. Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in November 2020, the satellite is continuing a nearly 30-year legacy started by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, which bega ... 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  
Engineers develop a 'magnetic tentacle robot' to pass into the narrow tubes of the lungLeeds UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Engineers and scientists have developed proof of concept for a robot that can reach some of the smallest bronchial tubes in the lungs - to take tissue samples or deliver cancer therapy. Known ... 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  
Climate 'greatest threat' to Australia's security, defence figures warnSydney (AFP) March 23, 2022 Climate change is now "the greatest threat to the future and security" of Australia, senior defence figures in the country warned Wednesday. ... more |
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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 Philippines shuts schools, scraps flights as Typhoon Co-May nears Downpours from storm Wipha kill three in Vietnam Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families |
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Visible ocean plastics just the tip of the icebergFukuoka, Japan (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 While the billions of tons of plastic products produced in the "Plastic Age" of the last half-century have drastically changed the way we live for the better, the plastic waste that has made it into ... 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 
The scientists helping farmers kick the chemical habitMougon, France (AFP) March 23, 2022 In a field in western France, the small purple and white flowers quivering among tender shoots of wheat are a clue that this is not conventional single-crop farmland. ... more |
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Tornado kills at least 1, destroys homes near US city of New OrleansWashington (AFP) March 23, 2022 A large tornado destroyed homes and claimed at least one life near the US city of New Orleans on Tuesday night, according to media reports. ... more  
Shanghai warns against 'panic' as Covid cases mountShanghai (AFP) March 23, 2022 Shanghai authorities on Wednesday called for calm as worried citizens swamped online grocery platforms to stock up on food over fears of impending lockdowns in a city struggling to halt a Covid spike. ... more  
At least 5 killed in new floods in Brazil's PetropolisPetr�polis, Brazil (AFP) March 21, 2022 New floods triggered by torrential rains in the Brazilian tourist town of Petropolis killed at least five people, authorities said Monday, just over a month after a similar tragedy claimed 233 lives. ... more 
Hong Kong's top scientsts urge shift from Beijing's zero-Covid strategyHong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2022 Hong Kong's top scientists urged the government on Tuesday to transition from China's zero-Covid strategy before the next outbreak unless the financial hub wants to be a "closed port forever". ... more |
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Senegal soldier killed in operation against Casamance rebels: armyDakar (AFP) March 23, 2022 Senegal's army said on Tuesday that it had "totally destroyed" several rebel bases belonging to southern separatists, with one soldier killed and eight wounded in the military operation. ... more  
Hong Kong martial arts teacher charged over sedition, weaponsHong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2022 A Hong Kong martial arts coach accused of running an armed separatist movement with his assistant has been charged with sedition, police said Tuesday, after a raid that seized weapons including crossbows and machetes. ... more  
Burkina transition assembly sworn inOuagadougou (AFP) March 22, 2022 Burkina Faso's transitional assembly took office on Tuesday, two months after a coup widely condemned by the country's neighbours and donor countries. ... 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 
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 |
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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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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
A challenging feat for a little robot: Honey the Astrobee must grasp and transport Bumble the Astrobee. To pull it off, Honey needs to understand Bumble's trajectory, position itself correctly and avoid a collision at all costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) helps the cube-shaped robot to accurately assess the situation. The experiment is part of the TumbleDock/ROAM project, which the German Aero ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface height data collected by other satellites will be compared to the information produced by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich to ensure their accuracy.
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2022  In mid-March 2022, the large-scale international HALO-(AC)3 research campaign will begin investigating transformations of air masses in the Arctic. Three German aircraft will be deployed, scientists from the UK and France will also be involved during joint flights with two further aircraft. The team of researchers will be focusing particularly on northwards-flowing warm air reaching into the cen ... more |
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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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 Petr�polis, Brazil (AFP) March 21, 2022 
New floods triggered by torrential rains in the Brazilian tourist town of Petropolis killed at least five people, authorities said Monday, just over a month after a similar tragedy claimed 233 lives.
Four more people remain missing after a month's worth of rain fell in a matter of hours Sunday on the scenic city in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro, emergency officials said.
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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.
The junta is "initiating proceed ... 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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 Sydney (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Climate change is now "the greatest threat to the future and security" of Australia, senior defence figures in the country warned Wednesday.
The group - which includes the former chief of the Australian Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie - used an open letter to call on Australia's political leadership to make climate "an immediate security priority" ahead of federal elections expected in ... 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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 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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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2022 
A Hong Kong martial arts coach accused of running an armed separatist movement with his assistant has been charged with sedition, police said Tuesday, after a raid that seized weapons including crossbows and machetes.
Police allege the coach, 59, and a 62-year-old female assistant - both of whom face weapons charges - set up a martial arts training hall to "incite hatred" against the gover ... 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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