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  Wuhan, China (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 Narrow-band VLF transmitter waves originate from the powerful ground-based VLF transmitters for submarine communications, which are typically over the frequency range of 10-30 kHz. VLF transmitter signals, being guided by the gradients of the Earth's magnetic field, can leak a portion of the wave power into the magnetosphere. Early theoretical studies suggested that VLF transmitter waves potentially play an important role in electron precipitations in the near-Earth space. With the availability of ... read more |
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Young Sami return to reindeer herding despite climate fearsNuorgam, Finland (AFP) April 1, 2022 In the snowy Arctic darkness Suvi Kustula throws bundles of lichen to her excitable herd of reindeer, their antlers lit up by her van's headlights. ... more  
Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realiseReading UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, research has found. A new study has revealed t ... more  
Pacific leader urges Solomons to rethink China pactSydney (AFP) March 31, 2022 The president of the Federated States of Micronesia has sent an impassioned plea to the Solomon Islands' prime minister, urging him to reconsider a controversial and "unprecedented" security pact with China. ... more  
Costa Rica: Central America's green pin-upSan Jose (AFP) April 1, 2022 Costa Rica, which elects a new president on Sunday, is a small country thriving on ecotourism. Its neutrality, strong democracy and political stability have earned it the nickname of Central America's Switzerland. ... 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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Shanghai residents frustrated by food shortages, prolonged lockdownsShanghai (AFP) April 1, 2022 Shanghai residents voiced growing frustration on Friday at confusion over a week of snap Covid lockdowns, taking to social media to complain about food shortages and bewildering stay-at-home orders. ... more  
What next for Iraq amid deep political schism?Baghdad (AFP) March 31, 2022 Six months after Iraq's parliamentary vote, the war-scarred country is no closer to electing a president amid a bitter political stalemate that has thrown institutions into limbo. ... more 
How fast can we stop Earth from warming?Ann Arbor MI (The Conversation) Mar 30, 2022 Global warming doesn't stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water ... more  
UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast 'electron rain'Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satelli ... more |
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Shanghai prunes memes from lockdown veg shortageShanghai (AFP) April 1, 2022 Bok choy emojis, clips of Gucci gift bags stuffed with celery and video of drones delivering broccoli - vegetable memes are the new currency in Shanghai's sardonic social media scene, with the city locked down and pining for greens. ... more  
Biodiversity loss 'threat to financial stability'Geneva (AFP) March 29, 2022 One thing that has been underscored as nations try to thrash out an international biodiversity agreement is that even big business and the financial sector agree the world needs to act decisively to save nature from human destruction. ... more  
Hong Kong calls UK criticisms 'ridiculous'Hong Kong (AFP) April 1, 2022 Hong Kong on Friday rejected "unfounded and ridiculous allegations" after the UK government said China's national security law had "devastated" civil society, stifled political opposition and criminalised dissent. ... more  
Most EU cities breach UN air particle guidelines: reportCopenhagen (AFP) April 1, 2022 Despite a fall in emissions due to Covid curbs, nearly all EU urban dwellers in 2020 were exposed to microparticle pollution that breached recommended UN limits, the bloc's environmental watchdog said on Friday. ... more |
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'Love hormone' oxytocin turns fierce lions into kittensWashington (AFP) March 30, 2022 Here kitty kitty... ... more 
Mideast, Central Asia temperature-rises twice world average: IMFDubai (AFP) March 30, 2022 Temperatures in the Middle East and Central Asia have risen 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since the 1990s, twice the global average, according to an International Monetary Fund report released on Wednesday. ... more 
Senegal's water-stressed capital faces difficult futureDakar (AFP) March 29, 2022 Many residents of the Senegalese metropolis Dakar get up in the middle of the night hoping to collect water from their taps, which mostly run dry. ... more
Iraq MPs fail for third time to elect new presidentBaghdad (AFP) March 30, 2022 Iraqi lawmakers Wednesday failed for a third time to elect a new national president for lack of a quorum, officials said, prolonging the war-scarred country's political crisis. ... more 
Myanmar's Suu Kyi back in junta court after Covid quarantineYangon (AFP) March 31, 2022 Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned for hearings in a junta court Thursday after being quarantined when Covid-19 was detected among her staff, a source with knowledge of her case said. ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) March 31, 2022 
Russian troops on Tuesday vacated Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant after weeks of occupation, but took an unspecified number of captive Ukrainian servicemen with them, officials in Kyiv said on Thursday.
"As they ran away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russian occupiers took members of the National Guard, whom they had held hostage since Feb 24, with them," the state nucl ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 
ATLANT 3D Nanosystems announces today the collaboration with ESA BIC to further advance the development of ATLANT 3D Nanofabricator 0G systems, the first-ever zero gravity R and D system that allows selective area direct write atomic layer precision.
ATLANT 3D will develop a space-certified Nanofabricator 0G with the goal of going to the International Space Station (ISS) in future missions ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 1, 2022  Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday his government would not allow a Chinese military base to be built in his country "under its watch" as he defended a pending security agreement with Beijing.
Sogavare, echoing a fiery speech he made to Honiara's parliament this week, dismissed concerns the deal would allow China a base in the South Pacific and labelled the claims a ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) March 29, 2022 
Britain is to reinforce its military presence in the Arctic in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Tuesday.
The region "is important for our communications, it is important for our trade and our travels, it is important for our freedoms," said Wallace as he visited troops at Bardufoss in Norway, a cold weather training base for Royal Air Force, Britis ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) April 1, 2022  Bok choy emojis, clips of Gucci gift bags stuffed with celery and video of drones delivering broccoli - vegetable memes are the new currency in Shanghai's sardonic social media scene, with the city locked down and pining for greens.
Those navigating the city's thicket of Covid-19 restrictions to go shopping this week found long queues and empty shelves as panic-buying outpaced re-supply. ... more |
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 Zurich (AFP) March 30, 2022 
Flooding caused $82 billion of damage worldwide in 2021, Swiss reinsurance giant Swiss Re announced Wednesday, warning that the amount of uninsured losses was only likely to grow with climate change.
The Zurich-based group, which acts as an insurer for insurers, said last year's floods in Germany and its neighbours generated economic losses of more than $40 billion - only $13 billion of whi ... more |
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 Abuja (AFP) March 31, 2022  Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum on Thursday called for Nigeria to help create a regional military task force to combat insecurity in the Sahel region.
Nigeria's neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso are struggling to contain Islamic State and Al-Qaeda aligned militant insurgencies that have spread across their territories.
Nigeria already helped establish the Multinational Joint Task Force ... more |
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 Bilbao, Spain (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 
Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a study published March 30, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Joseba Rios-Garaizar of the Archaeological Museum of Bilbao, Spain and colleagues.
Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remai ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) March 29, 2022 
More electric vehicles and green energy were among the measures Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out Tuesday under a multibillion-dollar plan for how Canada will meet its carbon emissions target.
In a speech in Vancouver announcing Can$9.1 billion (US$7.3 billion) in climate actions, the prime minister linked Europe's desire to wean itself off Russian oil and gas after the invasion of Ukra ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Earthquakes do more than buckle streets and topple buildings. Seismic waves generated by earthquakes pass through the Earth, acting like a giant MRI machine and providing clues to what lies inside the planet.
Seismologists have developed methods to take wave signals from the networks of seismometers at the Earth's surface and reverse engineer features and characteristics of the medium they ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a solar nebula, which has long been debated.
Helium-3 has been measured at Earth's surface in relatively small quantities. But scientists did not know how much was leaking from the Earth's core, as ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 25, 2022 
The International Energy Agency approved a third term for executive director Fatih Birol as the organisation seeks a faster transition to clean energy, it said Friday.
The Turkish economist, who has been in the role since September 2015, will serve for another four years from September 2023.
His mandate, approved unanimously by the Paris-based agency's governing board, comes at a "pivota ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found a way to prevent electrical malfunctions in yarns designed to store electrical energy. Ultimately, the findings could help advance the development of "smart textiles" that would capture energy from the wearer's movements and power sensors and wearable electronics.
The researchers reported in npj Flexible Electronics that the ... more |
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 Radolfzell, Germany (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and exceptionally long lifespans. Now, a study led by Max Planck researchers has shown that one of these traits has likely been caused by the other.
By examining 217 parrot species, the researchers revealed that species such as the scarlet macaw and sulphur-crested cockatoo have extremely long average lifespans, of up to 30 years, ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 31, 2022 
The sentencing of Australian journalist Cheng Lei by a Chinese court over accusations of supplying state secrets overseas was deferred on Thursday, with Canberra decrying the trial of a woman detained for 18 months so far as "closed and opaque".
Cheng - a mother-of-two and a former anchor on Beijing's state broadcaster CGTN - has been detained since August 2020. In February last year she ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 31, 2022 
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru will not be able to meet their 2030 climate goals if they do not protect indigenous communities' lands, according to a report released Thursday.
To achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the international community must take into account indigenous peoples and local communities, said the report ... more |
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