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  Sydney (AFP) April 8, 2022 An Australian aviation company says it has received more than 100 threats following an online conspiracy theory that its pilots unleashed a flooding disaster by cloud seeding. Conspiracy theorists spread the false claims after weeks of torrential rains led to deadly east coast floods over the past two months, engulfing homes and sweeping cars from the roads. Posts shared online alleged aerial survey pilots from Handel Aviation caused a second deluge in the flood-ravaged New South Wales town of L ... read more |
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The global "plastic flood" reaches the ArcticBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 Even the High North can't escape the global threat of plastic pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached all spher ... more  
Chinese satellite ground station receives Landsat-9 dataBeijing (XNA) Apr 08, 2022 The China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station has formally acquired the capability to receive, process and distribute the data product transmitted from the Landsat-9 satellite, according to the ... more  
Ocean vital signsBoston MA (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherw ... more  
Thai national parks ban single-use plasticsBangkok (AFP) April 6, 2022 Thailand on Wednesday banned styrofoam packaging and single-use plastics from national parks as it fights a scourge of waste threatening wildlife. ... 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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An uncertain future for livestock production in the tropicsNairobi, Kenya (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 Cattle, whether grazing in small herds along the roadside or lowing singly from a nearby field, are an emblematic sight for much of Africa, as characteristic of the continent as the yoked oxen of so ... more  
Residents evacuate as floods threaten Sydney suburbsSydney (AFP) April 7, 2022 Heavy rain triggered evacuation orders in Sydney on Thursday, as swollen rivers threatened homes and flooded roads in the latest wild weather to lash Australia's east. ... more  
Shares soar in Chinese drugmaker after positive Covid drug trialsBeijing (AFP) April 6, 2022 Shares in the Chinese pharmaceutical group Kintor rocketed on Wednesday after it reported that trials had shown its Covid-19 drug to be highly effective, making it potentially China's first homegrown antiviral treatment. ... more 
China reports most virus cases since pandemic startShanghai (AFP) April 6, 2022 China reported more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily tally given since the start of the pandemic as millions in locked-down Shanghai began a new round of testing. ... more |
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UN demands urgent access to site of alleged Mali massacreUnited Nations, United States (AFP) April 8, 2022 A UN envoy on Thursday demanded access to the Malian village of Moura, site of an alleged massacre last month by local forces and suspected Russian fighters. ... more 
South African train makes safari trip, but never movesSkukuza, South Africa (AFP) April 7, 2022 Baboons weave their way under the carriages of a train on a bridge. A hippo wades in the river below, while a lone leopard prowls, sniffing for an antelope to make its dinner. ... more 
Vital DR Congo power plant caught in rebel crossfireRumangabo, Dr Congo (AFP) April 4, 2022 The vital Matebe hydroelectric power plant in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo powers Goma - a city with more than one million inhabitants - and part of the nearby Rutshuru territory. ... more 
Climate-related health emergencies on the rise in Africa: WHOBrazzaville (AFP) April 6, 2022 Climate-related health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, though the continent contributes the least to global warming, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. ... more |
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Armed men surround home of Mali politician who criticised juntaBamako (AFP) April 5, 2022 Armed men surrounded Malian opposition politician Oumar Mariko's home in the capital Bamako on Tuesday after he ignored a summons from the gendarmes for criticising the ruling junta, witnesses said. ... more  
NBA player Kanter out to corner UN rights chief on ChinaGeneva (AFP) April 6, 2022 Long-time NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, whose advocacy on Xinjiang and Tibet has ruffled feathers, hopes to bend UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's ear on Thursday about her forthcoming China visit. ... more  
Marine Le Pen: far-right chief within reach of French presidencyParis (AFP) April 6, 2022 Marine Le Pen has fought for years to make the far-right party she inherited electable, and now appears to have a real chance to challenge incumbent Emmanuel Macron for the French presidency this month. ... more 
Hong Kong activists fade from view as national security case dragsHong Kong (AFP) April 7, 2022 Hong Kong's most prominent democracy activists have disappeared from view as their prosecution under a security law drags into its second year, with lawyers and family members warning the defendants are losing faith in the courts. ... more  
Swiss Cold War bunkers back in vogue as Ukraine conflict ragesMeyrin, Switzerland (AFP) April 2, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reawakened interest in Switzerland's concrete nuclear fallout shelters, built during the Cold War with enough space to shelter everyone in the country. ... more |
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 Bucha, Ukraine (AFP) April 6, 2022 
As Bucha emerges from the horror of the Russian occupation, townspeople are desperate to know the fate of loved ones. Some know how their story ends. Others still wait to find out, hoping against hope it will not end in tragedy.
Tetiana Ustymenko knows the conclusion to her story. Her son and his two friends were gunned down in the street outside and she buried them in the garden of the fami ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) coordinates the HITCOMP (High Temperature Characterisation and Modelling of Thermoplastic Composites) project within the Horizon 2020 programme, which aims to study the possible advantages of thermoplastic materials in the aerospace industry.
The European aerospace sector typically uses low-weight, high-performance thermosetting plastic composite ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2022 
Scientists have produced a new method that holds the promise of improving groundwater management - critical to both life and agriculture in dry regions. The method sorts out how much underground water loss comes from aquifers confined in clay, which can be drained so dry that they will not recover, and how much comes from soil that's not confined in an aquifer, which can be replenished by a few ... more |
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 Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
Even the High North can't escape the global threat of plastic pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached all spheres of the Arctic: large quantities of plastic - transported by rivers, the air and shipping- can now be found in the Arctic Ocean. High concentrations of microplastic can be found in the water, on the ... more |
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 Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
Cattle, whether grazing in small herds along the roadside or lowing singly from a nearby field, are an emblematic sight for much of Africa, as characteristic of the continent as the yoked oxen of southeast Asia or the gray squirrels of American suburbs. Yet large swathes of the continent may be stripped of the creatures as early as 2045 due to climate change-induced heat stress, according to a p ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) April 8, 2022 
Torrential rains and flooding have killed at least 12 people at a mining camp in mountainous northwest Colombia, with another two reported missing and more damage expected, authorities said Thursday.
The flooding at Abriaqui in the Antioquia department surprised a group of miners as they were eating dinner on Wednesday evening, Mayor Hector Urrego told local television.
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 Dakar (AFP) April 6, 2022 
An alleged massacre occurred in conflict-torn central Mali last week. The details remain shrouded in uncertainty.
According to Mali's army, soldiers conducted a successful operation against jihadists in Moura, in the centre of the Sahel nation, killing hundreds.
But another version of events holds that the army committed a civilian massacre.
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 Planegg, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. "Electrical synapses are like the dark matter of the brain," says Alexander Borst, director at the MPI for Biological Intelligence, in foundation (i.f). Now a team from his department has taken a closer look at this rarely explored brain component: In the brain of the ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) April 5, 2022 
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned Tuesday that a major hunger crisis in Africa is "going largely unnoticed" as the world focuses on Ukraine and other crises.
Some 346 million people - more than one in four people across Africa - are suffering from "alarming" hunger and that number will probably rise in the coming months, the ICRC said.
The crisis spans the continent f ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, has announced the launch of five additional spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellites were delivered to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-4 mission on April 1, 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX's Rideshare program. All fi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 5, 2021 
The Tyrannosaurus rex's arms may have evolved to become extremely short to lower the risk of bites while feeding in packs, a new study says.
A 45-foot-long T. rex may have 3-feet long arms--the equivalent of a 6-foot human with 5-inch arms, study author Kevin Padian, emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology, noted in a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 5, 2022 
With a whopping 70 percent of humanity predicted to be living in urban areas by the middle of the century, UN climate experts see a huge opportunity to create ideal cities that are walkable, leafy and energy efficient.
Urban areas currently account for around 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, notes a comprehensive report on climate change solutions from the UN's Intergovernmenta ... 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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 Amherst MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Lynn Adler, professor of biology at UMass Amherst, has been awarded $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to trace how food affects the ability of pathogens to attack plant pollinators. The research will be the first conducted across a wide range of scales, from the molecular to the comm ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) April 7, 2022 
The UN rights chief has miserably failed to address China's "genocide" against the Uyghur minority, a leading campaigner told AFP, demanding that a long-delayed report on abuses be released "immediately".
Uyghur campaigner Rushan Abbas, who is American, decried that Michelle Bachelet had, to date, been so restrained in her criticism of the well-reported rights violations taking place in Chin ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
NASA's GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it stores - filling a key gap in climate research.
The data enables research into how Earth's forests are changing, what role they play in mitigating climate change, and the regional and global impacts of p ... more |
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