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  Paris (AFP) April 22, 2022 Europe endured record extreme weather in 2021, from the hottest day and the warmest summer to deadly wildfires and flooding, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Friday. While Earth's surface was nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels last year, Europe saw an average increase of more than two degrees, a threshold beyond which dangerous extreme weather events become more likely and intense, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. The warmest sum ... read more |
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Solar technology and community engagement team up to help low-income farmers in IndiaStanford CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2022 Involving people who will directly benefit from technology research is critical to sustainable development, as researchers have experienced by working with chili farmers in India for more than four ... more  
Washington resumes oil and gas drilling leases on federal landNew York (AFP) April 15, 2022 The US government, under pressure to lower gas prices, announced Friday it will resume the sale of leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands while imposing new conditions, including the first hike in royalties in more than 100 years. ... more 
Study predicts thawing of gas-saturated permafrost around oil and gas wells of Russian ArcticMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 Skoltech scientists and their partners from Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience of RAS, with support from the R and D unit of TotalEnergies, have predicted how oil and gas wells heat up th ... more  
After floods, S.Africans wait hours for water amid fear of diseaseDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 21, 2022 After floods ravaged South Africa's coastal city of Durban, residents queue atop a hill on a long wait for an empty water truck to return full, as fears of disease spread. ... 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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NASA awards contracts for NOAA Lightning Mapper Phase A StudyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2022 NASA has selected two firms for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Lightning Mapper (LMX) Phase A Study. These contracted firms will provide services to help meet the objectives of the ... more 
Parched Iraq's water resources 'down 50 percent'Baghdad (AFP) April 21, 2022 Iraq's water resources have plunged 50 percent since last year, due to repeated periods of drought, low rainfall and declining river levels, a government official told AFP on Thursday. ... more  
Gabon counts on visitors to help preserve great apesLoango National Park, Gabon (AFP) April 22, 2022 Around a bend on a narrow trail that runs deep into the forest of Gabon's Loango national park, Kamaya comes into view. The huge silverback gorilla coolly watches visitors arrive, then goes back to his meal. ... more 
Prehistoric people created art by firelight, new research revealsYork UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2022 Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. The stones were incised with artistic designs around ... more |
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Study: Humans interrupting 66-million-year-old relationship among animalsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2021 Diet and body mass are inextricably linked in vertebrates, but a 66-million-year-old relationship linked to animal evolution and survival is being interrupted by humans, according to new research. ... more 
Japan, New Zealand plan talks on expanded defence cooperationTokyo (AFP) April 21, 2022 Japan and New Zealand on Thursday announced negotiations to expand defence and security cooperation, including intelligence sharing, as they warned of regional challenges - in a veiled reference to Beijing. ... more  
Shanghai's cautious awakening from Covid lockdownShanghai (AFP) April 21, 2022 When Rui ventured out of her Shanghai apartment complex this week for the first time in 20 days, she found a city much altered since Covid-19 brought it to a standstill. ... more  
France says Russians staged French 'atrocity' in MaliParis (AFP) April 21, 2022 The French army says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies near a Malian military base to falsely accuse France's departing forces of leaving behind mass graves. ... more |
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New satellite to advance research on atmospheric environment, pollutionBeijing (XNA) Apr 19, 2022 Chinese scientists will soon have a new space-based tool to advance their research on the atmospheric environment and pollution. After in-orbit tests, the Atmospheric Environmental Surveyor sa ... more 
Kenya to host talks between DR Congo, rebelsNairobi (AFP) April 21, 2022 Nairobi will host talks between rebels operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo's violence-torn east and the Kinshasa government, the Kenyan presidency said on Thursday. ... more 
Niger MPs to vote on foreign troop presenceNiamey (AFP) April 21, 2022 Niger's MPs will on Friday for the first time debate the presence of foreign forces fighting jihadists in the impoverished Sahel nation, government and parliamentary sources told AFP. ... more  
UNESCO meet in Russia on world heritage postponed indefinitelyParis (AFP) April 21, 2022 A meeting of the UN cultural agency's World Heritage Committee which Russia was to host in June has been postponed indefinitely, a source said Thursday, after weeks of intense diplomatic wrangling prompted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... more  
Venice readies day-trip booking system to ease crowdsVenice (AFP) April 20, 2022 Venice plans to trial a reservation system for day-trippers, an official said Wednesday, in a bid to ease over-tourism as visitors flock back to the Italian city following the pandemic. ... more |
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 Durban, South Africa (AFP) April 19, 2022 
South Africa's government Tuesday sought to reassure a worried public about efforts to help the east coast, where millions remained without water more than a week after deadly storms pounded the region.
Following up a declaration late Monday of a national state of disaster, President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched top ministers to the city of Durban and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, where at lea ... more |
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 Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Apr 22, 2022  Entrepreneur, Polaris Dawn Commander and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumnus Jared Isaacman ('11), who last year led the first-ever all-civilian space mission, visited Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus last week to meet the next generation of aviators and speak about how commercial space missions can help create a better world.
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 21, 2022  Japan and New Zealand on Thursday announced negotiations to expand defence and security cooperation, including intelligence sharing, as they warned of regional challenges - in a veiled reference to Beijing.
The announcement came after talks between Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern, who is in Tokyo as part of an Asian trip intended to shore ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 
Changes in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are considered to be the main cause of past and future climate change. A long-standing debate centers on whether the roughly 30 percent lower CO2 content of the ice-age atmosphere was caused by iron fertilization.
It is argued that iron-rich dust is carried into the ocean by wind and water, where it stimulates the growth of a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 20, 2022 
Climate change could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research published Wednesday, warning of potential "cascading" effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.
Scientists in the United States trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how different types of bees reacted to changing c ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2021 
Scientists have found evidence that an earthquake 3,800 years ago in Northern Chile is the largest in human history, according to a new study.
The quake had a magnitude of around 9.5, prompting tsunamis that struck countries as far away as New Zealand and boulders the size of cars to be carried inland by the waves, according to researchers at the University of Southampton.
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 Abuja (AFP) April 20, 2022 
Nigeria's air force said on Wednesday it had ordered an inquiry after a military training aircraft crashed in the restive northern state of Kaduna, claiming two lives.
At least four Nigerian military aircraft have been involved in deadly crashes since last year, including one that killed the nation's army chief and 10 other soldiers on board.
A Super Mushshak trainer went down on a milit ... more |
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 York UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2022 
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed.
The stones were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering light of a fire, the new study has found.
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 Nairobi (AFP) April 19, 2022 
Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday.
A months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, destroying crops and livestock and forcing huge numbers of people to leave their homes in search of food and water.
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced that Planet's PlanetScope and SkySat data have joined the European Space Agency (ESA) Third Party Missions portfolio, enabling ESA to utilize Planet data for scientific, research, and pre-operational Earth Observation based applications development. Through distribution under the ESA Earthnet Pro ... 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 13, 2022 
If all nations honour promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is a chance of capping the rise in global temperatures to under two degrees Celsius, the cornerstone target of the Paris Agreement, researchers said Wednesday.
But that is a very big "if", they acknowledge in a peer-reviewed study, published in Nature.
The calculus includes not only carbon-cutting commitments offici ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2022
On April 11, 2022, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as quickly as possible. This is the second article in a five-part series highlighting the most promising concepts to emerge from the competition, and the inte ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2021 
Diet and body mass are inextricably linked in vertebrates, but a 66-million-year-old relationship linked to animal evolution and survival is being interrupted by humans, according to new research.
Animals that are exclusively herbivores or carnivores are generally much larger in size than omnivores or invertivores - animals that only eat invertebrates - according to the study, publish ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 20, 2022  YouTube on Wednesday suspended a channel promoting John Lee's uncontested bid to be Hong Kong's next leader, saying the move was required by US sanctions against the ex-security chief.
Lee is expected to be appointed the business hub's new chief executive by a committee of 1,500 Beijing loyalists next month. He faces no rivals.
He has used YouTube, Facebook and Instagram accounts to prom ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 14, 2022 
The largest antenna ever tested in ESA's Hertz radio frequency test chamber is this 5-m diameter transponder antenna, which will operate down on the ground to help calibrate the Biomass mission, which will chart all the forests on Earth.
"This is a particularly challenging test campaign both in terms of the size of the antenna and the very low P-band frequency that Biomass will be using, w ... more |
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