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  Paris (AFP) May 5, 2022 Food is fundamental to the efforts to tackle climate change, according to a scientist who has spent decades tracing the interactions between global warming and what we eat. Cynthia Rosenzweig, head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was Thursday awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for her research. That includes stark warnings about the potential effect climate change will have on food. Her comments to AFP have been slightly edited: - How d ... read more |
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Microbe-based faux beef could save forests, slash CO2Paris (AFP) May 4, 2022 Gradually replacing 20 percent of global beef and lamb consumption with meat-textured proteins grown in stainless steel vats could cut agriculture-related CO2 emissions and deforestation in half by 2050, researchers reported Wednesday. ... more 
World food prices fall slightly from record high over Ukraine war: FAOParis (AFP) May 6, 2022 World food prices fell slightly last month after hitting a record in March but remain high due to the Ukraine war, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday. ... more 
Tracking agricultural-related deforestationParis (ESA) May 06, 2022 The global trade in agricultural commodities provides food, fuel and fibre to consumers around the world. Commodity production, however, is also linked with negative environmental impacts, including ... more  
Greenpeace urges DR Congo to probe illegal forestry concessionsKinshasa (AFP) May 5, 2022 Greenpeace on Thursday urged a top state prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate allegations that six ex-government ministers granted forestry concessions in violation of a logging moratorium. ... 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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Tropical vegetation benefits less from elevated atmospheric CO2Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 06, 2022 Carbon dioxide is known to have a fertilizing effect on plant growth, and the gas is often added to greenhouse crops to help improve yields. Climate scientists have suggested that this same CO ... more 
Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon captureDurham NC (SPX) May 06, 2022 Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1% of Earth's surface but store more than 20% of ... more  
Massive carbon emission caused marine anoxia and biodiversity loss 304M years agoNanjing, China (SPX) May 06, 2022 What will happen in the near future as global warming continues? What environmental conditions will life on Earth most likely confront? Episodes of climate change in Earth's deep past may provide va ... more  
In sediments below Antarctic ice, scientists discover a giant groundwater systemNew York NY (SPX) May 06, 2022 Many scientists say that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen form found in glaciers. Melt water is known to lubricate their gravelly bases and hasten their march toward ... more |
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Thirsty birds struggle to survive in scorching Indian heatAhmedabad, India (AFP) May 6, 2022 A volunteer scoops up a fledgling kite lying nearly immobile on a scorching Indian sidewalk as the relentless sun beats down on its feathers - one of countless birds struggling to endure an unbearable heatwave. ... more  
Thousands sick as latest severe sandstorm sweeps across IraqBaghdad (AFP) May 5, 2022 One person died in Iraq and more than 5,000 were treated in hospitals Thursday for respiratory ailments due to a sandstorm, the seventh in a month, the health ministry said. ... more 
UK banks hit by climate protests at shareholder meetsLondon (AFP) May 4, 2022 Climate activists on Wednesday disrupted annual shareholder meetings of British banks Barclays and Standard Chartered, angry at the firms' funding of fossil fuel projects. ... more  
From lockdown to wedlock: Shanghai couple defy Covid woes to marryShanghai (AFP) May 6, 2022 A couple in Shanghai have beaten Covid lockdowns and bureaucracy to tie the knot, celebrating their marriage in the car park of their housing compound after a ceremony officiated via Zoom from the United States. ... more |
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Delhi driver grows garden on autorickshaw roof to beat the heatNew Delhi (AFP) May 2, 2022 Yellow and green autorickshaws are ubiquitous on New Delhi's roads but Mahendra Kumar's vehicle stands out - it has a garden on its roof aimed at keeping passengers cool during the searing summer season. ... more 
Hong Kongers relish beaches reopening as virus outbreak recedesHong Kong (AFP) May 5, 2022 Filipino domestic worker Marites Saliganan loves getting outdoors on her one day off a week, and after Hong Kong's government lifted a pandemic ban on gathering at beaches on Thursday, she and her friends headed for the sand. ... more  
China building collapse death toll rises to 53Beijing (AFP) May 6, 2022 Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction. ... more  
Inbreeding won't doom the last of the vaquitas, but fishing might: studyWashington (AFP) May 5, 2022 Vaquita porpoises are on the edge of extinction, with just 10 left in their sole habibat within Mexico's Gulf of California. ... more  
France says Mali exit from defence accords 'unjustified'Paris (AFP) May 3, 2022 Mali's decision to renounce a military cooperation agreement with France after it fell out with the ruling junta is "unjustified" and would not affect the military withdrawal, a French foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 3, 2022 
A woman was pulled out alive Tuesday from the rubble of a building that collapsed four days ago in central China, state media said, calling the rescue a "miracle".
The commercial building in Changsha city, Hunan province - which housed apartments, a hotel and a cinema - caved in on Friday, sparking a massive rescue effort with hundreds of emergency responders.
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 Syracuse NY (SPX) May 06, 2022 
The world's most advanced and capable transportable or fixed air defense long-range radar, Lockheed Martin's first AN/TPY-4 radar - recently selected by the U.S. Air Force for the Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR) Rapid Prototyping program - has completed production marking availability to the world. The technology that enables TPY-4 provides the capability required for t ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) May 03, 2022  Seagrasses form lush green meadows in many coastal areas around the world. These marine plants are one of the most efficient global sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth: One square kilometer of seagrass stores almost twice as much carbon as forests on land, and 35 times as fast. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have discovered that seagrasses r ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 06, 2022 
Many scientists say that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen form found in glaciers. Melt water is known to lubricate their gravelly bases and hasten their march toward the sea. In recent years, researchers in Antarctica have discovered hundreds of interconnected liquid lakes and rivers cradled within the ice itself. And, they have imaged thick basins of sediments u ... more |
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 Kut, Iraq (AFP) May 4, 2022 
At least eight people were killed in armed clashes in southern Iraq Wednesday when arguments over the ownership of agricultural land turned deadly, officials said.
The fighting broke out in Maysan province, with the violence centred in a village some 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of provincial capital Amarah.
Mohammed al-Saray, a forensics department official in Amarah, said eight peopl ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) May 4, 2022 
A New Zealand judge on Wednesday cleared the nation's emergency management agency of safety breaches related to the 2019 White Island volcano eruption, which claimed 22 lives.
Almost 50 people, mostly Australian tourists, were on the island, also known as Whakaari, when burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent.
The eruption killed 22 people and injured 25 more, some of whom wer ... more |
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) May 6, 2022 
Seven soldiers and four back-up troops have been killed in two ambushes in Burkina Faso's troubled north, the army said.
The first attack near the town of Solle on Thursday led to the deaths of two soldiers and four civilian volunteers helping the army while five paramilitary troops perished in another raid the same day at Ouanobe, the army said in a statement received Friday.
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 Copenhagen (AFP) May 3, 2022 
The WHO said Tuesday that "epidemic" overweight and obesity rates are linked to over 1.2 million deaths annually across Europe, calling for swift policy changes to reverse the dangerous trend.
Obesity rates in the region have ballooned by 138 percent in the past five decades, the World Health Organization said in a new report, and are linked to a series of cancers and cardiovascular diseases ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) May 4, 2022 
From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, swathes of land across the Horn of Africa are being ravaged by a drought that has put 20 million people at risk of starvation.
A donor conference last week raised almost $1.4 billion for the region, which the UN says is facing its worst drought in 40 years.
In the afflicted areas, people eke out a living mainly from herding and subsis ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2022 
Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars - and for all we know, any other planet in the universe - do not?
"It's one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it's what Endurance is after," said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and principal investigator for NASA's Endurance mission.
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) May 03, 2022 
With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for the subsequent 25 million years. Since plants and herbivorous animals influence each other, the question arises whether, and how this very long absence and the later return of the so-called "megaherbivores" affected the evolution of the plant world.
To answer this question, a ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) April 26, 2022 
Canada's environmental watchdog on Tuesday slammed the government for bungling a transition to a low-carbon economy, accusing it of providing no support for energy workers facing job losses and overestimating the role of hydrogen fuel.
"When it comes to supporting a just transition to a low-carbon economy, the government has been unprepared and slow off the mark," Climate Commissioner Jerry ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 04, 2022 
A new approach to battery design could provide the key to low-cost, long-term energy storage, according to Imperial College London researchers.
The team of engineers and chemists have created a polysulfide-air redox flow battery (PSA RFB) with not one, but two membranes. The dual membrane design overcomes the main problems with this type of large-scale battery, opening up its potential to ... more |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) May 03, 2022 
In 2017, a group of scientists raised alarm bells by showing that flying insects had declined in Germany by more than 70% in the three preceding decades. Studies before and since then have shown similar patterns in insects on a global scale. But with 1 million known species - and conservative estimates indicating there are millions more awaiting discovery - there aren't nearly enough entomologis ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 5, 2022 
Hong Kong has emerged a more unequal city, its freedoms curtailed and international shine dulled after five years with Carrie Lam at the helm, analysts say, as her turbulent leadership draws to an end.
Lam, Hong Kong's first woman leader, took office promising to heal divisions and tackle livelihood issues, especially a housing crisis.
Her term was instead dominated by massive democracy ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 3, 2022 
President Jair Bolsonaro's government has responded to less than three percent of deforestation alerts, a sign that "impunity reigns" in the destruction of Brazil's forests, an environmental monitor said Tuesday.
MapBiomas, a consortium that uses satellite images to track the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other regions in Brazil, said it had launched a new platform to cross-check ... more |
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