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  Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2022 Reusable space technology has led to a rise in space transportation at a lower cost, as popularized by commercial spaceflights of companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. What is poorly understood, however, is rockets' propulsion emissions creating significant heating and compositional changes in the atmosphere. In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus assessed the potential impact of a rocket launch on atmospheric pollution by investigating t ... read more |
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Chinese port city near N. Korea beefs up Covid controlsBeijing (AFP) May 18, 2022 A key Chinese port city near the border with North Korea has launched regular Covid-19 testing for all 7.5 million inhabitants as its isolated neighbour grapples with a spiralling outbreak. ... more  
UN rights chief to visit China 'shortly'Geneva (AFP) May 17, 2022 The UN rights chief will be arriving in China "shortly" for a long-anticipated visit, including to the Xinjiang region where authorities stand accused of widespread rights abuses, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. ... more  
Jamestown, cradle of America, threatened by rising seasJamestown, United States (AFP) May 17, 2022 The waters rose overnight and by morning formed a shallow pond over the grassy field covering a cemetery in Jamestown, one of the founding sites of the American nation. ... more  
Climate change indicators hit record highs in 2021: UNGeneva (AFP) May 18, 2022 Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe. ... 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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Mideast sandstorms snarl traffic, close schools, harm healthRiyadh (AFP) May 17, 2022 Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands - a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns. ... more  
Shanghai says 'zero-Covid' achieved but millions still in lockdownShanghai (AFP) May 17, 2022 Shanghai on Tuesday declared it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown. ... more  
Landslides, floods kill at least 10 in IndiaGuwahati, India (AFP) May 18, 2022 At least 10 people including a four-year-old child have died in floods and landslides this week after unusually heavy rains pummelled several parts of India, as forecasters warned on Wednesday of more deluges. ... more  
Tungsten isotopes in seawater provide insights into the co-evolution of Earth's mantle and continentsVienna, Austria (SPX) May 18, 2022 In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Andrea Mundl-Petermeier and Sebastian Viehmann of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna have demonstrated tha ... more |
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French towns sweat in record May heatParis (AFP) May 18, 2022 Several southern French towns sizzled in record high temperatures for May on Wednesday, while the month as whole is on track to be the hottest since records began, the national weather service said. ... more 
Xi says China will 'open still wider' despite tight border controlsBeijing (AFP) May 18, 2022 China will continue to open to the world, President Xi Jinping told a trade summit on Wednesday, just days after Beijing doubled down on its strict border controls. ... more  
Pakistan TikTok star faces backlash over forest fire videoIslamabad (AFP) May 17, 2022 A Pakistani social media star with millions of followers is facing criticism after posing for a TikTok video by a forest fire, as a devastating heatwave causes widespread misery in the country. ... more  
Jihadists, drought and distrust: the crises facing Somalia's new presidentNairobi (AFP) May 16, 2022 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who won Sunday's long-overdue presidential election in Somalia, takes charge as the troubled nation reels from drought, looming famine, political and economic strains, and a violent insurgency. ... more |
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Zimbabwe seeks EU backing to sell $600-mln worth of ivoryHarare (AFP) May 16, 2022 Zimbabwe on Monday sought the support of the European Union to sell off US$600 million worth of ivory it has accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tusks. ... more 
Uganda troops to withdraw from DRC by May 31: armyKampala (AFP) May 17, 2022 Ugandan troops sent to Democratic Republic of Congo last year to help a crackdown on rebels will withdraw by May 31 unless the two countries strike a new agreement, Ugandan military officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Climate fight rages in rich Australian suburbsSydney (AFP) May 19, 2022 In a land struck by ferocious bushfires and floods, Australian voters frustrated by climate inaction are flocking to a band of right-leaning green-minded independents, threatening to flip a string of conservative strongholds from blue to "teal". ... more  
Second endangered cheetah cub dies in Iran: state mediaTehran (AFP) May 18, 2022 The second of three Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity in Iran has died in a blow to conservation efforts for the critically endangered subspecies, state media reported Wednesday. ... more  
Earth from Space: Arc de TriompheParis (ESA) May 16, 2022 This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured by Planet SkySat - a fleet of satellites that have just joined ESA's Third Party Mission Programme in April 2022. ... more |
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 Austin TX (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 
A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a country ranked low for family-friendly policies.
Media reports have highlighted the plight of mothers, fathers and caregivers across the U.S. who have scrambled to find scarce supplies, or driven long distances to buy formula.
But what is ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2022 
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Spanish company SENER Aeroespacial and the German start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), has received euro 2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop a device based on a space tether to deor ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Much of the "excess heat" stored in the subtropical North Atlantic is in the deep ocean (below 700m), new research suggests.
Oceans have absorbed about 90% of warming caused by humans. The study found that in the subtropical North Atlantic (25 N), 62% of the warming from 1850-2018 is held in the deep ocean.
The researchers - from the University of Exeter and the University of Brest - ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 16, 2022 
Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.
Ice shelves - floating sections of ice which are attached to land-based ice sheets - serve the vital purpose of buttressing against t ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation on May 5. According to the World Food Prize Foundation, the World Food Prize is a prestigious international award conceived as the "Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture" ... more |
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 Lismore, Australia (AFP) May 19, 2022 
For Karey Patterson, the lingering memory of the February floods that devastated Australia's east coast was wondering how long he could hold his daughter's head above water as the torrent consumed their home.
"It was like a disaster movie, but I was in it," he told AFP, standing in the still-gutted shell of his house in the town of Lismore.
In the aftermath of the floods, the worst the c ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) May 15, 2022 
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday.
Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, appeared Thursday in front of an appeals court where he was found guilty of a roster of charges including disclosing classified inf ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary capacity originates from, still remains to be answered.
In order to retrace the evolutionary origins of human language, researchers often use a comparative approach - they compare the vocal pro ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) May 17, 2022 
Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands - a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday became the latest country blanketed with dust that slowed traffic and made iconic towers in the capital difficult to see from more than a few hundred metres (yards) away.
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2022 
This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured by Planet SkySat - a fleet of satellites that have just joined ESA's Third Party Mission Programme in April 2022.
The Arc de Triomphe, or in full Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, is an iconic symbol of France and one of the world's best-known commemorative monuments. The triumphal arch was commissioned by Napol ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, Emily Mitchell, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, publishing May 17th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
The first animals evolved towards the end of the Ediacaran period, around 580 mill ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Future fusion reactors have a conundrum: how to maintain a plasma core that is hotter than the surface of the sun without melting the device walls. Researchers call this challenge "core-edge integration." One method of cooling the plasma edge is to inject impurities such as nitrogen. The impurities absorb heat and release the energy as light that dissipates evenly across the walls.
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 Lubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) May 19, 2022 
Authorities in southeastern DR Congo have seized one and a half tonnes of elephant ivory, legal and environmental officials said, in one of the largest hauls in Africa in years.
Officers discovered the smuggled tusks aboard trucks in the city of Lubumbashi on Saturday, according to a legal official who declined to be named due involvement in an ongoing investigation into the affair.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 19, 2022 
A Hong Kong man was sentenced to over six years in jail on Thursday for running a channel on the messaging app Telegram at the height of the city's democracy protests.
Telegram played a key role in Hong Kong's massive and sometimes violent democracy rallies in 2019, with public channels used to coordinate demonstrations and report on-the-ground developments.
On Thursday a judge gave 26-y ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) May 16, 2022 
When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees, and for good reason. Forests take up a large amount of the planet-warming carbon dioxide that people put into the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels. But will trees keep up that pace as global temperatures rise? With companies increasingly investing in forests as offsets, saying it cancels out their continuing gree ... more |
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