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  Paris (AFP) May 19, 2022 Sandstorms have engulfed the Middle East in recent days, in a phenomenon experts warn could proliferate because of climate change, putting human health at grave risk. At least 4,000 people went to hospital Monday for respiratory issues in Iraq where eight sandstorms have blanketed the country since mid-April. That was on top of the more than 5,000 treated in Iraqi hospitals for similar respiratory ailments earlier this month. The phenomenon has also smothered Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and t ... read more |
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Hive mind: Tunisia beekeepers abuzz over early warning systemTestour, Tunisia (AFP) May 20, 2022 Elias Chebbi inspected a beehive in a field in Tunisia, minutes after a buzz on his phone warned him of a potential problem. ... more 
Time running out to save Horn of Africa lives: UNGeneva (AFP) May 19, 2022 The United Nations appealed Thursday for immediate funds to help the Horn of Africa, warning the intense suffering in the drought-stricken region would likely get worse. ... more  
EUSPA celebrates its first 365 days of new Galileo operationsBrussels, Belgium (SPX) May 17, 2022 The EU Agency for the Space Program celebrates its first anniversary with new services, a new satellite and even more end users. Time flies when you're busy getting things done. And in the fir ... more  
China lifts ban on Canada canola imports: OttawaOttawa (AFP) May 19, 2022 China has lifted a ban on Canadian canola imports, a Canadian official said Thursday, calling it "very good news" for producers that Ottawa argued had been caught up in a diplomatic row. ... more |
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Hundreds protest over water shortages in drought-hit Iraq
Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Samoa coast: USGS Philippines shuts schools, scraps flights as Typhoon Co-May nears Downpours from storm Wipha kill three in Vietnam Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families Flooding from storm Wipha cuts off hundreds in Vietnam Pakistan landslide after heavy rain kills 5, with 15 missing Philippines flooding displaces thousands as new storm threatens |
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WHO authorises China's CanSinoBIO Covid-19 vaccineGeneva (AFP) May 19, 2022 The World Health Organization on Thursday gave the green light to Chinese manufacturer CanSinoBIO's Covid-19 vaccine - the ninth jab to get the WHO seal of approval. ... more  
Record-breaking cold in Brazil threatens homeless, cropsRio De Janeiro (AFP) May 19, 2022 Coats and scarves have come out prematurely in Brazil, as the south of the tropical country experiences a record-breaking cold spell, a menace for both homeless people and crops. ... more  
Pakistan TikTok star faces backlash over forest fire videoIslamabad (AFP) May 20, 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  
11 soldiers, 15 gunmen dead in Burkina Faso attacks: armyOuagadougou (AFP) May 20, 2022 Eleven soldiers and 15 gunmen have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in eastern Burkina Faso, the army said. ... more |
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North Korea sent planes to China for Covid supplies: reportsSeoul (AFP) May 19, 2022 North Korea sent three of its largest cargo planes to China to pick up medical supplies to help with a spiralling Covid outbreak, local media reports say. ... more  
UN calls on Iraqi politicians to end seven-month stalemateUnited Nations, United States (AFP) May 17, 2022 The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest. ... more 
1.5 tonnes of elephant ivory seized in southeast DR CongoLubumbashi, 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. ... more  
University of Minnesota technology allows amputees to control a robotic arm with their mindMinneapolis MN (SPX) May 18, 2022 University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using their brain signals instead of their muscles ... more |
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Flood-ravaged Australians feel forgotten as election loomsLismore, 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. ... more  
Dutch PM deleted texts on mobile 'to save space'The Hague (AFP) May 18, 2022 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Wednesday he had for years deleted messages to his ageing mobile phone to save space, but insisted any important texts had been archived. ... more  
Top Hungary court bars vote on Chinese university planBudapest (AFP) May 18, 2022 Hungary's top court threw out Wednesday a bid by Budapest's mayor to hold a referendum on a planned campus of China's Fudan University in the city. ... more  
Rocket engine exhaust pollution extends high into Earth's atmosphereWashington 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 ... more  
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 |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 17, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with Mayday.ai ("Mayday"), a German-based provider of real-time risk and disaster intelligence, to improve and democratize data intelligence for risk and disaster management.
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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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 13, 2022 
Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water but comes with huge energy costs. For the first time, researchers use fluorine-based nanostructures to successfully filter salt from water. Compared to current desalination methods, these fluorous nanochannels work faster, require less pressure and less energy, and a ... 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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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 13, 2022 
The Hunga volcano ushered in 2022 with a bang, devastating the island nation of Tonga and sending aid agencies, and Earth scientists, into a flurry of activity. It had been nearly 140 years since an eruption of this scale shook the Earth.
UC Santa Barbara's Robin Matoza led a team of 76 scientists, from 17 nations, to characterize the eruption's atmospheric waves, the strongest recorded fr ... 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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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) May 12, 2022 
Algorithms that help consumers decide what to stream or buy online can do more than predict customers' habits: They can help satellites see the Earth better, according to a Rutgers study.
Optical satellites lose sight of the Earth's surface when it is covered by clouds, and researchers have long relied on inaccurate tools to fill the blind spots, particularly along coastlines. By adapting ... 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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