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  Paris (ESA) May 26, 2022 For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice melting rapidly. Researchers now understand exactly what went on in those fateful summer days and what we can learn from it. The never-before-seen rainfall, on 14 August 2021, made Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelleds around the world. The upper-most parts of Greenland's enormous ice cap used to ... read more |
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Polar Ice and Snow monitoring mission CRISTAL on trackFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) May 25, 2022 The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimetry mission CRISTAL is clearly on track. Following an intensive review process the European Space Agency ESA has confirmed that the preliminary des ... more  
China, Australia launch duelling South Pacific charm offensivesHoniara (AFP) May 25, 2022 Chinese and Australian foreign ministers will launch duelling charm offensives in the South Pacific Thursday, as Beijing and the West jostle for influence in the strategically significant region. ... more  
Kerry tells Davos climate coalition swellingDavos, Switzerland (AFP) May 25, 2022 US climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday more countries and companies are swinging behind a bid to combat climate change by jump-starting markets for technologies with massive investments. ... more 
Australia bidding to host UN climate summit, set new emissions targetSuva, Fiji (AFP) May 26, 2022 Australia will present a more ambitious UN emissions target "very soon" and is bidding to co-host a COP summit with Pacific island neighbours, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday, signalling a ground shift in climate policy. ... 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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Lab-grown meat maker Eat Just strikes deal to increase productionNew York (AFP) May 25, 2022 The US sustainable food start-up Eat Just has struck a deal to build massive bioreactors with the goal of producing tens of millions of pounds of lab-grown meat a year. ... more  
Gun violence response leaves US standing a world apartNew York (AFP) May 25, 2022 For nearly a decade, America's satirical "The Onion" publication has run a headline that's come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre. ... more  
Shanghai to gradually reopen schools in June as lockdown easesShanghai (AFP) May 26, 2022 Shanghai schoolchildren will gradually resume some in-person classes in June with daily Covid-19 tests, the local government said Thursday, as the Chinese metropolis gradually emerges from a lengthy lockdown that brought it to a standstill. ... more 
'The pandemic won't stop us': the Beijingers skirting Covid rulesBeijing (AFP) May 26, 2022 Mothers hosting playdates near cordoned-off parks, mahjong maestros huddled in streets and youngsters slugging night-time beers on barricaded sidewalks - Beijingers are making the most of the small spaces available as China's coronavirus controls close in. ... more |
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Beijing health chief sacked as city battles virus outbreakBeijing (AFP) May 25, 2022 Beijing has sacked its top health official, state media reported Wednesday, as the Chinese capital battles a surge in Covid-19 infections despite the country's strict zero-tolerance policy. ... more  
Volunteers watching the skies for the weather and starsParis (ESA) May 20, 2022 More than 11 thousand people around Europe and the world have turned their smartphones into space monitoring tools by downloading the CAMALIOT app, so far delivering more than 53 billion measurement ... more  
Dancing in the lightPittsburgh PA (SPX) May 25, 2022 When humans twist and turn it is the result of complex internal functions: the body's nervous system signals our intentions; the musculoskeletal system supports the motion; and the digestive system ... more 
Swarm unveils magnetic waves deep downParis (ESA) May 24, 2022 While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth's insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below ... more |
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Regrow, not reuse: How restoring abandoned farms can mitigate climate changePrinceton NJ (SPX) May 26, 2022 Around the world, hundreds of millions of acres of land are being abandoned due to what's known as "rural outmigration," or people leaving for urban centers. Some people leave in search of economic ... more 
Brazil Yanomami land turns 30 with little to celebrateRio De Janeiro (AFP) May 25, 2022 Brazil's biggest indigenous reservation turns 30 years old Wednesday, but inhabitants of the Yanomami territory say the killing, rape and poisoning of their people by illegal gold miners means there is little to celebrate. ... more  
Zimbabwe rallies allies to push for legal ivory tradeHwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) May 24, 2022 Zimbabwe will this week press a drive to legalise the ivory trade, inviting officials from 15 nations to meet in a national park that's a beacon of success in protecting elephants. ... more  
Fears for Orca spotted in France's River SeineCaen, France (AFP) May 25, 2022 The appearance of a killer whale miles up France's Seine River has sparked amazement but also concern for the well-being of the animal, whose life appears in danger, conservationists said Wednesday. ... more  
Barcelona recruits sheep, goats to fight wildfiresBarcelona (AFP) May 24, 2022 It's a rustic scene - sheep and goats graze placidly while a shepherd keeps watch. But this is Barcelona's biggest public park, not the countryside. ... more |
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 New York (AFP) May 25, 2022  For nearly a decade, America's satirical "The Onion" publication has run a headline that's come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre.
"'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" reads the title, which the outlet published on Wednesday for the 21st time since 2014.
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) May 25, 2022 
LeoLabs, Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has announced a multimillion-dollar award to provide data and services for the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). The agreement offers Japan access to the largest set of actionable insights in existence for tracking satellites and orbital debris in low Earth ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) May 24, 2022 
China's foreign minister will make a "milestone" visit to Solomon Islands this week, the island state said, after the two nations sealed a wide-ranging security pact last month.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's trip comes at a time of heightened United States and Australian concern about China's intentions in the South Pacific.
The Solomon Islands government confirmed the China visit in a stat ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 26, 2022 
For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice melting rapidly. Researchers now understand exactly what went on in those fateful summer days and what we can learn from it.
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 Beaumont TX (SPX) May 26, 2022 
Rice researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont have begun a project that utilizes unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, data to speed up rice cultivar selection and breeding.
A team of researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont will use UAVs to capture real-time images of rice crops, extract crop phenotypic traits from the images, and ultimate ... more |
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 Sylhet, Bangladesh (AFP) May 23, 2022 
At least four million people have been affected by the worst floods in Bangladesh's northeast for nearly two decades, the United Nations said Monday.
The Bangladeshi government said the floods, which began last week, had submerged 70 percent of Sylhet district in the northeast and 60 percent of Sunamganj district, leaving at least 10 people dead and about two million marooned.
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 23, 2022 
Jihadists have killed 30 men in a revenge attack after their commanders died in military air strikes in Nigeria's northeast Borno state, two militia leaders said Tuesday.
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) seized the men in Mudu village in the Dikwa area on Saturday, they said.
News of the incident emerged late due to poor communication as a result of the destru ... more |
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 Trondheim, Norway (SPX) May 26, 2022 
One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again - virtually intact.
Sometime around 2000 BCE, a red-wing thrush died at Skiradalskollen in ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 26, 2022 
Earth observation is already capable of supporting national climate action, but there are many more opportunities on the horizon, according to discussions among leading scientists and policymakers at ESA's Living Planet Symposium being held in Bonn, Germany.
Last year, at the United Nations COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, almost 200 countries reaffirmed the Paris Agreement goals of li ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace enabling direct access to Satellogic's satellite tasking high-resolution multispectral and wide-area hyperspectral imagery via the UP42 API-based platform. The agreement includes the archive of high-fre ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 20, 2022 
University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for allowing terrestrial plants to defend themselves against fungal attack - a defense mechanism that they traced back 470 million years. It is likely that these defenses paved the way for all terrestrial plan ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) May 26, 2022 
Air conditioning in public buildings in Spain must be turned down in the summer under new rules published on Thursday as part of measures to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian energy.
Office air conditioning should be set no lower than 27 Celsius (80.6 Fahrenheit) during the warmest months of the year, according to a government decree on energy efficiency.
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 Urbana, IL (SPX) May 20, 2022 
Electronic devices generate heat, and that heat must be dissipated. If it isn't, the high temperatures can compromise device function, or even damage the devices and their surroundings.
Now, a team from UIUC and UC Berkeley have published a paper in Nature Electronics detailing a new cooling method that offers a host of benefits, not the least of which is space efficiency that offers a sub ... more |
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 Sfax, Tunisia (AFP) May 22, 2022 
Three rescued loggerhead turtles were released into the Mediterranean off Tunisia on Sunday, one with a tracking beacon glued to its shell to help researchers better protect the threatened species.
The main risks to sea turtles in Tunisia are linked to fisheries, since they become entangled in nets - including the three that were released into the wild.
The migratory species, which can ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2022 
Gleaming football stadiums built for the Asian Cup may turn into "white elephants" after China withdrew as hosts, experts say, with President Xi Jinping's World Cup dreams more remote than ever.
Ten cities across China have sunk billions of dollars to build eight new stadiums and renovate two others for the Asian Cup next summer.
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 Davos, Switzerland (AFP) May 26, 2022 
South American politicians and financiers urged new forms of sustainable forestry in the Amazon rainforest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, saying it was the only way to halt over-exploitation.
"It's all about regulation, legislation and putting the ground for the people from the forest to become entrepreneurs. And they really want that," said Gustavo Montezano, president of the Brazili ... more |
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