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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals and ore deposits, predict possible characteristics of future life, and aid the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life. In twin papers published by American Mineralogist and sponsored in part by NASA, Carnegie scientists Robert Hazen and Shaunna ... read more |
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Study reveals an unprecedented change in Europe's fire regimeBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 A study reveals an unprecedented change in the fire regime in Europe which is related to climate change. The affected areas are in Southern, Central and Northern Europe but this historical change in ... more  
Pipeline proposed to bury European CO2 off NorwayOslo (AFP) June 29, 2022 Norwegian energy company Equinor unveiled Wednesday a project to build a pipeline to transport CO2 produced by industrial firms in continental Europe for burial offshore Norway. ... more  
Outgunned island states vow to fight deep-sea miningLisbon (AFP) July 1, 2022 A handful of postage-stamp nations in the South Pacific launched an uphill battle this week against the deep-sea mining of unattached, fist-sized rocks rich in rare Earth metals. ... more 
UN urges ambitious action to protect the oceansLisbon (AFP) July 1, 2022 World leaders must do more to protect the oceans, a major United Nations conference concluded on Friday, setting its sights on a new treaty to protect the high seas. ... more |
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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 Japan moves toward first new reactor since Fukushima disaster Philippines flooding displaces thousands, two missing Pakistan landslide after heavy rain kills 3, with 15 missing Landslide, heavy rain in Pakistan sweeps away cars, killing 3 Texas flood missing toll revised sharply down to three Tsunami alert lifted after powerful quakes off Russian coast Hong Kong hit by strong winds, heavy rain as Typhoon Wipha skirts past |
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The Gambia bans timber exports after smuggling fearsBanjul, Gambia (AFP) July 1, 2022 The Gambia on Friday suspended all timber exports, following reports the West African state is serving as a transit point for the illegal smuggling of endangered rosewood. ... more 
US mega drought makes boating rough on Lake MeadLake Mead, United States (AFP) July 3, 2022 In the 15 years since Adam Dailey began boating on Lake Mead, the shoreline has receded hundreds of meters, the result of more than two decades of punishing drought that is drying out the western United States. ... more 
Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation recordSao Paulo (AFP) July 1, 2022 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. ... more 
Waterways in Brazil's Manaus choked by tons of trashManaus, Brazil (AFP) July 1, 2022 In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they're visiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland. ... more |
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'They're everywhere': microplastics in oceans, air and human bodyParis (AFP) July 3, 2022 From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies - with uncertain implications. ... more  
Drought-hit Verona introduces restrictions on using drinking waterRome (AFP) July 2, 2022 The city of Verona, in northeast Italy, on Saturday announced restrictions on the use of drinking water, due to an ongoing drought in the Mediterranean country. ... more  
Thousands told to evacuate before 'life-threatening' Sydney floodSydney (AFP) July 3, 2022 Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney on Sunday as torrential rain battered the country's largest city and floodwaters inundated its outskirts. ... more  
Indian landslide search enters third day with 25 deadGuwahati, India (AFP) July 2, 2022 The search for survivors buried under a landslide in India's northeast entered its third day Saturday with 25 bodies pulled from the rubble and nearly 40 people still missing. ... more |
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Dozens missing in shipwreck during South China Sea typhoonHong Kong (AFP) July 2, 2022 More than two dozen crew members are unaccounted for after their ship broke into two during a typhoon in the South China Sea on Saturday, with rescuers scrambling to find them, officials say. ... more 
Strong quakes kill five in southern IranTehran (AFP) July 2, 2022 A series of strong earthquakes rocked southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least five people, injuring over 90 others and reducing an entire village to rubble. ... more  
'True democracy never started': Hong Kongers react to Xi's speechHong Kong (AFP) July 1, 2022 As Chinese leader Xi Jinping left Hong Kong Friday after a rare visit to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain, reactions to his speech ranged from deeming it "reassuring" to terming his stance "delusional". ... more 
Dialogue with Suu Kyi 'not impossible' says Myanmar juntaNaypyidaw, Myanmar (AFP) July 1, 2022 Dialogue between Myanmar's junta and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the bloody crisis unleashed by the toppling of her government last year is "not impossible", a junta spokesman told AFP on Friday. ... more  
Tiny lab on a chipOsaka, Japan (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 Scientists from the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University created a prototype terahertz optical spectroscopy system with a sensing area equivalent to the cross-sectional area of just fi ... more |
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 Elmau Castle, Germany (AFP) June 28, 2022 
The world's top industrialised nations wrapped up a three-day summit dominated by talks on how they can bolster Ukraine in repelling Russia's invasion while minimising the international fallout.
Here are the main plans drawn up by the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in tackling the myriad of crises facing the globe:
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 
Space is getting congested and today, active collision avoidance has become a routine task in space operations, relying on validated, accurate and timely space surveillance data. For a typical satellite in LEO, hundreds of conjunction alerts can be expected every week. Processing and filtering these still leaves about two actionable alerts per spacecraft and week requiring detailed follow-up by ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 28, 2022 
Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs.
This extremely hostile environment, which will come under the spotlight at a major United Nations oceans summit in Lisbon this week, has caused its inhabitants to develop a prodigious array of alien characteristics ... more |
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 Barentsburg, Svalbard (AFP) June 29, 2022 
Russian flags flap in the stiff polar breeze, a bust of Lenin looms out of the snow and a vast slogan declares, "Communism is our goal!"
No, this is not some time warp Soviet settlement lost in the Arctic wastes, but a corner of Norway where Moscow can - theoretically at least - mine, build, drill and fish what it likes.
Welcome to Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archip ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 29, 2022 
Over six million bees were euthanised across Australia's east coast this week, an official said Wednesday, in an attempt to eliminate a devastating parasite which has continued to spread despite a lockdown of hives.
600 hives have been destroyed since the "Varroa destructor" mite was detected, with each containing anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 bees, New South Wales agriculture minister ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 
The recent Fagradalsfjall eruption in the southwest of Iceland has enthralled the whole world, including nature lovers and scientists alike. The eruption was especially important as it provided geologists with a unique opportunity to study magmas that were accumulated in a deep crustal magma reservoir but ultimately derived from the Earth's mantle (below 20 km).
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 Tan-Tan, Morocco (AFP) July 1, 2022  The United States' top general for Africa has warned of "violent extremism" and the threat of Russian mercenaries in the Sahel region, speaking as war games wrapped up in Morocco.
"We are seeing the rise of violent extremism in Western Africa, predominantly in the Sahel region," said General Stephen J. Townsend, commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM).
The Sahel region is a vast ter ... more |
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 Kent UK (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 
Research by the University of Kent and the University of St Andrews has found that rainforest chimpanzees are digging wells for cleaner water and that the behaviour is spreading.
Digging small wells to access or filter drinking water is a relatively rare behaviour in the animal kingdom - only a handful of species have been documented to do so, and most of those live in very arid or desert ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) July 2, 2022 
The city of Verona, in northeast Italy, on Saturday announced restrictions on the use of drinking water, due to an ongoing drought in the Mediterranean country.
"Due to the weather situation and its impact on the water supply, the mayor has signed an order restricting the use of drinking water for domestic purposes," read a message on the city's website.
Under the drought order, which la ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 24, 2022  Aerospace organizations around the globe, including Axiom Space, are developing new ideas for how humans will explore, conduct research, and do business in low Earth orbit (LEO) when the International Space Station (ISS) is retired at the end of this decade. Regardless of what the next commercial space stations may look like, one thing is certain: humanity's desire for on-orbit scientific resear ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2022  A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals and ore deposits, predict possible characteristics of future life, and aid the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life.
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 London (AFP) June 29, 2022  Environmental campaigners, business groups and opposition politicians all urged the UK government Wednesday to ramp up delivering climate change policies after an expert panel warned it was failing to make adequate progress.
Britain's Climate Change Committee (CCC) last year praised the government for its new net-zero strategy to be carbon neutral by 2050, and a series of targets to be met a ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 
There's an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT's Paul Woskov sees things differently.
Woskov, a research engineer in MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant's power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an approach he's been working on for the last 14 years, he's hoping ... more |
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 Dover, United States (AFP) June 30, 2022 
On a bright moonlit night, a team of scientists and volunteers head out to a protected beach along the Delaware Bay to survey horseshoe crabs that spawn in their millions along the US East Coast from late spring to early summer.
The group make their way up the shoreline laying a measuring frame on the sand, counting the individuals inside it to help generate a population estimate, and settin ... more |
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 Lok Ma Chau, China (AFP) June 29, 2022 
From the hill in northernmost Hong Kong where Jasper Law stood, the border with China was obvious - a narrow river dividing farmlands and fishponds from the gleaming skyscrapers of megacity Shenzhen.
Friday is the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's transition from British to Chinese rule.
While the view from the hilltops of Lok Ma Chau suggests Hong Kong remains clearly distinct from mainl ... more |
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 Banjul, Gambia (AFP) July 1, 2022 
The Gambia on Friday suspended all timber exports, following reports the West African state is serving as a transit point for the illegal smuggling of endangered rosewood.
"All existing permits issued for the export/re-export of timber are permanently revoked," the information ministry said in a statement, instructing port authorities to prevent any logs from being loaded onto ships.
"Th ... more |
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