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  Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 Toowoomba, Australia (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 Pixxel has announced an early adoption partnership with Australian cloud-based agritech company DataFarming. Using Pixxel's hyperspectral dataset, DataFarming will be able to monitor crop health at new speeds and greater resolutions compared to the multispectral imaging on behalf of tens of thousands of farmers. Pixxel's constellation of hyperspectral satellites have the potential to make agriculture more efficient, sustainable, and automated. The images fr ... read more |
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Pacific leaders struggle to keep focus on climate at key summitSuva, Fiji (AFP) July 12, 2022 US-China rivalry and an inter-island rift overshadowed the start of a landmark Pacific summit Tuesday, hampering efforts to focus world attention on the islands' dire climate crisis. ... more  
Record temperatures in Shanghai as heatwave bakes ChinaShanghai (AFP) July 13, 2022 Shanghai roasted under some of its hottest temperatures ever recorded on Wednesday as a searing heatwave in China triggered a flurry of weather alerts and strained the farming and energy sectors. ... more  
Market values are destroying nature: UN reportParis (AFP) July 11, 2022 A major UN report warned Monday that a global economy focused on short-term profit is wrecking the planet and called for a drastically different approach as to how we value nature. ... more 
Western Europe wilts under second heatwave in weeksBordeaux (AFP) July 13, 2022 France and Britain were set to suffer soaring temperatures on Wednesday, with a heatwave in Western Europe fuelling wildfires across vast stretches of forestland. ... more |
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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 Sri Lanka declares emergency as cyclone toll hits 132 Greece puts capital Athens on water emergency footing Sri Lanka seeks foreign help as cyclone toll hits 123 |
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The risky business of Amazonian tree climbersManicore, Brazil (AFP) July 13, 2022 A botanist looks up at a man dangling 20 meters (yards) above ground in a tree that belongs to an endangered species in Brazil's Amazon. ... more 
Mattel unveils Jane Goodall Barbie, complete with chimpWashington (AFP) July 12, 2022 American toy manufacturer Mattel has unveiled new specialty Barbie dolls modeled after the famous English primatologist Jane Goodall and her beloved research specimen, a chimpanzee named David Greybeard. ... more 
Troubled waters: Iraqi spa reborn after IS massacresHamam Al-Alil, Iraq (AFP) July 13, 2022 A mineral spa in northern Iraq is regaining popularity as renovation work has brought back visitors, in a city once ruled by jihadists who carried out mass executions. ... more  
Myanmar junta chief visits MoscowMoscow (AFP) July 12, 2022 Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing visited Moscow Tuesday, Russian media reported, as the US vowed to put pressure on his military regime over a 2021 coup. ... more |
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'Gangnam Style' impact endures a decade after it broke the internetSeoul (AFP) July 12, 2022 When South Korean rapper Psy released "Gangnam Style" a decade ago, few anticipated the scale and speed of its success, and how it would help usher in the streaming revolution. ... more
Spain issues high alert in heatwave-hit areasMadrid (AFP) July 13, 2022 Several areas of Spain were put on high alert Wednesday as temperatures were set to rise again with parts of western Europe suffering under a second heatwave in a matter of weeks. ... more  
US gun regulation agency fills empty director post after seven yearsWashington (AFP) July 12, 2022 The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the federal agency overseeing gun regulations, which had lacked a permanent director for over seven years. ... more 
Hong Kong's 'Grandma Wong' jailed for democracy protestsHong Kong (AFP) July 13, 2022 An elderly woman who became a fixture of Hong Kong's democracy protests was jailed on Wednesday for unlawful assembly, a day after courts imprisoned a terminally ill 75-year-old activist. ... more |
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Rights groups urge COP27 host Egypt to end freedoms 'crackdown'Beirut (AFP) July 12, 2022 Egypt must end a "crackdown" on civil society organisations and peaceful protesters ahead of November's COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, more than 30 groups including Amnesty International said Tuesday. ... more 
India fines Amnesty nearly $8 million after funding probeNew Delhi (AFP) July 9, 2022 India has fined the local arm of Amnesty International nearly $8 million after a probe into its finances the watchdog said was part of a "witch hunt". ... more 
Ukrainian students seeking new lives in Taiwan see parallels in Russia, ChinaTaichung, Taiwan (AFP) July 11, 2022 When Ukrainian student Anna Fursyk first moved into her Taiwanese university dormitory, the roar of passing military jets made her flinch, reminding her of the war she had fled. ... more  
Burkina Faso's Damiba calls for 'unity' against jihadistsOuagadougou (AFP) July 8, 2022 The head of Burkina Faso's ruling junta Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, speaking alongside ex-president Blaise Compaore, on Friday called for "social cohesion" to face jihadist violence plaguing the nation. ... more  
Artificial muscles stronger, more flexible than what's in bodyWashington DC (UPI) Jul 7, 2021 In the mode of the Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man, researchers have developed a new material - and manufacturing process - for artificial muscles that they describe as stronger and more flexible than their biological counterparts. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 12, 2022 
The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the federal agency overseeing gun regulations, which had lacked a permanent director for over seven years.
Steve Dettelbach, 56, will now become the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), following a series of deadly mass shootings that have shaken the country.
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.
Junk like used satellites, parts of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up since the space age began, with the problem accelerating in recent decades.
"We're entering an era when many satellites w ... more |
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 Suva, Fiji (AFP) July 13, 2022 
The United States launched a major push into the Pacific Wednesday as it seeks to hold off China's advances in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the opening of two new embassies at a key regional summit.
Washington will open missions in Tonga and Kiribati and also appoint its first-ever Pacific regional envoy, Harris said as she pledged $600 million in funding for the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Over the next two weeks, a handful of NASA scientists will be living very different lives from the rest of us: they will board a research plane in Greenland alongside laser instruments to help calibrate NASA's space-based measurements of Arctic ice.
The ice researchers and instrument scientists will board NASA's Gulfstream V jet and fly out of Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland to he ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 8, 2022 
Rampant exploitation of nature is a threat to the well-being of billions of people across the world who rely on wild species for food, energy and income, United Nations biodiversity experts said Friday.
From fishing and logging to the use of wild plants in medicines and perfumes, societies across the planet use species that have not been tamed or cultivated, with annual global legal and ill ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) July 12, 2022 
Heavy rainfall has flooded several villages in Yakutia, in Russia's Far East region, authorities said on Tuesday.
Yakutia has been badly affected in recent summers by extreme weather - including wildfires and floods - that scientists say is linked to climate change.
Such extreme weather events are expected to become even more frequent, more prolonged and more intense in the future.
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 Niamey (AFP) July 5, 2022 
The main French military base in Niger has become a hub of frantic activity for troops and equipment leaving neighbouring Mali.
After nine years fighting jihadists in Mali, France is pulling its troops out of the country after falling out with its military junta, and reducing its presence in the wider Sahel region.
"This disengagement from Mali is the biggest of our missions," says Colon ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
New research by a scientist at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that "selfish chromosomes" explain why most human embryos die very early on. The study, published in PLoS, Biology, explaining why fish embryos are fine but sadly humans' embryos often don't survive, has implications for the treatment of infertility.
About half of fertilised eggs die very earl ... more |
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 Zurich (AFP) July 12, 2022 
Residents of Pulau Pari, an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels, are suing cement giant Holcim over its carbon dioxide emissions, a Swiss charity said on Tuesday.
"Holcim... bears a significant share of the responsibility for the climate crisis as well as for the situation on... Pari," Yvan Maillard Ardenti, climate expert at Swiss Church Aid (HEKS), said on the charity's websi ... more |
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 Arlington TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
A space physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington will play a key role in NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission.
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the region of space enveloping earth known as the ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T) region, according to a NASA press release.
Rick Wilder, assistant p ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions have still to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are still unclear. An international research team led by ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS is now proposing a new answer to this question based on laboratory experiments an ... more |
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 Frankfurt (AFP) July 8, 2022 
The European Central Bank on Friday called on banks to improve their preparations for future environmental risks as it published the results of its first "climate stress test".
Banks in the eurozone "must urgently step up efforts to measure and manage climate risk", the ECB's supervisory chief, Andrea Enria, said in a statement.
Launched in January, the stress test gauged the impact of ... more |
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 Salzgitter, Germany (AFP) July 7, 2022 
Volkswagen celebrated Thursday the beginning of work on its first in-house battery factory, as the German auto giant looks to head off competition from US and Chinese electric vehicle upstarts.
The firm plans to "steer the worldwide battery offensive" from the new plant in Salzgitter in central Germany, CEO Herbert Diess told a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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 Washington (AFP) July 12, 2022 
American toy manufacturer Mattel has unveiled new specialty Barbie dolls modeled after the famous English primatologist Jane Goodall and her beloved research specimen, a chimpanzee named David Greybeard.
The Goodall doll, which Mattel says will be partly made with recycled plastic, sports the researcher's classic beige collared shirt and shorts, as well as a pair of binoculars and a blue not ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2022 
Members of a "criminal gang" accused of taking control of local banks have been arrested in central China after rare protests over alleged financial corruption sparked violent clashes between customers and authorities.
Hit hard by the country's economic slowdown, four banks in Henan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals, leaving thousands of small savers without funds and ... more |
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 Manicore, Brazil (AFP) July 13, 2022 
A botanist looks up at a man dangling 20 meters (yards) above ground in a tree that belongs to an endangered species in Brazil's Amazon.
"Cut another branch, Zelao," she cries out.
Brandishing telescopic pruning clippers, 42-year-old Jose Raimundo Ferreira, known as Zelao, expertly manipulates the tool and a branch of the itauba, whose wood is prized for use in making boats, falls at the ... more |
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