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  Boston MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 Microplastics, tiny particles of plastic that are now found worldwide in the air, water, and soil, are increasingly recognized as a serious pollution threat, and have been found in the bloodstream of animals and people around the world. Some of these microplastics are intentionally added to a variety of products, including agricultural chemicals, paints, cosmetics, and detergents - amounting to an estimated 50,000 tons a year in the European Union alone, according to the European Chemicals Agency. ... read more |
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Firefighters tackle California wildfire as heat wave grips parts of USMidpines, United States (AFP) July 26, 2022 Firefighters were battling California's largest wildfire of the summer on Monday, a blaze near famed Yosemite National Park that has forced thousands of people to evacuate, officials said. ... more 
Greek firefighters battle inferno 'disaster' at natural parkAthens (AFP) July 25, 2022 Greek firefighters battled wildfires on three fronts Monday as flames destroyed around 2,200 hectares (5,400 acres) of woodland in one of the country's most important protected habitats. ... more  
How did Earth avoid a Mars-like fate? Ancient rocks hold cluesRochester NY (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling liquid iron in the Earth's outer core generates our planet's protective magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is vital for life on ... more  
Pakistan's biggest city paralysed by rain; C.Africa floods kill 13Karachi (AFP) July 25, 2022 A weather emergency was declared in Karachi Monday as heavier-than-usual monsoon rains continue to lash Pakistan's biggest city, flooding homes and making streets impassable. ... more |
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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 Sri Lanka flood, landslides toll rises to 123: official |
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ASEAN says Myanmar executions 'highly reprehensible'Phnom Penh (AFP) July 26, 2022 Myanmar's execution of four prisoners, including a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party, is "highly reprehensible," said the chair of a regional bloc leading diplomatic efforts to resolve the post-coup crisis. ... more  
The bigger the temperature change, the larger the extinction eventSendai, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 A professor emeritus at Tohoku University has unearthed evidence pointing to a strong relationship between the magnitude of mass extinctions and global temperature changes in geologic times. T ... more  
Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating ghost forestsDurham NC (The Conversation) Jul 25, 2022 Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina's Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent floodin ... more  
Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: reportMontevideo (AFP) July 22, 2022 Floods, heat waves and the longest drought in 1,000 years: Latin America is grappling with devastating climate change impacts that will only get worse, a World Meteorological Organization report warned Friday. ... more |
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Lava caves of Hawaii Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial speciesManoa HI (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 The lava caves, lava tubes and geothermal vents on the big island of Hawai?i have higher bacterial diversity than scientists expected, reports a new study in Frontiers in Microbiology. These habitat ... more  
Italy's famous Po Valley rice paddies decimated by droughtZeme, Italy (AFP) July 23, 2022 The roar of Dario Vicini's motorcycle cuts through the silence as he drives across his rice paddy to survey the destruction wrought by Italy's worst drought in 70 years. ... more  
EarthCARE takes a big stretchParis (ESA) Jul 22, 2022 ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have gently unfolded this new satellite's huge five-panel solar wing to test that it will deploy correctly once it ... more 
Three recent French wildfires were arson: prosecutorsBrest, France (AFP) July 25, 2022 Two forest fires that broke out in northwest France last week were caused by arson, prosecutors said Monday, taking to three the total of deliberately started blazes in recent weeks. ... more |
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China confirms top officials vaccinated as it seeks to reassure vaccine-scepticBeijing (AFP) July 23, 2022 Chinese anti-Covid vaccines are safe and have been given to the country's top leaders, Beijing's health authorities said Saturday, in a bid to reassure the population about their quality in the face of dwindling inoculation rates. ... more 
Evacuations after volcano erupts in southern JapanTokyo (AFP) July 24, 2022 Dozens of people were ordered to evacuate their homes after a fiery volcanic eruption in southern Japan on Sunday as the national weather agency issued its top-level alert for the mountain. ... more  
China swelters under record heatBeijing (AFP) July 25, 2022 Cities across China were on red alert for heatwaves on Monday, as tens of millions of people were warned to stay indoors and record temperatures strained energy supply. ... more  
Colombia peace tribunal charges 19 soldiers for 300 murdersBogota (AFP) July 25, 2022 The special peace tribunal investigating atrocities committed during Colombia's decades-long conflict on Monday charged 19 soldiers with war crimes and crimes against humanity for murdering 303 people, mostly civilians, between 2005 and 2008. ... more 
Florida hurries to catch fast-spreading snail invasionNew Port Richey, United States (AFP) July 25, 2022 It might not be speedy, but it's big, hungry and fast at reproducing: the giant African snail, a potential health risk to humans, has once again invaded the southern US state of Florida. ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 22, 2022 
Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday formally approved a plan to release more than a million tonnes of treated water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the ocean, sparking an angry reaction from China.
The plan has already been adopted by the government and endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but plant operator TEPCO must still win over local communities before goin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 
The Defense Department and other federal agencies have sought advanced sources that generate gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons, protons, and electrons to enable a variety of scientific, commercial, and defense applications - from medical diagnostics, to scans of cargo containers for dangerous materials, to non-destructive testing of aircraft and their parts to see internal defects. But none of these ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2022 
Water is life, but for all its importance, humanity has a surprisingly limited view of Earth's freshwater bodies. Researchers have reliable water level measurements for only a few thousand lakes around the world, and little to no data on some of the planet's important river systems. The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will fill that enormous gap. By helping to provid ... more |
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 Zermatt, Switzerland (AFP) July 26, 2022 
Way up in the snowy Alps, the border between Switzerland and Italy has shifted due to a melting glacier, putting the location of an Italian mountain lodge in dispute.
The borderline runs along a drainage divide - the point at which meltwater will run down either side of the mountain towards one country or the other.
But the Theodul Glacier's retreat means the watershed has crept towards ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Larger organic farms operate more like conventional farms and use fewer sustainable practices than smaller organic farms, according to a new Cornell University study that also provides insight into how to increase adoption of sustainable practices.
"We wanted to look at how the practices differ between small-scale organic farms like the ones you see scattered around the Finger Lakes, which ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jul 25, 2022 
Computers can be trained to better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions by learning from artificial explosion signals, according to a new method devised by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.
The work, led by UAF Geophysical Institute postdoctoral researcher Alex Witsil, was published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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 Kinshasa (AFP) July 21, 2022 
A Congolese minister has warned he could propose "militarising" wildlife parks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect them from rebels he says are supported by Rwanda.
Tourism Minister Modero Nsimba accused Rwanda - which this week is hosting an international conference on protected wildlife areas in Africa - of hypocrisy.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during elementary school. That is the key finding from our recent peer-reviewed study.
We analyzed data from 1,070 U.S. elementary school children who had displayed above-average behavioral, academic or executive functioning the year before their initial ADHD diagnoses. We ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) July 25, 2022 
Switzerland, which is caught in Europe's extreme heatwave, has seen freezing point rise way above its highest summits, smashing a record set 27 years ago, meteorologists said on Monday.
Scientists say human-induced climate change is amplifying the record heatwaves seen in several parts of the planet in recent weeks.
Weather balloons rose to 5,184 metres (17,008 feet) above the Alpine cou ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 25, 2022 
A large data-driven telecommunications satellite that uses innovative technology to keep cool as well as other innovations - developed under an ESA Partnership Project - has started its commercial service.
The satellite will provide broadband connectivity for commercial shipping, aviation, governments and enterprises through its operator, SES, as well connecting underserved areas and accel ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Trilobites- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period - may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found.
In a paper published in the journal Paleobiology, researchers from the University of British ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 19, 2022  A source of renewable energy, solar power can be used to supplement your existing power sources or be used on its own as an independent energy resource.
As the cost of solar energy continues to decline, more and more people are choosing to switch from traditional electric power to solar electricity to save money, reduce their carbon footprint and help the environment. Here are some essenti ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build powerful magnets smaller than before, aiding the design and construction of machines that could help the world harness the power of the sun to create electricity without producing greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
The scientists found a way to build hi ... more |
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 New Port Richey, United States (AFP) July 25, 2022  It might not be speedy, but it's big, hungry and fast at reproducing: the giant African snail, a potential health risk to humans, has once again invaded the southern US state of Florida.
Jason Stanley, a biologist with Florida's Department of Agriculture, says that the gastropod greedily "feeds on over 500 different kinds of plants."
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 Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2022 
A Chinese woman who was denied permission to freeze her eggs on the grounds that she was unmarried has had her case dismissed by a Beijing court.
Xu Zaozao took legal action in 2019 after a Beijing hospital refused to freeze her eggs, a procedure only available in China to married couples suffering from infertility.
Her case was widely followed in China, where women's rights have become ... more |
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 Durham NC (The Conversation) Jul 25, 2022 
Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina's Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina's Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead.
Throughout coastal North C ... more |
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