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  Houston TX (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 Rice University chemical engineers have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, one of the world's most problematic "forever chemical" pollutants. Michael Wong and his students made the surprising discovery in 2020 that boron nitride, a commercially available powder that's commonly used in cosmetics, could destroy 99% of PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, in water samples within just a few hours when it was exposed to ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 2 ... read more |
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Drought threatens Spain's 'green gold' harvestJaen, Spain (AFP) July 27, 2022 In the scorching heat, Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain. ... more  
Botswana hits 'historic' UN goal against HIV: reportJohannesburg (AFP) July 27, 2022 Botswana has become the second nation in the world, after Eswatini, to reach a landmark UN goal towards eradicating AIDS, researchers said Wednesday, in what health experts hailed as "stellar results". ... more  
Morocco steps up efforts to contain forest fires sweeping across northRabat (AFP) July 28, 2022 Moroccan firefighters stepped up their efforts on Wednesday to contain forest fires, fanned by fierce winds, that are sweeping across the north of the country, according to local authorities. ... more 
Faster growth may help bacteria remove lake plastic waste: studyParis (AFP) July 26, 2022 Chemicals leaking from plastic waste make bacteria grow faster in European lakes, according to research published Tuesday that authors said could provide a natural way to remove plastic pollution from freshwater ecosystems. ... 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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'Prison Gothic': Hong Kong road signs reborn as new fontHong Kong (AFP) July 27, 2022 Handmade in jail, the Chinese characters on Hong Kong's old road signs have a distinct style that a group of enthusiasts has painstakingly documented and turned into a new digital font - "Prison Gothic". ... more  
Nepal laws will leave civil war crimes unpunished: rights groupsKathmandu (AFP) July 25, 2022 Nepal risks letting wartime atrocities committed during the Himalayan kingdom's Maoist insurgency go unpunished with long-delayed reforms to its transitional justice laws, rights groups said Monday. ... more  
Iraqi Kurd farmers battle drought as Lake Dukan retreatsLake Dukan, Iraq (AFP) July 26, 2022 Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan seeking to irrigate crops face seeing their economic lifeline slip away as the waters of Lake Dukan recede and dams upstream in Iran stem the flow. ... more  
Iraq to free Briton jailed in antiquities case: lawyerBaghdad (AFP) July 26, 2022 An Iraqi court has overturned the conviction and 15-year sentence handed to a British pensioner last month for antiquities smuggling, the retiree's lawyer said Tuesday. ... more |
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French regions face record water restrictions; English households urged to save waterStrasbourg, France (AFP) July 26, 2022 A record 90 out of 96 mainland French regions face water restrictions due to an ongoing drought, official figures showed on Tuesday, as scorching temperatures and low rainfall cause supply shortages in many areas. ... more
Evacuations as forest fires spread through eastern GermanyFrankfurt (AFP) July 26, 2022 Local officials in Germany were planning more evacuations on Tuesday as forest fires tore through the east of the country in the wake of punishing heatwave. ... more 
Airbus tests A400M military plane as water bomberParis (AFP) July 26, 2022 Airbus said Tuesday it had successfully tested its A400M military transporter as a water bomber as heatwaves cause an increasing number of wildfires during the summer in Europe. ... more  
'Never surrender': Myanmar's executed activists; As Junta says deserved 'many death sentences'Bangkok (AFP) July 26, 2022 A hip-hop pioneer who vowed to "never surrender" and a democracy activist who said prison was his second home - Myanmar's execution of two prominent democracy fighters will only keep the flame of defiance burning, their families say. ... more |
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Third body found in drought-hit lake outside Las VegasLos Angeles (AFP) July 26, 2022 More human remains have been found at a lake near Las Vegas, officials said, months after the rapidly receding waters of drought-hit Lake Mead revealed the corpse of a long-submerged mob victim. ... more  
Deadly elephant virus stalks Zurich zooZurich (AFP) July 29, 2022 A deadly virus has swept through Zurich's zoo, killing three Asian elephants in a month and leaving experts stumped as to how to stop its spread. ... more 
W. Mediterranean hit by 'exceptional' heatwave: expertsAjaccio, France (AFP) July 28, 2022 An "exceptional" marine heatwave is gripping the western Mediterranean with surface temperatures up to five degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than average, according to experts contacted by AFP. ... more  
Eight dead in 'devastating' Kentucky floodingJackson, United States (AFP) July 29, 2022 Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least eight people in eastern Kentucky and left some residents stranded on rooftops and in trees, the governor of the south-central US state said Thursday. ... more  
Climate change made Britain heatwave 10 times more likely: studyParis (AFP) July 28, 2022 Climate change caused by human activity made this month's record-shattering heatwave in Britain at least 10 times more likely to occur, according to research released on Friday. ... more |
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 Marsabit, Kenya (AFP) July 27, 2022 
Under an acacia tree in Kenya's drought-ravaged north, malnourished infants feed on sticky mouthfuls of a nutrient-dense peanut paste long used to prevent child starvation in disasters across the globe.
This wonder food can mean the difference between life and death for a child in hard-hit Marsabit, where aid workers say young children are perishing in conditions that border on famine.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 28, 2022 
MIT scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors for orbiting spacecraft. These plasma sensors, also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), are used by satellites to determine the chemical composition and ion energy distribution of the atmosphere.
The 3D-printed and laser-cut hardware performed as well as state-of-the-art semiconductor plasma s ... more |
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 London (AFP) July 28, 2022 
Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a century ago while the country is warming slightly more than the global average, leading meteorologists said Thursday.
The annual study - the State of the UK Climate 2021 - found recent decades have been "warmer, wetter and sunnier" than the 20th century.
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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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 Manila (AFP) July 28, 2022 
Anxious residents slept outside after hundreds of aftershocks rattled the earthquake-hit northern Philippines, locals said Thursday, as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr inspected damage in the region.
Five people were killed and more than 150 injured when a 7.0-magnitude quake struck the lightly populated province of Abra on Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The death toll rose to six o ... more |
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 Lome (AFP) July 28, 2022 
Delegations from Mali and Ivory Coast met on Thursday with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe who is mediating a dispute over the arrest of 49 Ivorian soldiers in Bamako, sources close to the talks said.
Gnassingbe met separately with the delegations in the presidential palace in the capital Lome, the sources said.
The Togolese presidency did not publish any statement on the meeting.
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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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 Paris (AFP) July 26, 2022 
From farmers to fishermen, boat owners to ordinary households, communities across France are struggling with a severe drought that has seen an unprecedented number of regions affected by water restrictions this summer.
Like much of western Europe, the country is going through a punishing hot season of record temperatures and forest fires that have led to renewed focus on climate change.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2022 
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has selected two firms for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft Phase A Study. These contracted firms will help meet the objectives of NOAA's GeoXO Program.
The firms selected are Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, and Maxar Space LLC of Palo Alto, California. The total value of e ... 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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 Washington (AFP) July 20, 2022 
US President Joe Biden is set to announce a series of measures to combat climate change in a major policy speech Wednesday, and will warn that without congressional action, he plans to turn to even wider executive activity, the White House said.
Biden - who will deliver his address from a former coal power plant in Massachusetts - will make clear that time is running out to tackle the "exi ... 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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 Zurich (AFP) July 29, 2022 
A deadly virus has swept through Zurich's zoo, killing three Asian elephants in a month and leaving experts stumped as to how to stop its spread.
The zoo overlooking Switzerland's largest city now has only five of the majestic creatures roaming its 11,000-square-metre (118,400-square-foot) elephant enclosure.
Two-year-old bull Umesh was the first to fall victim to the Elephant endothelio ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) July 29, 2022 
Four Hong Kong activists on Friday pleaded guilty to subversion, a violation that could see them jailed for years under the city's Beijing-imposed national security law.
China is remoulding Hong Kong in its authoritarian image, using the wide-ranging security law to silence dissent.
The latest international criticism of the law came this week from the UN Human Rights Committee, which sai ... more |
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 Athens (AFP) July 26, 2022 
Hundreds of firefighters on Tuesday fought for a sixth day to save one of Greece's most important national parks from a fire that has already devastated vast swathes of forest.
"Firebreaks are being broadened (at the Dadia national park)," Dimitris Petrovits, deputy governor of the Evros region in northeast Greece, told reporters.
More than 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of pine forest are ... more |
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