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  Brussels (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 A severe drought hitting swathes of Europe is "worsening" and, while rain is helping some regions, accompanying thunderstorms are causing their own damage, EU researchers said in a report Monday. The latest monthly analysis by the European Union's Global Drought Observatory (GDO) highlighted the risk of ongoing soil dryness caused by successive heatwaves since May and a "persistent lack" of rainfall. It maintained its warning issued with the previous report that nearly half of the EU's territory ... read more |
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China warns of 'severe' threat to harvest from worst heatwave on recordChongqing, China (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record. ... more  
Putin says Russia wildfire situation 'difficult' amid heatwaveMoscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday western Russia was facing a "difficult" situation as smoke from forest fires reached the capital Moscow. ... more  
'We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan tribeEl Molo Bay, Kenya (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 At first light, children from one of Kenya's smallest and most isolated tribes put on life jackets and board a fishing boat for the journey across the lake to school. ... more 
Activists fear UN will run out of time on high-seas treatyUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 Environmental NGOs expressed concern Friday about the "slow going" at negotiations expected to produce a treaty to protect the high seas by the end of next week. ... more |
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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 Thailand begins cleanup after worst flooding in decade Sri Lanka deploys troops as floodwaters rise, death toll hits 69 |
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Zelensky calls on UN to 'ensure security' of nuclear plantLviv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on the United Nations to ensure security at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, where increased fighting has raised fears of a nuclear incident. ... more  
Launch Schedule for 3rd StriX-1 SAR satelliteTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytic solutions provider, reports that the official launch schedule of StriX-1, the company's third SAR satellite. StriX-1 has a launch window sta ... more 
The Lacuna Space water monitoring systemCamarillo CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with New Zealand's IoT Ven ... more 
UK's largest water provider calls for hose bansLondon (AFP) Aug 17, 2022 Britain's largest water provider on Wednesday became the latest UK supplier to announce restrictions on usage as swathes of England grapple with a punishing drought. ... more |
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Oil majors' climate visions 'inconsistent' with Paris targetsParis (AFP) Aug 16, 2022 Global decarbonisation scenarios envisioned by oil and gas majors are incompatible with the Paris climate deal temperature goals aimed at averting devastating heating, according to research published Tuesday. ... more 
DR Congo anti-fuel campaigners face post-auction 'threats'Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 Environmental campaigners in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said they had faced threats due to their opposition to last month's auction of 30 oil and gas blocks. ... more  
Ivory Coast's 'Pearl of Lagoons' loses its lustreAbidjan (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 It was once a jewel of West Africa - the "Pearl of Lagoons," people liked to call it. ... more  
Scientists say they have found low-cost way to destroy cancer-causing 'forever chemicals'Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2021 Scientists say they have found a way to eliminate, for the first time, cancer causing "forever chemicals" in everyday items like food packaging, non-stick frying pans, and women's makeup. ... more |
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Germany, Poland say toxic algae found after fish deathsBerlin (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 Toxic algae has been found in samples from the Oder river, where huge masses of dead fish have sparked concerns of an environmental disaster, Poland and Germany said on Monday. ... more  
Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands of belugasChurchill, Canada (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Half a dozen beluga whales dive and reemerge around tourist paddle boards in Canada's Hudson Bay, a handful of about 55,000 of the creatures that migrate from the Arctic to the bay's more temperate waters each summer. ... more  
Typhoon approaches Hong Kong, Macau and southern ChinaHong Kong (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 A powerful typhoon was approaching southern China on Wednesday evening, prompting Hong Kong to issue its third highest storm warning as neighbouring Macau and other nearby coastal cities prepared for the prospect of a direct hit. ... more 
Five pilgrims killed in landslide at Iraq Muslim shrineKarbala, Iraq (AFP) Aug 21, 2022 Rescue workers searched through the rubble of a Shiite Muslim shrine in central Iraq into Sunday night, after a landslide killed at least five people including a child. ... more  
Iraqi leaders, bar Sadr, agree to work on political roadmapBaghdad (AFP) Aug 17, 2022 Iraq's main political leaders - but not firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr - agreed Wednesday to work on a roadmap aimed at ending the country's political impasse, after talks called by the premier. ... more |
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 Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 18, 2022  Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Thursday of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine during his first face-to-face talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia's invasion began, echoing pleas from the UN's chief.
A flare up in fighting around Europe's largest nuclear facility in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine has sparked urgent warnings from world leaders and UN chief Antonio Gu ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into something a little closer to home: water.
Specifically, the space station's microgravity environment illuminated the ways that water droplets oscillate and spread across solid surfaces - knowledge that ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 24, 2022 
Water levels on the Rhine River, Europe's second-largest river, have continued to drop owing to soaring temperatures and lack of rainfall, preventing many vessels from navigating through the waters at full capacity. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured part of the Rhine River near Cologne - showing the stark difference between August 2021 and August 2022.
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 
Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said Monday, following the first reconstruction of the country's ice loss in the 20th century.
Rapid glacier melt in the Alps and elsewhere, which scientists say is driven by climate change, has been increasingly closely monitored since the early 2000s. However, until now there has been little insight into how glaciers ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 
The number of people at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa has increased to 22 million, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday.
Years of insufficient rainfall across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have caused the worst drought in 40 years and conditions akin to famine in the hardest-hit areas, aid groups say.
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 22, 2022  A hiker swept away in flash floods and torrential rain was still missing Monday as a weekend of storms forced hundreds to evacuate in the latest weather disasters to hit national parks in the United States.
Heavy rains were also causing havoc in parts of Texas on Monday as forecasters predicted more precipitation throughout the southern part of the country for the rest of the week.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2022 
The Pentagon said Wednesday that US forces killed 13 fighters of the al-Shabaab militant group in an airstrike in Somalia.
The strike took place on August 14 near Teedaan in the central-southern part of the country while Shabaab fighters were attacking Somali National Army forces, the Pentagon's Africa Command said in a statement.
"US forces are authorized to conduct strikes in defense o ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2021 
The remains of dozens of medieval British Augustine friars discovered by the University of Cambridge were plagued with twice the parasitic intestinal worms of the general population at the time, according to a new study published Friday.
"It is striking that the friars had nearly double the infection rate of parasites spread by poor hygiene, compared with the general population," the Ca ... more |
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 London (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 
A drought was officially declared Friday in parts of Wales, days after several regions in England, following a lengthy period of dry weather without rain and record temperatures.
Areas affected include North Ceredigion, Teifi, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen, Swansea, Llanelli, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend.
Water companies in most of Wales have already imposed restrictions on water use, incl ... more |
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 Camarillo CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with New Zealand's IoT Ventures and global connectivity provider Lacuna Space.
IoT Ventures has used Semtech's LoRa devices to develop its Drought Early Warning System, a network of low-cost rainwater tank and rain monit ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2021 
Scientists now believe more than one asteroid could have impacted Earth, contributing to the extinction of dinosaurs, according to new research.
Researchers discovered evidence of an asteroid impact crater on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, outlined in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.
Named the Nadi Crater after a nearby underwater mountain or seamount, the site ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2022 
Chinese lithium hub Sichuan province will ration electricity supply to factories until Saturday, state media reported, as a heatwave sends power demands soaring and dries up reservoirs.
Temperatures in the province - home to nearly 84 million people - have hovered above 40-42 degrees Celsius (104-108 degrees Fahrenheit) since last week, according to data from China's Meteorological Adminis ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 15, 2022 
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed a new method to improve solid-state hydrogen fuel cell charging times.
Hydrogen is gaining significant attention as an efficient way to store 'green energy' from renewables such as wind and solar. Compressed gas is the most common form of hydrogen storage, however it can ... more |
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 London (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 
Warmer and wetter weather linked to climate change appears to stress out bumblebees and make their wings more asymmetrical, which could ultimately affect their future development, according to UK scientists in a new research paper.
"With hotter and wetter conditions predicted to place bumblebees under higher stress, the fact these conditions will become more frequent under climate change mea ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2022 
China on Tuesday announced a slew of perks aimed at encouraging families to have more babies, as birth rates hit a record low and officials warned that the population will start to shrink by 2025.
The world's most populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2022 
From space, parts of the Amazon rainforest that have previously been logged or burned may look fully recovered with a healthy, lush, and green canopy. They may seem to be places buzzing with activity and full of sounds. But inside the rainforest the animal life may tell a different story of damage to their environment through a quieter soundscape.
Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Fligh ... more |
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