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  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 At this year's DLR Design Challenge, the jury at the German Aerospace Center awarded first place to the INFERNO concept by students from the University of Stuttgart. The Technical University of Dresden followed in second place with PEL-E-FAN-T, while RWTH Aachen came in third with its FireWasp concept. The risk of forest fires is increasing all over the world as a result of climate change. The task of this year's DLR Design Challenge addressed this topic and called for a whole-system approach. The ... read more |
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Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on recordChongqing, China (AFP) Aug 25, 2022 A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has spread across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau, according to official data released ahead of more searing temperatures on Thursday. ... more  
Using seismology for groundwater managementBoston MA (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 As climate change increases the number of extreme weather events, such as megadroughts, groundwater management is key for sustaining water supply. But current groundwater monitoring tools are either ... more 
Rhine river runs dryParis (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 ... more  
Chad floods affect 340,000 people in two months: UNN'Djamena (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Torrential rains have caused 340,000 people to lose property or flee their homes in Chad in almost two months since late June, the United Nations said Wednesday. ... more |
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Spain taming fire that belched smoke cloud over Madrid
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India Giant cloud of forest fire smoke smothers Madrid 7.3-magnitude quake strikes off Alaska, tsunami warning issued: USGS Two dead in New Jersey as soaked US northeast braces for more rain Soaked US northeast braces for more downpours after flash floods Waterlogged US northeast braces for more rain after flash floods Heavy rain prompts flash flood warnings across US northeast Drought-hit Serbian raspberry farmers fear 'catastrophic' future Magnitude 6.7 quake hits offshore eastern Indonesia: USGS |
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Living LEGOsBoston MA (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 LEGO blocks can be manually attached to each other in certain prescribed ways to create complex structures. What if we could engineer living LEGO-like structures that can self-replicate and move aro ... more  
Heatwave triggers 'false autumn' in UKLondon (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed their leaves early. ... more  
MariaDB reimagines how databases deliver geospatial capabilities with acquisitionHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilit ... more  
Winter, over at the South Pole for 2022Concordia, South Pole (ESA) Aug 25, 2022 The 12-member crew of Concordia research station woke up to a most welcome sight in early August: sunrise, after four months of Antarctic darkness. The return of the sun is a major milestone f ... more |
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Climate change causes wonky bumblebee wings: scientistsLondon (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. ... more 
Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in southern IraqAl-Aghawat, Iraq (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq, surviving on sporadic tanker-truck deliveries and salty wells. ... more  
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, promising Wednesday fresh steps to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record. ... more 
Drought blamed for dozens of cow poisoning deaths in ItalySommariva Del Bosco, Italy (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 An Italian farm became an open-air morgue earlier this month after around 50 cows were poisoned by young sorghum plants, an accident experts blame on drought. ... more |
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Flood toll tops 800 in Pakistan's 'catastrophe of epic scale'Islamabad (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Record monsoon rains were causing a "catastrophe of epic scale", Pakistan's climate change minister said Wednesday, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June. ... more 
Portugal: more than 100,000 hectares destroyed in forest firesLisbon (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Forest fires in Portugal have consumed more than 104,000 hectares (257,000 acres) of land this year, an official estimate said Wednesday, the biggest destruction for five years as the country battles exceptional heatwaves. ... more  
Court suspends Thai PM Prayut from officeBangkok (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha from office while it considers a legal challenge that could see him thrown out months before an expected general election. ... more  
China probes state property firm execs for 'serious violations'Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 China has announced it is investigating several executives at state-owned property companies, in another blow to a key sector already struggling with slowing sales, angry customers and heavily indebted developers. ... more 
Malaysia's Najib Razak: from PM to prisonPutrajaya, Malaysia (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 The son of one of Malaysia's founding fathers, Najib Razak was groomed for the prime minister's post from a young age. ... 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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 Logan UT (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 
Numerous software tools are typically required throughout a space mission; from the mission conceptualization and satellite design, to testing the hardware, to running operations. Still today, this technology stack consists of independent systems that don't talk to each other, requiring manual movement of data, limiting automation and forcing engineering teams to work with different data sets. ... more |
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 El 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.
Until recently, they could walk the distance. A road connected the El Molo with the world beyond their tiny village, a lifeline for a secluded community of fishers and craftspeople subsisting on the shores of Lake Turkana.
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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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 Chongqing, 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.
The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer - phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to cl ... more |
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 Islamabad (AFP) Aug 24, 2022  Record monsoon rains were causing a "catastrophe of epic scale", Pakistan's climate change minister said Wednesday, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June.
The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of destr ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 
Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, shattering a five-month truce and dealing a blow to peace talks.
Within hours, reports of fresh offensives were followed by Ethiopia's air force announcing it had downed a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that encroached on the country's airspace via neighb ... 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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 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 ... more |
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 Tokyo, 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 starting from mid-September (UTC). Exact lift-off target date and time will be confirmed soon.
Please note that the launch may be postponed or canceled due to unforeseen weather conditions or compl ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 
A drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that lived some 113 million years ago, an official said Tuesday.
Photos posted on Facebook show three-toed footprints leading down a dry tree-lined riverbed in the southern US state. It is "one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world," a caption accompanying the images s ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
A 2021 study in the journal Nature found that in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change, most of the world's known fossil fuel reserves must remain untapped. According to the study, 90 percent of coal and nearly 60 percent of oil and natural gas must be kept in the ground in order to maintain a 50 percent chance that global warming will not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustr ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
There's still plenty of room at the bottom to generate piezoelectricity. Engineers at Rice University and their colleagues are showing the way. A new study describes the discovery of piezoelectricity - the phenomenon by which mechanical energy turns into electrical energy - across phase boundaries of two-dimensional materials.
The work led by Rice materials scientists Pulickel Ajayan and H ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 23, 2021 
Dozens of tree species in the United States are facing extinction from invasive insects and disease caused by climate change stresses that include drought, wildfires and extreme weather, according to a new report.
As many as 100 native tree species, including 17 species of oaks, 29 species of hawthorns, redwoods, American chestnuts, black ash, and white bark pine, in the lower 48 states ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 
China has announced it is investigating several executives at state-owned property companies, in another blow to a key sector already struggling with slowing sales, angry customers and heavily indebted developers.
Authorities said in separate notices on Tuesday that they were investigating Zhuang Yuekai, chairman of C&D Real Estate, and Shi Zhen, chairman of C&D Urban Services.
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 London (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 
Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed their leaves early.
Instead of green, many gardens, parks and woods are now a sea of orange, yellow, red and brown, with thick carpets of leaves on the ground.
The early leaf fall - dubbed a "false autumn" - is a sign of stress, as trees shed th ... more |
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