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  Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 An accident at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant would impact not only Ukraine, but also its neighbours, the Ukrainian nuclear agency warned on Wednesday. The Zaporizhzhia power plant was occupied by Russian troops in March and has been shelled in recent weeks, with Ukraine and Russia blaming each other for the attacks. Damage to the active zone of the reactor would "have consequences not only in Ukraine, but also definitely beyond its borders" said head of the Ukrainian nucl ... read more |
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Many may already have 'starved to death' in Somalia: WHOGeneva (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 The World Health Organization said Wednesday that many were likely already starving to death in Somalia, warning that aid workers could not keep up with the surging needs. ... more  
The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 From the slime coating slugs to the saliva in our mouths, many slippery bodily fluids contain mucus. So how did this marvel of biology evolve? In mammals, the answer is many times, and often i ... more  
China earthquake death toll rises to 82Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 The death toll from a strong earthquake that struck southwest China rose to 82, state media reported Thursday, as rain and possible mudslides threatened the search for dozens of missing people. ... more  
Norway's future CO2 cemetery takes shapeOygarden, Norway (AFP) Sept 4, 2022 On the shores of an island off Norway's North Sea coast, engineers are building a burial ground for unwanted greenhouse gas. ... more |
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Trump voices shock at devastating scale of Texas flood damage
Mob lynches five alleged thieves in quake-hit Guatemalan town Trump in Texas to survey flood damage as scrutiny of response mounts Trump flies to flood-ravaged Texas as scrutiny of response mounts Trump to visit flood-ravaged Texas amid scrutiny Scrutiny over Texas flood response mounts as death toll hits 120 Belgium warned over 'tsunami' of packages from China Scrutiny over Texas flood response mounts as death toll tops 120 Fears grow that Texas floods death toll could surge Guatemala earthquakes leave four dead, houses damaged |
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Neolithic culinary traditions uncoveredBristol UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, we ... more  
Bolsonaro's Brazil: four 'dystopian' yearsRio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 In his first four years in office, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro kept true to his mission to "dismantle" the legacy of previous governments, analysts say, often with harmful fallout for Brazil. ... more  
Diamonds and rust at the Earth's core-mantle boundaryTempe AZ (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 Steel rusts by water and air on the Earth's surface. But what about deep inside the Earth's interior? The Earth's core is the largest carbon storage on Earth - roughly 90% is buried there. Sci ... more  
Australia, New Zealand exempt from Solomons naval banWellington (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 Australia and New Zealand are exempt from a ban on foreign naval visits to Solomon Islands, the country's prime minister said Monday as he flagged an end to the moratorium. ... more |
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The physics of walking is simpler than we thoughtSan Diego CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 The physics of walking for multi-legged animals and robots is simpler than previously thought. That is the finding described by a team of roboticists, physicists and biologists in the Sept. 5 issue ... more  
Living together: how two different species of dolphins coexist in AustraliaAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 New research by Flinders University scientists sheds new light on the reasons why two species of dolphins coexist in the northern Australian waters. Australian snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and ... more 
Global fish stocks can't rebuild if nothing done to halt climate change and overfishingVancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 Global fish stocks will not be able to recover to sustainable levels without strong actions to mitigate climate change, a new study has projected. Researchers at UBC, the Stanford Center for O ... more 
Noise affects life on the seafloorBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 Oceans have their own unique soundscape. Many marine organisms, for example, use sound for echolocation, navigation or communication with conspecifics. In recent decades, however, more and more soun ... more |
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Australia passes landmark climate change billSydney (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 Australia on Thursday passed its first major climate change bill in over a decade, codifying emissions targets and enshrining into its law for the first time a goal to reach net zero by 2050. ... more 
Fears of shelling, radiation on a Ukraine maternity wardZaporizhzhia, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 Three days after Russian troops invaded her country, Maryna found out she was pregnant. ... more  
China logs hottest August since records beganBeijing (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday, following an unusually intense summer heat wave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated blackouts. ... more 
In Liz Truss's seat, pride collides with UK's economic painSwaffham, United Kingdom (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 Liz Truss's victory in the Conservative party leadership contest prompted pride Monday in her parliamentary constituency in eastern England, but fears remain as Britain faces the worst economic woes in decades. ... more 
Iraq powers agree to work towards snap elections following unrestBaghdad (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 Iraq's top executive powers and major parties agreed Monday at a meeting boycotted by powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to work towards holding early elections, a week after deadly unrest, the prime minister's office said. ... more |
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 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
Three days after Russian troops invaded her country, Maryna found out she was pregnant.
Now the 30-year-old and her husband are stocking up on potassium iodide tablets in case of a radiation emergency from the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.
"We were planning a child, but...we did not know whether to be happy or not.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weather, a steel structure supports a 20,000-pound, 20-foot diameter satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna. The antenna - called the Multi-Band Test Terminal (MBTT) - can rotate 15 degrees per second, ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 
A snap ban on foreign military vessels docking in Solomon Islands is poised to be lifted, the Pacific nation's leader told parliament Monday.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said a review of the makeshift ban was "progressing very well. We do not expect the temporary moratorium to last for a long time".
Two weeks ago, US Coast Guard ship Oliver Henry opted to turn away from Honiara, cap ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Less than 500 miles from the North Pole, the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake is a unique freshwater lake that floats atop the Arctic Ocean, held in place only by a coating of ice. The lake is dominated by single-celled organisms, notably cyanobacteria, that are frequently infected by unusual "giant viruses." Investigators from Universite?Laval, Quebec, Canada have produced the first assessment of the ... more |
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 Negev, Israel (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
In Israel's Negev desert, winemakers are sharing their knowledge of growing vines in the blistering heat with European producers also facing fierce temperatures this summer.
Walking between rows of ripe grapes growing from the scorched land, David Pinto enthuses about how his vineyard has come of age in the past three years.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
The death toll from a strong earthquake that struck southwest China rose to 82, state media reported Thursday, as rain and possible mudslides threatened the search for dozens of missing people.
The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres on Monday, according to the US Geological Survey, forcing ... more |
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 Yaound� (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
Six people were killed in an attack on a bus in the troubled western region of Cameroon, the government said Wednesday, an area hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.
Government minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi said the attack on the bus was carried out by a group of "heavily-armed terrorists" on Tuesday in Fako in the English-speaking southwest of the country.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 
Researchers on Wednesday announced that they have found what appears to be the earliest known evidence of a surgical amputation, from a 31,000-year-old skeleton that was unearthed in Indonesia.
The skeleton was found in a remote cave in 2020 by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists.
The left leg of the skeleton shows what the scientists believe is the result of an am ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 6, 2022  The United Nations on Tuesday begged the international community not to forget Somalia, with the humanitarian affairs chief pleading for more aid as drought puts 200,000 people on the brink of famine.
Appearing in a video press conference from the capital Mogadishu, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths recalled the story of a two-year-old girl he met at a hospit ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
Albedo, a company developing low-flying satellites that will deliver ultra high resolution images, has announced a $48M Series A financing round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $58M in less than two years since inception.
Participation in the round included new investors Republic Capital, Giant Step Capital, and C16 Venture ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. A collaborative research team from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo may have provided some answers after discovering new types of microfossils dating 1.9 billion years.
Details of their findings were published in the journal Precambrian Research on August 19, 2022.
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
Hundreds of environmental groups called Wednesday for the issue of loss and damage finance to be on the formal agenda of the forthcoming COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt.
Developing nations have for years called for funding from rich polluters to help them reduce emissions while growing their economies and adapt to the impacts of global heating.
They argue that historic polluters also h ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), in collaboration with Malta Inc. has completed assembly and commissioning of the first-of-its-kind pumped heat (or thermal) energy storage (PTES) demonstration facility. Long-duration, large-scale storage capabilities, like PTES, can help balance energy volatility and reliability issues caused by high market penetration of variable renewable energy resources ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 06, 2022  From the slime coating slugs to the saliva in our mouths, many slippery bodily fluids contain mucus. So how did this marvel of biology evolve?
In mammals, the answer is many times, and often in a surprising way, according to a new study on proteins called mucins. These molecules have a variety of functions, but as a family, they are known as components of mucus, where they contribute to th ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
The head of Hong Kong's journalist union was arrested on Wednesday, just weeks before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.
Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested for allegedly obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct in a public place.
Channel C, the online news outlet Chan works for, said the veteran repor ... more |
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 Yangambi, Dr Congo (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
A tower bristling with sensors juts above the canopy in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, measuring carbon dioxide emitted from the world's second-largest tropical rainforest.
Spanning several countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin rainforest covers an immense area and is home to a dizzying array of species.
But there are growing concerns for the future of the forest, deemed ... more |
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