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  London, UK (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 Collective groundwater pumping by millions of farmers in Bangladesh in the dry season each year has created vast natural reservoirs underground that, over a 30-year-period, rival the world's largest dams - these sustain irrigation that has transformed this previously famine-prone country to a food-secure nation, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. Published in Science, the study explores the combined impact of 16 million smallholder farmers pumping shallow groundwater during the dry s ... read more |
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Leading scientists develop space tech platform to track carbon in every treePasadena CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 Non-profit CTrees is launching the first ever digital platform for calculating the carbon in every tree on the planet, with complete accuracy. Launching at COP27, the new platform offers high-accura ... more  
Foundation model improves accuracy for remote sensing image interpretationBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy ... more  
Scientists chart 45 million years of Antarctic temperature changeBirmingham UK (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 Molecular fossils and machine learning have enabled scientists to build the first charts of Antarctic ocean temperatures over the past 45 million years, offering important insights into future sea l ... more  
Kerry urges rich-poor unity on climate effort ahead of UN talksDakar (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 US climate envoy John Kerry on Thursday urged African countries to help overcome divisions between rich and poor nations at the upcoming UN COP27 talks. ... 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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Plastic garbage covers Central American rivers, lakes and beachesPotonico, El Salvador (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador. ... more 
New UNICEF ambassador seeks to give louder voice to climate change victimsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation. The next day she learned that one of the boys she met had died. ... more  
Ocean lidar remote sensing technology based on Brillouin scattering spectrumWuhan, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 The monitoring of marine environmental information is of great significance to the development of marine science, the maintenance of marine rights and interests, the development of marine resources ... more  
Spanish islanders struggle one year after volcanic eruptionLos Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 "Our plan now is... there are no plans," said a tearful Leticia Sanchez Garcia, a year after her house was buried under lava from a volcano that erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma. ... more |
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Climate-fueled hunger more than doubles in worst-hit countries; As prices soarWashington (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 From record droughts to catastrophic floods, the world's worst climate hotspots are seeing a surge in acute hunger, according to an Oxfam report that called on rich nations to drastically cut their emissions and compensate low-income countries. ... more 
134 dead, scores of homes wiped out in Sudan seasonal floodsKhartoum (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 Flooding in Sudan has killed at least 134 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in the northeast African country's ongoing wet season, police said on Thursday. ... more  
Italy storms kill 10 sparking pre-vote climate change debateRome (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 At least 10 people died and four were missing after violent storms lashed central Italy, reports said Friday, pushing the issue of climate change up the agenda the week before elections. ... more  
'A matter of honour': Women forced to stay in flooded Pakistan villageBasti Ahmad Din, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 The 400 residents of Basti Ahmad Din, a tiny Pakistani village left surrounded by floodwater after torrential monsoon rains, are facing starvation and disease. ... more |
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'Like a new planet': Volcano draws visitors to Spanish isleLa Palma Island, Spain (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 When the volcano erupted in La Palma last year, Teodoro Gonzalez Perez rushed to the Spanish island to see the lava flows with his own eyes - now he's back for another look. ... more 
Typhoon Muifa lashes eastern China, forcing 1.6 million from their homesShanghai (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 High winds and heavy rain lashed China's densely populated east coast on Friday, after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes and grounded most flights at Shanghai's main airports. ... more 
Fire engulfs skyscraper in China's Changsha cityBeijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 A fire engulfed a skyscraper Friday in the central Chinese city of Changsha, with authorities saying that no casualties had yet been found. ... more  
Niger army kills 7 suspected 'terrorists': ministryNiamey (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 Seven suspected "terrorists" have been killed and some 30 accomplices of the Boko Haram jihadist group arrested over the past two weeks in southeastern Niger, the defence ministry said Thursday. ... more 
Bin-opening cockatoos enter 'arms race' with humansSydney (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 Australia's crafty, sulphur-crested cockatoos appear to have entered an "innovation arms race" with humans, scientists say, as the two species spar over the rubbish in roadside bins. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 13, 2021 
Scientists in Japan and Italy published a paper analyzing the optimal method to soothe a crying infant.
The findings were published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, and found parents who pick up their crying baby, gently walk around with them for 5 minutes, and then sit down and hold them for 5 to 8 minutes before laying them back down again, had the most success.
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 
Vestigo Aerospace, a space technology company focused on deorbit systems, has closed a seed funding round with an investment of $375,000 from Manhattan West, a Los Angeles-based strategic investment firm. NASA will provide a 1:1 match of Manhattan West's investment through a Small Business Innovative Research Phase II-Extended (SBIR Phase II-E) contract.
The seed funding and the matching N ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 
Several people were feared dead after a mine dam burst and sparked flooding that swept away houses and cars in central South Africa, officials said on Sunday.
Television footage showed a river of mud and water flowing away from the disused diamond mine and into a nearby residential area.
It covered roads and swept houses away in Jagersfontein, a town about 100 kilometres (62 miles) south ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 
Molecular fossils and machine learning have enabled scientists to build the first charts of Antarctic ocean temperatures over the past 45 million years, offering important insights into future sea level changes.
The team, led by scientists from Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) and Birmingham (UK) say their results suggest we are nearing a 'tipping point' where ocean warming caused by ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2022  From record droughts to catastrophic floods, the world's worst climate hotspots are seeing a surge in acute hunger, according to an Oxfam report that called on rich nations to drastically cut their emissions and compensate low-income countries.
The analysis, "Hunger in a heating world," found that acute hunger had risen 123 percent over six years in the ten most-affected nations, defined by ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 14, 2022  Floods could hit the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine after a Russian strike damaged infrastructure causing the Inhulets River to flood, the Ukrainian presidency warned Wednesday.
"At the point of impact, we have observed a water flow of 100 cubic metres per second, which is a large volume," said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office.
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 
President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday approved most military aid to Egypt for a second straight year despite concerns on human rights, pointing to limited progress, officials said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken finalized a package of $1.17 billion for Egypt, which has been one of the largest recipients of US assistance since it became the first Arab nation to normalize relati ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Sep 15, 2022 
Over a decade after the role of pyramidal neurons in mental representations of space and location was discovered, a group of Brazilian and American researchers has made an important contribution to scientists' understanding of the brain's navigation system by identifying a subtype of these neurons that can gauge speed with great precision.
"In experiments involving animals, we demonstrated ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 
The decarbonisation plans of some of the biggest corporations from G7 nations put Earth on course to heat a potentially catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius - blowing Earth well past the Paris Agreement temperature goals, analysis showed Tuesday.
As more and more firms announce their intention to become carbon neutral by mid-century at the latest, scrutinising corporate claims of green action i ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 15, 2022 
Since it was launched more than 12 years ago, ESA's CryoSat ice mission has dazzled by way of its sheer technological and scientific excellence. This superb Earth Explorer satellite has returned a wealth of information that has transformed our understanding of Earth's ice and how it is responding to climate change. In some circumstances, however, being dazzled isn't a good thing, particularly wh ... more |
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 Hanover NH (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 
Determining what killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period has long been the topic of debate, as scientists set out to determine what caused the five mass extinction events that reshaped life on planet Earth in a geological instant. Some scientists argue that comets or asteroids that crashed into Earth were the most likely agents of mass destruction, while oth ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 
Around 200 health organisations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose "a grave and escalating threat to human health".
A letter proposing the "fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty" said it could work similarly to the World Health Organization's Framework Conven ... more |
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 Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is largely involved in a new battery recycling project. LiBinfinity focuses on a holistic concept for recycling materials of lithium-ion batteries. A mechanico-hydrometallurgical process without energy-intensive process steps will be transferred from the lab to an industry-relevant scale.
KIT will then check whether the recycled materials are suited ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
Of all known planets, Earth is as friendly to life as any planet could possibly be - or is it? If Jupiter's orbit changes, a new study shows Earth could be more hospitable than it is today.
When a planet has a perfectly circular orbit around its star, the distance between the star and the planet never changes. Most planets, however, have "eccentric" orbits around their stars, meaning the o ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 
A huge green and purple communications tower in Sri Lanka financed with Chinese debt that has become a symbol of the ousted Rajapaksa clan's closeness to Beijing will finally open this week, its operator said Monday.
The 350-metre (1,155-feet) Lotus Tower - visible from all over Colombo and built for an estimated $113 million - has been plagued by corruption claims since construction began ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 
Indonesia and Norway signed a deal Monday to reward deforestation reduction months after the collapse of a similar $1-billion agreement that was part of a UN-backed global initiative criticised for its ineffectiveness.
Protecting trees is key to meeting climate goals but environmentalists blame Indonesia - home to the world's third-largest rainforest area - for a deforestation free-for-all ... more |
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