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  Plymouth UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 Mechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments. However, a new study suggests that while they do remove plastics and other items of marine litter, the quantities of litter removed can be comparatively low and they can also trap marine organisms. The study was led by researchers from the International Marine Litter Research Unit at the University of Plymouth, who have been studying the issue of ma ... read more |
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Measuring methane from the air and monitoring infrastructure from spaceBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 The leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea have dominated the Measuring methane from the air and monitoring infrastructure from spaces in the last week. According t ... more 
Peru villagers accuse government of ignoring harm from miningMontevideo (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Andean villagers in Peru told an inter-American rights court on Wednesday about how their health has suffered for decades due to environmental damage caused by a mining company extracting heavy metals in their midst. ... more  
New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, fartsWellington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change. ... more  
Satellite Vu selected in inaugural Net Zero X cohortLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 Satellite Vu, the British Earth Observation company set to become the world's thermometer from space with its planned constellation of high-resolution thermal imaging satellites, has been selected i ... more |
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IMF approves $206 mn aid to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
Flights cancelled, roads flooded as rare storm soaks UAE Sri Lanka plans $1.6 bn in cyclone recovery spending in 2026 Brazil megacity Sao Paulo struck by fresh water crisis Indonesians reeling from flood devastation plea for global help Levee break near Seattle prompts evacuation order Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco town At least 20 dead in eastern Bolivia floods Press Release from Business Wire: Textron Inc. Flash floods kill 37 in Moroccan coastal town |
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To save California coasts, scientists turn to the humble oysterChula Vista, United States (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 There are no pearls growing on the oyster reefs in San Diego Bay, but scientists hope they will yield an even more valuable treasure: protection against coastal erosion wrought by rising sea levels. ... more 
Study finds half the world's coral reefs could be in 'unsuitable conditions' by 2035Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2021 Half the world's coral reefs could be facing "unsuitable conditions" by the year 2035 if climate change continues at its current pace, according to new research published on Tuesday. ... more  
Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising riskChurchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a dazzling sun, his white fur utterly useless as camouflage. ... more  
Hope fading in search for Venezuela landslide survivorsLas Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Hopes were fading Tuesday of finding alive any of 56 people missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town with 36 confirmed deaths to date. ... more |
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Ukraine's Zelensky urges UNESCO cultural protection for OdessaParis (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday officially requested that UNESCO add the historic port city of Odessa to its World Heritage List in a bid to protect it from Russian air strikes. ... more  
Nearly a million affected by South Sudan floods: UNNairobi (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes. ... more 
UK sends police, navy ship to crime-hit Caribbean territoryLondon (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 The UK government said Tuesday it had dispatched armed police and a Royal Navy support ship to its Caribbean territory of Turks and Caicos to quell surging "gang violence". ... more  
Chinese state media signals no end to zero-Covid curbsBeijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 China's state media on Wednesday signalled no let-up in its strict zero-Covid policy, publishing an editorial - the fourth this week ahead of the Communist Party Congress - vowing to never "lie flat" on virus controls. ... more |
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500 pilot whales dead after New Zealand mass strandingsWellington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 About 500 pilot whales have died in mass strandings on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, the government said Tuesday after ruling out a rescue effort in the area's shark-filled waters. ... more  
I.Coast president sees progress in Mali troop spatAbidjan (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Friday hinted at a possible breakthrough in a bitter dispute with Mali, which has held 46 Ivorian soldiers for three months and branded them mercenaries. ... more  
Malala visits Pakistan on 10th anniversary of Taliban shootingKarachi (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday returned to her native Pakistan to meet flood victims, 10 years after a Taliban assassination attempt against her. ... more  
Parliament in crisis-hit Iraq vows to elect new presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Iraq's parliament will meet Thursday to "elect the president", speaker Mohammed al-Halbussi's office said, in a surprise move seen as trying to end months of political impasse. ... more  
UN 'alarmed' by sentencing of minors under Hong Kong security lawGeneva (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 The United Nations said Tuesday it was "alarmed" by the sentencing of four minors and an adult under Hong Kong's national security law. ... more |
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 Las Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Thousands of rescuers and residents were engaged in an increasingly desperate search through thick mud Wednesday for 56 people still missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town, killing dozens.
At the last official count, 43 bodies had been found after disaster struck Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people nestled in the mountains about 50 kilometers (30 miles) ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 
SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data relay from any orbit, any time, announced it was awarded a contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to study how commercial optical ground terminals will integrate into the Near Space Network. The funded study includes a demonstration of end-to-end transport of multi-source data at the SpaceLink gateway in the Mojave Desert.
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
The Salton Sea, California's most polluted inland lake, has lost a third of its water in the last 25 years. New research has determined a decline in Colorado River flow is the reason for that shrinking.
As the lake dries up, the concentration of salt and chemicals in the remaining water has increased dramatically, causing a mass die-off of fish and birds, including endangered species. The ... more |
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 Churchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
Sled dog breeder David Daley lives at the gateway to the Canadian Arctic, occupying a front-row seat to the march of global warming, and he senses calamity ahead.
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says.
Daley's hometown of Churchill is an isolated settlement at the edge of the Hudson Bay where gl ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the levy would be the first of its kind in the world.
Gases naturally emitted by New Zealand's 6.2 million cows are among the country's biggest environmental problems.
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 Athens (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
A team of scientists will in December use a drill ship to trace the geological history of the southern Aegean, including the volcanic eruption that reshaped the Greek island of Santorini, a mission member said Wednesday.
"It's the first time that an oceanographic mission of this scope is carried out in Greece," Olga Koukousioura, a micropalaeontology researcher at Aristotle University of The ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 
Mali's army announced Saturday it had opened an investigation into the alleged killing of 53 villagers in the centre of the country, while at the same time denouncing "disinformation".
The announcement follows media reports in September of abuses by Malian troops and the mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group reportedly working with them.
The probe had been opened "to confirm or deny rep ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2021 
A Swedish scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking research that proved modern humans once procreated with ancient Neanderthals.
Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, received the award for sequencing the ancient genome of the human-like species that went extinct about ... more |
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 Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
Some 1,200 Iraqi families have been forced out of southern marshes and farmlands over the past six months, a local official told AFP, as drought ravages swathes of the country.
The Mesopotamian Marshes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been battered by low rainfall and reduced flows in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to dams built upstream in Turkey and Iran.
Oil-rich Iraq, battere ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
The development of Europe's second generation polar-orbiting weather satellites has reached another decisive milestone with the installation of the Ice Cloud Imager Instrument (ICI) onto the MetOp-SG-B satellite. The novel sensor has now been successfully integrated at Airbus' Satellite Integration Centre in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ICI is one of the five instruments on board this next generati ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to "fill some of the key gaps" on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday.
Two fossil deposits of ancient fish in Guizhou, southern China, and Chongqing in the southwest were discovered by scientists during a field study in 2019.
The fossils "help to trace many human body structures back to ancient fishes, some 44 ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, suggesting the Ukraine conflict's ripple effects could speed up the green transition.
Not only is the energy sector a major source of the carbon emissions that drive climate change, it is also increasingly vulnerable to the shifts that come with a heating pla ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
NASA researchers are making progress with developing an innovative battery pack that is lighter, safer, and performs better than batteries commonly used in vehicles and large electronics today.
Their work - part of NASA's commitment to sustainable aviation - seeks to improve battery technology through investigating the use of solid-state batteries for aviation applications such as electric ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment released Thursday that highlights "devastating" losses to nature due to human activity.
Featuring data from 32,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, the WWF Living Planet Index shows accelerating falls ac ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 
Xi Jinping's China has dragged millions out of extreme poverty, sent spacecraft to the Moon and committed itself to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
On the brink of securing a third term, the president can boast of several achievements in his first 10 years in power, though some do come with caveats.
Here AFP looks at some of the key advances made under Xi:
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 7, 2022  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke the monthly record for September, according to official figures released Friday, triggering calls from environmentalists to vote far-right President Jair Bolsonaro out of office later this month.
In the latest worrying news on the rainforest, satellite monitoring showed 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of forest cover was destroyed in the ... more |
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