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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2022 NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission aboard the International Space Station has produced its first mineral maps, providing detailed images that show the composition of the surface in regions of northwest Nevada and Libya in the Sahara Desert. Windy desert areas such as these are the sources of fine dust particles that, when lifted by wind into the atmosphere, can heat or cool the surrounding air. But scientists haven't been able to assess whether mineral dust in th ... read more |
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Orion Space Solutions to develop EO processing system for NOAALouisville CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded Orion Space Solutions a grant to build a dynamic, seamless one-stop platform to process, analyze, and visualize Earth observati ... more 
NASA extends contract with Planet Labs granting access to EO data to 300,000 scientistsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, reports that NASA has exercised an option to extend its contract with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data ... more 
Viewing Earth from space at night: tracking our changing black marbleStorrs CT (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 When the sun goes down and lights go on - or not - a multitude of data can be gathered by satellite from the night sky, giving insights into the dynamic human activities happening at the surface. ... more  
It's Xi's party at China's historic 20th CongressBeijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2022 Rapturous applause greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping as he took the stage Sunday at the start of a carefully choreographed Communist Party Congress expected to confirm him as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. ... 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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Xi hails China's rise, demands unity at CongressBeijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2022 President Xi Jinping hailed China's rise as a global power and demanded unity around his leadership on Sunday, launching a Communist Party Congress that is set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term. ... more  
Learning about the first animals on Earth from life at the polesLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest according to new research. T ... more 
How fluctuating oxygen levels may have accelerated animal evolutionLeeds UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 Oxygen levels in the Earth's atmosphere are likely to have "fluctuated wildly" one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of early animal life, according ... more 
Back to the future of photosynthesisMarburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 The central biocatalyst in photosynthesis, Rubisco, is the most abundant enzyme on earth. By reconstructing billion-year-old enzymes, a team of Max Planck researchers has deciphered one of the key a ... more |
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Staying on top of the roof of the worldBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 As the highest region on Earth, the Tibetan Plateau engenders the most intriguing myths of Earth system science, provides the most water resources for human survival, and creates the most uncertain ... more 
International collaboration uses auroras to reveal a new factor that damages the ozone layerNagoya, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 To assess damage caused to the ozone layer by charged particles in space that surround the Earth, an international team of researchers from Japan, the United States, and Canada studied a type of aur ... more 
Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first timeParis (ESA) Oct 17, 2022 Certain estimates of Antarctica's total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability. In a new p ... more 
Chinese satellite in-flight calibration research approved by World Meteorological OrganizationBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported in its GSICS Quarterly Newsletter (Volume 16, No. 2, 2022) the research of the in-flight radiometric calibration of Chinese wide field ... more |
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The entire planet's ecosystems classified for the first time: studySydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world's ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and sea ... more  
Treemetrics signs 1.2M euro contract with ESACork, Ireland (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 Treemetrics, a global leader in forestry management software, has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) valued at euro 1.2 million. Under the two-year contract, Treemetrics will be ... more  
UK climate activists in court over Van Gogh protestLondon (AFP) Oct 15, 2022 Two environmental protesters appeared in a UK court Saturday after throwing tomato soup over one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings at London's National Gallery. ... more  
Africa sees 'most challenging' environment in years: IMFWashington (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 Sub-Saharan Africa faces its "most challenging environment in years," with the region's pandemic recovery disrupted by surging inflation, rising interest rates and a global slowdown, the IMF said Friday. ... more 
Mali's army launches probe into alleged killings of civiliansBamako (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". ... more |
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 Las Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
"We love you princess," reads the inscription on the fresh grave of a three-year-old girl among dozens of people killed by a devastating landslide in a Venezuelan town last week.
Gravediggers have had their hands full at the cemetery of Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people laid to waste by a torrent of mud, stones and trees that followed hours of heavy rains.
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
Satellites are increasingly becoming network nodes of the internet. Terrestrial nodes are integrated via fibre optic networks, and satellites can only keep up with current developments on the ground if they are also optically networked. European Commission programmes such as the 'Secure Connectivity Initiative' depend on this technology, as do many commercial networks such as Starlink or Oneweb, ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2022 
When the research vessel Bold Horizon sailed from Newport, Oregon, in early October, it joined a small armada of planes, drones, and other high-tech craft chasing the ocean's shapeshifting physics.
NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) is converging on a patch of sea 110 nautical miles off the coast of San Francisco. Over the course of 28 days, the team will deploy a new ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
As the highest region on Earth, the Tibetan Plateau engenders the most intriguing myths of Earth system science, provides the most water resources for human survival, and creates the most uncertain legacy for future generations.
The region's extreme environment kept researchers from probing its wealth of knowledge until the 1970s, when the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) made the first s ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
A lack of rainfall in the central United States has brought the mighty Mississippi River to its lowest depth in years, causing headaches for shippers and squeezing farmers who rely on the busy waterway to take their product to the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the river's depth at shipping hub Memphis, Tennessee, is at its lowest level since 2011.
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2022 
Pakistan's finance minister has promised international lenders to stay true to economic reforms despite a new estimate that his country quickly needs more than $16 billion to recover from devastating floods.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also said that a flood donors' conference promised by French President Emmanuel Macron would take place next month which he hoped would help Pakistan both with ... more |
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 Bunia, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 15, 2022  Six people, including two army colonels, were condemned to death by a DR Congo military court on Friday for the murder of two Chinese mine workers.
Four other military personnel were sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Ituri Military Court.
All but one of those receiving the death sentence were members of the military.
The two colonels are accused of planning an attack on a convoy ... more |
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 Faida, Iraq (AFP) Oct 16, 2022 
Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological park" of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, including showing kings praying to the gods.
The 13 stunning monumental rock-carved bas-reliefs were cut into the walls of an irrigation canal that stretches for some 10 kilometres (six miles) at Faida in northern Iraq.
The panels, measuring five metres (16 ... more |
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 London (AFP) Oct 17, 2022 
Two UK climate protesters scaled a major road bridge over the River Thames on Monday causing huge traffic delays, days after activists threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" masterpiece.
The Just Stop Oil protesters climbed more than 80 metres (260 feet) up one of the towers of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which is used by an estimated 160,000 vehicles a day and links up to ... more |
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 London, 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 in Tech Nation's inaugural Net Zero X cohort.
The Net Zero X programme focuses on scaling and growth of the later-stage climate technology scaleups within its cohort. The six-month programme, in ... more |
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 Marburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
The central biocatalyst in photosynthesis, Rubisco, is the most abundant enzyme on earth. By reconstructing billion-year-old enzymes, a team of Max Planck researchers has deciphered one of the key adaptations of early photosynthesis. Their results not only provide insights into the evolution of modern photosynthesis but also offer new impulses for improving it.
Present day life fully depen ... 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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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world's ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and seas. The ecosystem typology will enable more coordinated and effective biodiversity conservation, critical for human wellbeing.
The extensive collaboration includes the International Union for Con ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Intercontinental missiles, disinfection robots and a piece of the Moon - China's Communist Party on Wednesday flaunted the fruits of its decade under President Xi Jinping ahead of a key meeting expected to extend his rule.
Thousands of people thronged an exhibition in Beijing celebrating Xi's "New Era" just days before a Party Congress at which the country's political elite are expected to ... more |
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 Conakry (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
Loggers in Guinea have been authorised to resume work after a year-long government ban to slow felling in the biodiverse country where deforestation is widespread.
Tree felling will be restricted to local use and the export of timber remain banned, the council of ministers said in a statement issued Thursday night.
The Environment Ministry had banned both the cutting and transport of wo ... more |
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