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  Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on nonfictional planet Earth, Borgs are DNA packages that could help humans fight climate change. Last year, a team led by Jill Banfield discovered DNA structures within a methane-consuming microbe called Methanoperedens that appear to supercharge the organism's metabolic rate. They named the genetic elements "Borgs" because the DNA within them contains genes a ... read more |
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Protecting very old trees can help mitigate climate changeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 Ancient trees-those that are many hundreds, or even thousands, of years old-play a vital role in biodiversity and ecosystem preservation by providing stability, strength, and protection to at-risk e ... more  
Scientists warn of a rare third-year La NinaBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean that affects the climate of much of the tropics a ... more  
National climate science satellite mission co-led by U of T secures more than $200MToronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 Scientists across Canada will be able to better predict and mitigate extreme weather events in the face of climate change thanks to a new satellite mission that's received more than $200 million in ... more  
Europe's all-new weather satellite arrives at launch siteParis (ESA) Oct 19, 2022 After a two-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the ship transporting the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite docked at Pariacabo in French Guiana and the precious cargo unloaded. Now safe ... 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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Pakistan vows IMF reforms as flood damage estimated at over $16 bnWashington (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. ... more  
Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising riskChurchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 20, 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  
Uganda Ebola epidemic death toll climbs to 44: WHOKampala (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 The death toll from an Ebola epidemic declared last month in Uganda has climbed to 44, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. ... more  
Hurricane Ian blows Swiss Re into lossZurich (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Swiss Re warned investors Tuesday that Hurricane Ian would push it into a third quarter loss of approximately half a billion dollars. ... more |
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German youths take climate case against govt to European courtBerlin (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Climate activists who won a landmark case against the German government last year are now taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights, an organisation representing them said on Tuesday. ... more  
Mountainous Lesotho finds gold in trout fish farmingLejone, Lesotho (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 It's harvest time in Lejone, a small village nestling in mountains in southern Africa more than two thousand metres above sea level. ... more 
Cranberry farmers fight climate change to protect Thanksgiving stapleTaunton, United States (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 American farmers growing cranberries, a quintessential component of Thanksgiving feasts, have had to adapt their traditional methods to fight the effects of climate change. ... more 
New landslide in Venezuela kills three peopleMaracay, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Intense rain in northern Venezuela caused a landslide that has killed at least three people, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday as he visited another site where over 50 died in similar circumstances last week. ... more |
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Climate protesters scale major UK bridgeLondon (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. ... more 
Climate change puts 1 bn children at 'extreme risk': watchdogThe Hague (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Some one billion children are at "extremely high risk" due to climate change harms, a rights group warned on Wednesday, adding that youths' living standards failed to improve in the last decade. ... more 
Flood-hit Chad declares state of emergencyN'Djamena (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 Chad's leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Wednesday declared a state of emergency as the country struggles to deal with exceptional flooding that has affected hundreds of thousands of lives. ... more 
Magma symphony could help predict volcanic eruptionsSydney (AFP) Oct 20, 2022 Inaudible sonic rumblings from deep in a volcano's bowels could provide a warning when it is about to blow, scientists said Thursday, offering threatened communities the prospect of a life-saving heads-up. ... more  
Some 250 health journals call for Africa climate helpParis (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 Richer countries must increase climate support for African nations as accelerating impacts of global warming sicken and kill hundreds of thousands every year across the continent, scores of scientific health journals warned Wednesday, ahead of UN negotiations next month. ... more |
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 San Clemente, Etats-Unis (AFP) Oct 16, 2022 
Steve Lang can see catastrophic erosion worsened by climate change happening in real time along one of the world's most scenic railroad lines, where the sea is swallowing homes, tracks and California's beautiful beaches.
"Every day I come here and watch this, and it makes me want to cry," the 68-year-old tells AFP on rail tracks he crosses to go surfing.
Powerful waves wash in from the P ... more |
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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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean that affects the climate of much of the tropics and subtropics. This natural phenomenon is important to study because of the socioeconomic impacts it can have on matters such as food security, agricultural production, human health and water resource ... more |
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 Churchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 20, 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.
It's mid-summer on the shores of Hudson Bay and life for the enormous male has been moving in slow motion, far from the prey that keeps him alive: seals.
This is a critical time for the region's polar bears.
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 Taunton, United States (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 
American farmers growing cranberries, a quintessential component of Thanksgiving feasts, have had to adapt their traditional methods to fight the effects of climate change.
The tart red berries, boiled with a heaping dose of sugar to make classic cranberry sauce, thrive only in the right environment - but climate change threatens to make conditions more unpredictable and extreme.
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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 20, 2022 
Inaudible sonic rumblings from deep in a volcano's bowels could provide a warning when it is about to blow, scientists said Thursday, offering threatened communities the prospect of a life-saving heads-up.
A team studying "infrasounds" - sounds too deep for humans to hear - from volcanoes like Italy's Mount Etna has discovered that magmatic gurgles change markedly as an eruption nears.
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2022  US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accused China on Friday of obstructing efforts to provide debt relief to African countries and other developing nations at IMF and World Bank talks in Washington.
Yellen took aim at Beijing at several events during the groups' annual meetings in the US capital this week.
At talks with European Union finance ministers, she said the situation of African c ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 
Just a year into her marriage, Manal became one of the tens of thousands of Iraqis every year who divorce in a deeply conservative nation where break-up rates have risen.
For Manal, like many other women, the reason was clear - her husband's financial dependence on his family's business meant that "he couldn't take any decisions of his own".
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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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 San 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 Acquisition (CSDA) Program through September 2023.
Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federally funded researchers under this program since 2018 and the company looks forward ... 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.
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 19, 2022  Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are expected to grow just one percent this year despite concerns that the energy crisis could lead countries to slow their transition to renewables, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
The IEA predicted CO2 emissions would stand at 33.8 billion tonnes in 2022, more than 300 million tonnes more than in 2021.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
Physicist Stefano Munaretto of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has received leadership roles in two DOE three-year awards. Both are designed to improve the models used to design and evaluate the performance of spherical tokamaks, compact fusion facilities that are being explored as possible designs for future fusion power plants. The researchers h ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on nonfictional planet Earth, Borgs are DNA packages that could help humans fight climate change.
Last year, a team led by Jill Banfield discovered DNA structures within a methane-consuming microbe called Methanoperedens that appear to supercharge the o ... more |
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 London (AFP) Oct 18, 2022  The UK's foreign office on Tuesday summoned a top Chinese diplomat in London over footage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester being assaulted in the grounds of a Chinese consulate in Britain.
China's Charge d'Affaires Yang Xiaoguang was summoned after Beijing earlier Tuesday accused demonstrators of "illegally entering" the consulate in the northern British city of Manchester.
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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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