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  Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger and poverty. Climate change is already playing a role, as floods, droughts and heatwaves batter harvests from Europe to Asia and threaten famine in the Horn of Africa. And experts warn this could be just the beginning. "If we don't act now, this is just a sample of what may happen in the coming years," said Mamadou Goita, an expert with sustainability group IPES- ... read more |
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Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers' livelihoodsJacobabad, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 Generations of Rahim Buksh's ancestors have laboured in the rice paddies and wheat fields surrounding Pakistan's hottest city, no strangers to intense summers or monsoon rains. ... more  
Europe's bees stung by climate, pesticides and parasitesQuimper, France (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 Bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of food worldwide. They also pollinate wild plants, helping sustain biodiversity and the beauty of the natural world. ... more  
For blight-ridden American chestnut tree, rebirth may be in offingMeadowview, United States (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 The American chestnut tree, once a regal pillar of forests across the eastern United States, is on life support, struggling to survive. ... more  
Iraq drought impacts potable water supply, crop yields: aid groupBaghdad (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday. ... 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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'Extremely rare' Charles Darwin manuscript expected to sell for up to $800K at auctionWashington DC (UPI) Oct 23, 2021 A manuscript by Charles Darwin is expected to sell for up to $800,000 next month and has been described by the Sotheby's auction house as "extremely rare." ... more 
Brazilian suspect in murder of British journalist, Amazon expert, granted house arrestBras�lia (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 A Brazilian judge has allowed one of the suspects in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to be released on bail to house arrest, local media said Monday. ... more 
Vietnam's 'wave of repression' threatens climate goals: rights groupsHanoi (AFP) Oct 21, 2022 A "new wave of repression" in Vietnam is jeopardising progress in tackling climate change, human rights groups told UN chief Antonio Guterres Friday as he began a visit to Hanoi. ... more  
Post-Diwali Delhi wakes to toxic firecracker smogNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 New Delhi woke to toxic smog on Tuesday after Diwali revellers defied a firecracker ban and risked jail to celebrate the annual Hindu festival. ... more |
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Climate activists smear UK king's wax figure with cakeLondon (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 Climate activists on Monday smeared chocolate cake over a waxwork model of Britain's King Charles III at London's Madame Tussauds museum. ... more  
Aid slowly reaches Nigerian flood victimsAhoada, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 Along a highway engulfed by dark waters, Nigeria residents load dozens of boats full of food to bring assistance to the victims of the country's worst floods in a decade. ... more 
16 dead, million seek shelter as cyclone hits BangladeshKuakata, Bangladesh (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 At least 16 people died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people from their homes, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Tanzanian firefighters battle blaze on Mount KilimanjaroDar Es Salaam (AFP) Oct 22, 2022 More than 300 people have been mobilised to tackle a blaze on the slopes of Tanzania's famous Mount Kilimanjaro, local officials said Saturday, with police and local people helping firefighters. ... more |
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Sudan names new military chief for conflict-hit Blue NileKhartoum (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 Sudan on Monday named a new military commander for troubled Blue Nile state, where recent bitter ethnic clashes over land have left at least 200 people dead and sparked angry demonstrations. ... more  
It's a man's world: no more women leaders in China's Communist PartyBeijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 The Communist Party Congress has laid bare the striking gender imbalance in the upper echelons of Chinese politics, with not a single woman making the 24-person Politburo for the first time in at least a quarter of a century. ... more 
Hong Kong court convicts media tycoon Lai of fraud over lease violationHong Kong (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was convicted on a fraud charge Tuesday, the latest in a slew of cases against the former owner of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. ... more 
Ugandan ivory trafficker gets life term in landmark rulingKampala (AFP) Oct 22, 2022 A Ugandan court has sentenced an ivory trafficker to life in prison in a landmark ruling hailed by the country's wildlife authority. ... more 
France concerned by US climate bill but doesn't want 'war'Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2022 France's foreign minister voiced alarm Friday over a massive US climate spending package, saying it risked unfair competition, but said Europe did not want a green trade war. ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that rebuilding Ukraine was a "generational task" that must start immediately, even as Russia's invasion rages on.
Scholz as current head of the G7 club of wealthy nations said Ukraine could count on the support of the international community for decades to come as it seeks to repair and upgrade essential infrastructure.
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 
Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today unveiled the latest iteration of its first-of-its-kind proprietary manufacturing platform, Stargate 4th Generation metal 3D printers. These printers will underpin both the development and rate production of Terran R, Relativity's fully reusable, 3D printed rocket that will be capab ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than 10 years of monitoring the Great Barrier Reef, University of Sydney geoscientists have developed a technique that allows them to answer these questions using satellites. And it all relies on sand aprons.
It turns out that sand aprons, deposits of sand along the shore of a lagoon that are ubiquitous ... more |
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 Hokkaido, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 
lScientists have uncovered new details of how ice forming below the ocean surface in Antarctica provides cold dense water that sinks to the seabed in an important aspect of global water circulation.
The results, published in the journal Science Advances, come from a team at the Hokkaido University's Institute of Low Temperature Science, its Arctic Research Center, and the Faculty of Fisher ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 
Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger and poverty.
Climate change is already playing a role, as floods, droughts and heatwaves batter harvests from Europe to Asia and threaten famine in the Horn of Africa.
And experts warn this could be just the beginning.
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 Ahoada, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 22, 2022  It was pitch black when the waters came, forcing mother Fortune Lawrence and her eight children to jump on a makeshift boat and flee their house.
For the past two weeks, they have been living in dire conditions near Ahoada, in Rivers state, in a school now crowded with more than a thousand people displaced by Nigeria's worst floods in a decade.
"I was afraid to die in the water," said La ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) Oct 24, 2022 
Sudan on Monday named a new military commander for troubled Blue Nile state, where recent bitter ethnic clashes over land have left at least 200 people dead and sparked angry demonstrations.
The new chief comes a day after eyewitnesses reported that crowds of thousands protested in front of army headquarters in the state capital Damazin, accusing the government of failing to protect them, wi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 20, 2021 
Scientists say fossils found in Russian caves are from the first known Neanderthal family - a father-daughter pair and other close relatives who lived as a clan.
The remains were found in two sites - Chagyrskaya and Okladnikov caves - in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, according to research published in the journal Nature.
The researchers said Neanderthal occupation d ... more |
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 London (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 
A British watchdog Wednesday hit out at HSBC for adverts promoting its green initiatives that failed to highlight the bank's contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
The Advertising Standards Authority said in a statement that it had banned further use of HSBC posters that appeared a year ago ahead of the COP26 climate summit hosted by Britain.
ASA found that "despite the initiatives h ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL)reports the launch of its Nonprofit Program, an offering that provides access to Planet imagery and support services specifically for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOS).
In line with Planet's mission to use space to help life on Earth and in effort to enable more impactful uses of Planet's data, the offering addresses two traditional challenges f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 
Ostrich-like dinosaurs called ornithomimosaurs grew to enormous sizes in ancient eastern North America, according to a study published October 19, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and colleagues.
During the Late Cretaceous Period, North America was split by a seaway into two landmasses: Laramidia to the west ... more |
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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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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2022 
When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China's history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory and perhaps a degree of misguided hope.
Ten years later, those forecasts lie in tatters, proving only how little was understood of the man who is now China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong after being handed ... more |
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 Meadowview, United States (AFP) Oct 25, 2022 
The American chestnut tree, once a regal pillar of forests across the eastern United States, is on life support, struggling to survive.
"These look like death," said Vasiliy Lakoba, research director for the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF), which has been working since the 1980s to resurrect the species.
He pointed to a patch of stunted shrubs, chestnut trees that were a far cry from ... more |
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