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  Los Angeles (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 The world's largest active volcano burst into life for the first time in 40 years, spewing lava and hot ash Monday in a spectacular display of nature's fury by Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Rivers of molten rock could be seen high up on the volcano, venting huge clouds of steam and smoke at the summit on Big Island, and sparking warnings the situation could change rapidly. Pressure has been building at Mauna Loa for years, according to the United States Geological Survey, which reported the eruption coul ... read more |
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Diamonds and X-rays open a new window into the Earth's inner coreSendai, Japan (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 A collaborative research group has succeeded, for the first time, in measuring the speed of sound of pure iron under pressures similar to the Earth's inner core boundary. It may be surprising, ... more  
British medic set to train to become first 'parastronaut'London (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 John McFall, who has become the first astronaut recruit with a disability, is a British doctor and former Paralympian who lost a leg in a motorbike accident. ... more 
European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cherish itParis (ESA) Nov 23, 2022 ESA and 22 other European space actors have come together to sign a "Statement for a Responsible Space Sector". Space exploration has allowed us to look back on our planet in a way that no human cou ... more  
Phytoplankton may be abundant under Antarctic sea iceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now scientists using underwater instruments and ... 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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Houston under boil water order after treatment plant failureHouston (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 Authorities in the US city of Houston ordered residents to boil their water before drinking it after a power outage at a treatment plant, leaving classes and other activities canceled Monday. ... more 
Great Barrier Reef risks 'in danger' World Heritage listingSydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change. ... more 
All regions experienced water extremes in 2021: UNGeneva (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 All regions of the world saw water extremes last year - both floods and droughts - and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday. ... more  
China says to accelerate push to vaccinate elderly against Covid-19Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 China said Tuesday it would speed up a push to vaccinate people aged 60 and older against Covid-19 after the country posted record daily case numbers in recent days. ... more |
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Taiwan couple charged for 'bribing' voters with Chinese Covid testsTaipei (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 A Taiwanese couple is facing multiple charges for allegedly bribing voters with Chinese Covid tests ahead of the island's local elections, prosecutors said Tuesday. ... more  
Italy landslide death toll rises to 8, warnings 'ignored'Rome (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 Search parties on Monday recovered the body of an eighth victim of a landslide on the small Italian island of Ischia, as a former mayor said his calls for an evacuation had been ignored. ... more 
Biden monitoring China Covid unrest as US rallies pop upWashington (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 US President Joe Biden is monitoring unrest in China by protesters demanding an end to Covid lockdowns and greater political freedoms, the White House said Monday, as rallies popped up in solidarity around the United States. ... more 
Taiwan couple charged for 'bribing' voters with Chinese Covid testsTaipei (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 A Taiwanese couple is facing multiple charges for allegedly bribing voters with Chinese Covid tests ahead of the island's local elections, prosecutors said Tuesday. ... more |
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UN experts to contribute in Zambian lead poisoning caseJohannesburg (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 A top South African court Friday granted UN experts a role in proceedings against mining giant Anglo American, which is being sued for alleged lead poisoning in Zambia. ... more  
China a 'systemic challenge' to UK values: PM SunakLondon (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned Monday that China posed a "systemic challenge" to UK "values and interests" as his government condemned Beijing after a BBC journalist said he was beaten covering Shanghai protests. ... more  
Four killed in Sao Tome's failed coup bid: state mediaLibreville (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome, the state news agency STP-Press said on Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff. ... more  
Colombia sending troops to southern border to fight drug gangsBogota (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Colombia is to deploy 400 soldiers to fight drug traffickers operating across its rural southern borders, after a recent spike in killings and internal displacement, the South American country's government said Monday. ... more  
China cities under heavy policing after protestsShanghai (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 China's major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on Tuesday in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns. ... more |
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 Casamicciola Terme, Italy (AFP) Nov 27, 2022  Italy declared a state of emergency on the southern island of Ischia on Sunday after a landslide killed at least seven people and left several others missing.
A wave of mud and debris crashed through the small town of Casamicciola Terme on Saturday morning, engulfing at least one house and sweeping cars down to the sea, local media and emergency services said.
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 
Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) has announced an expansion in its portfolio of space-grade analog semiconductor products in highly reliable plastic packages for a diverse range of missions. TI developed a new device screening specification called space high-grade in plastic (SHP) for radiation-hardened products and introduced new analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that meet the SHP qualifi ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 
Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change.
A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming seas and agricultural pollution had put the reef at risk and that its resilience had been "substantially compromised".
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 
A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now scientists using underwater instruments and a NASA satellite have found evidence of potentially significant blooms beneath the sea ice encircling Antarctica. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Frontiers.
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 Al-Messahag, Iraq (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
Jamil al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations - but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing them out.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis are threatened by the Makhoul dam, which the government hopes will be operational on the mighty Tigris in five years.
"I was born here and I grew up here," said Juburi, whose village o ... more |
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 Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
The death toll from an earthquake that hit Indonesia's island of Java this week has risen to 321 as rescuers found more bodies on Sunday, the national disaster mitigation agency said.
The shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the West Java town of Cianjur on Monday, where most of the victims were killed as buildings collapsed or landslides were triggered.
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 Libreville (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome, the state news agency STP-Press said on Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff.
The military, which on Friday thwarted a coup bid in the tiny Portuguese-speaking archipelago off central Africa considered a beacon of democracy, announced "four human lives were lost" after "exchanges of fire" at a military site ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 
It's well-known that carrying one copy of the APOE4 gene variant increases one's risk for Alzheimer's disease threefold and two copies about tenfold, but the fundamental reasons why, and what can be done to help patients, remain largely unknown. A study published by an MIT-based team Nov. 16 in Nature provides some new answers as part of a broader line of research that has demonstrated APOE4's c ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 
Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of biodiversity in the final text. They walked away disappointed.
Some say delegates at the COP27 summit missed a key opportunity to acknowledge the connection between the twin climate and nature crises, which many believe have been treated separately for too long.
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 29, 2022 
With liftoff now scheduled for 13 December, Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite has been fuelled - a critical and extremely hazardous milestone on the road to launch. Once in geostationary orbit 36,000 km above the equator, this all-new weather satellite will provide state-of-the art observations of Earth's atmosphere and realtime monitoring of lightning events, ta ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 
Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science - led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents Professor in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience, and Frank Hirth, a reader of evolutionary neuroscience at King's College London - provides the first detailed description of ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 28, 2022  Britain on Monday unveiled an energy-saving campaign to encourage lower consumption this winter - a policy U-turn - and increased financial help for home insulation.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative government announced the publicity blitz just two months after his short-lived predecessor, Liz Truss, ruled out such a move and ran into immediate criticism from opposition politician ... more |
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 East Lansing MI (SPX) Nov 22, 2022  Michigan State University's Andrew Christlieb is leading a massive U.S. Department of Energy project to help deliver on the not-yet-realized promise of nuclear fusion. That promise? To create an unmatched source of affordable and sustainable energy.
Christlieb, an MSU Foundation Professor in the College of Natural Science, is now the director of a Mathematic ... more |
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 Panama City (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 
A global wildlife summit that ends Friday passed resolutions to protect hundreds of threatened species, including sharks, reptiles, turtles as well as trees.
Here are some highlights of the two-week meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Panama.
1) Sharks steal the show
No longer just the villains of the deep, these ancient predators were th ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 
Violent protests have broken out around Foxconn's vast iPhone factory in central China, as workers clashed with security personnel over pay and living conditions at the plant.
In videos shared with AFP or circulated on social media, hundreds of workers can be seen marching on a road and confronted by riot police as well as people wearing hazmat suits.
Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn on Wedn ... more |
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 Abidjan (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 
Ivory Coast, which has lost nearly all its forests in the last half century, has launched a major project to triple its cover by 2030, the government announced Thursday.
The Forests Investment Project aims to cover 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) - or 20 percent of the country - said the World Bank, which is financing the 143-million-euro ($149 million) scheme.
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