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  Balikpapan, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac. Located in eastern Borneo - the world's third-largest island - Nusantara is set to replace sinking and polluted Jakarta as Indonesia's political centre by late 2024. But the two-hour drive from Balikpapan city to the sweeping green expanse of Nusantara's "Point Zero" reveals the scale of the new capital's ... read more |
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Last 8 years warmest on record globally: EU climate monitorParis (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday. ... more 
US central bank will not be 'climate policymaker': PowellWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 The US Federal Reserve "will not be a 'climate policymaker,'" Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, adding that it would be inappropriate to use the central bank's tools for climate goals. ... more  
Restoring Madagascar's unique biodiversity would take millions of yearsParis (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 The extinction risk to Madagascar's mammals, including unique species like the lemur, threatens a biodiversity crisis that would take more than 20 million years to heal, scientists warned Tuesday. ... more  
Capella Space raises $60M to expand satellite imaging capacitySan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Capella Space, a leading American satellite manufacturer and Earth observation company, has closed $60 million in growth equity financing from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund ("USIT"). Capella w ... more |
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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 Far-right Kast wins Chile election landslide Far-right Kast wins Chile election in landslide |
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Gas from faulty heaters kills 17 in Algeria amid cold snapAlgiers (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 Seventeen people died in Algeria in several cases of carbon monoxide poisoning overnight, emergency services said Tuesday, as plummeting temperatures push people to use crude heaters emitting dangerous fumes. ... more  
China Covid surge not expected to 'significantly impact' Europe: WHOCopenhagen (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it did not expect a surge of Covid-19 cases in China to "significantly impact" the situation in Europe. ... more  
Tens of thousands evacuate California storms, with 17 deadMontecito, United States (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders in California on Tuesday as the state was ravaged by the latest in a barrage of storms that have left at least 17 people dead. ... more 
Pentagon rescinds Covid-19 vaccine mandateWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday rescinded the Pentagon's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, a move required by Congress over his objections as part of the 2023 defense spending bill. ... more |
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NOAA: U.S. weathered 18 billion-dollar disasters in 2022Washington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2023 The United States experienced 18 billion-dollar weather-related disasters in 2022, as climate change continues to cause severe weather events, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report released Tuesday. ... more 
Japan protests China's visa haltTokyo (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Tokyo on Wednesday criticised China's move to stop issuing visas to Japanese citizens, saying it had protested the measure and demanded that Beijing reverse the decision. ... more 
'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hardBengbu, China (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients - in Anhui, one of east China's poorest provinces, Covid hit hard. ... more  
Gunmen kill 12 Nigeria security personnel in ambushKano, Nigeria (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 Twelve Nigeria security personnel and local vigilantes were killed by unidentified gunmen in an area of northwestern Kaduna state where criminal gangs and jihadists are both active, officials said on Tuesday. ... more |
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Appeals trial for Liberia war crimes opens in FinlandTurku, Finland (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 Suspected warlord Gibril Massaquoi appeared Tuesday in a Finnish appeals court accused of atrocities in Liberia's civil war following his acquittal last year by a lower court. ... more 
46 Ivorian soldiers return home after Mali pardonBamako (AFP) Jan 8, 2023 Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July arrived home late Saturday, according to an AFP reporter at the airport, a day after they were pardoned by the neighbouring country's junta. ... more 
After peace deal, Orthodox Ethiopians keep a Christmas of hopeLalibela, Ethiopia (AFP) Jan 7, 2023 "I was able to come this year because there is peace," says Asme Mamo as he joins crowds of worshippers celebrating Orthodox Christmas in the historic Ethiopian town of Lalibela. ... more  
Hong Kong blasts UK minister for meeting Jimmy Lai's lawyersHong Kong (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Hong Kong has accused Britain of interfering in its legal system after a UK minister met this week with lawyers representing jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. ... more 
New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran AmazonQuito (AFP) Jan 5, 2023 Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadoran Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist. ... more |
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Jan 9, 2023  Brazilian security forces locked down the area around Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Monday, a day after supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seat of power in riots that triggered an international outcry.
In stunning scenes reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, backers of ... more |
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 Bellevue WA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
Spaceflight Inc., a premier launch and in-space transportation services provider, has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) to launch up to five of its Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs). The launches will be from Spaceport Nova Scotia aboard the Cyclone-4M beginning in 2025.
Spaceflight has successfully delivered more than 550 spacecraft acr ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 
Previously, it was assumed that the tropical rain belt moves south globally when the oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic region weakens. Data and model simulations showed that during such phases, the Northern Hemisphere becomes drier and the Southern Hemisphere wetter.
The newly published study shows that this is also accompanied by a strengthening of the precipitation pattern in the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 5, 2023 
Half of the Earth's glaciers, notably smaller ones, are destined to disappear by the end of the century because of climate change, but limiting global warming could save others, according to a new study.
The findings, published in the journal Science on Thursday, provide the most comprehensive look so far at the future of the world's 215,000 glaciers.
The authors emphasized the importanc ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 4, 2023 
Better management of nitrogen-rich fertilisers through alternating crops, optimising use and other measures can yield huge environmental and health benefits, but must boost food production at the same time, researchers warned Wednesday.
Reducing nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a "grand challenge," the group of international researchers said in a study in Nature outlining a dozen ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 9, 2023 
A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey reported.
The epicentre of the quake was 427 kilometres (265 miles) south of the Indonesian island of Ambon at a depth of 95 kilometres, USGS said.
Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported some aftershocks at a magnitude of 5.5. ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Jan 8, 2023 
Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July arrived home late Saturday, according to an AFP reporter at the airport, a day after they were pardoned by the neighbouring country's junta.
The troops, whose detention triggered a bitter diplomatic row between the countries, were arrested on July 10, 2022, after arriving in the Malian capital Bamako.
Mali accused them of being merce ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Jan 05, 2023 
Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to its true distance. As we move about our daily lives, we tend to think that we navigate space in a linear way. But Salk scientists have discovered that time spent exploring an environment causes neural representations to grow in surprising ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 
The US Federal Reserve "will not be a 'climate policymaker,'" Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, adding that it would be inappropriate to use the central bank's tools for climate goals.
Speaking at a symposium on central bank independence in Stockholm, Powell said some analysts have raised the idea of incorporating climate change risks in bank supervision.
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 Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced its GEOStare SV2 spacecraft completed a commercial data services imagery contract for Lockheed Martin.
Throughout the duration of the contract, Terran Orbital's operations team successfully demonstrated the ability to rapidly re-task th ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
Scientists from China, Germany and the UK led by Prof. LIU Feng from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) have revealed that pollen preserved in 250-million-year-old rocks contains abundant compounds that function like sunscreen but are produced by plants to protect themselves from harmful ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation.
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 Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Jan 4, 2023 
Germany used more renewable energy than ever in 2022 but again failed to reach its CO2-reduction goal as Russia's war in Ukraine prompted a return to more coal and oil use, a think tank reported Wednesday.
Europe's biggest economy emitted 761 million tonnes of greenhouse gases last year, just one tonne fewer than in 2021 and overshooting the target of 756 million tonnes, the energy think tan ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
The Geospatial Energy Mapper is an interactive online mapping tool that can help identify areas across the country that are suitable for wind, solar, and other clean energy infrastructure projects.
It can be hard to remember, or for some to even imagine, what life was like before most of us carried around a dynamic mapping platform in our back pocket. Being able to quickly map out the most ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
From the tropics to the poles, from the sea surface to hundreds of feet below, the world's oceans are teeming with one of the tiniest of organisms: a type of bacteria called Prochlorococcus, which despite their minute size are collectively responsible for a sizable portion of the oceans' oxygen production. But the remarkable ability of these diminutive organisms to diversify and adapt to such pr ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2023 
An LGBT activist who was detained last month after some of China's biggest protests in years was released on bail this week, their mother said, but 11 more demonstrators remain in custody.
Yang Zijing, 25, was released from police detention in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou on Tuesday, mother Gao Xiusheng told AFP, declining to add further details for fear of retribution.
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 Balikpapan, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac.
Located in eastern Borneo - the world's third-largest island - Nusantara is set to replace sinking and polluted Jakarta as Indonesia's political centre by late 2024.
But the two-hour drive from Ba ... more |
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