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  Nairobi (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The calamitous drought in the Horn of Africa looks certain to persist with a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, a regional climate monitoring body warned Wednesday, fearing worse conditions than a decade ago when some 260,000 people died in Somalia alone. Forecasts for the 2023 March-May rainy season point "towards depressed rainfall and high temperatures," the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) said. The crucial March to May season ... read more |
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'All this rubble': Pollution fears over Turkey quake wasteAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 Half a dozen dump trucks offloaded their potentially hazardous cargo of rubble in a cloud of dust by a roadside in Antakya, Turkey, one of the cities worst hit by a deadly earthquake. ... more  
North American mountain vegetation is rapidly shifting higher as the climate warmsProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown Univ ... more  
UN says 2022 deadliest in Somalia since 2017United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that 2022 was the deadliest year for civilians in Somalia since 2017, largely because of an increase in mass-casualty attacks by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group. ... more  
Heavy snow snarls travel as winter storms hit USLos Angeles (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Powerful winter storms lashed the United States on Wednesday, with heavy snow snarling travel across wide areas, even as unusual warmth was expected in others. ... more |
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7.4 magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines: USGS Quake rattles north Philippines city Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets Vietnam records highest flood levels on three rivers since 1986 Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north Year after northern Nigeria floods, survivors left high and dry Landslide kills at least 15 bus passengers in northern India Extreme rains hit India's premier Darjeeling tea estates |
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6.8-magnitude quake hits eastern Tajikistan: USGSDushanbe, Tajikistan (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit in the east of mountainous ex-Soviet Tajikistan on Thursday without producing victims or damage, officials said. ... more 
Cyclone Freddy heads to Mozambique after killing 5 in MadagascarAntananarivo (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 A powerful cyclone was barrelling towards Mozambique on Wednesday after battering Madagascar where it killed five people but left less devastation in its wake than feared, emergency officials said. ... more  
'Always together': Brazil community mourns dead after landslidesSao Sebastiao, Brazil (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 Watching an emergency crew recover his parents' bodies from the landslide-obliterated spot in southeastern Brazil where their house used to be, Marcio managed to get just a few words out before breaking down in sobs. ... more  
WHO using Syria sanctions pause to ship in health suppliesGeneva (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was taking advantage of a post-earthquake pause in sanctions to move badly needed health supplies and equipment into war-torn Syria. ... more |
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Pet-lovers protest demolition of Turkey quake buildingDiyarbakir, Turkey (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 Animal lovers in a Turkish city ravaged by a deadly earthquake protested Wednesday after officials sought to demolish a damaged building thought to contain several animals, AFP correspondents saw. ... more  
Land surface has been displaced by up to six metresBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Satellite images have revealed how the land has shifted as a result of the severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. According to an analysis by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft ... more  
Early Cretaceous shift in the global carbon cycle affected both land and seaLincoln NB (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth's environmental systems, but the planet's distant past also offers crucial information to deepen that understa ... more  
New results provide close-up view of melting underneath Thwaites GlacierLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from wher ... more |
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New space capability mapping tool unveiled at the 2023 Avalon AirshowAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Satellite Applications Catapult, SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and the UK Government have announced a new space supply chain mapping tool to showcase the United Kingdom (UK) and Austra ... more  
Back to the time of the first Homo Sapiens with a futuristic clock, the new Radiocarbon 3.0Bologna, Italy (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with t ... more 
Study finds watching TV is good for the planetOxford (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking an involvement in bo ... more  
SpaceDaily Streamlines Imaging Process with ChatGPT TechnologyGerroa, Australia (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 SpaceDaily, a leading news organization covering space exploration, astronomy, and technology, has implemented ChatGPT's technology, along with simple rules lists and innovative software development ... more  
DARPA RPM aims to speed-up production of on-demand protein-based therapeuticsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Department of Defense (DoD) access to critical protein-based therapeutics is limited by the slow pace and substantial costs associated with current protein production methods. The goal of the DARPA ... more |
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 Ivankiv, Ukraine (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 
Deserted since the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone surrounding the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine is one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
But for Ukrainian troops resisting invading Russian forces, it has become a crucial training ground.
Covered in camouflage net, a Ukrainian army truck mounted with an anti-aircraft gun ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth observation microsatellites. The radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collaborative research was jointly developed with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). With key collaborators Atsushi Shirane of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Pr ... more |
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 Santiago (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
In international waters off the coasts of Chile and Peru, the ocean teems with plant and animal species - some do not exist anywhere else and many are endangered.
Urgently seeking to prevent biodiversity loss in these waters, Chile is pushing for a new marine protected area (MPA) to be created, and hoping to seal the deal during an upcoming summit at UN headquarters in New York.
With mo ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from where the ice enters the ocean show that while melting beneath much of the ice shelf is weaker than expected, melting in cracks and crevasses is much faster. Despite the suppressed melting the glacier is ... more |
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 Aserradores , Nicaragua (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
From a young age, Elena Martinez and other female residents of Aserradores, a small fishing community in eastern Nicaragua, learn to navigate the dense mangrove forest to extract a black mollusc from deep under the mud.
Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangroves, where they crawl through gnarly branches knee-deep in mud, ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 
Santa Barbara Channel's natural oil seeps are a beach-goer's bane, flecking the shores with blobs of tar. But the leaking petroleum also creates fascinating geologic and biologic features. About 10 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, several jet-black mounds interrupt the featureless sea floor. These asphalt volcanoes, virtually unique in the world, provide a rare habitat in a region known for ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 22, 2023  UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that 2022 was the deadliest year for civilians in Somalia since 2017, largely because of an increase in mass-casualty attacks by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group.
The troubled Horn of Africa nation - also confronting a calamitous drought - has witnessed a surge in attacks as government forces and allied militias wage an "all-out" war against the Al-Qae ... more |
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 Bologna, Italy (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals in Europe. This is shown by the combination of updated radiocarbon pretreatment, the latest AMS instrumental advances, and the application of the B ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Feb 23, 2023  The calamitous drought in the Horn of Africa looks certain to persist with a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, a regional climate monitoring body warned Wednesday, fearing worse conditions than a decade ago when some 260,000 people died in Somalia alone.
Forecasts for the 2023 March-May rainy season point "towards depressed rainfall and high temperatures," the Intergovernmental Authorit ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Satellite Applications Catapult, SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and the UK Government have announced a new space supply chain mapping tool to showcase the United Kingdom (UK) and Australian space sector capabilities. Enabled by the Space Bridge, an alliance between the UK and Australia that enhances cooperation across both nations to boost respective space industries, this mapping t ... more |
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 Lincoln NB (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 
Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth's environmental systems, but the planet's distant past also offers crucial information to deepen that understanding. A geological study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist Matt Joeckel and colleagues provides such information.
Scientific research in recent decades has confirmed that major change ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Because GHG emissions are causing harmful climate change, scientists and philosophers have been wrestling with who has the right to produce greenhouse gases at all, and to what extent. Ever since this debate began in the 1990s, most people have been in agreement that while it is both fair and reasonable for people to refrain from inessential consumption, you cannot require people to stop produci ... more |
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 Neuchatel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Yesterday, 80 handpicked guests inaugurated CSEM's new Battery Innovation Hub (BIH) in Neuchatel. At the site, interdisciplinary teams will work on the "battery of tomorrow" in close partnership with local companies. This facility is the only one of its kind in the country - and is therefore an important guarantee for Switzerland's competitiveness.
According to the joint study by the Europ ... more |
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 Rafha, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Feb 17, 2023 
A desert bloom triggered by heavier than usual winter rains has carpeted the sands of northern Saudi Arabia with purple flowers, drawing sightseers from across the Arabian Peninsula.
Muhammad al-Mutairi drove nearly six hours from his hometown in the centre of the kingdom to see the rare burst of colour in the drab landscape.
"No one expects that this scene is in Saudi Arabia," the 50-ye ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
With China's dropping of its "zero-Covid" policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing.
Since Beijing suddenly abandoned its hardline virus control measures in December after almost three years, cities across China have been left with tens of thousands of the temporary structures.
Some of the metal or p ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 
Madrid's regional government said Monday it would drop its controversial plans to fell more than 1,000 trees to extend a metro line in the Spanish capital.
The announcement comes after demonstrators packed a park in Madrid on Saturday in a protest called by Spanish green group Ecologists in Action.
Organisers said over 2,000 people joined the rally which came as Spain is gearing up for r ... more |
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