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  Paris (AFP) April 3, 2023 Their power to dissolve the ozone layer shielding Earth from the Sun prompted a worldwide ban, but scientists on Monday revealed that some human-made chlorofluorocarbons have reached record levels, boosting climate-changing emissions. Despite being banned under the Montreal Protocol, the five chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) measured increased rapidly in the atmosphere from 2010 to 2020, reaching record-high levels in 2020, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. It said the ... read more |
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Runoff: not as you might thinkParis (ESA) Apr 04, 2023 Runoff and river discharge are important components in Earth's water cycle, but as climate change tightens its grip, heatwaves and instances of drought are increasingly hitting the Runoff: not as yo ... more  
What caused the record-low Antarctic sea ice in austral summer 2022Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 Antarctic sea ice is an important component of the climate system, and may act as an early indicator of climate change. Under global warming, significant changes in Antarctic sea ice have been obser ... more 
Analysing global waste distribution via dumpsite detection from satellite imageryBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 04, 2023 With the advancement of global civilization, monitoring and managing dumpsites have become essential parts of environmental governance worldwide. However, dumpsite locations are difficult to pinpoin ... more  
Why are forests turning brown in summerZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 Increasing summer heat and drought are affecting European forests - some years, trees brown prematurely and some even start to die back. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the WSL are showing how excep ... 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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Harnessing nature to promote planetary sustainabilityMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 As Earth's population grows, the demands of modern lifestyles place mounting strain on the global environment. Proposed solutions to preserve and promote planetary sustainability can sometimes prove ... more 
Spire Global awarded NOAA contract for satellite weather dataVienna VA (SPX) Mar 28, 2023 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to compete for orders under ... more 
China's Hyperspectral Multifunctional Observation Satellite release first public imagesBeijing (XNA) Mar 30, 2023 The China National Space Administration published the first images taken by an advanced Chinese Earth-observation satellite on Tuesday afternoon. The 14 images were taken by the world-class ap ... more 
BlackSky's completes commissioning within 18 hours of orbital delivered on news satellitesHerndon, VA (SPX) Mar 29, 2023 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) successfully commissioned two new satellites that began revenue-generating commercial operations within 18 hours of "The Beat Goes On" launch mission. "Bl ... more |
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Planet to acquire Sinergise business to expand its data analysis platformSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Holding Sinergise d.o.o. ("Sinergise"), a leading developer platform for earth observation (EO) data. By reducing the co ... more 
At the end of the dry season: CO2 pulses over AustraliaHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 End-of-dry-season CO2 pulses recur each year in the atmosphere above the Australian continent, a discovery made by an international research team led by environmental physicist Prof. Dr Andre Butz o ... more  
Smart robots to work with children to greatly improve human-machine communicationManchester UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 A team of experts at The University of Manchester has been awarded major funding to help design smarter robots that will have more meaningfully dialogue with humans after developing improved insight ... more 
Scientists in Arctic race to preserve 'ice memory'Paris (AFP) April 3, 2023 Scientists camped in the Arctic are set to start drilling to save samples of ancient ice for analysis before the frozen layers melt away due to climate change, mission organisers said on Monday. ... more |
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Storm death toll rises to 32 as US braces for more fierce weatherWashington (AFP) April 3, 2023 The death toll from weekend storms that raked across parts of the US South and Midwest has risen by three to 32, according to official counts, with more extreme weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday. ... more  
Japan to scrap virus tests on arrival from ChinaTokyo (AFP) April 3, 2023 Japan will stop testing travellers arriving from mainland China for the coronavirus, the government said Monday, ending a Covid policy previously slammed as "discriminatory" by Beijing. ... more  
Spain wildfires 'under control' as weather conditions improveMadrid (AFP) April 1, 2023 Multiple wildfires that have ravaged northern Spain in recent days have subsided, largely thanks to improved weather conditions, authorities said on Saturday. ... more  
Papua New Guinea quake toll rises to sevenPort Moresby (AFP) April 4, 2023 The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea rose to seven on Tuesday, as emergency crews made contact with remote communities hit by the disaster. ... more 
Thales Alenia Space wins contracts for IRIDE radar and optical satellitesRome, Italy (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has won contracts from the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply a first batch of six small satellites with synthetic ... more |
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 Amman (AFP) April 4, 2023 
In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael sews a shirt for a project that has provided scores of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living.
Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" that cut across swathes of Iraq and Syria, before they eventually ended up in Jordan - where they found themselves ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 04, 2023 
In 2020, the thrusters on ESA's Integral spacecraft failed. To keep the scientific mission alive, the Integral team at ESA's ESOC mission control centre quickly set to work developing a new series of specialised manoeuvres that would enable them to continue flying the spacecraft using only its reaction wheels - the rotating wheels inside a satellite that allow it to store and use angular momentu ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 31, 2023 
More and more governments are calling for strong environmental rules before allowing any large-scale mining of the seabed, but NGOs fear the industry will be given the green light this year.
Several nations have called for a moratorium on such mining at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) council meeting, which concludes on Friday.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Antarctic sea ice is an important component of the climate system, and may act as an early indicator of climate change. Under global warming, significant changes in Antarctic sea ice have been observed. Specifically, it experienced a slow increase during 1979-2014, but a rapid decline thereafter. Despite a modest recovery after the record minimum in 2017, the sea ice area during austral summer 2 ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) March 31, 2023 
The devastating earthquake that hit southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria in February damaged more than 20 percent of Turkey's agricultural production, the UN's food agency said Friday.
The 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6, and its aftershocks, killed more than 55,000 people and left many more in dire conditions.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said initial assessments in T ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) March 31, 2023 
Seismic activity has increased at Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which killed 25,000 people in an eruption 38 years ago, authorities said Friday, warning of a "probable" new outbreak.
The 1985 eruption was considered the worst natural disasters in Colombian history and one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century.
There has recently been a "significant increase in sei ... more |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) April 2, 2023 
South Sudanese soldiers arrived in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, an AFP journalist saw, joining a regional military force in an area battered by the M23 rebellion.
At least 45 soldiers touched down in the city of Goma in the late morning, with further contingents expected to arrive at later dates.
The South Sudanese soldiers are part of the seven-nation East African Co ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 
Routine tasks that require working memory, like baking, involve remembering both some general rules (e.g., read the oven temperature and time from the recipe and then set them on the oven) and some specific content for each instance (e.g., 350 degrees for 45 minutes for a loaf of rye, but 325 degrees for eight minutes for cookies). A new study provides a novel explanation for how the brain disti ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 
NASA has been working to better understand our home planet from the unique vantage point of space since the first TIROS satellites launched in the 1960s. Today, with more than two dozen Earth-observing satellites and instruments, it's clearer than ever that our planet is an interconnected system. Local events can have global impacts and global events impact local communities. Recognizing that th ... more |
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 Guiyang, China (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
A geomagnetic field is generated in Earth's interior and extends into outer space to protect Earth from cosmic radiation and the charged particles of solar wind. The magnetic field is generated by the convection of charged molten iron fluids in Earth's outer core.
In contrast to the convective homogenous outer core, Earth's inner core is inhomogeneous and anisotropic. The seismic velocity ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 
Ancient 2m-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed, according to a study published March 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David P. Groenewald of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and colleagues.
During the Late Permian Period, just over 250 million years ago, South Africa was home to rhinesuchid temnospondyls, large predatory ... more |
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 London (AFP) April 3, 2023 
Just five percent of Britain's top firms have issued net-zero plans that would be "credible" under government guidelines, according to a study published on Monday.
Consultancy EY revealed the key finding after examining net-zero ambitions of companies listed on London's benchmark FTSE 100 index.
Britain is targeting carbon neutrality by 2050 and wants businesses to outline how they will ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have designed a novel ultramicro supercapacitor, a tiny device capable of storing an enormous amount of electric charge. It is also much smaller and more compact than existing supercapacitors and can potentially be used in many devices ranging from streetlights to consumer electronics, ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
As Earth's population grows, the demands of modern lifestyles place mounting strain on the global environment. Proposed solutions to preserve and promote planetary sustainability can sometimes prove more harmful than helpful. However, technologies that harness natural processes could be more successful.
Such technologies are the focus of the latest issue of the open access journal PLOS Bio ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) March 25, 2023  Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was due to head to China for key talks with President Xi Jinping, has indefinitely postponed his trip to recover from pneumonia, the government said Saturday.
Lula, who succeeded the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro at the start of the year, had hoped to use the trip next week to reclaim his country's role in global diplomacy, with discus ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Increasing summer heat and drought are affecting European forests - some years, trees brown prematurely and some even start to die back. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the WSL are showing how exceptional weather conditions over several years are turning forests brown.
It was as though autumn had arrived in July. Anyone hiking through the Swiss or German forests in the summer of 2018 could ... more |
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