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  Denver CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2023 Urban Sky, a stratospheric technology and remote sensing company, announced an over-subscribed $9.75 million Series A financing round co-led by New Legacy Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Lavrock Ventures, with participation from Catapult Ventures, Union Labs VC, DA Ventures (a Denver Angels Affiliate), and TenOneTen Ventures. The company will use the funding to scale its commercial imaging operation, develop advanced stratospheric technology, and broaden its sensor portfolio. Urban Sky's technology en ... read more |
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Brazil president vetoes bill limiting Indigenous land claimsBrasilia (AFP) Oct 21, 2023 Brazil's president announced on Friday that he will partially veto a bill restricting Indigenous groups' claims to ancestral lands, overriding Congress's recent approval of the legislation. ... more 
Race to save the Amazon leaves out Brazil's crucial savannaSao Desiderio, Brazil (AFP) Oct 20, 2023 People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says. ... more  
Climate 'loss and damage' talks end in failureParis (AFP) Oct 21, 2023 A crucial meeting on climate "loss and damages" ahead of COP28 ended in failure Saturday, with countries from the global north and south unable to reach an agreement, according to sources involved in the talks. ... more 
Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravingsManaus, Brazil (AFP) Oct 22, 2023 An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years. ... more |
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  'Til trash do us part: Taiwan couple embraces garbage wedding shoot  
In US, invasive spotted lanternflies are devastating cropsNew York (AFP) Oct 21, 2023 At first glance, the spotted lanternfly looks like an elegant butterfly, speckled with black spots on white wings with a splash of bright red. ... more |
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'Don't send us back', scared Afghan quake survivors askHerat, Afghanistan (AFP) Oct 20, 2023 Afghan earthquake survivor Negar could hardly bear a single night in her half-demolished village, for fear of more aftershocks, before she asked to be sent back to the city. ... more 
'Embrace discomfort' to save planet says N Macedonia pioneerVeles, Republic Of North Macedonia (AFP) Oct 21, 2023 One day Dimche Ackov had enough of the stress and pollution of urban life and chucked in his job and headed out into the North Macedonia countryside for a fresh start. ... more  
Hurricane Norma hits Mexico coast, then weakens to tropical stormCabo San Lucas, Mexico (AFP) Oct 22, 2023 Hurricane Norma slammed into Mexico's northwestern coast Saturday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and the threat of flash floods, but was downgraded to a tropical storm by evening, authorities said. ... more 
Scores killed in Gaza strikes as new aid convoy arrivesRafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Oct 22, 2023 Scores of Palestinians were killed in central Gaza on Sunday after Israel stepped up its strikes on the war-torn enclave and another convoy of 17 aid trucks arrived as the Hamas-run territory faces "catastrophic" shortages. ... more |
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  Storm Babet triggers flooding, power cuts in northern Europe 
World leaders at Cairo Peace Summit call for civilian safety in GazaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2023 World leaders attending the Cairo Peace Summit on Saturday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza as well as the safe passage of aid across the border into the Palestinian enclave. ... more |
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An endangered whale species is speeding towards extinctionWashington (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 They're one of the most endangered mammals in the world, and a species you may never have even heard of: North Atlantic right whales. ... more  
Kenyans demand compensation for British army blaze ahead of king's visitNanyuki, Kenya (AFP) Oct 20, 2023 Residents in central Kenya on Friday denounced a lack of compensation over a devastating 2021 fire which broke out during a British military exercise, 10 days before a visit by King Charles III. ... more 
Speeding boats risk killing off North Atlantic right whales: studyWashington (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 An overwhelming majority of large boats off the US East Coast are speeding through slow-zones designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 340 remain. ... more  
Led by Donkeys: UK political agitators reaching millionsLondon (AFP) Oct 21, 2023 A persistent irritant to Britain's ruling Conservatives since its creation after Brexit, campaign group Led by Donkeys has built a big online audience with its largely humour-led attempts at political accountability. ... more |
  U.S. and Iran seek to gain Vatican's favor amid Israel-Hamas war 
Deforestation caused by rubber vastly underestimated: studyBangkok (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 Deforestation for rubber cultivation has been "substantially underestimated", and is two to three times higher than generally assumed, a new study said Wednesday. ... more |
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Dust in the air worsened in 2022: UNGeneva (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 The amount of dust in the world's air worsened in 2022, the United Nations said on Thursday, as it called for more research into how climate change may increase sandstorm hotspots. ... more  
Psyche's 3.6 billion kilometre journey to the centre of the Earth via it's namesakeCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, born a mere mortal and later married to Eros, the God of love. Who knows why the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis gave her name to a celestial object ... more 
Chinese satellite cluster utilizes InSAR technology for advanced terrain mappingSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 China's PIESAT-1, a unique constellation of remote-sensing satellites arranged in a wheel-like formation, has successfully acquired high-precision topographic data using multi-baseline interferometr ... more  
Do humans get lazier when robots help with tasks?Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Now that improvements in technology mean that some robots work alongside humans, there is evidence that those humans have learned to see them as team-mates - and teamwork can have negative as well a ... more |
 
Ancient diamonds shine light on the evolution of EarthJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and Western Africa, has exposed new processes of how continents evolved and moved during the early evolution of complex life o ... more  
Retreating glaciers reveal new pastures for conservationistsLes Contamines, France (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Water surged through a desolate canyon of grey rock into a blue-grey lake, an ancient landscape only revealed to humanity in recent decades because France's glaciers have retreated so far. ... more  
EU 'cannot accept' Israel illegally halting water to Gaza: BorrellStrasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 The European Union "cannot accept" Israel stopping water supplies to Gaza's population, which "clearly" violates international law, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday. ... more 
IAEA tests fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant amid water releaseWashington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2023 A task force with the International Atomic Energy Agency tested fish near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan Thursday to assess the potential impact on marine life as treated water drains from the damaged facility into the Pacific Ocean. ... more |
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Dutch criminal probe against US firm DuPont over 'forever chemicals'The Hague (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Dutch authorities on Thursday launched a criminal investigation into US chemical giant DuPont and its spinoff Chemours over years of pollution from so-called "forever chemicals" at a plant south of Rotterdam. ... more 
Atlantic hurricanes strengthening faster: studyParis (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Atlantic hurricanes are now more likely to quickly strengthen from weak storms than during the 1970s and 80s, according to new research published Thursday, which warned of an increasing risk to coastal communities. ... more 
A simulation to visualize the evolution of Alpine ice cover over the last 120,000 yearsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 The last glacial period began around 115,000 years ago, and was punctuated by cold and warmer cycles, resulting in the advance and retreat of glaciers that shaped the landscape of the European Alps ... more 
California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Since the 1980s, researchers have observed significant periods of unrest in a region of California's Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains characterized by swarms of earthquakes as well as the ground infl ... more |
ETH Zurich researchers study one of the world's darkest riversZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 When the researchers came upon the Ruki River, they were quite taken aback. The water in this river, a tributary of the mighty Congo River, is so dark that you literally can't see your hand in front ... more  
How to help save plants from extinctionRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better protect plants by choosing conservation targets more strategically, UC Riverside botanists argue ... more 
International ocean satellite monitors how El Nino is shaping upPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2023 Not all El Nino events are created equal. Their impacts vary widely, and satellites like the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich help anticipate those impacts on a global scale by tracking cha ... more  
Protecting polar bears aim of new and improved radar technologySalt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Research testing new technology to more effectively locate polar bear dens across the Arctic is showing promising results. Researchers from Simon Fraser University and Brigham Young University (BYU) ... more |
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The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomesGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This repl ... more 
Reversing warming may stop Greenland ice sheet collapse: studyParis (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 Breaching the global warming limits of the world's climate goals could see the melting of Greenland's ice sheet add more than a metre to rising sea levels, according to new research on Wednesday. ... more 
Tech breathes new life into endangered Native American languagesBloomington, United States (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Linguistics experts are turning to cutting-edge technologies to revitalize threatened Native American languages - and rejuvenate generations of Indigenous tradition - through new approaches such as children's books and smartphone apps. ... more 
UN inspectors test Fukushima fishIwaki, Japan (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 UN inspectors took samples from a fish market near the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday following the release of wastewater from the wrecked facility in August. ... more |
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