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  Keelung, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 Super Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday as one of the biggest storms to hit the island in decades, whipping up 10-metre waves, triggering floods and claiming at least one life. Packing maximum wind speeds of 184 kilometres per hour (114 miles per hour), Kong-rey slammed into eastern Taiwan on Thursday afternoon, the Central Weather Administration said. It was the same strength as Typhoon Gaemi, which was the most powerful storm to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfa ... read more |
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Spain races to save victims as floods kill 95Sedavi, Spain (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 Spain braced for a heavier human toll on Wednesday after 95 people died in flash floods that launched muddy waters through towns, tossed cars and wreaked transport havoc. ... more
Spain races to save victims as floods kill 95Sedavi, Spain (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 Rescuers raced Thursday to find survivors and victims of once-in-a-generation floods in Spain that killed at least 95 people and left towns submerged in a muddy deluge with overturned cars scattered in the streets. ... more 
Flooding from Storm Trami kills five in VietnamHanoi (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 Flash flooding in central Vietnam killed five people, damaged hundreds of homes and destroyed crops, disaster authorities said Thursday, after Tropical Storm Trami dumped heavy rain across the country. ... more  
'Peace among ourselves' crucial to save nature: UN chiefCali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 UN chief Antonio Guterres called Wednesday for "peace among ourselves" in order to save the planet, as devastating wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan. ... more |
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NASA, NOAA rank the 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-smallest since recovery beganGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth's southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with ... more |
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Large volumes of meltwater found within Greenland Ice Sheet during summerLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 A new study featured in 'Nature' reveals that a considerable amount of meltwater accumulates and is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during the summer months. For the first time, an ... more  
Carbon dioxide release from deep magma may have driven Earth's ancient climate shiftsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 An international team of geoscientists, led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has revealed that ancient volcanic regions continued emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's deep magma long after ... more  
Solving interface mystery in organic solar cells makes them more efficientRaleigh NC (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 New research from North Carolina State University provides a deeper understanding of precisely what is happening in organic solar cells as light is converted into electricity. Researchers developed ... more  
Spire Global and OroraTech join NASA to develop space-based wildfire monitoringLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has secured a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract to explore the development of an advanced wildfire detection and monitoring system via space-based technology. I ... more |
 
Lancet calls for urgenet shift in fossil fuel investment to tackle climate health impactsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 The Lancet: Health threats of climate change reach record-breaking levels, as experts call for trillions of dollars spent on fossil fuels to be redirected towards protecting people's health, lives a ... more  |
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Papua New Guinea to boycott 'waste of time' UN climate summitSydney (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a boycott of next month's UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a "waste of time" full of empty promises from big polluters. ... more 
Climate-scarred Australia faces fiercer fires, floods, droughtsSydney (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 Australia's oceans are turning more acidic, bushfires are raging longer, and droughts are becoming more severe, according to a major new climate report released Thursday by government researchers. ... more  
Ship with suspected toxic waste returns to AlbaniaDurres, Albania (AFP) Oct 28, 2024 A ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of possibly toxic industrial waste returned to Albania's largest seaport of Durres on Monday, months after setting sail to dispose of the material in Thailand. ... more  
Funding hurdle at world's biggest nature protection summitCali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 With two just days to go to the closure of UN talks in Colombia on ways to halt and reverse nature loss, delegates were at odds Wednesday on how best to finance the endeavor. ... more |
 
It's not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeysSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2024 A popular thought experiment suggests that a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard indefinitely would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare by chance. This concept, known as the Infini ... more  
Veea Amazon and AECOM partner to build the Internet of Forests in ColombiaLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 In a groundbreaking partnership, Veea (NASDAQ: VEEA) has joined forces with O.N.E. Amazon and AECOM to deploy a sophisticated technology platform known as the Internet of Forests (IoF) across a prot ... more  
FAU receives DOE grant to explore offshore ocean current energy near Palm BeachLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 Imagine the potential of tapping into ocean currents for clean, renewable energy along Southeast Florida's coast. Florida Atlantic University's Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNM ... more  
SNOWWI completes successful airborne tests for NASA snow measuring programLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 In the mountainous areas of the western United States, summer heat triggers snowmelt from peaks, sending vital water flows into rivers and reservoirs that supply fresh water to millions of people. I ... more |
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Gold-colored fossil arthropod reveals evolutionary insights in pyrite preservationLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 A research team led by Associate Professor Luke Parry from the University of Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has uncovered a strikingly preserved, 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, now cl ... more  
Reactor developed at Rice could cut energy costs in direct air captureLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 Rice University researchers have created an electrochemical reactor aimed at lowering energy demands for direct air capture, a method that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere directly. This a ... more  
New Indonesia defence chief harks back to dictator's ruleJakarta (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 When riots broke out in Indonesia's capital in 1998 leading to dictator Suharto's downfall, activists were detained, women raped, and stores owned by ethnic Chinese ransacked in unrest many say was stoked by the army. ... more 
Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the oceanBoston MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that group together don't necessarily survive together. In some cases, the more fish there are, t ... more |
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Newly isolated cyanobacteria strain shows promise for carbon captureLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 An international research team from the United States and Italy has identified a new strain of cyanobacteria, nicknamed "Chonkus," discovered off Sicily's Vulcano Island, showing remarkable potentia ... more |
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NASA helps find thawing permafrost adds to near-term global warmingPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth's vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms. The frozen soils encircling the ... more 
No 'island of garbage' here, Puerto Rico's new marine reserveCali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a "floating island of garbage" at a Republican rally in New York, on Wednesday announced the creation of a new marine reserve to protect manatees and other species. ... more 
Shells to surfboards: how wildlife has adapted to plasticBangkok (AFP) Oct 31, 2024 A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. ... more 
Volcanoes 'hidden source' of CO2 in past climate change: studyParis (AFP) Oct 30, 2024 Massive fields of magma underneath ancient volcanoes spewed out carbon dioxide long after eruptions on the surface had ended, potentially explaining why past global warming episodes lasted longer than expected, a study said Wednesday. ... more |
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