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President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to draft legislation setting market-based caps on the emissions of carbon gases in a landmark move in the United States to combat global warming. "To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Obama ... read more 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey showed Wednesday. The International Polar Year (IPY) survey found that warming in the Antarctic is "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland's ice co ... more |
Top yet contested climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
German tourist killed by wild elephant in India Oil giants TotalEnergies, Equinor reduce low-carbon investments CORRECTED: TotalEnergies reduces low-carbon investments as profit falls TotalEnergies reduces low-carbon investments as profit falls CORRECTED: TotalEnergies annual profit falls, reduces low-carbon energy investments CORRECTED Norway's Equinor scales back renewable energy aims as profit falls No new clothes: S. Korean climate activist targets hyperconsumption Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead' 
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Toronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Severe fires in Indonesia - responsible for some of the worst air quality conditions worldwide - are linked not only to drought, but also to changes in land use and population density, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience led by Robert Field of the University of Toronto. "During the late 1970s, Indonesian Borneo changed from being highly fire-resistant to highly fire-prone during ... more  
Panama, Panama (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Tropical forests hold more living biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem. A new report in the journal Nature by Lewis et al. shows that not only do trees in intact African tropical forests hold a lot of carbon, they hold more carbon now than they did 40 years ago--a hopeful sign that tropical forests could help to mitigate global warming. In a companion article, Helene Muller-Landau ... more  
New York NY (SPX) Feb 26, 2009When choosing a flavor of ice cream, an item of clothing, or even a home, you might be better off letting your emotions guide you, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "Our current research supports theories in evolutionary psychology that propose that our emotions can be conceived as a set of 'programs' that have evolved over time to help us solve important recurr ... more  
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Six people were killed in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia, officials said Wednesday. Four people were killed in floods in East Java's Bojonegoro district and two were killed when a landslide triggered by monsoon rains buried a house in central Sulawesi, they said. "Four people including two young children were killed in the floods," Bojonegoro district spokesm ... more |
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SPACE ISAC expands member benefits with access to new testbeds networkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has announced a major new benefit for its members: access to the Accelerating Space Capabilities 100 (ASC-100), an international networ ... more  
Australian innovation detects space phenomena with new technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more 
South Korea, Ireland watchdogs to question DeepSeek on user dataSeoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 Data watchdogs in South Korea and Ireland said Friday they would ask Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to clarify how it manages users' personal information, as governments from around the world turned a spotlight on the service. ... more
  
UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debateLondon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say. ... more 
Life as a chain of machines constructing machinesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 The question of what defines life continues to challenge the biological sciences, with its vast complexity and diversity making it difficult to distill into a single definition. A new study proposes ... more 
OpenAI announces new 'deep research' tool for ChatGPTTokyo (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field. ... more
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Saigon, Vietnam (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 Vietnamese agriculture officials say hoof-and-mouth disease has been detected in nine provinces during the past three weeks The latest outbreak was reported in central Quang Ngai province, where 19 cows were found to be infected, the Voice of Vietnam radio reported Tuesday. Fifty cows were also found to be infected in Nghe An province. Bird flu has been reported in 10 provinces i ... more 
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 26, 2009For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally. Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic "Yellow Pages" and online messaging platform to a virtual world where social interaction and communities can inform social science and its applications in the real world. "Although social s ... more 
Mexico City (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 The Mexican border is becoming a dangerous place for its economy. This week the three state universities of Arizona warned their students not to go to Mexico for spring break. This followed an earlier warning from the U.S. State Department, known as a Travel Advisory, that crime rates have increased sharply in the border towns of Tijuana, Juarez and Nogales, Mexican cities that have see ... more  
Malabo (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Equatorial Guinea's national security minister and three high level security officials have been fired a week after an aborted attack on the presidential palace, national radio reported Wednesday. The presidential decrees, dated Tuesday and read on the radio, did not elaborate on the firings beyond the need for a "better functioning" of government services. Those fired included national ... more |
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US Navy awards Lockheed Martin $383M for advanced strategic missile developmentLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $383 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to advance the next iteration of the Trident II Strategic Weapons System (SWS) D5 missile, reinforcing ... more 
Iran Guards unveil underground missile facility for naval warfareTehran (AFP) Feb 1, 2025 The naval arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground naval base. ... more 
North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' birthday tours to open: tour agencySeoul (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 A tour operator said Monday it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic. ... more
  
Eyeing Trump and Putin, EU, UK, NATO leaders talk defenceBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 EU leaders huddle Monday with Britain's prime minister and the head of NATO to discuss efforts to boost Europe's defences faced with an aggressive Russia - as Donald Trump demands America's allies spend much more. ... more 
Starmer to urge Europe to 'bear down' on Putin at landmark talksLondon (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 Prime Minister Keir Starmer will urge European leaders to "continue bearing down" on Russian President Vladimir Putin when the UK premier becomes the first to attend a European Council gathering since Brexit on Monday. ... more 
Japan, US ministers express 'firm intent' to reinforce defence allianceTokyo (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 New US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani agreed in a phone call Friday to continue efforts to strengthen the countries' alliance, Tokyo said. ... more
  
Iraqi archaeologists piece together ancient treasures ravaged by ISNimrud, Iraq (AFP) Jan 9, 2025 A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. ... more 
Declassified files show UK anger at Chirac over IraqLondon (AFP) Dec 31, 2024 Newly-declassified UK government documents published Tuesday reveal the frustrations of then-prime minister Tony Blair and his government with French leader Jaques Chirac for blocking UN-backed military action in Iraq in 2003. ... more 
Iraq's prohibition zeal threatens Baghdad's boozy subcultureBaghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2024 The smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol sales in Iraq. ... more
  
Turkey FM calls for regional cooperation to fight PKKBaghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for combined regional efforts to combat outlawed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and neighbouring Syria during a visit to Baghdad on Sunday. ... more 
Turkey says will fight terror after death of Iraqi border guardsIstanbul (AFP) Jan 25, 2025 Turkey vowed on Saturday to work closely with Iraq to secure their common frontier after two Iraqi border guards were killed in a shooting blamed on outlawed PKK militants. ... more
Four killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey: sourcesSulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 Four people were killed on Monday in an air strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish sources said. ... more |
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