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  Boston MA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Climate change and air pollution are interlocking crises that threaten human health. Reducing emissions of some air pollutants can help achieve climate goals, and some climate mitigation efforts can in turn improve air quality. One part of MIT Professor Arlene Fiore's research program is to investigate the fundamental science in understanding air pollutants - how long they persist and move through our environment to affect air quality. "We need to understand the conditions under which pollut ... read more |
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How the Amazon basin waters the Atacama DesertCologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 For the first time, the Amazon basin could be identified as dominant source region for water precipitating in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. From the rainforest, elevated water vapour travels ... more  
How the Earth's tilt creates short, cold January daysChampaign IL (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2022 As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis - picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the 24 hours that it takes for the Earth to rotate once ... more  
Rare African script offers clues to the evolution of writingJena, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 The world's very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was reinvented in China and Central America. Today, almost all human activities-from educatio ... more  
T cells from common colds cross-protect against infection with SARS-CoV-2London, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 A new study, published in Nature Communications and led by Imperial College London researchers, provides the first evidence of a protective role for these T cells. While previous studies have shown ... more |
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Too much water: Gold rush, climate change submerge Bolivian village
'Miracle' as man survives seven hours under Norway avalanche Ecuador battles spreading oil slick, residents without water Japan begins its first dismantling of a commercial nuclear reactor At least 33 dead as tornadoes ravage central US At least 27 dead as tornadoes ravage central US Major storm in central US leaves at least 18 dead Major storm in central US leaves at least 14 dead: officials Dozens evacuated in Italy's flood-hit Tuscany Florence cathedral closed as Italy's Tuscany on flood alert |
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Renewable: Lithium promises revival for dying California inland seaSalton Sea, United States (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Hollywood's jetset once crowded the shores of the Salton Sea, a then-idyllic southern California playground for the wealthy. Today, it is desolate and depressed - the evaporating water leaving behind dead shellfish, dust and chemicals that irritate the airways. ... more  
Too much meat? Spain factory farming debate creates beefMadrid (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 Debate over the environmental impact of Spain's huge factory farming sector is heating up in the country, Europe's biggest meat consumer, and splitting its ruling coalition. ... more  
Six die in South African floodsJohannesburg (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 At least six people, including a diver, have been killed in flash flooding from torrential rains in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, a senior regional official said Sunday. ... more 
Millions more locked down as China battles Omicron spreadBeijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Five million residents of a central Chinese city were confined to their homes Tuesday while another megacity shuttered all non-essential businesses, as the country battles a spate of coronavirus outbreaks including from the Omicron variant. ... more  
Tourists question blizzard tragedy in scenic Pakistan townMurree, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 As unprecedented snowfall thawed at a popular Pakistan mountain resort on Sunday, rescued tourists were found reckoning with the deaths of 22 fellow travellers in a frozen traffic jam. ... more |
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6.6-magnitude quake jolts CyprusNicosia (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 A 6.6-magnitude quake hit off the west coast of Cyprus early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of casualties or structural damage. ... more  
Weather expert predicts more disasters looming for BrazilBrasilia (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on the way, meteorologist Estael Sias told AFP. ... more  
Aid agencies suspend work in Tigray area hit by deadly strike: UNNairobi (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 Aid agencies have suspended operations in an area of Ethiopia's stricken Tigray region where a deadly air strike hit a camp for people displaced by the country's 14-month war, the UN said Sunday. ... more  
Can a fractured French Left rally troops against Macron?Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Just five years ago a Socialist president, Francois Hollande, was running France. Now supporters are wondering if the left will be more than a footnote in the coming presidential fight. ... more 
Myanmar's Suu Kyi hit with new convictions, jail termYangon (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader. ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on the way, meteorologist Estael Sias told AFP.
Two months of downpours have caused deadly flooding in several Brazilian states, including Bahia in the northeast and Minas Gerais in the southeast, where a huge column of rock crashed down on tourists boats on Furna ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 
The upper stage of a failed Russian Angara A5 rocket plummeted uncontrolled to Earth, crashing into open sea near French Polynesia.
The U.S. 18th Space Control Squadron confirmed the 4 p.m. Wednesday re-entry
The Persei upper stage was part of a heavy-lift rocket. The debris weighed an estimated 3.5 tons. Astronomer Jonathon McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophy ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 
There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms go about their daily lives in the water columns, and now researchers have discovered that some of them produce oxygen in an unexpected way.
Oxygen is vital for life on Earth, and is mainly produced by plants, algae and cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. A few microbes ar ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Understanding the surges and retreats of Alaska's Malaspina Glacier is key if climate change models are to be applied to the glacier with confidence. Work by graduate student Victor Devaux-Chupin at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is providing some answers.
The Malaspina consists of three lobes, each fed by its own glacier. The Agassiz glacier becomes the Malaspina ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Jan 8, 2022 
Sri Lanka paid a Chinese company $6.8 million despite rejecting its shipment of organic fertiliser as substandard, officials said Saturday, even though Colombo is in the throes of a foreign exchange crisis.
The state-run People's Bank of Sri Lanka said it paid Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group $6.87 million in connection with an out-of-court settlement over the shipment.
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 Quito (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
A volcano on a Galapagos island that is home to a species of critically endangered lizard has erupted for the second time in seven years, national park officials said Friday.
The Wolf volcano's slopes host the pink iguana, only 211 of which were reported to be left on Isabela, the largest island in the Galapagos archipelago, as of last August.
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 Mombasa, Kenya (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a "narrative" pushed by opponents to poverty reduction.
Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya, said China's considerable lending to Africa was "mutually benefiting" and not ... more |
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 
The world's very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was reinvented in China and Central America. Today, almost all human activities-from education to political systems and computer code-rely on this technology.
But despite its impact on daily life, we know little about how writing evolved in its earliest years. With so few sites of origi ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally "by a clear margin", the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Monday, as it raised the alarm over sharp increases in record concentrations of methane in the atmosphere.
Countries around the world have been blasted by a relentless assault of weather disasters linked to global warming in recent years, including recor ... more |
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 Champaign IL (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2022 
As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis - picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the 24 hours that it takes for the Earth to rotate once around its axis, every point on its surface faces toward the Sun for part of the time and away from it for part of the time. This is what causes daily changes in sunlight and temperature.
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more ?inhospitable?to life than scientists previously thought, according to?new?computer simulations.
Using a state-of-the-art climate model, researchers now believe the level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth's surface could have been underestimated, with UV levels being up to ten times higher.
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 Beirut (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
A Lebanese mountain town home to 70,000 Syrian refugees declared a "fuel emergency" Thursday, warning that soaring heating fuel prices would spell tragedy as winter starts to bite.
The town of Arsal, also home to 40,000 Lebanese, lies at an altitude of 1,400 metres (4,900 feet) and is regularly among the communities worst affected by harsh winters.
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2022 
Why the Sun's corona reaches temperatures of several million degrees Celsius is one of the great mysteries of solar physics. A "hot" trail to explain this effect leads to a region of the solar atmosphere just below the corona, where sound waves and certain plasma waves travel at the same speed. In an experiment using the molten alkali metal rubidium and pulsed high magnetic fields, a team from t ... more |
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 Earith, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 
Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds.
With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens outside Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the secretive bittern, which was until 2015 on the UK's Red list of most-threatened species.
Today the thickset heron ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka sought to reschedule its huge Chinese debt burden in Sunday talks with visiting foreign minister Wang Yi, the president's office said.
The island's tourism-dependent economy has been hammered by the pandemic and its depleted foreign exchange reserves have led to food rationing at supermarkets and shortages of essential goods.
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 Golgubip, Papua New Guinea (AFP) Dec 22, 2021 
In Papua New Guinea's isolated Star Mountains, Indigenous people say the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. But both have a price on their heads.
These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear the forests they live in, one of Earth's last great wilderness areas, could soon fall to axe and bulldozer.
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