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  Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 More than half of people in Europe are projected to catch Omicron in the next two months, the WHO said Tuesday, as millions in China faced fresh lockdowns on the two-year anniversary of the world's first Covid death. The highly-transmissible variant has ripped through countries at breakneck pace, forcing governments to impose fresh measures and scramble to roll out booster shots. Europe has been at the epicentre of alarming new outbreaks - hospital admissions and deaths are creeping up as wel ... read more |
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Arctic coasts in transitionBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Permafrost researchers analyse the drivers of rapidly changing Arctic coasts and the implications for humans and environment Arctic coasts are characterized by sea ice, permafrost and ground i ... more  
European archaeologists back in Iraq after years of warNasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 After war and insurgency kept them away from Iraq for decades, European archaeologists are making an enthusiastic return in search of millennia-old cultural treasures. ... more  
A dirt cheap solution? Common clay materials may help curb methane emissionsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and it has a pronounced effect within first two decades of its presence in the atmosphere. In the recent international climate negoti ... more  
Japan space tourist eyes Mariana Trench trip after ISSTokyo (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday his trip into space had given him a new appreciation for Earth, and he now hopes to plunge into the ocean's forbidding Mariana Trench. ... more |
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Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslide
Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Chinese cities battle Covid as Winter Olympics loomBeijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in several cities, testing the country's strict "zero-Covid" strategy just weeks before Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics. ... more  
Ten killed by heavy rains in southeastern BrazilRaposos, Brazil (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Torrential rain in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais killed 10 people in two days, according to an official report Tuesday, which warned of more intense downpours in the region. ... more  
UN's Guterres 'saddened' by reports of deadly strike in Tigray: spokesmanNew York (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 UN chief Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" over reports of a deadly airstrike in Ethiopia's Tigray region, his spokesman said Monday, in the international body's first comment on an attack which rebels said left 56 people dead. ... more 
China is not trapping Africa in debt: foreign ministerMombasa, 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. ... more 
Eight Burkina soldiers held over plot to 'destabilise institutions'Ouagadougou (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Eight soldiers including a high-ranking commander have been detained over plans to "destabilise" Burkina Faso's institutions, military prosecutors and security sources said Tuesday. ... more |
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China tutoring firm fires 60,000 staff since Beijing crackdownBeijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 One of China's biggest tutoring firms has said it shed tens of thousands of staff last year, revealing the extent of damage to the multibillion-dollar sector as Beijing cracks down on private education. ... more  
France sees new nuclear reactors online from 2035Paris (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 New nuclear power plants planned as part of France's push to cut CO2 emissions are likely to start producing electricity in 2035-2037, the government's junior environment minister said Thursday. ... more  
Malaysian villager killed in tiger attackKuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 An indigenous Malaysian villager has been killed in a tiger attack, with government rangers shooting dead the critically endangered creature after it also charged them, authorities said. ... more  
Last 7 years 'warmest on record' globally: EUParis (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. ... more
Factbox: Chinese cities battle Covid as Winter Olympics loomBeijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in several cities, testing the country's strict "zero-Covid" strategy just weeks before Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics. ... 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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 Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 
Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A round led by US-based venture capital firm Playground Global to continue its mission to transform the way the world interacts with information. This closing manifests the truly global nature of the organization with other major investors including Temasek which is headquartered in Singapore, ktsat from South Korea, Scottish Enterprise in the UK, ... 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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 Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 
Permafrost researchers analyse the drivers of rapidly changing Arctic coasts and the implications for humans and environment
Arctic coasts are characterized by sea ice, permafrost and ground ice. This makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which is already accelerating rapid coastal erosion. The increasing warming is affecting coast stability, sediments, carbo ... 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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 Nairobi (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.
The raid came only hours after the Ethiopian government had issued a call for "national reconciliation", and sparked renewed appeals from an alarmed international community for an end to the brutal ... more |
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 Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
After war and insurgency kept them away from Iraq for decades, European archaeologists are making an enthusiastic return in search of millennia-old cultural treasures.
"Come and see!" shouted an overjoyed French researcher recently at a desert dig in Larsa, southern Iraq, where the team had unearthed a 4,000-year-old cuneiform inscription.
"When you find inscriptions like that, in situ, ... 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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 The Hague (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's fourth coalition government took office on Monday a record 10 months after elections, with pledges to spend big on climate change and coronavirus.
The new government, formed after gruelling negotiations, has earmarked a frugality-busting 35 billion euros ($40 billion) over the next 10 years for climate measures.
It has promised to build two new nuclear p ... more |
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 Salton 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.
But also lithium.
The increasingly valuable metal, whose supply is concentrated in a few global pockets, is vital for the recha ... 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.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
Hong Kong will outlaw a host of new national security crimes, the city's leader said Wednesday, as she presided over the first session of a new "patriots only" legislature scrubbed of political opposition.
The law will add to an already sweeping national security law imposed directly on Hong Kong by Beijing that has transformed the international finance hub and empowered authorities to carry ... more |
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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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