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  Paris, France (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Euroconsult, the leading space consulting and market intelligence firm, has released its eagerly awaited ''Earth Observation Satellite Systems Market'' report, providing a sweeping review analysis of the Earth Observation (EO) upstream ecosystem and breaking down government and commercial programs in exhaustive details. With the Earth Observation manufacturing market gearing up for another decade of growth to an estimated $76.1 billion in revenue, the latest study reflects profound changes in the ... read more |
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Global firms fall short on forest protection vowsParis (AFP) Jan 13, 2022 Global companies and financial institutions with the highest potential for curbing deforestation are largely failing to do so, undermining pledges to protect forests made at the COP26 climate summit in November, a report said Thursday. ... more  
Overcoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversionBoston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 If researchers could find a way to chemically convert carbon dioxide into fuels or other products, they might make a major dent in greenhouse gas emissions. But many such processes that have seemed ... more  
Thaw of permafrost has vast impact on built environmentHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Permafrost has a central role in the sustainable development of the Arctic region. The thaw of permafrost is set to damage buildings and roads, leading to tens of billions of euros in additional cos ... more  
New spheres of knowledge on the origin of lifeTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The shape of a cell affects its physical and chemical properties. Different cell types have developed different shapes to enable effective functioning. But what shape were the very first cells, as l ... more |
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Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster
Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini Pain and anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster For quake survivors, art brings healing in Turkey's Antioch Turkey marks second anniversary of quake disaster 'We're not afraid': Santorini residents brave tremors to stay put Fukushima nuclear plant operator to dismantle water tanks next week A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth -- how worried should we be? Thousands leave as fresh tremors shake Greece's Santorini Warming threatens to expand area of world too hot for humans |
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Climate change: thawing permafrost a triple-threatParis (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Thawing Arctic permafrost laden with billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases not only threatens the region's critical infrastructure but life across the planet, according a comprehensive scientific review. ... more  
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years agoCambridge UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals t ... more  
Seeing the chemistry of visionWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The biochemistry of vision is a complex process. The molecules supporting the visual pigments that allow us to see our surrounding reality have remained essentially invisible for scientists for a lo ... more  
Ancient Mesopotamian discovery transforms knowledge of early farmingNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural practic ... more  
Chinese woman stuck in blind date's house after city lockdownBeijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Imagine being on a first date you couldn't end? That's what happened to a woman in China whose video blogs about going into a citywide lockdown during a blind date have gone viral. ... more |
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Pakistan court orders golf course shut in rare ruling against militaryIslamabad (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 A golf club belonging to Pakistan's military was closed Wednesday after a court ruled it encroached on national park land in the capital and breached environment regulations. ... more 
Israel govt seeks 'compromise' after Bedouin unrestNegev, Israel (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Israel's government on Wednesday sought to ease tensions with Bedouin over a tree-planting project in the Negev desert, where unrest has continued for days in the latest test for a fragile coalition. ... more 
Two hospitals in China's Xi'an closed over lockdown failuresBeijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2022 Two hospitals in China's locked-down city of Xi'an, including one that refused to treat an eight-month pregnant woman who later miscarried, have been closed while they "rectify" mistakes, authorities said Thursday. ... more 
Half of Europe on track to catch Omicron as China lockdown millionsCopenhagen (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. ... more 
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 |
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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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 Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
Thawing Arctic permafrost laden with billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases not only threatens the region's critical infrastructure but life across the planet, according a comprehensive scientific review.
Nearly 70 percent of the roads, pipelines, cities and industry - mostly in Russia - built on the region's softening ground are highly vulnerable to acute damage by mid-century, accordin ... more |
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 Madrid (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.
In an interview published in British daily The Guardian, Consumer Affairs Minister Alberto Garzon lashed out against Spain's "so-called mega-farms", calling them unsustainable.
"They find a village in a depopulated b ... more |
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 Johannesburg (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.
"A total of six people died in separate incidents including a member of the... police services," Oscar Mabuyane, the Eastern Cape provincial premier said in a statement, updating the death toll.
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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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought.
The remains - known as Omo I - were found in Ethiopia in the late 1960s, and scientists have been attempting to date them precisely ever since, by usi ... 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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 Idaho Falls ID (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
It's taken almost 10 years to design and construct, but researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have now energized and put into service one of the nation's most comprehensive electric power grid test beds.
With investments totaling nearly $40 million, the test grid has been outfitted with modern equipment, flexible infrastructure and advanced transmission a ... 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.
Today the thickset heron ... more |
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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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 Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2022 
Global companies and financial institutions with the highest potential for curbing deforestation are largely failing to do so, undermining pledges to protect forests made at the COP26 climate summit in November, a report said Thursday.
The Forest 500 analysis by non-profit research group Global Canopy graded 350 companies most responsible for producing, using or trading commodities that driv ... more |
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