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  Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 China's birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns. Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country's weakest population growth in decades. The birth rate of the world's second-biggest economy slipped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people, according to National Bureau of Statistics data, down from ... read more |
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Images reveal devastation in tsunami-hit TongaWellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A volcano that exploded on the Pacific island nation of Tonga has almost disappeared from view, new images revealed Tuesday, with swathes of the country smothered in grey dust or damaged by a tsunami. ... more  
'Extensive damage' in tsunami-struck TongaWellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Aid agencies reported "extensive damage" in the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday following a massive underwater volcanic blast and tsunami, as the first death from the disaster was confirmed. ... more  
Travel woes as winter storm blankets eastern US and CanadaMontreal (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A major winter storm blanketed a swath of North America in snow stretching up the east coast from Georgia to Canada, disrupting travel and cutting power to thousands of homes. ... more 
Shock waves, landslides may have caused 'rare' volcano tsunami: expertsParis (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 A rare volcano-triggered tsunami sparked by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in Tonga could have been caused by shock waves or shifting underwater land, experts said Monday. ... 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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Hong Kong watchdog shell-shocked no crustacean in lobster meatballsHong Kong (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 It may look like lobster and taste like lobster, but Hong Kong's consumer watchdog is warning hungry hot pot fanatics that the shellfish-tasting meatballs do not, in fact, come from under the sea. ... more 
Iraq says almost 4,000 repatriated from Belarus bordersBaghdad (AFP) Jan 16, 2022 Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday. ... more  
China orders overseas mail disinfection over Omicron fearsBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 China's postal service has ordered workers to disinfect international deliveries and urged the public to reduce orders from overseas after authorities claimed mail could be the source of recent coronavirus outbreaks. ... more 
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Afghan quakeHerat, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Rescuers searched Tuesday for survivors of a powerful earthquake in a remote western region of Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people and caused "massive" damage to buildings, officials said. ... more 
Travel woes as winter storm blankets eastern US and CanadaMontreal (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 A major winter storm blanketed a swathe of North America in snow Monday as it sliced up the US east coast into Canada, disrupting travel and cutting power to thousands of homes. ... more |
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China drops plans to sell Olympic tickets as virus cases riseBeijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 China on Monday cancelled plans to sell tickets to the public for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as the number of Covid-19 cases in the country reached its highest since March 2020. ... more  
UN council members urge 'utmost restraint' in SudanUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Britain and France were among nine UN Security Council members to urge all parties in Sudan Monday to "exercise the utmost restraint" amid deadly violence during demonstrations against military rule. ... more 
Economist arrested in Mali for 'subversive remarks': lawyerBamako (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 A leading Malian economist has been arrested in Bamako, taken to a police station and questioned about "subversive and demoralising remarks", one of his lawyers told AFP. ... more 
Guinea's ex-president Conde leaves countryConakry (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Guinea's former president Alpha Conde left the West African state on Monday, two officials said, after being deposed in a military coup last year. ... more  
Not just for the elite: China's ex-athletes in school sport pushShanghai (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Petite but commanding, China's former world champion gymnast Sui Lu stood among a sea of yoga mats doling out encouragement to her students as they bent their torsos towards their outstretched legs. ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 
Aid agencies reported "extensive damage" in the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday following a massive underwater volcanic blast and tsunami, as the first death from the disaster was confirmed.
Early indications of the scale of the crisis on the virtually cut-off island kingdom were emerging through patchy satellite phone contact with Tonga, surveillance flights and satellite images, ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
SpaceCloud once again headed into orbit as a part of D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier onboard SpaceX's Transporter-3 mission that was launched January 13th from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission aims to verify 17 apps, uploading of new ones, and support the on-orbit testing of a hyperspectral camera.
On this mission SpaceCloud hosts 17 evolved applications, and we are now having the abil ... more |
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 Puerto Ayora, Ecuador (AFP) Jan 15, 2022 
Ecuador created a massive new marine reserve Friday north of its Galapagos islands, forming a Pacific corridor up to Costa Rica's Cocos Island National Park to preserve species of migratory fauna, such as sharks.
President Guillermo Lasso, on board a scientific vessel from the Galapagos National Park (PNG) anchored in the bay of Puerto Ayora off Santa Cruz Island, signed the decree creating ... 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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 Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers transformed agriculture as we know it during the Green Revolution, catapulting crop yields and food security to new heights. Yet, despite improvements in crop nitrogen use efficiency, fears of underperformance spur fertilizer overapplication to this day. Excess nitrogen then ends up in waterways, including groundwater, and in the atmosphere in the form of potent gr ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
When Hurricanes Harvey (2017) and Florence (2018) hit, it was not solely the storm surge from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean that led to flooding. Inland sources, like rain-swollen rivers, lakes, and suburban culverts also contributed significantly. These factors were missed by many computer models at the time, which underestimated the flood risk.
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 17, 2022  Mali has asked France for a review of bilateral defence accords against the backdrop of growing tensions between Paris and the ruling junta in Bamako, a French diplomat said Monday.
The diplomat told AFP that France was "examining" the request, without detailing its contents.
Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga on Saturday said on state television that the accords were "unbalance ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 
China's birth rate plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns.
Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country's weakest population growth in decades.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA's baseline period, according ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planet Labs reports the successful launch of its 4x Flock, consisting of 44 SuperDove satellites, into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company has established contact with all of the SuperDove satellites, many within two minutes of the final deployment, upholding Planet's record of successfully connecting with 100% of all Planet satellites launched.
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
To create the conditions needed for fusion reactions, tokamak reactors contain a plasma in magnetic fields. These magnetic fields can contain tubular areas called magnetic islands. Plasma particles move extra quickly across these islands. This prevents the plasma from reaching the high temperatures necessary for fusion energy production. Fusion plants must therefore minimize the size of these re ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway, this time entirely caused by human activities.
A comprehensive assessment of evidence of this ongoing extinction event was published recently in the journal Biological Reviews by biol ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 
Petite but commanding, China's former world champion gymnast Sui Lu stood among a sea of yoga mats doling out encouragement to her students as they bent their torsos towards their outstretched legs.
Sui was four years old when she was picked out by China's state sports machine and began training as an elite athlete. She became world champion on the balance beam in 2011 and won silver at the ... more |
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 Umea, Sweden (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Scientists at Umea University, Sweden, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have developed ways to decipher effects of the CO2 rise during the past 100 years on metabolic fluxes of the key plant species in peatlands, mosses. Analyses of cellulose in peat cores collected by collaborating scientists working in five continents indicate that a CO2-driven increase in photosynthesis of moss ... more |
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