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  Wellington (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 Tongans raced Wednesday to clear a thick coat of ash from the main international runway to let in emergency aid, as the island nation faced a month of crippled international communications following a violent volcanic eruption and tsunami. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted 30 kilometres (19 miles) into the air on Saturday sending ash, gas and acid rain across a large area of the Pacific. It released an enormous pressure wave that traversed the planet, travelling at supersonic speed a ... read more |
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Dimming Sun's rays should be off-limits, say expertsParis (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Planetary-scale engineering schemes designed to cool Earth's surface and lessen the impact of global heating are potentially dangerous and should be blocked by governments, more than 60 policy experts and scientists said on Monday. ... more  
"Rivers" in the sky likely to drench East Asia under climate changeTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 It's been becoming more and more clear that global warming means more than just warmer temperatures. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense in many different parts of the ... more  
Ozone pollution costs Asia billions in lost crops: studyTokyo (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 Persistently high levels of ozone pollution in Asia are costing China, Japan and South Korea an estimated $63 billion annually in lost rice, wheat and maize crops, a new study says. ... more  
Coronavirus: Latest global developmentsParis (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: ... more |
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'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 Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: report |
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SpaceX launches 44 SuperDove satellites for Planet LabsSan 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 SuperDov ... more  
Images reveal devastation in tsunami-hit TongaWellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A volcano that exploded in 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 
Ten killed by floods in Madagascar capitalAntananarivo (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 At least 10 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rain that battered Madagascar's capital Antananarivo overnight, an interior ministry official said Tuesday. ... more 
Hong Kong to cull hamsters after Covid found in petsHong Kong (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Hong Kong will cull hundreds of hamsters after some tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, as the city pushes to maintain its strict "zero-Covid" strategy. ... more 
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Afghan quakesQadis, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Survivors of twin earthquakes in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people said Tuesday they had to spend the night without shelter in plummeting temperatures, after hundreds of buildings were damaged in the tremor. ... more |
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Indonesia passes law paving way for capital's move to BorneoJakarta (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday passed a law approving the relocation of its capital from slowly sinking Jakarta to a site 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) away on jungle-clad Borneo island that will be named "Nusantara". ... more  
Hong Kong independence activist Edward Leung released from jailHong Kong (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Hong Kong independence activist Edward Leung, whose now-banned slogan became a rallying cry during the 2019 pro-democracy movement, was released from jail in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday after serving nearly four years. ... more 
Bribes in lunchboxes: TV series on China's corrupt officials hooks millionsBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A huge designer property in Beijing and millions of dollars hidden in seafood boxes - a state television series on China's anti-graft campaign is captivating viewers and lifting the lid on officials brought down on graft charges. ... more 
China rebuffs Australia's concern over health of detained writerBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 Beijing on Tuesday pushed back against claims from Canberra that a detained Australian writer was being arbitrarily held and not receiving adequate medical support despite his declining health. ... more 
The big fish caught in Xi Jinping's anti-graft netBeijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 A state TV series documenting high-profile officials caught in President Xi Jinping's purge of the Communist Party's upper echelons has captivated millions in China and renewed focus on widespread abuses of power. ... 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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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
What do you call a broken satellite? Today, it's a multimillion-dollar piece of dangerous space junk. But a new collision-avoidance system developed by students at the University of Cincinnati is getting engineers closer to developing robots that can fix broken satellites or spacecraft in orbit.
UC College of Engineering and Applied Science doctoral students Daegyun Choi and Anirudh Chhabr ... more |
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 Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 
Heat waves-like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June-also occur underwater. A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science paints a worrisome picture of recent and projected trends in marine heat waves within the nation's largest estuary, with dire implications for the marine life and coastal economy of the Chesapeake Bay and other similarly impacted shallow-water ecosystems.
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 17, 2022 
Persistently high levels of ozone pollution in Asia are costing China, Japan and South Korea an estimated $63 billion annually in lost rice, wheat and maize crops, a new study says.
While ozone forms a protective layer around the Earth in the upper atmosphere, it is a harmful pollutant at ground level.
It is created by a chemical reaction when two pollutants, often emitted by cars or ind ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 
A 15-metre (49-foot) tsunami unleashed by a huge volcanic blast crashed ashore on Tonga last week, demolishing homes and killing at least three people, the island state's government has said.
In an "unprecedented disaster", one village was completely wiped out while only a few houses remained standing in several other settlements scattered across the archipelago, the government said in its f ... more |
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 Bukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) Jan 18, 2022 
DR Congo's armed forces said on Tuesday they had repelled a militia group that had attacked the city of Uvira, in the troubled east of the vast country.
Two officers and a soldier were killed and one was wounded, while two civilians were injured by stray rounds, regional military spokesman Major Dieudonne Kasereka told reporters.
No details were available about any losses among the assai ... 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.
The birth rate of the world's second-bigges ... more |
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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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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Copper released into the environment from fungicides, brake pads, antifouling paints on boats and other sources may be contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.
In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, UC Berkeley geochemists show that copper in soil and seawater acts as a c ... more |
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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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 Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2022 
The world faces more years of high energy prices and emissions unless the electricity sector changes faster after demand hit a record last year, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
The economic recovery from the Covid pandemic, combined with unusual weather conditions, caused electricity demand to jump by more than six percent in 2021, the largest increase since 2010, the IEA said. ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Scientists have found that adding a common household cleaning agent - the mineral boron contained in such cleaners as Borax - can vastly improve the ability of some fusion energy devices to contain the heat required to produce fusion reactions on Earth the way the sun and stars do.
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) working with J ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2022  A huge designer property in Beijing and millions of dollars hidden in seafood boxes - a state television series on China's anti-graft campaign is captivating viewers and lifting the lid on officials brought down on graft charges.
A staggering number of Communist cadres have been caught up in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive in recent years, which critics say has also served as a ... 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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