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  St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 Tae Seok Moon, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has taken a big step forward in his quest to design a modular, genetically engineered kill switch that integrates into any genetically engineered microbe, causing it to self-destruct under certain defined conditions. His research was published Feb. 3 in the journal Nature Communications. Moon's lab understands microbes in a way that ... read more |
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Earth's inner core: a mixture of solid Fe and liquid-like light elementsBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 Earth's core, the deepest part of our planet, is characterized by extremely high pressure and temperature. It is composed of a liquid outer core and solid inner core. The inner core is formed ... more  
Germany taps Greenpeace chief Morgan as first climate envoyFrankfurt (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 Germany's foreign minister on Wednesday unveiled former Greenpeace chief Jennifer Morgan as her special climate envoy, as part of a pledge to put the battle against global warming "at the top" of the diplomatic agenda. ... more  
'I must live!' Hospital gives hope to C.Africa HIV patientsBangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 Annie struggles to draw breath after speaking and her spindly legs barely support her, but the Central African HIV sufferer continues to defy the debilitating illness. ... more  
California sizzles in February heatwaveLos Angeles (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 A heatwave was bringing unseasonably high temperatures to California on Thursday, sending sun-worshippers to the beach, but also sparking a brushfire. ... more |
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One dead, dozens missing in China landslide
Magnitude 7.6 quake shakes Caribbean, tsunami warnings lifted China landslide that buried dozens caused by prolonged rain: state media Indian PM's party celebrates landslide New Delhi win More than 30 missing after landslide hits southwest China Greek PM insists no danger from Santorini quake swarm Inspired by 'Trump-tornado', Hungary vows NGO crackdown Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster French government appeals to consumers to help stem drug 'tsunami' Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini |
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Brazil Chamber passes controversial pesticide billBrasilia (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 Brazil's lower house of Congress has passed a controversial bill overhauling regulations on pesticide use, dubbed the "poison package" by critics but defended by backers as necessary to protect the country's vital agribusiness sector. ... more  
Pollution clean-up aims to create Gaza's first nature reserveGaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 The road meandering towards Gaza Valley is notorious for the stench of pollution choking the plant and animal life that once flourished in the Palestinian enclave's biggest wetland. ... more 
ESA tests marine plastic detection in ocean wave facilityParis (ESA) Feb 07, 2022 Could satellites be able to help track and map the marine plastic waste befouling our oceans? Research teams from across Europe returned to a Netherlands-based ocean wave test facility to try and de ... more  
Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party'Caracas (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 Venezuelan prosecutors are investigating an alleged party held on a table-top mountain in a protected Amazonian national park, an official said Thursday. ... more 
Australia warns koalas 'endangered' as numbers plungeSydney (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as "endangered" on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease. ... more |
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Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 111Antananarivo (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 Madagascar's death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai rose to 111 Friday, with most of the fatalities from a single district where it levelled homes. ... more 
France's Nobel winner for co-discovery of HIV virus diesParis (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 French scientist Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel prize for medicine for his co-discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, has died aged 89, the mayor of the Paris suburb where he was hospitalised said Thursday. ... more  
US calls for talks with Mexico on endangered porpoiseWashington (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 Washington has invoked the environmental provisions of the North American free trade pact to urge Mexico to do more to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, officials announced Thursday. ... more  
UN court orders Uganda to pay DR Congo $325 mn war damagesThe Hague (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 The UN's top court on Wednesday ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo $325 million over a brutal war two decades ago, just a fraction of what Kinshasa demanded. ... more 
Burkina army chief vows 'new impetus' in jihadist fightOuagadougou (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 Burkina Faso's new armed forces chief, who was appointed last week following a military coup, on Wednesday vowed to give a "new impetus" to a years-long struggle against jihadist insurgents. ... more |
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 Dosquebradas, Colombia (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster agency said.
The early morning rains touched off a landslide on a mountain in central-western Risaralda province, burying several homes in the impoverished municipality of Dosquebradas.
"There are 35 people injured receiving hospital attention and 11 dead," th ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
Taiwan said on Tuesday it would relax a food imports ban from areas in Japan around the site of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, as it pushes for support from Tokyo in its bid to join a major trans-Pacific trade pact.
Taiwan imposed a blanket ban on food imports from five regions in and around Fukushima in 2011, after radioactive particles were detected on some products following the dev ... more |
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 Saint-Jean-De-Luz, France (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
Environmental organisation Sea Shepherd on Tuesday filed a legal complaint against the owners of a large fishing vessel after tens of thousands of dead fish were spotted off France's Atlantic coast.
The NGO last week published footage of what it said were more than 100,000 dead fish floating in the sea some 300 kilometres (186 miles) off the southwestern port city of La Rochelle in the Bay o ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 7, 2022 
Mountain glaciers shrinking due to climate change are less voluminous than previously understood, putting millions who depend on them for water supply at risk, researchers reported Monday.
Glaciers in the Andes Mountains of South America, for example, were found to store 23 percent less fresh water compared to earlier estimates, they wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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 Brasilia (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
Brazil's lower house of Congress has passed a controversial bill overhauling regulations on pesticide use, dubbed the "poison package" by critics but defended by backers as necessary to protect the country's vital agribusiness sector.
The legislation, which has been in the works since 2002, passed the Chamber of Deputies late Wednesday by a vote of 301 to 150, with two abstentions, and now g ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe.
In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface - too deep to initiate a tsunami - and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have gen ... more |
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 Bissau (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Thursday accused a former Guinean navy chief with links to the drug trade and two accomplices of being behind a failed coup in the west African nation on February 1.
Heavily armed men attacked government buildings in the capital Bissau while Embalo was chairing a cabinet meeting.
Embalo, 49, later told reporters that he had escaped the fi ... more |
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 Osnabruck, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
For the first time, researchers observed chimpanzees in Gabon, West Africa applying insects to their wounds and the wounds of others. In a study published February 7 in the journal Current Biology, scientists describe this wound-tending behavior and argue that it is evidence that chimpanzees have the capacity for prosocial behaviors that have been linked with empathy in humans.
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 Once Brewed, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
Nineteen hundred years after it was built to keep out barbarian hordes, archaeologists at Hadrian's Wall in northern England are facing a new enemy - climate change, which threatens its vast treasure trove of Roman artefacts.
Thousands of soldiers and many of their families lived around the 73-mile (118-kilometre) stone wall, which crosses England from west coast to east coast, marking the ... more |
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 Vienna VA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Spire, a leading provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of exactEarth Ltd., a leading provider of global maritime vessel data for ship tracking and maritime situational awareness solutions, by way of a plan of arrangement, following the completion of all closing conditions.
The Arrangement, which was annou ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
A new study leaves large tooth marks in previous conclusions about the body shape of the Megalodon, one of the largest sharks that ever lived.
The study, which makes use of a pioneering technique for analyzing sharks, has now been published in the international journal Historical Biology.
Megalodons swam the Earth roughly 15 to 3.6-million years ago, and are often portrayed as super- ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Climate change will drive an increase in summer air conditioning use in the United States that is likely to cause prolonged blackouts during peak summer heat if states do not expand capacity or improve efficiency, according to a new study of household-level demand.
The study projected summertime usage as global temperature rises 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) or 2.0 degrees C ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time how light can be used to significantly improve the performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries, and other devices that are based on the movement of charged atoms, or ions.
Charge can be carried through a material in different ways. We are most familiar with the charge that is carried by the electrons th ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 8, 2022  Rhino poaching in South Africa was 15 percent higher in 2021 than the preceding year as coronavirus restrictions that limited movement were eased, official figures showed Tuesday.
A total of 451 animals were killed in 2021, which is still 24 percent lower than the pre-pandemic year 2019, the country's environment department reported.
Of the total, 327 animals were slaughtered in governme ... more |
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 Guwahati, India (AFP) Feb 3, 2022 
An Indian teenager detained for more than a week by Chinese troops along the nations' disputed Himalayan frontier was tortured while in captivity, his family said Thursday.
Miram Teron was on a hunting trip in northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state when he was taken into custody by soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
The 17-year-old was repatriated nine days later but his fa ... more |
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 Aberdare, Kenya (AFP) Feb 7, 2022 
A fire that raged for two days in Kenya's Aberdare National Park has been extinguished after burning through hundreds of hectares of wilderness, a government forest official said on Monday.
The blaze started Saturday and dozens of forest rangers, firefighters and volunteers had struggled to control the fire from spreading, as suspicions of arson emerged.
The park was etched in history w ... more |
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