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  Paris (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 The stakes in the fight against global warming are higher than ever, the UN's climate science chief said Monday as nearly 200 nations met to finalise what is sure to be a harrowing report on climate impacts. "The need for the Working Group 2 report has never been greater because the stakes have never been higher," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Hoesung Lee said in a live videocast. Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, mosquito-borne disease, deadly heat, water shortage ... read more |
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Climate-boosted drought in western US worst in 1,200 yearsParis (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 The megadrought that has parched southwestern United States and parts of Mexico over the last two decades is the worst to hit the region in at least 1,200 years, researchers said Monday. ... more  
Tunisia to return illegally imported waste to ItalyTunis (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Tunisia will return more than 280 containers of waste illegally imported from Italy in 2020, the north African country's environment ministry said Monday. ... more  
Hong Kong leader says city 'overwhelmed' by Omicron waveHong Kong (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Hong Kong's health facilities have been overloaded by an "onslaught" of Covid-19 infections, its leader said, even as authorities cling to a "zero-Covid" policy despite an unprecedented rise in cases fuelled by the Omicron variant. ... more  
Seven Senegalese soldiers freed in The GambiaNear Bajagar, Gambie (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 Separatist rebels from Senegal's southern Casamance region on Monday handed over seven Senegalese soldiers whom they had captured three weeks ago, AFP reporters saw, demanding nothing in return. ... 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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Don't just blame climate change for weather disastersParis (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 As a pioneer in so-called attribution science - establishing a link between extreme weather and climate change - Friederike Otto is adamant that the rising toll of heatwaves and hurricanes cannot be explained by global warming alone. ... more 
Cyclone, Barry Manilow fail to dislodge New Zealand anti-vaccine protestersWellington (AFP) Feb 13, 2022 Cyclone Dovi caused power outages, mudslides and evacuations across New Zealand on Sunday, but neither the storm nor the music of Barry Manilow could dislodge anti-vaccine protesters camped outside parliament. ... more 
China gives conditional approval for Pfizer Covid pill: drug regulatorBeijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2022 China on Saturday said it had given "conditional" approval for Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid to treat adults with mild to moderate illness and a high risk of developing severe disease. ... more  
Lithuania downplays Chinese suspension of its beef importsVilnius (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 Lithuania on Thursday downplayed China's decision to suspend imports of its beef, saying exporters have already secured other markets, as tensions rise over the Baltic nation's ties with Taiwan. ... more  
30 nations commit to protect oceans at Brest summitBrest, France (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 Around 30 government chiefs committed Friday to protect the world's oceans from harmful human activities at a summit in French port city of Brest, aiming to coordinate through a year packed with international action on the sea. ... more |
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ESA hosts new office to coordinate global climate modelling pushParis (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 Climate models are an important tool for scientists to understand our past climate and provide projections of future change. As such, they are in increasing demand as part of efforts to avert global ... more 
UN science report to sound deafening alarm on climateParis (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 Nearly 200 nations kick off a virtual meeting Monday to finalise what promises to be a harrowing scientific overview of accelerating climate impacts that will highlight the urgent need to cut emissions - and prepare for the challenges ahead. ... more  
US court reinstates gray wolf endangered species protectionsWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 A US court has struck down a Trump-era decision to remove federal protections for gray wolves across much of the country, in a move hailed by conservationists who said the listing was vital for the species' recovery. ... more  
Snow-washed GreeceParis (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 Rare snowfall over Greece may be the new normal. For the second year in a row, Greece experienced unprecedented amounts of snow, blanketing the country in white. ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer took t ... more
Canada protesters dig in with military-style proficiencyOttawa (AFP) Feb 12, 2022 With support from ex-police and military intelligence officers, American funding, and stockpiles of food and fuel, "Freedom Convoy" protesters are hunkered down for a long stay in the Canadian capital. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 
As a pioneer in so-called attribution science - establishing a link between extreme weather and climate change - Friederike Otto is adamant that the rising toll of heatwaves and hurricanes cannot be explained by global warming alone.
AFP spoke to Otto, a physicist at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, ahead of the release of a major UN climate report on c ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce that it has received over $1.5 million in purchase orders for space hardware and services supporting four customers. The purchase orders received consist of both new orders and a modification to a previous purchase order.
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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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 Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
The first atlas to measure the movement and thickness of the world's glaciers gives a clearer, but mixed picture of the globe's ice-bound freshwater resources, according to researchers from the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) and Dartmouth College.
The worldwide survey, published in Nature Geoscience, measures the velocity and depth of more than 250,000 mountain glaciers. The ... more |
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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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 Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2022  French troops in an anti-jihadist mission have killed 40 militants in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighbouring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said Saturday.
The French-led Barhane force in the Sahel region "engaged its air intelligence capacities to locate the armed group" responsible for the attacks, before on Thursday carrying out air strikes that ... 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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 Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Magellan Aerospace Corporation reports a news contract award from MDA Ltd. to provide spacecraft avionics for their next Earth observation mission named CHORUS. The new spacecraft builds on MDA's RADARSAT heritage and will continue the work of RADARSAT-2, which remains operational serving its worldwide customer base. The avionics subsystems for CHORUS will be developed at Magellan's Winnipeg fac ... 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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 Hanoi (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 
Vietnam on Wednesday arrested a high-profile environmentalist known for taking on the energy industry on suspicion of tax evasion, state media said.
Nguy Thi Khanh, 46, has been one of the few voices in Vietnam prepared to challenge plans to increase coal power to fuel economic development.
Her organisation GreenID, Vietnam's best-known environmental NGO, convinced the government to redu ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Following the example of the sun, fusion power plants aim to fuse the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium and release large amounts of energy in the process. The only plant in the world currently capable of operating with such fuel is the European joint project JET, the Joint European Torus in Culham near Oxford, UK.
However, the last experiments with the fuel for future fusion power p ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 
The highly anticipated return of "Friends" to Chinese streaming platforms soured quickly after fans noticed an LGBTQ plotline was cut from the American sitcom - and their complaints were censored too.
China's top platforms started streaming the series on Friday, but the back story of a lesbian character was absent from the first season's second episode.
Fans flooded social media with co ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
Mozambique, whose coastline has been ravaged by rising sea levels and tropical storms, announced plans on Tuesday to plant over 100 million trees to restore its battered mangroves.
Large portions of mangroves along the country's 2,500-kilometre-long (1,500-mile-long) coastline have been decimated by high seas and the harvesting of firewood for charcoal.
The Ministry of Sea and Inland Wat ... more |
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