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  Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 Most commercial fertilizer travels a long way before it reaches rural farmers in Kenya. Transportation costs force many farmers to rely on cheap, synthetic fertilizers, which can lead to the acidification and degradation of their soil over time. The situation amounts to a multigenerational crisis as elders have watched their crop yields dwindle over the course of decades. Now Safi Organics is using a technology honed at MIT's D-Lab to make organic fertilizer that can help restore such farmla ... read more |
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Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flowsGainesville FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a "hot spot" wit ... more  
Will Climate Change Mean the Planet Reshapes Itself?Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 It's no secret that climate change and global warming are two issues many countries and their citizens are concerned about. Since humans have existed on this planet for 200,000 years, we've fu ... more  
Eight-year study shows lead poisoning in nearly half of U.S. bald eaglesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2021 A new eight-year study published in the journal Science has found widespread lead poisoning in North American bald and golden eagles. ... more 
Rescued condors spread wings in Chilean AndesParque Nacional Patagonia, Chile (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 Pumalin and Liquine, two juvenile condors rescued from certain death, have been released back into the wild in a much-needed boost for a dwindling species emblematic of the Chilean Andes. ... more |
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Army on standby as Britain braces for 'Storm Eunice' impactLondon (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 Britain put the army on standby Thursday and schools prepared to close as forecasters issued a rare "red weather" warning of "danger to life" from fearsome winds and flooding due to an approaching storm. ... more  
Race to find survivors after killer Brazil floodsPetropolis, Brazil (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 Rescuers raced against the clock Thursday to find survivors among the mud and wreckage caused by devastating flash floods and landslides that killed 110 people in the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis. ... more  
ABB secures order for near real-time satellite imaging technologyQuebec City, Canada (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $30 million by the Canadian data and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging ... more  
$600 million pledged for Haiti earthquake reliefPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 The international community pledged $600 million Wednesday to help rebuild Haiti's devastated south, where an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people six months ago. ... more 
'I'll kill you!': Mexico's nature defenders put lives on lineOcampo, Mexico (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 In the fir forests of Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmentalists, the legacy of butterfly defender Homero Gomez lives on two years after his suspected murder. ... more |
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Sea Level to rise up to a foot by 2050Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2022 Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise, according to a new report by an interagency sea level rise task force that includes NASA, the National ... more 
Deep down temperature shifts give rise to eruptionsParis (ESA) Feb 17, 2022 The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the fact that this underwater volcano actually erupted came as less of a surprise to geoscientists using satellite data to ... more  
DR Congo leader warns army officers to remain 'apolitical'Kinshasa (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 DR Congo president Felix Tshisekedi on Thursday lashed out at "cases of indiscipline" at all levels of the military and told army officers to remain "apolitical". ... more 
Princess calls for Belgium to 'apologise' for colonial pastBrussels (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 Belgium's Princess Esmeralda has repeated her call for Belgium to "apologise" for its colonial past and not simply express regret. ... more  
New ASEAN Myanmar envoy says wants to meet junta opponentsPhnom Penh (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 A regional special envoy to Myanmar on Thursday urged its junta to allow him to meet a shadow government it has branded "terrorists" in order to break a deadlock between the military and opponents of the coup. ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
Dominic Lumabi sits on the computer in his Manila bedroom pitting his puffer fish-like cartoon NFT characters against others. But this is not just a game - he is earning cryptocurrency to support his family during the pandemic.
The source of his income is Axie Infinity, a blockchain-based play-to-earn game that exploded in popularity in developing nations such as the Philippines as Covid-19 ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 16, 2022 
ESA's Izana-1 laser ranging station in Tenerife, Spain, has recently undergone months of testing and commissioning, passing its final tests with flying colours. As it reached 'station acceptance', it was handed over to ESA from the German company contracted to build it, DiGOS. The station is a technology testbed and a vital first step in making debris mitigation widely accessible to all space ac ... more |
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 Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from? Was it present when Earth formed or was it delivered later by meteorites or comets from outer space?
The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they found it by look ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 
A region of cooling water in the North Atlantic Ocean near Iceland, nicknamed the "Blue Blob," has likely slowed the melting of the island's glaciers since 2011 and may continue to stymie ice loss until about 2050, according to new research.
The origin and cause of the Blue Blob, which is located south of Iceland and Greenland, is still being investigated. The cold patch was most prominent ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
Most commercial fertilizer travels a long way before it reaches rural farmers in Kenya. Transportation costs force many farmers to rely on cheap, synthetic fertilizers, which can lead to the acidification and degradation of their soil over time.
The situation amounts to a multigenerational crisis as elders have watched their crop yields dwindle over the course of decades.
Now Safi Or ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 17, 2022 
The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the fact that this underwater volcano actually erupted came as less of a surprise to geoscientists using satellite data to study changes in the temperature deep below Earth's surface.
The cataclysmic explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January is reported to have been the biggest eruption recorded ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Feb 16, 2022 
France's expected military withdrawal from Mali spells an uncertain future for the conflict-ridden Sahel state, raising questions about the ruling military junta's capacity to combat jihadists and a growing humanitarian crisis.
A brutal Islamist insurgency first emerged in Mali in 2012 before spreading to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger. It has left swathes of the vast country outside st ... more |
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 Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 
Untrained, captive orangutans can complete two major steps in the sequence of stone tool use: striking rocks together and cutting using a sharp stone, according to a study by Alba Motes-Rodrigo at the University of Tubingen in Germany and colleagues, publishing February 16 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
The researchers tested tool making and use in two captive male orangutans (Pongo ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Feb 16, 2022 
Morocco said Wednesday it will launch a nearly $1 billion aid programme to help its agriculture industry, which has been hit hard by a particularly acute drought in recent years.
The emergency plan "aims to mitigate the effects of delay in rainfall, to alleviate the impact on agricultural activity and to provide assistance to the farmers and livestock breeders affected", the royal palace sai ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 15, 2022 
A Chinese remote-sensing satellite started to take pictures in its orbit, scientists in charge of the satellite said Friday.
China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place the L-SAR 01A satellite in space on Jan. 26. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), can monitor the geological environment, landslides, and earthquakes.
The radar is now capable of taki ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 
As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the Missoula megafloods scoured the landscape of eastern Washington, carving long, deep channels and towering cliffs through an area now known as the Channeled Scablands. They were among the largest known floods in Earth's history, and geologists struggling to reconstruct them have now identified a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
Construction of a 42-floor, pyramid-shaped skyscraper began in Paris on Thursday despite objections from local politicians and associations, and environmentalists who have branded the project "catastrophic".
The Triangle Tower (Tour Triangle) in the 15th district on the city's southwestern edge will, at 180 metres (590 feet), become the city's third-highest building after the Eiffel Tower, c ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 16, 2022 
NASA is inviting students to participate in an essay contest to explore how it powers some of its most famous missions. The contest also encourages participants to learn something about themselves in the process. The Power to Explore Challenge, open to K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and homeschools, is accepting entries from Tuesday, Feb. 15 through Wednesday, April 13.
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 Parque Nacional Patagonia, Chile (AFP) Feb 17, 2022 
Pumalin and Liquine, two juvenile condors rescued from certain death, have been released back into the wild in a much-needed boost for a dwindling species emblematic of the Chilean Andes.
After 14 months of rehabilitation, the pair of scavengers were freed last week in the Patagonian National Park in Chile's extreme south, where every individual counts for a species listed by the Internation ... more |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) Feb 16, 2022 
Nepali police fired tear gas and water cannon and arrested 77 demonstrators in the capital Kathmandu as several hundred people protested against a $500-million US grant, authorities said.
"The protestors were arrested after they pelted stones and tried to push into the restricted area (near parliament)," police spokesman Bishnu Kumar KC told AFP.
Nepal signed the Millenium Challenge Corp ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) Feb 15, 2022 
Environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday said the Democratic Republic of Congo has failed to respect a multi-million-dollar agreement signed with Britain last year to finance protecting its ecologically vital forests.
The DRC and Britain approved funds worth $500 million as part of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) two months ago in Glasgow, which hosted the COP26 climate change ... more |
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