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March 17, 2022
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Sky is not the limit for solar geoengineering



Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
There are practical limits to the height at which aerosols may be deployed in the atmosphere to deflect incoming sunlight and countervail global warming. Very high-altitude injections might be more effective, but such climate intervention comes with substantially increased costs and safety risks, according to new research published in Environmental Research Communications. Following a prominent study in 2018 that clarified the lofting technologies by which it would be feasible to undertake solar g ... read more

WAR REPORT
Lonely passengers ride ghost trains back to Ukraine
Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) March 17, 2022
The station in the west Ukraine city of Lviv teems with outgoing passengers, vying for seats on trains leaving the war-torn nation. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Chernobyl workers held 'hostage' amid fears for reactor safety
Paris (AFP) March 16, 2022
A hundred technicians are working under armed guard to maintain the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, held hostage for three weeks by Russian forces who seized the compound in the first hours of the invasion. ... more
EPIDEMICS
Hong Kong's Lam mulls easing Covid rules as public tolerance 'fading'
Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2022
Hong Kong's leader said Thursday she was mulling easing some of the city's coronavirus restrictions due to waning public tolerance, but could not provide a roadmap out of the current Omicron-fuelled crisis. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Rescuers find three bodies after Peru landslide
Retamas, Peru (AFP) March 17, 2022
Rescuers digging through a landslide in northern Peru said Wednesday they had recovered three dead bodies, including a one-month-old baby. ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW
Four dead after powerful Japan quake rattles east coast
Shiroishi, Japan (AFP) March 17, 2022
Four people were reported dead and more than 100 injured in Japan on Thursday after a powerful overnight earthquake rattled large parts of the east coast and prompted a tsunami warning, authorities said. ... more
EPIDEMICS
Morgues overflowing as Hong Kong suffers deadly Covid wave
Hong Kong (AFP) March 16, 2022
Workers in PPE gear in Hong Kong carted the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated shipping containers on Wednesday, as the city's morgues run out of space from a deadly Omicron surge. ... more
EPIDEMICS
China boosts bed spaces as Omicron outbreak spreads
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2022
China moved to free up hospital beds as officials on Wednesday reported thousands of new cases from an Omicron-led coronavirus outbreak that has put millions under lockdown and raised fears for the health system. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Shipwreck of the 'Endurance' found safe thanks to satellite data
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Over a century ago, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank in Antarctica, trapped and crushed by the ice. The crew survived and the incredible rescue operation made the polar explorer's expedition ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Satellites and surveys help count population to fill census gaps
Southampton UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Geographers at the University of Southampton have produced high resolution population maps of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) nearly 40 years after its last population and housing census. ... more
TECH SPACE
Scientists, undergraduates team up to protect astronauts from radiation
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 15, 2022
Elena D'Onghia has spent her career puzzling over the behavior of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, the dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds. Their story is an epic tale of twirling ... more
ABOUT US
Ancient campfires reveal a 50,000 year old grocer and pharmacy
Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from UWA to examine charcoal from ancient campfires in the Western Desert. They found wattle and other Acacias which ... more
WOOD PILE
How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath's forests for a millennia
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Decades of logging and fire suppression have left California's forests prone to drought, infestation and catastrophic wildfire. Climate change is only exacerbating these impacts. But for thousands o ... more



FROTH AND BUBBLE
Yemen war turns nature reserve back into waste dump
Aden (AFP) March 17, 2022
Yemen's Al-Heswa nature reserve was once hailed as a beacon of conservation efforts by the United Nations, but civil war has turned it into a rubbish-strewn wasteland reeking of sewage. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Effects of ancient carbon releases suggest possible scenarios for future climate
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
A massive release of greenhouse gases, likely triggered by volcanic activity, caused a period of extreme global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 56 million years ag ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Tsunami alert lifted after powerful Japan quake
Tokyo (AFP) March 16, 2022
Authorities lifted a tsunami advisory and electricity was restored after a powerful 7.4-magnitude quake jolted northeastern Japan on Wednesday night in waters near the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Experts in Mali to investigate Mauritanian civilian disappearances
Nouakchott (AFP) March 17, 2022
A delegation of Mauritanian experts has arrived in Mali to help investigate the recent disappearance of a number of their compatriots from a border area between the two countries, the interior ministry said. ... more


CH4 responsible for more than 80% of recent atmospheric methane growth

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CLIMATE SCIENCE
Ancient El Ninos reveal limits to future climate projections
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
The climate pattern El Nino varies over time to such a degree that scientists will have difficulty detecting signs that it is getting stronger with global warming. That's the conclusion of a s ... more
UAV NEWS
DLR measures flow phenomena around wind turbines with a swarm of drones
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by building ... more
FIRE STORM
U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Fires have gotten larger, more frequent and more widespread across the United States since 2000, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder-led paper. Recent wildfires have stoked concern tha ... more
DEMOCRACY
China accused of harassing ex-dissident running for US Congress
Washington (AFP) March 16, 2022
US prosecutors accused China on Wednesday of spying on pro-democracy activists in the United States and seeking to harass and intimidate a former Tiananmen Square dissident who is running for Congress. ... more
EARLY EARTH
Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth's oxygenation
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 15, 2022
For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, oxygen had not yet accumulated ... more
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Chernobyl workers held 'hostage' amid fears for reactor safety
Paris (AFP) March 16, 2022
A hundred technicians are working under armed guard to maintain the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, held hostage for three weeks by Russian forces who seized the compound in the first hours of the invasion. Tired and poorly fed, they were working the night shift when Russia captured the site of the 1986 core meltdown that sparked the worst nuclear reactor catastrophe in ... more
+ Power restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl: IAEA
+ Rescuers find three bodies after Peru landslide
+ Ukraine's Chernobyl loses power again: operator
+ Radioactive fuel, contaminated water: the Fukushima clean-up
+ Belarus grid supplying electricity to Chernobyl: local authorities
+ More than 2.6 million flee Ukraine war: UN
+ Free trains for Ukrainians leaving Poland for Germany
NASA adds giant new dish to communicate with deep space missions
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022
There's a powerful new member of NASA's family of giant antennas that enable engineers and scientists on Earth to communicate with the growing number of spacecraft exploring our solar system. Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). It's now operational at the network's facility outside Madrid, one of three such gr ... more
+ Spire Global signs deal with NorthStar Earth and Space for a dedicated constellation
+ Beyond Gravity boosts its capacity for satellite dispenser systems in Linkoping and creates 60 new jobs with new production facility
+ Unlimited 3D printing for space
+ Scientists, undergraduates team up to protect astronauts from radiation
+ Amid NFT boom, artists worry about climate costs
+ New toolkit aids discovery of mineral deposits crucial to 'green economy' transition
+ The untapped nitrogen reservoir




Sparkling pools, empty taps: Cape Town's stark water divide
Cape Town (AFP) March 15, 2022
On Cape Town's beaches, swimmers shower off sand from their feet. Irrigation pipes water the region's famed vineyards. And Shadrack Mogress fumes as he fills a barrel with water so he can flush his toilet. It's been four years since South Africa's tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a "Day Zero" when all the pipes would empty. Now water flo ... more
+ Microscopic ocean predator with a taste for carbon capture
+ Yangon residents queue for water as power blackouts bite
+ Long look at Hawaiian corals suggests reasons for optimism amid warming seas, ocean acidification
+ Increasing frequency of El Nino events expected by 2040
+ Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions
+ Corals can be "trained" to tolerate heat stress, study finds
+ Rapid evolution fuels transcriptional plasticity in fish species to cope with ocean acidification
First-of-its-kind research reveals rapid changes to the Arctic seafloor as submerged permafrost thaws
Moss Landing CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2022
A new study from MBARI researchers and their collaborators is the first to document how the thawing of permafrost, submerged underwater at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, is affecting the seafloor. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on March 14, 2022. Numerous peer-reviewed studies show that thawing permafrost creates unstable land which negatively ... more
+ Ice sheet retreat and forest expansion turned ancient subtropical drylands into oases
+ Icesat-2 data shows Arctic sea ice thinning in just three years
+ Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought
+ Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air
+ Researchers detail causes of glacier retreat in West Antarctica
+ Thawing permafrost could leach microbes, chemicals into environment
+ Filling the GOCE data gap unearths South Pole's geological past




Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists
Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Scientists have produced a map showing where the world's major food crops should be grown to maximise yield and minimise environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural use of freshwater to zero. The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western U ... more
+ France to cull 'millions' more poultry as bird flu flares
+ We should be eating more insects and using their waste to grow crops, says plant ecologist
+ NASA to share tools, resources at upcoming agriculture conference
+ Bolsonaro proposes Amazon mining over fertilizer shortages
+ These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desert
+ Big data arrives on the farm
+ Risks of using AI to grow our food are substantial
Tsunami alert lifted after powerful Japan quake
Tokyo (AFP) March 16, 2022
Authorities lifted a tsunami advisory and electricity was restored after a powerful 7.4-magnitude quake jolted northeastern Japan on Wednesday night in waters near the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. At least one person died in the coastal city of Soma and dozens more were injured in the quake, local news agency Kyodo reported, as authorities said emergency departments in affected ar ... more
+ Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions
+ Four dead after powerful Japan quake rattles east coast
+ Prayers in Japan 11 years after tsunami and nuclear disaster
+ Strong quakes shake Indonesia, Philippines but cause no damage
+ 17 die as cyclone lashes Mozambique, Malawi
+ Hundreds flee their homes as Indonesian volcano erupts
+ Earthquake fracture energy relates to how a quake stops




Security, command flaws allowed 2020 attack on base in Kenya: Pentagon
Washington (AFP) March 10, 2022
US officials said in a scathing critique Thursday that poor command, inadequate security and a "climate of complacency" prevented US forces from adequately repulsing a 2020 attack by militants in Kenya that killed three Americans. Multiple US military commanders, speaking after the release of an independent review on findings about the attack on Manda Bay airfield and the attached Camp Simba ... more
+ Algeria's 60 years of complex relations with former occupier France
+ Catholic group urges Senegal to end anti-rebel operation
+ Experts in Mali to investigate Mauritanian civilian disappearances
+ UN extends S. Sudan peacekeeping mission for one year
+ Senegal launches operation against Casamance rebels
+ HRW slams surge in killings of civilians in Mali
+ Dispute quickly hampers start of Chad peace talks
Ancient campfires reveal a 50,000 year old grocer and pharmacy
Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from UWA to examine charcoal from ancient campfires in the Western Desert. They found wattle and other Acacias which proves it was (and still is) used by Indigenous people for tools, food and medicine. The iconic wattle isn't just about sports uniforms and the coat of arms - new finds in the oldest archaeolog ... more
+ Grains hints at origin of 7,000-year-old Swiss pile dwellings
+ Early humans kept old stone tools to preserve memory of their ancestors
+ Archaeologists discover innovative 40,000-year-old culture in China
+ University of Oxford researchers create largest ever human family tree
+ Shelter for traumatised apes in DR Congo's strife-torn east
+ Orangutans instinctively use hammers to strike and sharp stones to cut
+ Watch a chimpanzee mother apply an insect to a wound on her son




Effects of ancient carbon releases suggest possible scenarios for future climate
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
A massive release of greenhouse gases, likely triggered by volcanic activity, caused a period of extreme global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 56 million years ago. A new study now confirms that the PETM was preceded by a smaller episode of warming and ocean acidification caused by a shorter burst of carbon emissions. The new findings, published March 16 ... more
+ Ancient El Ninos reveal limits to future climate projections
+ Sky is not the limit for solar geoengineering
+ Sahara desert dust coats swathes of Spain
+ The longest drought
+ Australian court strikes down landmark climate ruling
+ UN worried about lack of funds to tackle Somalia drought
+ Satellites support latest IPCC climate report
Planet Labs PBC launches next generation PlanetScope with Eight Spectral Bands
San Francisco (SPX) Mar 02, 2022
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced the general availability of the next generation of its PlanetScope Monitoring product, offering high quality, analysis-ready data to all existing PlanetScope customers. While previously offering four spectral bands, PlanetScope will now include eight spectral bands in addition to a series of enhancements, providing customers with richer, cleaner, and more ... more
+ CH4 responsible for more than 80% of recent atmospheric methane growth
+ Satellites and surveys help count population to fill census gaps
+ Scientists develop a new model of a fundamental process of Earth's global dynamics
+ Shipwreck of the 'Endurance' found safe thanks to satellite data
+ Esri releases updated land-cover map with new sets of global data
+ Satellogic to launch five satellites on SpaceX Transporter-4 Mission
+ China planning global system for precision meteorological monitoring




Meteorites that helped form Earth may have formed in the outer solar system
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and shaped itself into a disk revolving about the highest gravity mass at its centre, which would become our Sun. Our solar system inherited all of its chemical composition ... more
+ Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth's oxygenation
+ Traces of life in the Earth's deep mantle
+ Confessions of a former fireball - how Earth became habitable
+ Extinct 10-armed cephalopod named after President Joe Biden
+ Cooler waters created super-sized Megalodon, latest study shows
+ New stegosaurus dinosaur species is oldest discovered in Asia
+ Three critical factors in the end-Permian mass extinction
The road to renewable energy in Japan, a top CO2 emitter
Tokyo (AFP) March 9, 2022
The Fukushima region affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster has invested heavily in renewable energy - a sector Japan was slow to embrace, but now considers key to reaching carbon neutrality. Here are some things to know about renewables in Japan, which remains one of the top emitters of planet-warming CO2: - Carbon-neutral goal - Japan aims to become carbon-neutral by 2050, the same ... more
+ Will Ukraine war help or hinder green energy transition?
+ CO2 emissions from energy sector rise by record 2 bn tonnes in 2021: IEA
+ Study reveals small-scale renewables could cause power failures
+ Australian power firm rejects green billionaire's takeover bid
+ Australia's largest power firm rejects green takeover bid
+ Maine policymakers make bold push for publicly owned power
+ Paris starts building 'Triangle' tower despite green opposition




UCF and NASA researchers design charged 'power suits' for electric vehicles and spacecraft
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 08, 2022
Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have advanced NASA technologies to develop a power suit for an electric car that is as strong as steel, lighter than aluminum and helps boosts the vehicle's power capacity. The suit is made of layered carbon composite material that works as an energy-storing supercapacitor-battery hybrid device due to its u ... more
+ Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors
+ New paper offers innovative solution for thermal energy storage
+ Blowing dust to cool fusion plasmas
+ Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound
+ Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid
+ Improving the safety of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles
+ Selecting the right structural materials for fusion reactors
Europe raptor numbers down 55,000 due to gun-lead poison: study
London (AFP) March 16, 2022
Europe's bird of prey population is around 55,000 lower than it should be due to contamination of their food by lead from gun ammunition, a study reported on Wednesday. The University of Cambridge study collected data on lead levels in the livers of thousands of dead raptors to calculate the impact of poisoning on population size. It found that Europe was missing around 55,000 adult rap ... more
+ Once-starving lions roar back to life in Sudan sanctuary
+ UN launches biodiversity talks on deal to protect nature
+ UN holds biodiversity talks on deal to stave off mass extinction
+ Elephant kills Maasai man in Tanzania's Ngorongoro
+ Gorillas in our midst: Baby apes boost Congo wildlife haven
+ Endangered bat not seen in four decades found in Rwanda
+ Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research
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Shanghai tailors keep qipao dress tradition alive
Shanghai (AFP) March 14, 2022
Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000. "It's a highly skilled craft," said Zhou, co-founder of Hanart, one of China's most well-known qipao makers. "Some of our tailors spend a lifetime learning to make qipao." The price tag also reflects enduring demand ... more
+ Vietnam bans new Tom Holland film over South China Sea map
+ 'Graft probes and power games': Xi's corruption drive turns to cash trail
+ CIA boss: China 'unsettled' by Russia's war in Ukraine
+ Virus chaos pushes more expats to join Hong Kong exodus
+ China's annual parliament opens in key year for Xi
+ Hong Kong DJ convicted of sedition in watershed trial
+ Chinese anti-graft body criticises banks for 'extravagance'
How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath's forests for a millennia
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022
Decades of logging and fire suppression have left California's forests prone to drought, infestation and catastrophic wildfire. Climate change is only exacerbating these impacts. But for thousands of years before, during and after European colonization, Indigenous tribes have lived within and among these forests, intentionally lighting fires to manage landscapes and ecosystem mosaics, enhance ha ... more
+ EU urged to ban all imports linked to deforestation
+ Insects could kill 1.4 million trees in U.S. cities by 2050, study says
+ Record deforestation in Brazilian Amazon in February
+ Brazil stars protest Bolsonaro environmental policy
+ Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: New evidence from satellite data analysis
+ Stora Enso suspends Russia forestry operations
+ New study shows that Earth's coldest forests are shifting northward with climate change






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