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  Paris (AFP) March 22, 2022 The world needs to rapidly purge fossil fuels from its energy mix if it is to have any hope of limiting global warming enough to avoid disastrous climate impacts, according to a prominent climate scientist. University of Manchester professor Kevin Anderson is lead author of Tuesday's report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research detailing how quickly countries must phase-out oil and gas to cap global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the more ambitious go ... read more |
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Tunisian eco-pioneers battle to save Sahara oasis lifeNefta, Tunisia (AFP) March 20, 2022 A remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture - but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. ... more  
'Rhino bond' charges onto markets to save S. African animalsWashington (AFP) March 23, 2022 Critically endangered black rhinos in South Africa will get help from an unusual source: Wall Street, where institutional investors have expressed a willingness to buy a new type of bond being issued by the World Bank that will pay for successful efforts to save the animals. ... more  
Dramatic warming in the ArcticLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 In mid-March 2022, the large-scale international HALO-(AC)3 research campaign will begin investigating transformations of air masses in the Arctic. Three German aircraft will be deployed, scientists ... more  
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internetStarkville MS (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being abl ... more |
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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 Storm Bert wreaks havoc across UK and Ireland IMF sees 'limited' impact of floods on Spain GDP growth |
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At least one dead as tornado strikes New Orleans, suburbsWashington (AFP) March 23, 2022 A large tornado has destroyed multiple homes and claimed at least one life as it ripped through the US city of New Orleans and its suburbs, local authorities said. ... more  
Kyiv says using AI, social media to identify slain RussiansKyiv (AFP) March 23, 2022 Ukraine said Wedesday it is using artificial intelligence and social media to identify killed Russian troops in an effort to disprove Moscow's claim its invasion is a limited military operation. ... more  
France says 10 million birds culled in massive flu outbreakParis (AFP) March 23, 2022 Some 10 million ducks, chickens and other poultry have been culled in France since November in one of the most widespread outbreaks of bird flu in years, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. ... more  
Israeli PM wishes Iranians 'regime' change for Persian New YearJerusalem (AFP) March 20, 2022 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said he hoped for a change of political regime for the people of arch-enemy Iran, in a message marking the Persian New Year, or Nowruz. ... more |
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Freed UK-Iranian woman calls for release of all 'unjustly detained'London (AFP) March 21, 2022 A British-Iranian charity worker held in Tehran for six years called on Monday for all "unjustly detained" prisoners in Iran to be freed, as she spoke publicly for the first time since her return home. ... more  
Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with 'Turandot' in RomeRome (AFP) March 22, 2022 Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei makes his directorial operatic debut in Rome on Tuesday with a new reading of Giacomo Puccini's final, unfinished opera, "Turandot". ... more  
Myanmar junta 'categorically rejects' US Rohingya genocide declarationYangon (AFP) March 22, 2022 Myanmar's junta on Tuesday said it "categorically rejects" a United States declaration that its armed forces committed genocide against the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority during a military crackdown five years ago. ... more  
Iraq digs up mass grave containing bodies of IS fighters, relativesMosul, Iraq (AFP) March 20, 2022 Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 Islamic State group fighters and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. ... more |
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Environmentalist held in Tehran 'on hunger strike': sisterLondon (AFP) March 21, 2022 Morad Tahbaz, an environmental campaigner being held in Iran, has gone on hunger strike, his sister said on Monday, accusing the UK government of abandoning him after two other detainees were released. ... more  
Guinea strongman launches national talks despite boycottsConakry (AFP) March 22, 2022 Guinea's strongman Colonel Mamady Doumbouya launched a six-week reconciliation conference on Tuesday, hailing an opportunity to heal historic wounds, despite prominent political groups boycotting the talks. ... more 
Mali attacks leave 16 soldiers deadBamako (AFP) March 23, 2022 Twin attacks in Mali this week have killed 16 soldiers and wounded 18, the army said late Tuesday, in the latest violence sweeping the Sahel state. ... more 
Burkina attacks kill 24 troopsOuagadougou (AFP) March 23, 2022 Twenty-four soldiers have been killed as violence surges in Burkina Faso, 13 in a suspected jihadist ambush and 11 after a roadside bomb exploded, the army said. ... more  
A new brain-computer interface with a flexible backingSan Diego CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Engineering researchers have invented an advanced brain-computer interface with a flexible and moldable backing and penetrating microneedles. Adding a flexible backi ... more |
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 Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Ukraine on Friday said "hundreds" of civilians were trapped in the wreckage of a theatre bombed by Russia, as the United States demanded China get tough with its "war criminal" allies in the Kremlin.
Russian missiles struck an aircraft repair site close to Lviv's airport in Ukraine's far west, extending the war to a relatively unscathed region near the border with NATO member Poland.
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 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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface height data collected by other satellites will be compared to the information produced by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich to ensure their accuracy.
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 Sandstrand, Norway (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Thousands of NATO troops, some with little experience of operating in snowy conditions, are learning to survive and fight in freezing temperatures in exercises above the Arctic Circle.
Up in Norway's Far North, a group of US Marines have swapped their usual desert camouflage outfits for mountain gear, thick mittens and big white boots.
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 Paris (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Some 10 million ducks, chickens and other poultry have been culled in France since November in one of the most widespread outbreaks of bird flu in years, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.
The country has been hit by several epidemics since 2015 but they have mainly been contained to the southwest where ducks are bred for the lucrative foie gras liver pate industry.
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 Petropolis, Brazil (AFP) March 21, 2022 
New floods triggered by torrential rains in the Brazilian tourist town of Petropolis killed at least five people, authorities said Monday, just over a month after a similar tragedy claimed 233 lives.
Four more people remain missing after a month's worth of rain fell in a matter of hours Sunday on the scenic city in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro, emergency officials said.
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 Bamako (AFP) March 17, 2022  Mali's ruling junta has ordered French broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air, complaining they had falsely accused the army of committing abuses, it said in a statement issued on Thursday.
The government in Bamako "categorically rejects these false accusations against the courageous FAMA (Malian Armed Forces)," spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga said.
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 Burnaby, Canada (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult 'finds' in archaeology -including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities-are tapping technology to help in the search.
Archaeologists at the Max Planck Institute and Simon Fraser University are gaining new insights from a computer predictive model that can assess the likelihood that landscapes contain such well-sought si ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) March 23, 2022 
Climate change is now "the greatest threat to the future and security" of Australia, senior defence figures in the country warned Wednesday.
The group - which includes the former chief of the Australian Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie - used an open letter to call on Australia's political leadership to make climate "an immediate security priority" ahead of federal elections expected in ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 23, 2022 
The United Nations said Wednesday it wanted the whole world covered by weather disaster early warning systems within five years to protect people from the worsening impacts of climate change.
A third of the world's people, mainly in the least-developed countries and developing small island states, are without early warning coverage, the UN said, with 60 percent of people in Africa wide open ... more |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Kent, United States (AFP) March 21, 2022 
A woodpecker settled on a branch overhead as Cindy Armstrong stood near a grouping of trees, gazing at a patch of soil that contained bits of her son's composted remains.
Armstrong is one of a growing number of Americans embracing environmentally low-impact burials for their loved ones.
Armstrong recalled that her son Andrew insisted on the so-called "terramation" process after the west ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2022 
A Hong Kong martial arts coach accused of running an armed separatist movement with his assistant has been charged with sedition, police said Tuesday, after a raid that seized weapons including crossbows and machetes.
Police allege the coach, 59, and a 62-year-old female assistant - both of whom face weapons charges - set up a martial arts training hall to "incite hatred" against the gover ... more |
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 Manaus, Brazil (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the Amazon rainforest, where they ate fruit and drank rainwater to stay alive, officials said Friday.
Brothers Glauco, 7, and Gleison, 9, were found Tuesday 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the spot where they went missing, famished and dehydrated but otherwise fine.
"They are suffering from ma ... more |
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