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  Paris (AFP) March 24, 2022 Central banks have underestimated the significant threat posed by biodiversity loss, a new report said Thursday, warning that financial institutions and businesses were destroying the natural assets that they depend on. While climate change is increasingly factored into calculations of systemic economic risks, the report by central bankers, financial supervisors and academics said the comparable threats from the biodiversity crisis had only recently begun to be appreciated. "Biodiversity support ... read more |
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Australia warns against Solomons-China pactHoniara (AFP) March 24, 2022 A wide-ranging draft security pact between the Solomon Islands and China was leaked online Thursday, prompting Australia to voice concern about actions that would "destabilise" the South Pacific. ... more 
Australia declares 'mass bleaching' at Great Barrier ReefSydney (AFP) March 25, 2022 Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is suffering "mass bleaching" as corals lose their colour under the stress of warmer seas, authorities said Friday, in a blow widely blamed on climate change. ... more  
Ivory Coast walls up forest to fend off encroaching cityAbidjan (AFP) March 25, 2022 Helping to build a barrier around a primary forest in the centre of Ivory Coast's Abidjan, Victor is happy to protect the endangered green space from the expanding city. ... more  
Australian school students join global climate protestSydney (AFP) March 25, 2022 Hundreds of school students rallied outside Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's official Sydney residence Friday kicking off a "global climate strike" demanding action to stop the world heating up. ... more |
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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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'China's Fauci' calls for protecting 'normal life' in Omicron fightShanghai (AFP) March 24, 2022 A top doctor in China's pandemic fight who came under pressure last year for questioning the country's zero-Covid policy has called again for balancing anti-virus measures with maintenance of normal life as China struggles with an Omicron surge. ... more  
UN atomic watchdog alarm over shelling of Chernobyl staff townVienna (AFP) March 24, 2022 The International Atomic Energy Agency expressed "concern" on Thursday after Ukraine warned of bombardment by Russia of the town where staff working at the Chernobyl nuclear site live. ... more  
West African court orders suspension of Mali sanctionsBamako (AFP) March 24, 2022 A West African court ordered Thursday the suspension of sanctions imposed on Mali over delayed elections, in a rare diplomatic win for the country's ruling junta. ... more 
Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980sRabat (AFP) March 23, 2022 As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages. ... more |
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Plastic pollution cuts power in DR CongoBukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) March 22, 2022 Among rolling hills around the southern tip of majestic Lake Kivu, huge layers of plastic waste ride the water and block the turbines of the largest hydroelectric plant in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more  
American lawyer released from prison, says 'banned' from Hong KongHong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2022 An American lawyer imprisoned for assaulting a policeman in Hong Kong said Wednesday he was banned from the city after being released, capping a multi-year legal saga. ... more 
UN weighs listing Great Barrier Reef as 'in danger'Sydney (AFP) March 21, 2022 The United Nations began a monitoring mission on the Great Barrier Reef Monday, assessing whether the World Heritage site is being protected from climate change as it suffers further widespread bleaching. ... more 
Body composting takes root in US 'green' burial trendKent, 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. ... more |
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Nations vet climate solutions as world 'sleepwalks' to catastropheParis (AFP) March 21, 2022 Nearly 200 nations gathered Monday to grapple with a question that will outlive Covid-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine: how does a world addicted to fossil fuels prevent carbon pollution from making Earth unliveable? ... more  
Ukraine war rattles EU green farming planGeneva (AFP) March 23, 2022 Scientists are urging Europe not to delay the transition to greener agriculture in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which threatens global wheat supplies and raises fears over food shortages. ... more 
China locks down city of 9 million as virus ripples across countryBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2022 China locked down an industrial city of nine million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases on Tuesday, as the nation's "zero-Covid" strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave. ... more 
Reality check: what the path to a 1.5C world looks likeParis (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. ... more 
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 |
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 Kyiv (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.
"Today, we are using artificial intelligence to search social networks for profiles of Russian soldiers based on images of their bodies to report their deaths to friends and relatives," Deputy Ukrai ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 
Environmental "win-wins" are ideal outcomes - such as increasing a shrimp catches in ways that also have environmental sustainability by limiting adverse environmental impacts - are harder to come by than thought, according to new research.
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder found in a study published Thursday in the ... 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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 Paris (AFP) March 24, 2022 
Central banks have underestimated the significant threat posed by biodiversity loss, a new report said Thursday, warning that financial institutions and businesses were destroying the natural assets that they depend on.
While climate change is increasingly factored into calculations of systemic economic risks, the report by central bankers, financial supervisors and academics said the compar ... 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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 Abidjan (AFP) March 25, 2022 
Helping to build a barrier around a primary forest in the centre of Ivory Coast's Abidjan, Victor is happy to protect the endangered green space from the expanding city.
"We have our own Great Wall of China," says the construction worker proudly.
In three months' time, a cinder block fence 10 kilometres (six miles) long is to run along the edge of the Banco National Park to prevent it f ... more |
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