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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 Call them hitchhikers, the microbes that latch onto particles at the ocean's surface have a big job. They ride along until they reach the bottom, transferring carbon to the deepest waters of the ocean. The journey can take weeks to months, though estimating the rate has been a challenge- until now. ? A USC-led team of international scientists has found that the speed of this carbon transfer is influenced by the size and type of bacteria that latch onto the particles. The discovery has enabled rese ... read more |
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Shanghai parents fear separation from kids after positive Covid testShanghai (AFP) April 2, 2022 Nearly all of Shanghai's 25 million residents were under stay-at-home orders on Saturday, as parents raised fears of being separated from their children in the event of a positive Covid-19 test. ... more 
China reports 13,000 Covid cases, most since end of Wuhan's first waveShanghai, China (AFP) April 3, 2022 China reported 13,000 Covid cases on Sunday, the most since the peak of the first pandemic wave over two years ago, as health officials said they have found a suspected new subtype of the Omicron variant in the Shanghai area. ... more  
Central Africa's Aka Pygmies struggle with stigma and povertySakoungou, Central African Republic (AFP) March 31, 2022 Juliette sits up on the examining table and slowly pulls up her top to reveal a back marked by a constellation of fine scars and deformed by a huge abscess. ... more 
Kenya jail goes green to fix sewage woes and protect seaMombasa, Kenya (AFP) April 1, 2022 Heading north from Mombasa, the unmistakable whiff of a foul stench in the air was as reliable as any mile marker for motorists taking the highway along the Kenyan coast. ... more |
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Quakes leave Greek tourist island on tenterhooks
Quakes leave Greek tourist island suffering an anxiety virus India capital shaken by 4.0-magnitude quake Greece announces measures to support businesses on quake-hit islands TEPCO takes on challenge of making space for Fukushima nuclear debris Fukushima operator starts dismantling water tank High wind halts dismantling of Fukushima nuclear plant's water tanks Emergency declared on second Greek quake-hit island 'Dad, are you a traitor?': Orban rival faces smear campaigns 4.6 magnitude earthquake hits Croatian coast |
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Shanghai harvests memes from lockdown veg shortageShanghai (AFP) April 1, 2022 Bok choy emojis, clips of Gucci gift bags stuffed with celery and video of drones delivering broccoli - vegetable memes are the new currency in Shanghai's sardonic social media scene, with the city locked down and pining for greens. ... more  
Volcano monitoring at Mount Etna using fibre optic cablesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 In order to understand and predict volcanic events even better, a better understanding of the diverse underground processes involved is required. A new way to detect such processes, even if they are ... more  
How would a nuclear winter impact food productionUniversity Park PA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 The day after lead author Daniel Winstead approved the final proofs for a study to be published in Ambio, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russia put its nuclear forces on high ... more  
Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar systemWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions. Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information about impacts to understand ... more |
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NASA researcher finding ways to turn down the heat in citiesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 Rooftop gardens and greenery can help ease some of the severe heat in cities, according to research from climate scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. For seve ... more  
SpacePharma to launch three experiments on AXIOM-1 flightWashington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 SpacePharma is preparing to launch three sets of experiments to orbit on the AXIOM-1 flight. One is ALEPH FARMS - Meat for Space, which tests a technology for growing meat products from animal ... more  
German satellite EnMAP launches successfullyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 It all began in 2003 with a competition announced by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center as part of the National Space Programme. The task was to design and build a new type of hy ... more 
Harmony in the WaddenParis (ESA) Apr 01, 2022 An important milestone in the preparation of ESA's tenth Earth Explorer candidate satellite mission, Harmony, has been reached thanks to two aircraft flying in tight formation over the Dutch Wadden ... more |
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Indigenous lands key to climate goals in Latin America: reportWashington (AFP) March 31, 2022 Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru will not be able to meet their 2030 climate goals if they do not protect indigenous communities' lands, according to a report released Thursday. ... more  
Most EU cities breach UN air particle guidelines: reportCopenhagen (AFP) April 1, 2022 Despite a fall in emissions due to Covid curbs, nearly all EU urban dwellers in 2020 were exposed to microparticle pollution that breached recommended UN limits, the bloc's environmental watchdog said on Friday. ... more 
Niger calls for regional force against Sahel jihadistsAbuja (AFP) March 31, 2022 Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum on Thursday called for Nigeria to help create a regional military task force to combat insecurity in the Sahel region. ... more 
Jihadist-hit Mali gets combat helicopters from RussiaBamako (AFP) March 31, 2022 Mali's junta-dominated government has taken delivery of combat helicopters from Russia to help its army fight a bloody jihadist insurgency, an AFP journalist saw. ... more  
UN starts task force for company climate targetsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 31, 2022 The United Nations launched a task force Thursday to pressure businesses to keep their emissions-cutting promises instead of masking progress with feel-good "greenwashing". ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 1, 2022 
Russian soldiers were likely exposed to radiation while they were occupying the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station over the past four weeks, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
Vehicles used by Russian forces would have raised radioactive dust clouds and soldiers also dug trenches in the most contaminated part of the site, Ukraine's nuclear agency Energoatom said.
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 
D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company, has launched Spacelust, the fifth mission of the Company's proprietary ION Satellite Carrier (ION), aboard SpaceX's Transporter-4 mission. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off April 1, 2022, at 12:24 PM EDT from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. ION, a versatile and cost-effectiv ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 1, 2022  Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday his government would not allow a Chinese military base to be built in his country "under its watch" as he defended a pending security agreement with Beijing.
Sogavare, echoing a fiery speech he made to Honiara's parliament this week, dismissed concerns the deal would allow China a base in the South Pacific and labelled the claims a ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) March 29, 2022 
Britain is to reinforce its military presence in the Arctic in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Tuesday.
The region "is important for our communications, it is important for our trade and our travels, it is important for our freedoms," said Wallace as he visited troops at Bardufoss in Norway, a cold weather training base for Royal Air Force, Britis ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) April 1, 2022  Bok choy emojis, clips of Gucci gift bags stuffed with celery and video of drones delivering broccoli - vegetable memes are the new currency in Shanghai's sardonic social media scene, with the city locked down and pining for greens.
Those navigating the city's thicket of Covid-19 restrictions to go shopping this week found long queues and empty shelves as panic-buying outpaced re-supply. ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 2, 2022 
Torrential downpours triggered flash floods and landslides across Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, killing at least 14 people including eight children, and leaving five missing, authorities said Saturday.
Two days of heavy rain have battered a broad swathe of the southeastern state's Atlantic coast, the latest in a series of deadly storms in Brazil that experts say are being aggravated by clim ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) April 1, 2022  Mali's army-dominated government has ordered private television channels to stop airing content promoting the French military in the Sahel state, calling such ads "particularly inappropriate".
The government said that France's Barkhane military operation had been running an advertising campaign for several weeks in Mali in order to "promote its activity".
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 Bilbao, Spain (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 
Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a study published March 30, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Joseba Rios-Garaizar of the Archaeological Museum of Bilbao, Spain and colleagues.
Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remai ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 
Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast - drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events can wipe out crops and cause huge economic losses. And according to scientists, the speed at which they dry out the landscape has increased.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Texas Tech University found that although the n ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Earthquakes do more than buckle streets and topple buildings. Seismic waves generated by earthquakes pass through the Earth, acting like a giant MRI machine and providing clues to what lies inside the planet.
Seismologists have developed methods to take wave signals from the networks of seismometers at the Earth's surface and reverse engineer features and characteristics of the medium they ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a solar nebula, which has long been debated.
Helium-3 has been measured at Earth's surface in relatively small quantities. But scientists did not know how much was leaking from the Earth's core, as ... more |
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 Mexico City (AFP) April 1, 2022 
Mexico and the United States faced fresh diplomatic tensions on Friday after talks failed to end a disagreement over Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's controversial energy reforms.
Lopez Obrador rejected the idea of allowing a special US team to monitor the reform process, a day after meeting Washington's climate envoy John Kerry.
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found a way to prevent electrical malfunctions in yarns designed to store electrical energy. Ultimately, the findings could help advance the development of "smart textiles" that would capture energy from the wearer's movements and power sensors and wearable electronics.
The researchers reported in npj Flexible Electronics that the ... more |
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 Radolfzell, Germany (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and exceptionally long lifespans. Now, a study led by Max Planck researchers has shown that one of these traits has likely been caused by the other.
By examining 217 parrot species, the researchers revealed that species such as the scarlet macaw and sulphur-crested cockatoo have extremely long average lifespans, of up to 30 years, ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 1, 2022 
Hong Kong on Friday rejected "unfounded and ridiculous allegations" after the UK government said China's national security law had "devastated" civil society, stifled political opposition and criminalised dissent.
The city's government hit out at the wide-ranging claims of internal repression made by the UK in its latest six-monthly report on its former colony, released late Thursday.
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 Washington (AFP) March 31, 2022 
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru will not be able to meet their 2030 climate goals if they do not protect indigenous communities' lands, according to a report released Thursday.
To achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the international community must take into account indigenous peoples and local communities, said the report ... more |
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