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April 04, 2022
CARBON WORLDS
Predicting carbon transfer in the ocean based on deep-diving tiny organisms



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

EPIDEMICS
Shanghai parents fear separation from kids after positive Covid test
Shanghai (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
EPIDEMICS
China reports 13,000 Covid cases, most since end of Wuhan's first wave
Shanghai, 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
AFRICA NEWS
Central Africa's Aka Pygmies struggle with stigma and poverty
Sakoungou, 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
AFRICA NEWS
Kenya jail goes green to fix sewage woes and protect sea
Mombasa, 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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EPIDEMICS
Shanghai harvests memes from lockdown veg shortage
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. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Volcano monitoring at Mount Etna using fibre optic cables
Potsdam, 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
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
How would a nuclear winter impact food production
University 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
IRON AND ICE
Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system
West 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
TECH SPACE
NASA researcher finding ways to turn down the heat in cities
Greenbelt 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
SPACE MEDICINE
SpacePharma to launch three experiments on AXIOM-1 flight
Washington 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
EARTH OBSERVATION
German satellite EnMAP launches successfully
Berlin, 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
EARTH OBSERVATION
Harmony in the Wadden
Paris (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



WOOD PILE
Indigenous lands key to climate goals in Latin America: report
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. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Most EU cities breach UN air particle guidelines: report
Copenhagen (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
AFRICA NEWS
Niger calls for regional force against Sahel jihadists
Abuja (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
AFRICA NEWS
Jihadist-hit Mali gets combat helicopters from Russia
Bamako (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
CLIMATE SCIENCE
UN starts task force for company climate targets
United 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


Torrential rains kill 14 in Brazil

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CLIMATE SCIENCE
Flash droughts coming on faster, global study shows
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 s ... more
NUKEWARS
Swiss Cold War bunkers back in vogue as Ukraine conflict rages
Meyrin, Switzerland (AFP) April 2, 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reawakened interest in Switzerland's concrete nuclear fallout shelters, built during the Cold War with enough space to shelter everyone in the country. ... more
ICE WORLD
Russia expands definition of "local" in the Arctic
East Lansing MI (SPX) Mar 31, 2022
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine takes center stage, remote areas of the Arctic are thrust to the front row of global impacts to the environment, economics and human security. In this month's o ... more
WATER WORLD
Solomons leader rules out hosting China military base
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. ... more
FARM NEWS
Stung by drought, Morocco's bees face disaster
Inzerki (AFP) Maroc (AFP) April 3, 2022
Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of buzzing with springtime activity, the colonies have collapsed amid crippling drought. ... more
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Russian soldiers likely exposed to Chernobyl radiation: Ukraine
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. The power ... more
+ East Ukrainians twice in flight from Russian offensive
+ How would a nuclear winter impact food production
+ Russians leave Chernobyl with Ukrainian troops as hostages: Kyiv
+ Russians start to withdraw from Chernobyl: US
+ Russia occupies Chernobyl staff town, Kyiv says
+ New fires in Chernobyl exclusion zone: Ukraine deputy PM
+ UN atomic watchdog alarm over shelling of Chernobyl staff town
D-Orbit Launches its Fifth ION Satellite Carrier Mission
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
+ ATLANT 3D Nanosystems developing a space-certified Nanofabricator 0G
+ SCOUT, USSPACECOM sign agreement to share space situational awareness services
+ SES partners with NorthStar to tackle space sustainability challenges
+ NASA researcher finding ways to turn down the heat in cities
+ Artificial modification of Earth's radiation belts by ground-based VLF transmitters
+ Romania to distribute iodine tablets amid Ukraine war
+ A better way to separate gases




Solomons leader rules out hosting China military base
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
+ Pacific leader urges Solomons to rethink China pact
+ Senegal's water-stressed capital faces difficult future
+ Solomon Islands PM says China security deal 'ready for signing'
+ Australia declares 'mass bleaching' at Great Barrier Reef
+ Australia warns against Solomons-China pact
+ International Sea Level Satellite Takes Over From Predecessor
+ Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980s
UK to step up military presence in Arctic
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
+ Arctic greening won't save the climate - here's why
+ Young Sami return to reindeer herding despite climate fears
+ Russia expands definition of "local" in the Arctic
+ Conger ice shelf has collapsed
+ Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica's sea ice
+ NATO says cannot allow 'security vacuum' in Arctic
+ NATO troops face chill of combat in Arctic exercises




Shanghai prunes memes from lockdown veg shortage
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
+ Stung by drought, Morocco's bees face disaster
+ Anti-GMO themes losing traction worldwide, suggests new scientific paper
+ France says 10 million birds culled in massive flu outbreak
+ The scientists helping farmers kick the chemical habit
+ Ukraine war rattles EU green farming plan
+ US drought pushes cotton prices to ten-year high
+ France to cull 'millions' more poultry as bird flu flares
Torrential rains kill 14 in Brazil
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
+ Swiss Re says flooding causes $82 bn of damage in 2021
+ Volcano monitoring at Mount Etna using fibre optic cables
+ Australian beach town of Byron Bay inundated by floodwaters
+ Boarding on an active volcano: Nicaragua's tourism boon
+ Thousands flee after Philippine volcano erupts
+ 52 died in rainy season in Ecuador: officials
+ At least 5 killed in new floods in Brazil's Petropolis




Mali orders French army programming off private TV channels; Claims 203 killed in operation
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". "This initiative is particular ... more
+ Mali says 203 killed in military operation in centre
+ Burkina Faso sets up local panels to talk to jihadists
+ Niger calls for regional force against Sahel jihadists
+ Jihadist-hit Mali gets combat helicopters from Russia
+ Central Africa's Aka Pygmies struggle with stigma and poverty
+ Kenya jail goes green to fix sewage woes and protect sea
+ As Zimbabwe eyes election, fears grow of a return to dirty tricks
Tools reveal patterns of Neandertal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula
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
+ New predictive model helps in identify ancient hunter-gatherer sites
+ Ancient campfires reveal a 50,000 year old grocer and pharmacy
+ 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




Flash droughts coming on faster, global study shows
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
+ Mideast, Central Asia temperature-rises twice world average: IMF
+ How fast can we stop Earth from warming?
+ UN starts task force for company climate targets
+ Costa Rica: Central America's green pin-up
+ Nature-based carbon removal can help protect us from a warming planet
+ Canada announces billions in new climate spending
+ Australian school students join global climate protest
Planet-scale MRI
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
+ German satellite EnMAP launches successfully
+ Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realise
+ Harmony in the Wadden
+ Solid aerosols found in Arctic atmosphere could impact cloud formation
+ Japanese space industry startup "Synspective" raises US $100M
+ Environmental data for researchers worldwide
+ Momentus' Vigoride vehicle completes thermal vacuum testing




Ancient helium offers clues to Earth's formation
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
+ How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
+ How a major volcanic eruption paved the way for the rise of the dinosaurs
+ Researchers find Spinosaurus' dense bones allowed it to hunt underwater
+ Ancient ancestors evolved to be strong and snappy, study finds
+ Meteorites that helped form Earth may have formed in the outer solar system
+ Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth's oxygenation
+ Traces of life in the Earth's deep mantle
Mexico, US talks fail to end energy reform frictions
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. "Imposing a group to watch us, to observe u ... more
+ IEA approves third term for chief pushing clean energy
+ Study shows that realistic models could make for more environmental wins
+ The road to renewable energy in Japan, a top CO2 emitter
+ 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




Design tweak helps prevent malfunction in yarns designed to store energy
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
+ New 3D thermal management network could increase the safety of electric car batteries
+ Light may increase performance of fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries
+ HB11 Energy demonstrates nuclear fusion using a laser
+ Commercial-scale flow batteries for long-duration energy storage
+ GS Yuasa Lithium Power completes PDR of scalable spacecraft battery
+ How a few geothermal plants could solve America's lithium supply crunch
+ DoE funds $50M for fusion research at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities
Unravelling the mystery of parrot longevity
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
+ Biodiversity loss 'threat to financial stability'
+ 'Love hormone' oxytocin turns fierce lions into kittens
+ Hundreds of new mammal species waiting to be found
+ Rare birth of Sumatran rhino brings hope for endangered species
+ Politics and pandemic weigh on talks to save nature
+ Saving nature: Conserving 30% of the land, sea just the start
+ Money at the heart of international efforts to save nature
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Hong Kong calls UK criticisms 'ridiculous'
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. "T ... more
+ Australian TV anchor has closed China trial on state secrets charges
+ Australian journalist to stand trial in China on state secrets charges
+ China sanctions US officials who 'concocted lies' on human rights
+ Australian, Canadian judges to stay on HK top court as UK judges resign
+ Nine foreign judges to stay on Hong Kong's top court
+ Australian journalist faces China trial on state secrets charges
+ UK judges to withdraw from Hong Kong's top court
Indigenous lands key to climate goals in Latin America: report
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
+ Ivory Coast walls up forest to fend off encroaching city
+ Lost children survive 25-day ordeal in Amazon
+ How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath's forests for a millennia
+ 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






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