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  Durban, South Africa (AFP) April 14, 2022 Victims of South Africa's deadliest storm on record scrambled to get help on Thursday as relief teams struggled to cross bridges and roads wrecked by floods and landslip. At least 306 people died when the heaviest rainfall in six decades swept away homes and destroyed infrastructure in the city of Durban and KwaZulu-Natal province. The government has declared the region a state of disaster to unlock relief funds. But with key roads and bridges washed away, relief workers battled to reach th ... read more |
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'Everything is gone': S.Africa's flood victims search for shelterDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 13, 2022 Disoriented and in disbelief but alive, a crowd of people who watched their homes wash away amid devastating floods in South Africa's coastal city of Durban queued to register for temporary shelter Wednesday. ... more  
Diverse life forms may have evolved earlier than previously thoughtLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 Diverse microbial life existed on Earth at least 3.75 billion years ago, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers that challenges the conventional view of when life began. For the study, pu ... more  
Vertical farming will play a role in future food productionMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 Professor Asseng, vertical farming allows food production to be fully uncoupled from soil and external climate influences. What possibilities and opportunities do you see in such indoor crop growing ... more  
Joystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotelyBoston MA (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may contr ... 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 Libya's Derna hosts theatre festival year after flash flood |
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'Green cities' focus of largest Dutch garden expoAlmere, Netherlands (AFP) April 13, 2022 Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Wednesday opened the gates to one of Europe's largest gardening fairs, a once-in-a-decade show focusing this year on how to make cities greener. ... more  
Dry streets as Myanmar boycotts water festival to protest juntaYangon (AFP) April 13, 2022 Myanmar marked its normally boisterous new year water festival with silence and boycotts on Wednesday, as fighting between the military and opponents of the coup raged across the country. ... more 
Durban cleans up after record floods hit South AfricaDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 13, 2022 The South African city of Durban city began the mammoth task of recovering from rains that have so far left 59 dead Wednesday, with hillsides washed away, homes collapsed, and dozens still missing. ... more  
'Safer' higher ground becomes fatal site in Philippine landslideAbuyog, Philippines (AFP) April 13, 2022 Fearing heavy rain dumped by tropical storm Megi would trigger flooding, residents of a Philippine fishing village hiked to higher ground and pitched tents. They never imagined the mountain they were on would collapse. ... more |
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'Tanganyika is vomiting': Burundians flee as lake risesGatumba, Burundi (AFP) April 13, 2022 In her 40 years living by the water's edge, Amissa Irakoze never much feared Lake Tanganyika. Floods were frequent, even lapping at her front door, but eventually they always receded. ... more  
California start-up sends tiny robots on voyage into brainsLos Angeles (AFP) April 14, 2022 Sending miniature robots deep inside the human skull to treat brain disorders has long been the stuff of science fiction - but it could soon become reality, according to a California start-up. ... more  
Gas tank graveyard has Mexico City residents up in armsMexico City (AFP) April 11, 2022 Thousands of disused gas cylinders sit outside under the sun at a former refinery in Mexico City, producing a foul smell that neighbors say has made their lives a nightmare. ... more  
Record 1st-quarter deforestation of Amazon; Lula slams Bolsonaro indigenous policiesRio De Janeiro (AFP) April 8, 2022 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new quarterly record in the first three months of 2022 compared to a year earlier, official data showed Friday. ... more |
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Lost golden toad heralds climate's massive extinction threatParis (AFP) April 13, 2022 Those lucky enough to have seen them will never forget. ... more 
Climate change magnified extreme rain in hurricane season: studyParis (AFP) April 12, 2022 Climate change supercharged storms during the unprecedented North Atlantic hurricane season in 2020 by increasing the amount of extreme rainfall by up to 10 percent, according to new research published Tuesday. ... more  
Seven police officers, 4 soldiers die in Niger attacksNiamey (AFP) April 13, 2022 Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said Wednesday. ... more 
4,800 people displaced after attacks in central NigeriaAbuja (AFP) April 13, 2022 More than 4,800 Nigerians have fled from their homes following attacks on five villages in central Plateau state, a government official said Wednesday. ... more 
German FM urges end to Mali's cooperation with RussiaBamako (AFP) April 13, 2022 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned Wednesday that European forces would not cooperate with Mali's military while it maintained links to Russia, during a visit to the conflict-torn Sahel state. ... more |
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 Bunga, Philippines (AFP) April 12, 2022 
Rescuers hampered by mud and rain on Tuesday used their bare hands and shovels to search for survivors of landslides that smashed into villages in the central Philippines, as the death toll from tropical storm Megi rose to 42.
Tens of thousands fled their homes as the storm pummelled the disaster-prone region in recent days, dumping heavy rain that flooded houses, severed roads and knocked ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Apr 14, 2022  Kleos Space S.A (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1) has confirmed that the first two Patrol Mission satellites (KSF2-C and KSF2-D) have been successfully deployed from D-Orbit's orbital transfer vehicle, ION Satellite Carrier, and contact has been established. The remaining two Patrol satellites (KSF2-A and KSF3-B) are expected to be deployed into a different orbit from the transfer vehicle in the coming w ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 13, 2022  Australia on Wednesday asked Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to not sign a controversial security pact with China.
A leaked draft of the security agreement sent shockwaves across the region last month - particularly measures that would allow Chinese security and naval deployments to the Solomon Islands.
This pressed on long-held fears in the United States and its allies ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 
Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of large, sunken polygons.
It's evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, i ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 
Professor Asseng, vertical farming allows food production to be fully uncoupled from soil and external climate influences. What possibilities and opportunities do you see in such indoor crop growing systems?
Crops are grown in spaces ranging in size from small boxes that can be placed in homes or offices to industrial production facilities with several thousand square meters of growing are ... more |
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 Durban, South Africa (AFP) April 13, 2022  The South African city of Durban city began the mammoth task of recovering from rains that have so far left 59 dead Wednesday, with hillsides washed away, homes collapsed, and dozens still missing.
The heaviest rains in over 60 years forced sub-Saharan Africa's most important port to halt operations, as a main access road suffered heavy damage.
Shipping containers were tossed about, wash ... more |
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 Juba (AFP) April 12, 2022  South Sudan's government announced on Tuesday the creation of a unified armed forces command, implementing a key provision of the 2018 peace deal that observers hope will ease the country's recovery from years of war.
The world's newest nation has struggled to draw a line under a five-year civil war between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek Machar, that ... more |
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 Manaus, Brazil (AFP) April 10, 2022 
Proudly donning majestic feathered headdresses, models sing an ode to the rain while a makeup artist draws geometric patterns on their faces, arms and thighs in preparation for Brazil's first-ever indigenous fashion show.
"It is a feeling of happiness and pride," 19-year-old model Moan Munduruku told AFP ahead of his turn on the catwalk in Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon.
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 Santiago (AFP) April 12, 2022 
Authorities in Chile on Monday announced possible plans ration water in the capital Santiago due to a drought that has lasted more than a decade.
"We have had 12 years of drought, therefore it's quite likely that we will have this type of situation," said the governor's office in Santiago.
The plan has four stages. The first one, called the "Green Alert," emphasizes water conservation a ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
The flight model of the Scatterometer Antenna Subsystem (SAS) of the MetOp Second Generation meteorological satellites has been officially delivered after four months of extensive testing at the Airbus facility in Madrid. It will now be transferred to Airbus in Friedrichshafen (Germany) where it will be integrated into the satellite along with the other instruments.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 5, 2021 
The Tyrannosaurus rex's arms may have evolved to become extremely short to lower the risk of bites while feeding in packs, a new study says.
A 45-foot-long T. rex may have 3-feet long arms--the equivalent of a 6-foot human with 5-inch arms, study author Kevin Padian, emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology, noted in a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 13, 2022 
If all nations honour promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is a chance of capping the rise in global temperatures to under two degrees Celsius, the cornerstone target of the Paris Agreement, researchers said Wednesday.
But that is a very big "if", they acknowledge in a peer-reviewed study, published in Nature.
The calculus includes not only carbon-cutting commitments offici ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency - a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines.
The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel's photovoltaic cells, that passiv ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 13, 2022 
Those lucky enough to have seen them will never forget.
For just a few days every year, the elfin cloud forest of Costa Rica came alive with crowds of golden toads the length of a child's thumb, emerging from the undergrowth to mate at rain-swelled pools.
In this mysterious woodland the cloud drapes over mountain ridges and "the trees are dwarfed and wind-sculpted, gnarled and heavily ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 13, 2022 
Hong Kong's former security chief said it was "not easy" to run as the only candidate to become the city's next leader, as he announced on Wednesday that he had secured enough nominations to enter the poll.
John Lee, 64, is expected to be anointed the business hub's new chief executive by a committee of 1,500 Beijing loyalists next month.
Hong Kong media have widely reported that Lee wil ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 8, 2022  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new quarterly record in the first three months of 2022 compared to a year earlier, official data showed Friday.
Satellite images revealed the destruction of 941 square kilometers (363 square miles) of rain forest - the highest quarterly rate since the start of Brazil's Deter monitoring program in 2015.
This is an area about the size of Dallas. ... more |
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