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  Durban, South Africa (AFP) April 17, 2022 As temperatures climbed and an overcast sky hung over a storm-ravaged township in eastern South Africa, survivors of the deadly floods sought divine solace observing Easter Sunday. Inanda, a rural township 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city of Durban's central business district, was one of the areas devastated by heavy flooding that has killed 443 people and left more than 40,000 homeless. On Sunday, around 200 Christian worshippers gathered at the United Congregational Church of Southern Af ... read more |
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Shanghai reports first Covid deaths since start of lockdownShanghai (AFP) April 18, 2022 China said Monday that just three people have died from Covid-19 in Shanghai since a gruelling lockdown began last month, despite recording hundreds of thousands of cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant in the eastern megacity. ... more  
Myanmar political prisoners not among 1,600 freed in new year amnestyYangon (AFP) April 17, 2022 Families of detained Myanmar protesters had their hopes dashed Sunday after political prisoners were not included in some 1,600 people released by the junta to mark the Buddhist new year. ... more 
More rain in South Africa's flood-ravaged southeastern regionDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 16, 2022 South Africa's flood-ravaged east was hit by more rain Saturday after the deadliest storm to strike the country in living memory killed nearly 400 people and left tens of thousands homeless. ... more  
Deforestation drives climate change that harms remaining forestIrvine CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 In a paper published in Nature Communications, a team led by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, using climate models and satellite data, reveal for the first time how protecting t ... 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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Researchers find declining nitrogen availability in a nitrogen rich worldAnnapolis MD (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 Since the mid-20th century, research and discussion has focused on the negative effects of excess nitrogen on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, new evidence indicates that the world is no ... more  
Huge Amazon swamp carbon stores under threatEdinburgh UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 Urgent protection is needed to prevent carbon gas emissions from decomposing peat swamps in lowland Peruvian Amazonia (LPA) - which are bigger than previously thought. Scientists discovered sm ... more  
Global warming: even cacti can't take the heatParis (AFP) April 15, 2022 Sixty percent of cactus species will wind up in less hospitable climates over the coming decades as global warming sets in, according to new research challenging the long-held assumption the iconic desert plants will thrive with more heat. ... more  
Web of support for Ukrainian refugees in RomaniaBucharest (AFP) April 15, 2022 Eyes glued to her two screens, Romanian Olivia Vereha works tirelessly to make sure an essential website for Ukrainian refugees runs smoothly. ... more |
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Wildfire in US west kills 2: policeLos Angeles (AFP) April 14, 2022 A wildfire tearing through the US state of New Mexico has killed two people and damaged more than 200 buildings, police said. ... more 
Shanghai residents scuffle with police over virus policyShanghai (AFP) April 15, 2022 Shanghai residents scuffled with hazmat-suited police ordering them to surrender their homes to Covid-19 patients, videos on social media showed, providing a rare glimpse into rising discontent in the megacity over China's inflexible virus response. ... more  
California start-up sending tiny robots on fantastic voyage into brainsLos Angeles (AFP) April 13, 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  
Satellites improve national reporting of greenhouse gasesParis (ESA) Apr 15, 2022 With the climate crisis continuing to tighten its grip, nations around the world are making efforts to reduce emissions of climate warming gases. To track action, countries report their greenhouse g ... more |
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China receives data from newly launched GF-3 03 satelliteBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS), a major national S and T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ... more  
Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscapeUrbana 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, ... more 
Damaged roads and bridges hamper aid for S. Africa flood victimsDurban, 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. ... more 
A swarm of 85,000 earthquakes at the Antarctic Orca submarine volcanoPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 Volcanoes can be found even off the coast of Antarctica. At the deep-sea volcano Orca, which has been inactive for a long time, a sequence of more than 85,000 earthquakes was registered in 2020, a s ... more  
Niger MPs to tackle foreign troop presenceNiamey (AFP) April 15, 2022 Niger's parliament will for the first time tackle the question of the presence of foreign forces fighting jihadists in the impoverished Sahel nation, the government said on Friday. ... more |
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 Bucharest (AFP) April 15, 2022 
Eyes glued to her two screens, Romanian Olivia Vereha works tirelessly to make sure an essential website for Ukrainian refugees runs smoothly.
Vereha, 34, is a co-founder of non-profit organisation Code4Romania that launched a platform called "dopomoha", the Ukrainian word for "help".
"The pressure is enormous, because things can change from one hour to another," especially when the flow ... 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 17, 2022 
Australia's foreign minister said Sunday that a controversial security deal between the Solomon Islands and China would not spell the end of her country's defence cooperation with the Pacific nation.
Marise Payne told national broadcaster ABC that an existing bilateral security treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands would continue even if the nation ignored entreaties from Canberra ... 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 16, 2022 
South Africa's flood-ravaged east was hit by more rain Saturday after the deadliest storm to strike the country in living memory killed nearly 400 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
Floodwaters engulfed parts of the southeastern coastal city of Durban this week ripping apart roads, destroying hospitals and sweeping away homes and those trapped inside.
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 Doha (AFP) April 14, 2022 
In the month since Chadian rebels and envoys of the military government started peace talks in Qatar, the two sides have prayed together most days but refused to face each other across the negotiating table.
With more than 250 opposition and government officials staying in two luxury hotels, the Gulf state is picking up a mounting bill for its mediation in the Central African nation.
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
A study published in Nature by an international team of scientists provides clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. By combining the most extensive database of well-dated fossil remains and archeological artefacts with an unprecedented new supercomputer model simulating earth's climate history of the past 2 million years, the team of experts in ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 16, 2022 
Several hundred activists from the Extinction Rebellion activist group on Saturday blocked major roads in central Paris and London, disrupting traffic to protest "inaction" on climate change from world leaders.
Around 300 metres (980 feet) of a main thoroughfare in central Paris was taken over by activists over the Easter weekend, with some of them moving in hay bales and cement-filled conta ... 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 15, 2022
On April 11, 2022, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as quickly as possible. This is the second article in a five-part series highlighting the most promising concepts to emerge from the competition, and the inte ... more |
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 Annapolis MD (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 
Since the mid-20th century, research and discussion has focused on the negative effects of excess nitrogen on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, new evidence indicates that the world is now experiencing a dual trajectory in nitrogen availability with many areas experiencing a hockey-stick shaped decline in the availability of nitrogen. In a new review paper in the journal Science, rese ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 13, 2022 
A Hong Kong television show has ignited anger over a Filipina character played by a local actress who darkened her skin, in the latest incident of "brownface" in Asia.
Broadcaster TVB cast Canadian-Hong Konger Franchesca Wong to play a Filipina domestic worker for its series "Barrack O'Karma 2".
Wong appears in the show with visibly darker skin and a clip posted by a colleague on Instagr ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 14, 2022 
The largest antenna ever tested in ESA's Hertz radio frequency test chamber is this 5-m diameter transponder antenna, which will operate down on the ground to help calibrate the Biomass mission, which will chart all the forests on Earth.
"This is a particularly challenging test campaign both in terms of the size of the antenna and the very low P-band frequency that Biomass will be using, w ... more |
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