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  Nairobi (AFP) April 19, 2022 Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday. A months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, destroying crops and livestock and forcing huge numbers of people to leave their homes in search of food and water. As long-awaited rains fail to materialise nearly a month into the current rainy season, "the number of hungry people due to dr ... read more |
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Toll hits 448 in S.Africa floods, relief effort faltersDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 19, 2022 South Africa's government Tuesday sought to reassure a worried public about efforts to help the east coast, where millions remained without water more than a week after deadly storms pounded the region. ... more  
Shanghai reports more Covid deaths as officials push work resumptionShanghai (AFP) April 19, 2022 China reported seven more Covid-19 deaths in Shanghai on Tuesday, as major firms such as Tesla forged ahead to resume production after a damaging weeks-long lockdown. ... more  
Solomons signed China security pact 'with our eyes open': PMSydney (AFP) April 20, 2022 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Wednesday his government signed a controversial security pact with China "with our eyes open" but refused to say when it may be published. ... more  
Chinese satellite obtains global gravity field dataBeijing (XNA) Apr 20, 2022 China's Tianqin-1 satellite has acquired the global gravity field data during its in-orbit operation, according to Sun Yat-sen University in south China's Guangdong Province. The satellite was ... more |
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Thousands leave as fresh tremors shake Greece's Santorini Thousands leave as fresh tremors shake Santorini CORRECTED: Australia says flood recovery will take time Australia says flood recovery may take weeks Greek PM calls for calm amid 'very intense' Santorini tremors Greek PM calls for calm after 'very intense' Santorini tremors Fresh tremors shake top Greek tourist island Santorini Two years on, construction jungle emerges from Antioch's quake-hit ruins Rising floodwaters force evacuations in eastern Australia |
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California field campaign is helping scientists protect diverse ecosystemsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2022 With a plane crisscrossing the sky and researchers working on land and sea, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series campaign (SHIFT) combines the ability of airborne science instr ... more  
DRCongo plans elephant safe-zone after church intrusionMatadi, Dr Congo (AFP) April 19, 2022 Conservationists in DR Congo said Tuesday they would create a safe "corridor" for elephants in a district where one caused a commotion by entering a church's grounds on Easter Sunday. ... more 
Israel to top up shrinking Sea of Galilee with desalinated waterRavid, Israel (AFP) April 15, 2022 Israel, a leader in making seawater drinkable, plans to pump excess output from its desalination plants into the Sea of Galilee, depleted by overuse and threatened by climate change. ... more  
Indigenous lands block Brazil deforestation: studyBrasilia (AFP) April 19, 2022 Brazil's indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a study published Tuesday. ... more |
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Planet Partners with Canadian universities to research boreal forestsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced a new partnership with a group of interconnected research programs at the University of Alberta, ... more  
Some tropical plants have potential to remove toxic heavy metals from the soilSingapore (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Singapore's National Parks Board (NParks), has demonstrated that some plant species could help to remove to ... more 
Biden restores environmental safeguards dropped by TrumpWashington (AFP) April 19, 2022 The administration of President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced it would restore safeguards in a cornerstone environmental law weakened under Donald Trump - including a duty to assess the climate impacts of proposed infrastructure projects. ... more 
Three months after oil spill, Peru fishermen remain without workLima (AFP) April 15, 2022 Three months after an oil spill that polluted beaches and killed wildlife in Peru, hundreds of fishermen remain out of work as Easter approaches. ... more |
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Mali takes delivery of two more Russian combat helicoptersBamako (AFP) April 18, 2022 Mali's ruling junta on Monday announced the delivery of two more combat helicopters and surveillance radars from Russia as the West African nation tackles a bloody jihadist insurgency. ... more 
'Drunk' Congo soldiers run amok killing 15: officialsBunia, Dr Congo (AFP) April 18, 2022 Two drunken Congolese soldiers have gunned down a total of 15 people in separate attacks in volatile eastern DR Congo, authorities said Monday. ... more  
First Hong Kongers convicted for online vote-boycott callsHong Kong (AFP) April 19, 2022 A man and a woman on Tuesday became the first Hong Kongers convicted for supporting a local election boycott in online posts, the latest court verdict to shrink political freedoms in the business hub. ... more  
You've heard of water droughts - could 'energy' droughts be nextNew York NY (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 Renewable energy prices have fallen by more than 70 percent in the last decade, driving more Americans to abandon fossil fuels for greener, less-polluting energy sources. But as wind and solar power ... more  
Oldest evidence of Mayan calendar found in GuatemalaWashington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2021 The oldest evidence of the Maya calendar has been excavated at San Bartolo, Guatemala, found among fragments of painted murals. ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 13, 2022 
Russian soldiers dug in "many places" at Chernobyl where officials are still unable to restore radiation monitoring after Ukraine re-took control, the state agency in charge said Wednesday.
"The occupiers dug in many places. They buried heavy equipment, created dugouts, even underground kitchens, tents, fortifications," said Yevgen Kramarenko, head of the agency for the Chernobyl exclusion z ... 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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 Washington (AFP) April 18, 2022 
The United States on Monday voiced alarm over a potential security deal between China and the Solomon Islands, as top US diplomats headed to the South Pacific to curb Beijing's inroads.
Kurt Campbell and Daniel Kritenbrink, the top officials on Asia at the National Security Council and State Department respectively, will lead the delegation traveling this week to the Solomon Islands, Fiji an ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 
Changes in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are considered to be the main cause of past and future climate change. A long-standing debate centers on whether the roughly 30 percent lower CO2 content of the ice-age atmosphere was caused by iron fertilization.
It is argued that iron-rich dust is carried into the ocean by wind and water, where it stimulates the growth of a ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2021 
Scientists have found evidence that an earthquake 3,800 years ago in Northern Chile is the largest in human history, according to a new study.
The quake had a magnitude of around 9.5, prompting tsunamis that struck countries as far away as New Zealand and boulders the size of cars to be carried inland by the waves, according to researchers at the University of Southampton.
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 Bamako (AFP) April 17, 2022 
Mali's army said Saturday that it had killed "a dozen terrorists" including a French-Tunisian jihadist in air strikes in the centre of the Sahel nation.
The armed forces carried out two strikes on Thursday "to neutralise a dozen terrorists in the forest of Ganguel" about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the village of Moura, the general staff said in a press release.
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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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 Nairobi (AFP) April 19, 2022 
Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday.
A months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, destroying crops and livestock and forcing huge numbers of people to leave their homes in search of food and water.
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 Paris (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 gas emissions to the UNFCCC - the body responsible for driving global action to combat climate change. While accurate and consistent reporting is crucial, very few countries exploit Earth observation s ... more |
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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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 Matadi, Dr Congo (AFP) April 19, 2022  Conservationists in DR Congo said Tuesday they would create a safe "corridor" for elephants in a district where one caused a commotion by entering a church's grounds on Easter Sunday.
District administrator Ferdinand Tshikala Etshindo told AFP the pachyderm had been spotted several days ago near Lukula in the west of the vast central African country.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 19, 2022  A man and a woman on Tuesday became the first Hong Kongers convicted for supporting a local election boycott in online posts, the latest court verdict to shrink political freedoms in the business hub.
Salesman Chan Kin-man, 36, and office assistant Alice Leung, 65, were both sentenced to two months in jail with 18 months of suspension respectively by a magistrate in Hong Kong after pleading ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) April 19, 2022  Brazil's indigenous reservations have acted as a barrier against deforestation over the past three decades, although destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated recently under President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a study published Tuesday.
Of the 69 million hectares (266,000 square miles) of native vegetation Brazil has lost in the past 30 years, just 1.6 percent was on indigenous ... more |
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