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  New 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 continue to make inroads, grid operators may have to plan for large swings in availability. The warning comes from Upmanu Lall, a professor at Columbia Engineering and the Columbia Climate School who has recently turned his sights from sustainable water use to sustainable renewables in the push toward ... read more |
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Record low Antarctic sea ice extent could signal shiftParis (AFP) April 19, 2022 Sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest extent on record in February, five years after the previous record low, researchers said Tuesday, suggesting Earth's frozen continent may be less impervious to climate change than thought. ... more 
No glacial fertilization effect in the Antarctic OceanBonn, 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 perce ... more  
'Worse to be gay than corrupt' in Venezuela's militaryCaracas (AFP) April 20, 2022 Jose, an army captain, deserted after years of pressure. Rafael, a lieutenant, was prosecuted and expelled. ... more  
Taiwan charges nine in rare migrant fishing abuse prosecutionTaipei (AFP) April 20, 2022 Taiwanese prosecutors on Wednesday charged nine people for exploiting and abusing foreign crew on a longline fishing boat, a scourge that activists have long warned was going under-reported and unpunished. ... 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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Solomons signed China security pact 'with our eyes wide open': PMSydney (AFP) April 20, 2022 The Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China with its "eyes wide open", the Pacific nation's prime minister said Wednesday, despite strong US and Australian opposition to the deal. ... more  
Third dust storm in two weeks sweeps through IraqBaghdad (AFP) April 20, 2022 Iraq was hit Wednesday by its third heavy dust storm in two weeks, temporarily grounding flights at Baghdad and Najaf airports, as the weather phenomenon grows increasingly frequent. ... more 
China says it has signed security pact with Solomon IslandsBeijing (AFP) April 19, 2022 China said Tuesday it has sealed a wide-ranging security pact with the Solomon Islands, an agreement the United States and its regional allies fear could give Beijing a military foothold in the South Pacific. ... more  
Rocket Lab secures multi-launch contract with HawkEye 360Long Beach CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2022 Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by Virginia-based HawkEye 360 to launch three Electron missions for the radio frequency geospatial analytics provider. The first of the three missions is ... more |
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Iraq 'green belt' neglected in faltering climate fightKarbala, Iraq (AFP) April 19, 2022 Envisioned as a lush fortress against worsening desertification and sand storms, the "green belt" of Iraq's Karbala stands as a wilted failure. ... more  
Dung power: India taps new energy cash cowIndore, India (AFP) April 20, 2022 India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure. ... more  
Climate, big agriculture slashing insect populations 'by half'Paris (AFP) April 20, 2022 A warming world and intensive agriculture are causing insect populations to plummet by nearly half compared to areas less affected by temperature rises and industrial farming, researchers said Wednesday. ... more 
Small bees better at coping with warming, bumblebees struggle: studyParis (AFP) April 20, 2022 Climate change could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research published Wednesday, warning of potential "cascading" effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems. ... more |
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South African flood victims struggle with despair, More troops deployedDurban, South Africa (AFP) April 20, 2022 Wielding shovels, mallets and machetes, they worked for four hours to try to shift the muddy debris, hoping that vehicles could at last get through. ... more 
Scientists find evidence of largest earthquake in human history 3,800 years agoWashington 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. ... more  
S. Africa ministers to the front as flood effort stuttersDurban, 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 
'Tanganyika is vomiting': Burundians flee as lake risesGatumba, Burundi (AFP) April 20, 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  
Russian military 'advisor' in Mali killed by road bombDakar (AFP) April 20, 2022 A Russian national operating alongside Malian soldiers was killed by a roadside bomb in the centre of the conflict-torn Sahel state, an army document and officials said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Durban, 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.
Following up a declaration late Monday of a national state of disaster, President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched top ministers to the city of Durban and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, where at lea ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 
TransAstra, a provider of breakthrough orbital logistics and space domain awareness solutions, and ReOrbit, a provider of software-defined small satellites for beyond LEO missions, announced today that they have signed binding contracts for initial spacecraft development and orbital logistics services.
Under these contracts, TransAstra will provide mission definition and engineering analys ... 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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 Paris (AFP) April 20, 2022 
Climate change could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research published Wednesday, warning of potential "cascading" effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.
Scientists in the United States trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how different types of bees reacted to changing c ... 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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 Abuja (AFP) April 20, 2022 
Nigeria's air force said on Wednesday it had ordered an inquiry after a military training aircraft crashed in the restive northern state of Kaduna, claiming two lives.
At least four Nigerian military aircraft have been involved in deadly crashes since last year, including one that killed the nation's army chief and 10 other soldiers on board.
A Super Mushshak trainer went down on a milit ... more |
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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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 Pasadena 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 instruments to gather data over widespread areas with the more concentrated observations scientists conduct in the field to study natural environments.
SHIFT is jointly led by NASA's Jet Propulsion L ... 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 20, 2022  YouTube on Wednesday suspended a channel promoting John Lee's uncontested bid to be Hong Kong's next leader, saying the move was required by US sanctions against the ex-security chief.
Lee is expected to be appointed the business hub's new chief executive by a committee of 1,500 Beijing loyalists next month. He faces no rivals.
He has used YouTube, Facebook and Instagram accounts to prom ... 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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