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  Newcastle UK (SPX) May 01, 2022 Newcastle University scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that may enable them to 'hitchhike' across the ocean. The team showed for the first time that these deep-sea, plastic loving bacteria make up only 1% of the total bacterial community. Reporting their findings in the journal Environmental Pollution, the team found that these bacteria only stick to plastic and not the non-plastic control of stone. The research highlights these ... read more |
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Hybrid electro-biosystem upcycles carbon dioxide into energy-rich long-chain compoundsShenzhen, China (SPX) Apr 29, 2022 Artificial upcycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added products in a sustainable manner represents an opportunity to tackle environmental issues and realize a circular economy. However, ... more  
West Africa bloc ECOWAS agrees climate strategyAccra (AFP) April 29, 2022 The West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Friday approved a regional strategy to improve cooperation in the fight against climate change over the next decade. ... more  
Heatwave across IndiaParis (ESA) May 01, 2022 India is currently facing a prolonged heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 42 C in numerous cities across the country. This comes just weeks after India recorded its hottest March since the country ... more  
Taiwan will not 'cruelly' lock down like China: premierTaipei (AFP) May 1, 2022 Taiwan will not act "as cruelly as China" in imposing lockdowns, its premier said Sunday, despite surging coronavirus infection numbers. ... 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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Indonesia's palm oil export ban heats up vegetable oil marketNew York (AFP) April 30, 2022 Indonesia's decision to suspend palm oil exports in the face of domestic shortages has pushed vegetable oil prices to new highs, further tightening a market already on edge due to the war in Ukraine and global warming. ... more  
War unleashes flooding in Ukraine townDemydiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 30, 2022 When the flood hit, Maria Didovets couldn't open the door to leave her house near Kyiv because it would have let in more water, so the 82-year-old had to climb out of a window. ... more 
Choking and sweating around Delhi's burning hill of trashNew Delhi (AFP) April 29, 2022 Living in a slum by one of New Delhi's trash landfills, Pramod is used to the stench, flies, government apathy and occasional fires. But this week's inferno as India wilts in a heatwave came too close for comfort. ... more  
China-Solomons security deal upends Australian electionSydney (AFP) April 30, 2022 Beijing's security deal with the Solomon Islands has transformed Australia's closely-fought election campaign into a foreign policy battle over Canberra's complicated relationship with the Pacific. ... more |
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Sixth survivor pulled from China building collapse, dozens still missingBeijing (AFP) May 1, 2022 Rescuers pulled a sixth survivor from a collapsed building in central China Sunday, state media reported, two days into a search-and-rescue operation that has workers looking for dozens feared missing. ... more  
BRICS forum on big data for sustainable development held in BeijingBeijing, China (SPX) May 01, 2022 The BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development was held both in Beijing and online on April 26, 2022. The two-day event was hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Academy of Science o ... more 
Beijing tightens Covid restrictions as long holiday beginsBeijing (AFP) April 30, 2022 Restaurants across Beijing will temporarily ban dining-in and residents will need clear Covid tests to visit public spaces, officials said Saturday, in a major ramp up of virus controls at the start of the Labour Day holiday. ... more  
Guinea junta leader decides on 39-month transitionConakry (AFP) April 30, 2022 Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of Guinea's military junta, said Saturday he had opted for a 39-month transitional period before a return to civilian rule. ... more |
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'They whip us': Residents accuse army of abuse in east DR CongoMasisi, Dr Congo (AFP) April 30, 2022 Forced to flee her home, 62-year-old Agathe fears never to see peace again as she recounts the violence she has faced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more  
Myanmar junta arrests lawyer defending Suu Kyi ally: sourceYangon (AFP) April 29, 2022 A prominent Myanmar lawyer defending a close ally of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested and charged with financing terrorism, a source close to the case said Friday. ... more  
Hong Kong's next leader vows reboot but no zero-Covid exit timelineHong Kong (AFP) April 29, 2022 Hong Kong's next leader unveiled a manifesto Friday vowing to restore the business hub to its former glory but would not be drawn on when the city might discard zero-Covid controls that have left it internationally cut off. ... more 
Hong Kong student gets five-years for Telegram 'secession' messagesHong Kong (AFP) April 29, 2022 A Hong Kong judge increased a university student's jail sentence to five years on Friday for messages sent on Telegram advocating the city's independence from China and calls to resist communist rule. ... more 
Bolsonaro responds after DiCaprio urges Brazil youth to voteBras�lia (AFP) April 30, 2022 Jair Bolsonaro clapped back Friday after US actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio urged Brazilian youth to register to vote in the country's October elections - implying they should vote against the far-right president. ... more |
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 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine (AFP) April 26, 2022  The road toward Chernobyl is still littered with Russian soldiers' discarded ration boxes and occasional empty bullet shells in a subtle but harrowing warning of the invasion's terrible risk for the infamous nuclear site.
Tuesday marked the 36th anniversary of what is considered the worst ever nuclear disaster, and there was relief the hulking so-called sarcophagus covering the reactor's rad ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2022 
USNC Advanced Technologies, a division of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), announces it has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR contract to develop a proposed ultra-high temperature material testing facility. The specialized equipment could provide an essential terrestrial environment for testing the performance of materials planned for use in space-based nuclear thermal propu ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Apr 29, 2022 
Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists.
The work led by UAF Geophysical Institute associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka adds to a growing body of research about water at the m ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) April 30, 2022 
A polar bear was spotted Saturday in the Quebec region of Canada, prompting wildlife officials to warn residents of a small town stunned by this very rare appearance.
The bear - whose species has become a symbol of the dangers of global warming - was seen in the morning hours in Madeleine-Centre in the Gaspesia region, a peninsula along the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River, witnesses ... more |
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 New York (AFP) April 30, 2022 
Indonesia's decision to suspend palm oil exports in the face of domestic shortages has pushed vegetable oil prices to new highs, further tightening a market already on edge due to the war in Ukraine and global warming.
The prices of palm, soybean, European rapeseed and even its Canadian GMO counterpart, canola oil, have reached historic highs following Indonesia's announcement on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) April 28, 2022 
The death and destruction caused by Hurricane Ida in the United States last year has prompted the World Meteorological Organization to remove the name from a rotating list of storm titles.
The UN weather agency said late Wednesday that "Ida" would be replaced by "Imani" after meteorologists determined that the future use of the name could be upsetting.
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 Paris (AFP) April 27, 2022 
The ruling junta in Mali has definitively banned French broadcasters RFI and France 24 after complaining of false accusations that the Sahel nation's army caried out abuses, the radio and television channels said Wednesday.
France Medias Monde, the state-owned parent company of RFI and France 24, said it had received notification during the day from Mali's communication authority.
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 Brasilia (AFP) April 12, 2022 
Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed Tuesday to undo current President Jair Bolsonaro's policies on indigenous people if elected, branding his rival a "fascist" aligned with "those who want to kill our forests."
Speaking at a protest by thousands of indigenous people who are camping out in the capital, Brasilia, to protest Bolsonaro's policies, Lula drew loud cheers with a ... more |
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 Swansea UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 
Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for euro 3 million in European funding.
Analysis of tree rings - known as dendrochronology - is an established scie ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agency's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earth's upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigations that will be under consideration for inclusion in the mission.
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the dynamic and complex re ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 28, 2021 
Scientists have unearthed fossils belonging to what may have been one of the largest-ever animals to inhabit Earth, according to research published this week.
Fossils of three new ichthyosaurs were discovered in high-elevation localities in the Kössen Formation in the Canton of Grisons of the eastern Swiss Alps, and may prove to be among the largest animals to have ever lived, paleonto ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) April 26, 2022 
Canada's environmental watchdog on Tuesday slammed the government for bungling a transition to a low-carbon economy, accusing it of providing no support for energy workers facing job losses and overestimating the role of hydrogen fuel.
"When it comes to supporting a just transition to a low-carbon economy, the government has been unprepared and slow off the mark," Climate Commissioner Jerry ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 
Reducing the use of fossil fuels will have unintended consequences for the power-generation industry and beyond. For example, many industrial chemical processes use fossil-fuel byproducts as precursors to things like asphalt, glycerine, and other important chemicals. One solution to reduce the impact of the loss of fossil fuels on industrial chemical processes is to store and use the heat that n ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 27, 2022 
At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global assessment of the world's so-called cold-blooded creatures.
Catastrophic declines in biodiversity across the world are increasingly seen as a threat to life on Earth - and as important as the interrelated menace of climate change.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 29, 2022 
A Hong Kong judge increased a university student's jail sentence to five years on Friday for messages sent on Telegram advocating the city's independence from China and calls to resist communist rule.
Lui Sai-yu, a 25-year-old engineering student, pleaded guilty to "incitement to secession", a crime under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020 to crush dissent.
Lui is the ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 30, 2022 
Paris is aiming to redevelop the area around the Eiffel Tower in time for the 2024 Olympic Games, but the city's residents are beginning to rebel over a plan that would see 22 trees ripped up.
The Paris mayor's office wants to build tourist facilities and offices at the foot of the world-famous landmark.
Architect's projections show semi-submerged buildings covered in greenery.
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