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  Abidjan (AFP) May 9, 2022 UN talks to tackle desertification and land degradation that have devastated large swathes of Africa began in Ivory Coast Monday, as climate change wreaks havoc on the continent. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), involving 196 countries plus the European Union, is meeting for the first time in three years, in Abidjan. Decades of unsustainable agriculture have depleted soils worldwide and accelerated both global warming and species loss, the UNCCD says, with an esti ... read more |
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Approaching human cognition from many anglesBoston MA (SPX) May 08, 2022 In January, as the Charles River was starting to freeze over, Keith Murray and the other members of MIT's men's heavyweight crew team took to erging on the indoor rowing machine. For 80 minutes at a ... more 
Bolder marmoset monkeys learn faster than shy onesVienna, Austria (SPX) May 10, 2022 Individual traits seem to drive our learning success: for instance, conscientious individuals often show higher academic performance. A group of cognitive and behavioural biologists from University ... more  
Saving the Mekong delta from drowningStanford CA (SPX) May 08, 2022 Southeast Asia's most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among ... more  
India to reopen abandoned coal mines as heatwave hits supplyMumbai (AFP) May 6, 2022 India plans to lease abandoned coal pits to private mining companies, a government official said Friday, in an effort to ramp up production as power outages exacerbate a sweltering heatwave. ... more |
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Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: report
Quake damages buildings, sparks panic in Italy's Naples Less mapped than the Moon: quest to reveal the seabed Milei pledges funds for deluge-stricken Argentine city Spain near end of four-year drought: weather agency Argentina searches for baby, sister swept away by floods Argentina searches for baby, young sister swept away by floods Spain targets senior ex-officials in flood deaths probe Switzerland must step up for Geneva-based agencies facing US aid cuts: region chief Argentina declares national mourning as flood death toll hits 16 |
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Are new carbon sinks appearing in the Arctic?Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 10, 2022 In 2018, an international research group bored for soil samples in three sites around the Isfjorden fjord in Svalbard, which is part of Norway. The same phenomenon was seen each boring site: mineral ... more  
Confirmed: Atmospheric helium levels are risingSan Diego CA (SPX) May 10, 2022 Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego used an unprecedented technique to detect that levels of helium are rising in the atmosphere, resolving an issue that has lingered a ... more  
Mexico shuts US-owned quarry on environmental groundsMexico City (AFP) May 6, 2022 Mexico said Friday that it had suspended operations at a US-owned limestone quarry in the Riviera Maya tourist region due to environmental concerns, a move the company branded "illegal." ... more  
South Korea to swear in hawkish Yoon as presidentSeoul (AFP) May 10, 2022 South Korea's hawkish incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol started work Tuesday in an underground bunker with a security briefing on the nuclear-armed North ahead of his formal inauguration ceremony. ... more |
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Philippine dictator's son wins landslide presidential victoryManila (AFP) May 10, 2022 The son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos cemented a landslide presidential election victory Tuesday, after Filipinos bet a familiar but tainted dynasty could ease rampant poverty - while dismissing warnings the clan's return would deepen corruption and weaken democracy. ... more 
Newly discovered lake may hold secret to Antarctic ice sheet's rise and fallAustin TX (SPX) May 10, 2022 Scientists investigating the underside of the world's largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-size lake whose sediments might contain a history of the ice sheet since its earlies ... more 
El Nino nuance: A distinct difference between 1997-98 and 2015-16 extreme seasonsBeijing, China (SPX) May 10, 2022 In the climate science community, the 2015/16 El Nino is considered the first extreme El Nino of the 21st century. Climatologists have put forth great effort studying this anomalous season. This eve ... more 
Eleven fishermen missing after Ghana vessel sinksAccra (AFP) May 9, 2022 Ghanaian authorities said Monday they had rescued 15 people from a sinking trawler off the country's coast while at least 11 others were still missing, including a Chinese national. ... more |
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Even chance world will breach 1.5C warming within 5 years: UNGeneva (AFP) May 9, 2022 There is an even chance that global temperatures will temporarily breach the benchmark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years, the United Nations warned Tuesday. ... more  
'There's no why': Shanghai rages at endless Covid lockdownShanghai (AFP) May 9, 2022 Scuffles with officials, workers storming factory gates and households raging at being dragged into quarantine - Shanghai's long fight against Covid-19 is unravelling into chaos and desperation. ... more  
Ice-capped volcanoes slower to erupt, study findsChampaign IL (SPX) May 10, 2022 The Westdahl Peak volcano in Alaska last erupted in 1992, and continued expansion hints at another eruption soon. Experts previously forecasted the next blast to occur by 2010, but the volcano - loc ... more  
West Africa defence chiefs meet over rising insecurityAccra (AFP) May 5, 2022 Defence chiefs from West Africa's ECOWAS bloc began a two-day meeting Thursday aimed at boosting military cooperation in a region that has suffered hundreds of attacks this year alone. ... more  
G7, EU voice 'grave concern' at new HK leader selection processLondon (AFP) May 9, 2022 G7 foreign ministers on Monday voiced misgivings about how Hong Kong's new leader was chosen, accusing the Chinese territory of flouting democratic convention. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 6, 2022 
Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction.
The commercial building in Changsha city caved in last Friday, prompting over six days of painstaking attempts to pull survivors free from the mass of rubble and twisted metal.
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) May 08, 2022 
All polymeric materials must meet strict outgassing requirements before they are cleared for a space flight. Gases released by a vast majority of polymers in high vacuum tend to contaminate sensors and other fragile spacecraft components which severely degrades their performance.
That is why there are only a few polymers suitable for space. Now, Z-PEEK, a 3D printing filament based on poly ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 10, 2022 
In the climate science community, the 2015/16 El Nino is considered the first extreme El Nino of the 21st century. Climatologists have put forth great effort studying this anomalous season. This event still sparks research interests because of the large geographic region of warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the equator, but also because several major characteristics are distinct ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2022 
Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the Arctic Circle. In June, Sunrise III will take off from Esrange Space Center, the Swedish Space Agency's (SSC) balloon and rocket base in Kiruna (Sweden), and will climb to an altitude of about 35 kilom ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 4, 2022  Gradually replacing 20 percent of global beef and lamb consumption with meat-textured proteins grown in stainless steel vats could cut agriculture-related CO2 emissions and deforestation in half by 2050, researchers reported Wednesday.
Compared to a current-trends projection for population growth and food demand, swapping half of red meat consumption for so-called microbial proteins would se ... more |
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 Champaign IL (SPX) May 10, 2022 
The Westdahl Peak volcano in Alaska last erupted in 1992, and continued expansion hints at another eruption soon. Experts previously forecasted the next blast to occur by 2010, but the volcano - located under about 1 kilometer of glacial ice - has yet to erupt again. Using the Westdahl Peak volcano as inspiration, a new volcanic modeling study examined how glaciers affect the stability and short ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) May 7, 2022 
A panel of UN experts has recommended maintaining an arms embargo imposed on South Sudan because of persistent ceasefire violations, according to a report made public Saturday.
The embargo had been due to expire at the end of the month and the UN Security Council is due to discuss the matter on May 26.
The Panel of Experts on South Sudan recommended, in a 77-page report to the UN Securi ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) May 10, 2022 
Individual traits seem to drive our learning success: for instance, conscientious individuals often show higher academic performance. A group of cognitive and behavioural biologists from University of Vienna conducted personality assessments and a battery of learning tests with common marmosets and found that such a link, intertwined with family group membership, exists in these monkeys, too. Th ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) May 9, 2022 
There is an even chance that global temperatures will temporarily breach the benchmark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years, the United Nations warned Tuesday.
The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change saw countries agree to cap global warming at "well below" 2C above levels measured between 1850 and 1900 - and 1.5C if possible.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2022 
Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars - and for all we know, any other planet in the universe - do not?
"It's one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it's what Endurance is after," said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and principal investigator for NASA's Endurance mission.
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) May 06, 2022 
What will happen in the near future as global warming continues? What environmental conditions will life on Earth most likely confront? Episodes of climate change in Earth's deep past may provide valuable clues for answering these questions.
A recent study led by scientists from China, the U.S., and New Zealand reveals that an abrupt warming linked to massive carbon emission during a previ ... 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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 Gwangju, South Korea (SPX) May 10, 2022 
Modern energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries, have highly temperature-dependent performance. If a device get too hot, it become susceptible to 'thermal runaway.' Thermal runaway-or uncontrolled overheating-can ultimately result in explosions or fires.
Adopting a well-informed thermal management strategy is necessary for the stable and safe operation of devices. To d ... more |
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 Ahmedabad, India (AFP) May 6, 2022 
A volunteer scoops up a fledgling kite lying nearly immobile on a scorching Indian sidewalk as the relentless sun beats down on its feathers - one of countless birds struggling to endure an unbearable heatwave.
An early start to summer has brought record temperatures and made life a misery for human and animal alike, with experts warning that climate change is making such conditions more in ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 5, 2022 
Hong Kong has emerged a more unequal city, its freedoms curtailed and international shine dulled after five years with Carrie Lam at the helm, analysts say, as her turbulent leadership draws to an end.
Lam, Hong Kong's first woman leader, took office promising to heal divisions and tackle livelihood issues, especially a housing crisis.
Her term was instead dominated by massive democracy ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) May 5, 2022 
Greenpeace on Thursday urged a top state prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate allegations that six ex-government ministers granted forestry concessions in violation of a logging moratorium.
The Congo Basin Forest is the world's second largest rainforest after the Amazon, covering two-thirds of the surface of the DRC.
The vast forest plays a vital role in fightin ... more |
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