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  Sydney (AFP) May 11, 2022 A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef's coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report. It was the first time on record the reef had suffered bleaching during a La Nina weather cycle, when cooler temperatures would normally be expected. The Reef Snapshot report offered new details of the damage caused by the fourth "mass bleaching" the world's largest coral reef system has experienced since 2016, which was first revealed i ... read more |
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Worst drought in decades devastates Ethiopia's nomadsGode, Ethiopia (AFP) May 11, 2022 There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia. ... more  
China censors zero-Covid debate after WHO criticises policyBeijing (AFP) May 11, 2022 China's censors scrambled to wipe out online debate over its zero-Covid strategy on Wednesday after the World Health Organisation (WHO) criticised the country's hardline approach to crushing the virus. ... more  
Trickling stream offers lifeline to survivors of Ukraine war zoneLysychansk, Ukraine (AFP) May 10, 2022 The water trickling from a pipe sticking out of a mound of dirt in Ukraine's besieged city of Lysychansk offered the last lifeline to the emaciated bricklayer's family of nine. ... more  
Unprecedented cyclone activity potentially clouds future forecastsBeijing, China (SPX) May 11, 2022 About a third of all tropical cyclones - low-pressure storms with devastatingly strong winds, known as hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and typhoons in the Pacific Ocean - develop in the Western Nor ... more |
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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 Argentina flooding death toll rises to 16, two girls missing |
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Downtown Beijing goes quiet as zero-Covid policy smothers capitalBeijing (AFP) May 9, 2022 Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on Monday as China's capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with creeping restrictions on movement. ... more  
First rays of sunlight for Sunrise III at the Arctic CircleGottingen, 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 A ... more  
Global calibration benchmark network for remote sensors completedBeijing, China (SPX) May 11, 2022 A Global Calibration Benchmark Network for Remote Sensors has passed the review and is now formally operational under the support of the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Acade ... more  
60 Zimbabweans killed by elephants this yearHarare (AFP) May 10, 2022 Sixty Zimbabweans have been killed by elephants so far this year, as a conservation success story has led to increased conflict with humans, the government spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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Tonga volcano eruption impacts observed up to edge of spaceWashington DC (UPI) May 10, 2021 An explosive volcano that erupted near the Pacific island nation of Tonga in January sent hurricane-force winds and electric currents into the edge of space, according to an analysis of NASA data released Tuesday. ... more 
Ukraine refugees at risk of human trafficking: NGOThe Hague (AFP) May 10, 2022 Refugees fleeing Ukraine are becoming increasingly vulnerable to human traffickers as the war rages, a new report said on Tuesday, urging the registration of victims, especially unaccompanied children. ... more 
Flash flooding sweeps away Pakistan bridgeHunza, Pakistan (AFP) May 10, 2022 A key bridge serving a remote corner of northern Pakistan has collapsed after a heatwave caused a glacial lake to burst and unleash flash flooding, the country's climate minister said. ... more 
Iraq Congo fever deaths rise to 12Baghdad (AFP) May 10, 2022 Iraq has recorded at least 12 deaths from Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever since the start of the year, health authorities said Tuesday amid efforts to contain the spread of the virus. ... more |
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Uyghurs in Turkey urge UN rights chief to probe China 're-education camps'Istanbul (AFP) May 10, 2022 Turkey's Uyghur Muslims on Tuesday urged the UN human rights chief to independently investigate the so-called "re-education camps" and allegations of rights abuses, torture and even genocide when she visits China's Xinjiang province this month. ... more  
Burkina army says killed over 50 'terrorists'Ouagadougou (AFP) May 10, 2022 Burkina Faso's armed forces said on Tuesday they had killed at least 50 "terrorists" in two operations. ... more  
Kravchuk, first president of independent Ukraine, diesKiev, Ukraine (AFP) May 10, 2022 Ukraine's first president Leonid Kravchuk, who led the country through the tumultuous early years of independence and agreed to give up its Soviet nuclear arsenal, died on Tuesday, the presidency said. He was 88. ... more 
Son of late Philippine dictator wins presidency in landslideManila (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 will deepen corruption and weaken democracy. ... more  
UN talks to tackle degraded land 'emergency' beginAbidjan (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. ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) May 11, 2022 
Many people in Africa are at risk from natural hazards - particularly in towns and cities that are growing rapidly and in an unplanned way. Here, the consequences of floods, storms or earthquakes can have a particularly devastating impact. But where are cities growing rapidly right now? Have new settlements been built in vulnerable areas? And how many people are at risk in these cases? Until now ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 08, 2022 
Modern machine-learning models, such as neural networks, are often referred to as "black boxes" because they are so complex that even the researchers who design them can't fully understand how they make predictions.
To provide some insights, researchers use explanation methods that seek to describe individual model decisions. For example, they may highlight words in a movie review that inf ... 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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 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 soil covered by a thin layer of organic matter. In other words, this layer contains a lot of carbon extracted from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
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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.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 11, 2022 
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. Now, scientists are finding the volcano's effects also reached space. Analyzing data from NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, mission and ESA's (the European Space Agency) Swarm satellites, scientists found that in the hours after the ... 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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 Gode, Ethiopia (AFP) May 11, 2022 
There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.
The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades is pushing 20 million people towards starvation, according to the UN, destroying an age-old way of life and leav ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) May 06, 2022 
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A new IIASA-led study proposes a novel method to es ... more |
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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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 Boston MA (SPX) May 11, 2022 
MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education activities under a new five-year agreement with Institute spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
"This expanded relationship puts MIT and PSFC in a prime position to be an even stronger academic leader that can help deliver the research and education needs of the burgeoning ... more |
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 Harare (AFP) May 10, 2022 
Sixty Zimbabweans have been killed by elephants so far this year, as a conservation success story has led to increased conflict with humans, the government spokesman said Tuesday.
With 100,000 elephants, Zimbabwe has the world's second-largest population after Botswana, and about one-quarter of the elephants in all of Africa.
Unlike in much of the world, where poachers have killed off th ... more |
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 London (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.
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States joined the EU in putting on record their "grave concern over the selection process", in which a coterie of Beijing loyalists appointed John Lee.
Lee, 64, is a for ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 6, 2022  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last month shattered the record for April, destroying more than 1,000 square kilometers of the world's biggest rainforest, nearly double the previous high, according to official figures published Friday.
The record - the third in four months - is the latest damning statistic on the accelerating loss of the Amazon under President Jair Bolsonaro.
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