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  Al-Abassiya, Iraq (AFP) May 15, 2022 Drought is threatening the Iraqi tradition of growing amber rice, the aromatic basis of rich lamb and other dishes, and a key element in a struggling economy. The long-grained variety of rice takes its name from its distinctive scent, which is similar to that of amber resin. It is used in Iraqi meals including sumptuous lamb qouzi, mansaf and stuffed vegetables. But after three years of drought and declining rainfall, Iraq's amber rice production will be only symbolic in 2022, forcing consumers ... read more |
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Why trees aren't a climate change cure-allSalt Lake City UT (SPX) May 16, 2022 When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees, and for good reason. Forests take up a large amount of the planet-warming carbon dioxide that people put into the atmosp ... more  
Tonga volcanic eruption effects reached spaceGreenbelt 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 effec ... more  
Satellite eyes pinpoint waste from space to reduce ocean pollutionPerth, Australia (SPX) May 10, 2022 A cutting-edge new tool developed by Minderoo Foundation has identified thousands of waste sites across 25 countries for the first time using advanced satellite data technology and machine learning ... more  
DLR data shows where people are at risk from natural disastersOberpfaffenhofen, 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 ca ... more |
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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 Argentina port city 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm, 13 dead 'We have to rebuild a city,' Argentine official says after storm kills 10 |
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What is dead pool? A water expert explainsTucson AZ (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 Journalists reporting on the status and future of the Colorado River are increasingly using the phrase "dead pool." It sounds ominous. And it is. Dead pool occurs when water in a reservoir dro ... more  
World View partners with SET to collect scientific data on earth's stratosphereTucson AZ (SPX) May 11, 2022 World View, the leading stratospheric ballooning and space tourism company, has announced a partnership with Space Environment Technologies (SET) to include a suite of technologies aboard World View ... more 
What's behind the US baby formula shortageAustin TX (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a country ranked low for family-friendly policies. ... more  
Electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries agoWashington DC (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 As the world's need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian phys ... more |
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Covid-hit Shanghai announces gradual reopening of businessesShanghai (AFP) May 15, 2022 Shanghai announced a gradual reopening from Monday of businesses, though it remains unclear when the millions of people still locked down in China's economic capital will finally be allowed out of their homes. ... more  
South Asia pummelled by heatwave that hits 50C in PakistanJacobabad, Pakistan (AFP) May 13, 2022 South Asia was in the grip of an extreme heatwave on Friday, with parts of Pakistan reaching a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius as officials warned of acute water shortages and a health threat. ... more 
In a haze of disinfectant, China struggles with invisible enemyShanghai (AFP) May 14, 2022 Leaving a fine mist of disinfectant in their wake, China's hazmat-clad health workers are cleaning homes, roads, parcels and even people - but more than two years into the pandemic, experts say it is a futile measure against Covid-19. ... more  
The origin of life: A paradigm shiftMunich, Germany (SPX) May 13, 2022 According to a new concept by LMU chemists led by Thomas Carell, it was a novel molecular species composed out of RNA and peptides that set in motion the evolution of life into more complex forms ... more |
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The future of desalination?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 13, 2022 Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water but comes with huge energy costs. For the first time, researchers u ... more 
Massive eruption of Tongan volcano provides an explosion of dataSanta Barbara CA (SPX) May 13, 2022 The Hunga volcano ushered in 2022 with a bang, devastating the island nation of Tonga and sending aid agencies, and Earth scientists, into a flurry of activity. It had been nearly 140 years since an ... more  
Major study to examine beavers' Arctic impactCambridge UK (SPX) May 16, 2022 Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England, has received funding of over half a million pounds to lead a major new study to investigate the impact of beavers as they spread northwards into ... more 
NASA's ECOSTRESS detects 'heat islands' in extreme Indian heat wavePasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2022 A relentless heat wave has blanketed India and Pakistan since mid-March, causing dozens of deaths, fires, increased air pollution, and reduced crop yields. Weather forecasts show no prospect of reli ... more  
Teaching underwater stingray robots to swim faster and with greater precision using machine learningSingapore (SPX) May 16, 2022 Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed a new approach to model the dynamics of underwater stingray-like robots using Machine Learning. This approach can ... more |
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 Austin TX (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 
A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a country ranked low for family-friendly policies.
Media reports have highlighted the plight of mothers, fathers and caregivers across the U.S. who have scrambled to find scarce supplies, or driven long distances to buy formula.
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2022 
Could we capitalise on the Earth-based digital revolution to make our satellites smarter? ESA Discovery is funding 12 projects that will explore the potential of applying the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing paradigms to make satellites more reactive, agile and autonomous. This could generate new practical applications that support life on Earth and our ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 12, 2022 
Though climate change is driving sea level rise over time, researchers also believe that differences in surface height from place to place in the ocean can affect Earth's climate. These highs and lows are associated with currents and eddies, swirling rivers in the ocean, that influence how it absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon.
Enter the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 16, 2022 
Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.
Ice shelves - floating sections of ice which are attached to land-based ice sheets - serve the vital purpose of buttressing against t ... more |
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 Gainsville FL (SPX) May 13, 2022 
In the early days of the space age, the Apollo astronauts took part in a visionary plan: Bring samples of the lunar surface material, known as regolith, back to Earth where they could be studied with state-of-the-art equipment and saved for future research not yet imagined.
Fifty years later, at the dawn of the Artemis era and the next astronaut return to the Moon, three of those samples h ... more |
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 Beijing, 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 North Pacific. Since 1995, however, the number of such storms has increased in the Atlantic and decreased in the WNP.
A recent analysis of historical data by City University of Hong Kong researcher ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) May 15, 2022 
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday.
Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, appeared Thursday in front of an appeals court where he was found guilty of a roster of charges including disclosing classified inf ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) May 13, 2022 
The cerebral cortex is thought to be the seat of conscious processing in the brain. Rather than being inactivated, specific cells in the cortex show higher spontaneous activity during general anesthesia than when awake, and this activity is synchronized across those cortical cells. Improving our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of general anesthesia could lead to better anesthetic drugs ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 13, 2022 
Rainfall that caused catastrophic floods and landslides last month in and around Durban, South Africa, was made twice as likely by global warming, scientists said Friday.
An exceptional downpour - more than 35 centimetres (14 inches) over two days - on April 11-12 claimed hundreds of lives and caused $1.5 billion in damage across the provinces KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 12, 2022 
On May 11, 2022, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-18 satellite. The satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument recently captured stunning views of Earth.
GOES-18, NOAA's newest geostationary satellite, launched on March 1. The ABI views Earth with sixteen different channels, each measuring energy at different wavelengths along the electromagne ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) May 12, 2022 
Primary fluid inclusions in bedded halite from the 830-million-year-old Browne Formation of central Australia contain organic solids and liquids, as documented with transmitted light and UV-vis petrography. These objects are consistent in size, shape, and fluorescent response to cells of prokaryotes and algae, and aggregates of organic compounds. This discovery shows that microorganisms from sal ... 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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 Washington DC (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 
As the world's need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better.
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta tapped into fundamental electrochemical principles when he invented the first battery in 1800. Essentially, the physical joining of two different materials, usually metals, gene ... 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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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 12, 2022 
China on Thursday defended the arrest of a 90-year-old Catholic cardinal under Hong Kong's national security law, a move that triggered international outrage and deepened concerns over Beijing's crackdown on freedoms in the financial hub.
Retired cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, was among a group of veteran democracy advocates arrested Wednesday for "coll ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 11, 2022 
Hundreds of Brazilian companies and environmental groups urged President Joe Biden to make good on US climate pledges as lawmakers in Washington prepared to debate a measure Thursday on launching a $9 billion anti-deforestation fund.
The AMAZON21 bill, aimed at helping developing countries protect their forests, "would represent an important expression of commitment by President Biden and th ... more |
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