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  Sylhet, Bangladesh (AFP) May 21, 2022 Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, officials said Saturday. In Bangladesh, about two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country's northeast for nearly two decades. At least 100 villages at Zakiganj were inundated after floodwater rushing from India's northeast breached a major embankment on the Barak River, said Mosharraf Hossain, the chief government administrator of the Sylhet r ... read more |
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In Xi's big year, political price of China's pandemic policy climbsBeijing (AFP) May 21, 2022 Protests bubbling in big cities, dismal economic indicators and rampant discontent online - China's zero-Covid policy is morphing from a propaganda victory to a political liability for President Xi Jinping. ... more  
How plants colonized the landCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 20, 2022 University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for allow ... more  
Next-generation weather models cross the divide to real-world impactAustin TX (SPX) May 19, 2022 Each winter, spring, and summer, extreme weather forecasters and researchers meet to test the latest, most promising severe weather forecast tools and innovations to see how they perform in real-wor ... more  
Risk factors for dementia may vary with ageMinneapolis MN (SPX) May 19, 2022 Which vascular risk factors are associated with the risk of developing dementia may vary with age. A new study shows that among people around age 55, the risk of developing dementia over the next 10 ... more |
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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 Rising floodwaters force evacuations in eastern Australian Wildfires burning in Argentine Patagonia kills man, hundreds evacuate Greece on high alert as quakes shake Santorini island Greece orders schools to close as quakes shake Santorini island |
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Scientists reveal how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populationsDublin, Ireland (SPX) May 20, 2022 Trinity scientists, along with international colleagues, have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans and comparing these with the geno ... more 
Environment scientists close in on 'golden spike' to define AnthropoceneLeicester UK (SPX) May 20, 2022 Leicester researchers searching for a 'golden spike' to formally define humanity's current geological period - and acknowledge human impact on our planet - have announced a major step in their analy ... more  
Key Iraq irrigation reservoir close to drying outHamrin, Iraq (AFP) May 20, 2022 Iraq's Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday. ... more 
PM-elect Albanese vows to repair Australia's image overseasSydney (AFP) May 22, 2022 Incoming prime minister Anthony Albanese vowed to end Australia's reputation as a climate laggard and reset relations with the rest of the world Sunday, as he raced to form a government in time for a key Tokyo summit. ... more |
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Rainforest trees may have been dying faster since the 1980s because of climate change - studyOxford UK (SPX) May 19, 2022 Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international st ... more 
US high schoolers design low-cost filter to remove lead from waterWashington (AFP) May 22, 2022 When the pandemic forced schools into remote learning, Washington-area science teacher Rebecca Bushway set her students an ambitious task: design and build a low-cost lead filter that fixes to faucets and removes the toxic metal. ... more  
How fast-growing algae could enhance growth of food cropsPrinceton NJ (SPX) May 20, 2022 A new study provides a framework to boost crop growth by incorporating a strategy adopted from a fast-growing species of green algae. The algae, known as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, contain an organe ... more 
Rice cultivation recorded at a Neolithic site 8000 years agoBeijing, China (SPX) May 19, 2022 This study is led by Dr. Zhenwei Qiu (National Museum of China) and Dr. Yijie Zhuang (Institute of Archaeology, University College London). The Hanjing site is situated on the flood plains of the Mi ... more |
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Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantineBeijing (AFP) May 21, 2022 Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents were relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. ... more 
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane seasonMiami FL (SPX) May 19, 2022 The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the G ... more  
Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drowningsAshdod, Israel (AFP) May 20, 2022 An Israeli city is testing whether an artificial intelligence programme that detects drowning threats can help save lives off its beaches. ... more  
Method used to track ants underground could revolutionize how we measure snow depth from spaceHampton VA (SPX) May 19, 2022 Ants may be the unlikely heroes when it comes to better understanding the health of our planet in the midst of a climate crisis. In a paper published to Frontiers in Remote Sensing, a team of scient ... more  
Medicinal cannabis shown to reduce pain and need for opiate painkillers among cancer patientsAfula, Israel (SPX) May 20, 2022 A comprehensive assessment of the benefits of medical cannabis for cancer-related pain found that for most oncology patients, pain measures improved significantly, other cancer-related symptoms also ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 17, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with Mayday.ai ("Mayday"), a German-based provider of real-time risk and disaster intelligence, to improve and democratize data intelligence for risk and disaster management.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2022 
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Spanish company SENER Aeroespacial and the German start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), has received euro 2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop a device based on a space tether to deor ... more |
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 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 use fluorine-based nanostructures to successfully filter salt from water. Compared to current desalination methods, these fluorous nanochannels work faster, require less pressure and less energy, and a ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 19, 2022 
This study is led by Dr. Zhenwei Qiu (National Museum of China) and Dr. Yijie Zhuang (Institute of Archaeology, University College London). The Hanjing site is situated on the flood plains of the Mid-lower Huai River. Three seasons of field surveys and excavations were carried out by the joint archaeological team of the National Museum of China, Nanjing Museum and Sihong County Museum from 2014 ... more |
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 Santa 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 eruption of this scale shook the Earth.
UC Santa Barbara's Robin Matoza led a team of 76 scientists, from 17 nations, to characterize the eruption's atmospheric waves, the strongest recorded fr ... 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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 Leicester UK (SPX) May 20, 2022 
Leicester researchers searching for a 'golden spike' to formally define humanity's current geological period - and acknowledge human impact on our planet - have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference on Wednesday.
University of Leicester Professors Jens Zinke, Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz and PhD researcher Stephen Himson presented multiple candidates ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) May 17, 2022 
Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands - a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday became the latest country blanketed with dust that slowed traffic and made iconic towers in the capital difficult to see from more than a few hundred metres (yards) away.
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 Exeter UK (SPX) May 20, 2022 
Satellites and drones can provide key information to protect pollinators, researchers say.
Their study examines new ways of using these technologies to track the availability of flowers, and says this could be combined with behavioural studies to see the world through the eyes of insects.
The flowers available to insects vary from day to day and place to place, and human activity is ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 20, 2022 
University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for allowing terrestrial plants to defend themselves against fungal attack - a defense mechanism that they traced back 470 million years. It is likely that these defenses paved the way for all terrestrial plan ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 20, 2022 
Nations in the G20 group of major economies have yet to strengthen greenhouse gas reduction goals despite agreeing to revisit their plans ahead of critical UN climate talks in November, according to an analysis by leading research NGOs seen exclusively by AFP.
At the Glasgow COP26 climate summit last year countries pledged to review inadequate plans for cutting carbon pollution this decade a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Future fusion reactors have a conundrum: how to maintain a plasma core that is hotter than the surface of the sun without melting the device walls. Researchers call this challenge "core-edge integration." One method of cooling the plasma edge is to inject impurities such as nitrogen. The impurities absorb heat and release the energy as light that dissipates evenly across the walls.
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 Lubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) May 19, 2022 
Authorities in southeastern DR Congo have seized one and a half tonnes of elephant ivory, legal and environmental officials said, in one of the largest hauls in Africa in years.
Officers discovered the smuggled tusks aboard trucks in the city of Lubumbashi on Saturday, according to a legal official who declined to be named due involvement in an ongoing investigation into the affair.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 19, 2022 
A Hong Kong man was sentenced to over six years in jail on Thursday for running a channel on the messaging app Telegram at the height of the city's democracy protests.
Telegram played a key role in Hong Kong's massive and sometimes violent democracy rallies in 2019, with public channels used to coordinate demonstrations and report on-the-ground developments.
On Thursday a judge gave 26-y ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) May 19, 2022 
Tropical trees in Australia's rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international study published in Nature today. This research has found the death rates of tropical trees have doubled in the last 35 years, as global warming increases the drying power of the atmosphere.
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