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  Suva, Fiji (AFP) May 27, 2022 Australia urged South Pacific nations to spurn China's attempts to extend its security reach across the region Friday, seeking to fend off a high-level charm offensive by Beijing. Foreign Minister Penny Wong was in Fiji on her first solo visit, seeking to woo island states after the Solomon Islands took Canberra by surprise last month by signing a wide-ranging security pact with China. "We have expressed our concerns publicly about the security agreement," Wong told reporters in the capital of S ... read more |
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Zimbabwe's ballooning jumbo herds a growing threat to humansHwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) May 26, 2022 Seventy-five-year-old Hanganani Gideon Dube has walked with a slight limp and his speech been laboured since he miraculously survived being trampled by an elephant in northwestern Zimbabwe. ... more 
'Fuel of evolution' more abundant than previously thought in wild animalsCanberra, Australia (SPX) May 27, 2022 The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU). Darwinian evolution i ... more  
It's a kind of MAGICParis (ESA) May 25, 2022 With well over 4000 scientists, academics, space industry personnel, institutional stakeholders, data users, students and citizens all gathered at the Living Planet Symposium, this world-renowned Ea ... more 
Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weatherCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 26, 2022 Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development. Now a D ... more |
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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 Ten dead, hundreds evacuated in Argentina floods |
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Digital rice selection technologyBeaumont TX (SPX) May 26, 2022 Rice researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont have begun a project that utilizes unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, data to speed up rice cultivar selection and breeding. ... more  
The Arctic's tricky quest for sustainable tourismLongyearbyen (AFP) May 27, 2022 Home to polar bears, the midnight sun and the northern lights, a Norwegian archipelago perched high in the Arctic is trying to find a way to profit from its pristine wilderness without ruining it. ... more 
Forecast of food cyber attacksAdelaide, Australia (SPX) May 27, 2022 Wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural production but international researchers warn this digital-age phenomenon could reap a crop of another kind - cybersecurity atta ... more  
Study explores water content in deep earth volcanic magmaLaramie WY (SPX) May 27, 2022 Magmatic volatile contents, such as water, are abundant in volcanic arc melts and influence magma evolution, dynamics of volcanic eruptions and the formation of ore deposits. Ben Urann, a Nati ... more |
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New class of substances detected in atmospheric chemistryLeipzig, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2022 An international research team has now succeeded in detecting hydrotrioxides (ROOOH) for the first time under atmospheric conditions. Until now, there was only speculation that these organic compoun ... more  
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patchesTrondheim, Norway (SPX) May 26, 2022 One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. ... more 
Ardern says Pacific can handle own security as China pushes dealWellington (AFP) May 26, 2022 The South Pacific can handle its own security needs, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday as details emerged of China's plans to significantly deepen ties with 10 island nations. ... more  
Putin ready to help overcome food crisis if West lifts sanctionsMoscow (AFP) May 27, 2022 Moscow is ready to make a "significant contribution" to averting a looming food crisis if the West lifts sanctions over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday. ... more |
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6.1-magnitude quake strikes off East TimorDili, East Timor (AFP) May 27, 2022 A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of East Timor on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far as the Australian city of Darwin, although there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. ... more  
Shanghai to gradually reopen schools in June as lockdown easesShanghai (AFP) May 26, 2022 Shanghai schoolchildren will gradually resume some in-person classes in June with daily Covid-19 tests, the local government said Thursday, as the Chinese metropolis gradually emerges from a lengthy lockdown that brought it to a standstill. ... more 
'Do something now:' mourners demand action after US school shootingUvalde, United States (AFP) May 27, 2022 A distraught Texas grandmother of a girl killed in the massacre in Uvalde pleaded Thursday for urgent action by US authorities to prevent future school shootings, as the country plunges again into the roiling debate over guns. ... more  
Oil, gas firms use Ukraine war to resist climate efforts: reportParis (AFP) May 25, 2022 US oil and gas firms took advantage of energy worries over the Ukraine war to push their fossil fuel products and resist climate change regulatory measures, an analysis showed on Wednesday. ... more 
Where rivers jump courseSanta Barbara CA (SPX) May 27, 2022 Humans have always had a complex relationship with rivers, which both fostered and threatened civilizations throughout history. Just recall Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of death and rebirth, who ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) May 27, 2022  Moscow is ready to make a "significant contribution" to averting a looming food crisis if the West lifts sanctions over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday.
Russia was slapped with unprecedented sanctions after Putin ordered troops into neighbouring Ukraine on February 24.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2022 
NASA has selected hundreds of small businesses and dozens of research institutions to develop technology to help drive the future of space exploration, ranging from novel sensors and electronics to new types of software and cutting-edge materials. The newly awarded projects under the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program also
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 Sydney (AFP) May 24, 2022 
China's foreign minister will make a "milestone" visit to Solomon Islands this week, the island state said, after the two nations sealed a wide-ranging security pact last month.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's trip comes at a time of heightened United States and Australian concern about China's intentions in the South Pacific.
The Solomon Islands government confirmed the China visit in a stat ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) May 27, 2022 
In a new study published in the journal Science, the team from Cardiff University has been able to pinpoint exactly how the tilting and wobbling of the Earth as it orbits around the Sun has influenced the melting of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2 million years or so.
Scientists have long been aware that the waxing and waning of massive Northern Hemisphere ice sheets ... more |
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 Beaumont TX (SPX) May 26, 2022 
Rice researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont have begun a project that utilizes unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, data to speed up rice cultivar selection and breeding.
A team of researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont will use UAVs to capture real-time images of rice crops, extract crop phenotypic traits from the images, and ultimate ... more |
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 Dili, East Timor (AFP) May 27, 2022  A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of East Timor on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far as the Australian city of Darwin, although there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The USGS said the quake hit at a depth of 51 kilometres (32 miles) off the eastern tip of Timor island, which is split between East Timor and Indonesia.
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 23, 2022 
Jihadists have killed 30 men in a revenge attack after their commanders died in military air strikes in Nigeria's northeast Borno state, two militia leaders said Tuesday.
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) seized the men in Mudu village in the Dikwa area on Saturday, they said.
News of the incident emerged late due to poor communication as a result of the destru ... more |
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 Trondheim, Norway (SPX) May 26, 2022 
One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again - virtually intact.
Sometime around 2000 BCE, a red-wing thrush died at Skiradalskollen in ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 27, 2022 
The effects of our warming climate are seen across a multitude of measures, usually as incremental changes: more frequent extreme weather, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. The cumulative impact of these changes, however, can cause fundamental parts of the Earth system to change more quickly and drastically. These 'tipping points' are thresholds where a tiny change pushes the system into an ent ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2022 
Canadian company GHGSat, which specializes in high-resolution GHG monitoring from space, launches three new ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, doubling capacity to monitor methane gas emissions.
With ABB's technology, the GHGSat team is able to precisely locate and measure methane emissions from any given industrial ... 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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 Madrid (AFP) May 26, 2022 
Air conditioning in public buildings in Spain must be turned down in the summer under new rules published on Thursday as part of measures to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian energy.
Office air conditioning should be set no lower than 27 Celsius (80.6 Fahrenheit) during the warmest months of the year, according to a government decree on energy efficiency.
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 27, 2022 
Scientists have found a new, nanoscale link between superconductivity - the flow of electric current without a loss of energy - and a phenomenon known as charge density waves.
The discovery, which is described in the journal Science, is a tantalizing step in the decades-long search for room-temperature superconductors that could unleash a new generation of electronics and computers.
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 Onna, Japan (SPX) May 24, 2022 
Termites are a type of cockroach that split from other cockroaches around 150 million years ago and evolved to live socially in colonies. Today, there are many different kinds of termites. Some form large colonies with millions of individuals, which tend to live in connected tunnels in the soil. Others, including most species known as drywood termites, form much smaller colonies of less than 500 ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2022 
China's foreign ministry on Friday accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of "smearing" the country, after the American official delivered a speech calling for action to counterbalance Beijing's influence.
In a long-awaited speech billed as the most comprehensive statement to date on China by US President Joe Biden's administration, Blinken said Beijing posed "the most serious long-ter ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 26, 2022  Deforestation surged 66 percent last year in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, according to a new report, compounding fears over the rampant destruction of the Amazon rainforest further north.
The "Mata Atlantica," which stretches down Brazil's eastern coast, lost 21,642 hectares (53,479 acres) of forest cover from November 2020 to October 2021, up two-thirds from the year before, according to the r ... more |
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