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  Washington (AFP) May 28, 2022 It was 1776, the American colonies had just declared their independence from England, and as war raged the founding fathers were deep in debate: should Americans have the right to own firearms as individuals, or just as members of local militia? Days after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered in a Texas town, the debate rages on as outsiders wonder why Americans are so wedded to the firearms that stoke such massacres with appalling frequency. The answer, experts say, lies both in the tr ... read more |
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Siberian tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millenniumBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2022 Due to global warming, temperatures in the Arctic are climbing rapidly. As a result, the treeline for Siberian larch forests is steadily advancing to the north, gradually supplanting the broad expan ... more  
AI and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won't replace human expertsFort Collins CO (The Conversation) May 29, 2022 A century ago, English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a startling idea for that time: constructing a systematic process based on math for predicting the weather. In his 1922 book, "Weat ... more 
Putting the future in FutureEOParis (ESA) May 29, 2022 With scientific excellence at the very heart of ESA's FutureEO programme, participants at this week's Living Planet Symposium have been making it clear that new research missions to advance Earth sc ... more  
Vanuatu declares climate emergencySydney (AFP) May 28, 2022 Vanuatu's parliament has declared a climate emergency, with the low-lying island nation's prime minister flagging a US$1.2 billion cost to cushion climate change's impacts on his country. ... 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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Decline in North Sea puffins causes concernIsle Of May, United Kingdom (AFP) May 29, 2022 The Isle of May, off Scotland's east coast, is home to one of the UK's biggest colonies of seabirds. Some 200,000 birds, from kittiwakes to guillemots can flock to the rocky outcrop at the height of the breeding season. ... more  
Climate change effect on Peruvian glaciers debated in German courtHuaraz, Peru (AFP) May 28, 2022 German judges and experts have arrived at the edge of a melting glacier high up in the Peruvian Andes to examine a complaint made by a local farmer who accuses energy giant RWE of threatening his home by contributing to global warming. ... more  
Toxic smoke and suspicious plastic plant fires in TurkeyKartepe, Turkey (AFP) May 29, 2022 The number of fires breaking out in plastic recycling plants has soared in Turkey. ... more 
Jordan's plastic trash turned into art with a messageAmman (AFP) May 29, 2022 Jordan-based artist Maria Nissan is on a mission: to rid the world of single-use plastics and to raise public awareness about the environmental scourge through eye-catching art. ... more |
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Strawberry farms threaten Spanish wetlandsDonana National Park, Spain (AFP) May 27, 2022 Standing in the middle of a stretch of land surrounded by dunes and pine forest, Juan Romero examines the cracked ground then stares at the dusty horizon. ... more  
Downpours in Brazil leave at least 34 deadBrasilia (AFP) May 28, 2022 Torrential rains that have plagued Brazil's northeastern Pernambuco state since Tuesday have left at least 34 dead, 29 of which occurred over the previous day, according to the latest official update. ... more  
Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surgeNasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) May 29, 2022 Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death. ... more  
Senior DR Congo soldiers sentenced to die for selling arms to militiaBunia, Dr Congo (AFP) May 27, 2022 A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday sentenced to death eight soldiers, including a colonel and two majors, as well as three civilians for selling arms to a violent militia. ... more |
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One killed in Sudan anti-coup protests: medicsKhartoum (AFP) May 28, 2022 Sudanese security forces killed Saturday a protester during the latest mass demonstrations against last year's military coup, medics said. ... more 
Chinese loans to Africa could spark crisis, warns GermanyFrankfurt (AFP) May 27, 2022 China's years-long lending spree in poorer countries, particularly in Africa, poses a "serious danger" that could plunge the world into the next financial crisis, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Friday. ... more  
Hong Kong's next leader visits Beijing for official nodHong Kong (AFP) May 28, 2022 Hong Kong's next leader John Lee travelled to Beijing on Saturday to receive the central government's blessing as he prepares to take office in a month. ... more
Australia urges Pacific nations to shun China security dealsSuva, 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. ... more  
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 |
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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 29, 2022  Australia's newly elected prime minister has said Pacific leaders have been "very positive" about his government's renewed engagement, even as Beijing continues its diplomatic blitz across the increasingly contested region.
The comments from Anthony Albanese - aired Sunday in an interview with Sky News - came as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Fiji for closely watched meetings wit ... 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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 Brasilia (AFP) May 28, 2022 
Torrential rains that have plagued Brazil's northeastern Pernambuco state since Tuesday have left at least 34 dead, 29 of which occurred over the previous day, according to the latest official update.
"From last Wednesday until midday this Saturday, 34 deaths were recorded in the state," said the Civil Defense in a statement.
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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 America's top diplomat delivered a landmark policy speech calling for action to counterbalance Beijing's influence.
In the most comprehensive statement to date on China by US President Joe Biden's administration, Blinken said on Thursday the Asian power posed "the most serious lon ... 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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