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  Strasbourg, France (AFP) June 8, 2022 The European Parliament voted Wednesday to reject a reform of the EU carbon trading system, in a surprise setback to Brussels' plan to tackle the climate crisis. The EU has vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, but Green and socialist MEPs judged the plan to expand carbon trading insufficiently ambitious. The legislation to expand the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to include carbon from transport and construction is a keystone of Brussels' entire climate package. ... read more |
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Amazon's indigenous leaders make plea at Americas summitLos Angeles (AFP) June 8, 2022 The custodians of the primal forests that stretch across eight Latin American countries said national leaders gathering in Los Angeles this week had to listen to them if they wanted to save the Amazon. ... more  
US to ban single-use plastics on public lands by 2032Washington (AFP) June 8, 2022 The United States will phase out single-use plastics in national parks and other public lands over the next decade, President Joe Biden's administration announced Wednesday as part of actions on World Oceans Day. ... more 
Climate change erased a fifth of exposed nations' growth potential: reportParis (AFP) June 8, 2022 Climate-vulnerable countries said disasters and weather patterns driven by global warming have wiped out around a fifth of their economic growth, in a report published Wednesday amid growing calls for funding to help nations hammered by weather extremes. ... more  
Greenpeace urges Arab nations avert Yemen environmental disasterBeirut (AFP) June 8, 2022 Greenpeace on Wednesday urged the Arab League to drum up funds to rescue a stranded, oil-filled tanker that is rusting off war-torn Yemen, threatening a major environmental disaster. ... 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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Guinea army officer key to 2021 coup arrestedConakry (AFP) June 8, 2022 A Guinean special forces officer believed to have played a leading role in last year's military coup has been arrested, sources close to him said on Wednesday. ... more  
Lebanon pine forest blaze begins wildfire seasonBeirut (AFP) June 8, 2022 Emergency teams brought under control a massive blaze in Lebanon's largest pine forest on Wednesday that authorities said could be deliberate, as the country braced for another summer of fires. ... more 
Two Malian soldiers killed in attack near TimbuktuBamako (AFP) June 8, 2022 Two Malian soldiers were killed Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint by unidentified gunmen near the northern city of Timbuktu, the regional government and the army said. ... more  
World's largest breeder to annually rewild 100 rhinosJohannesburg (AFP) June 7, 2022 A leading South African private rhino breeder has announced plans to annually release 100 farm-bred rhinos into the wild to help restock a population decimated by poaching. ... more |
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Fears mount for UK journalist, Indigenous expert missing in AmazonBras�lia (AFP) June 8, 2022 Rights groups and families of a British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert who went missing deep in the Amazon after receiving threats pleaded Tuesday for authorities to accelerate the search operation. ... more  
Seen from space, the snow-capped Alps are going greenWashington (AFP) June 2, 2022 The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover - a process called "greening" that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday. ... more  
Lavrov in Turkey for talks on Ukraine grain exportsAnkara (AFP) June 7, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began a two-day visit to Turkey on Tuesday for talks on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine, which have been stalled by Moscow's offensive. ... more 
Spain seeks to reduce food waste by supermarkets, restaurantsMadrid (AFP) June 7, 2022 Spain's government on Tuesday adopted a draft bill aimed at reducing food waste by introducing fines for restaurants and supermarkets who bin leftovers, similar to existing legislation in France and Italy. ... more |
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East Africa army chiefs discuss regional force for east DR CongoGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) June 7, 2022 East African army chiefs held discussions Tuesday on establishing a regional military force to restore security in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a statement. ... more  
Hong Kong not becoming 'police state', says city's top copHong Kong (AFP) June 7, 2022 Hong Kong is not becoming a "police state", the city's top law enforcement officer said Tuesday, days after his officers stamped out the city's once-permitted commemorations marking Beijing's deadly Tiananmen crackdown. ... more  
Capturing carbon with crops, trees and bioenergyEast Lansing MI (SPX) Jun 01, 2022 An integrated approach to land management practices in the U.S. can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere far more than earlier estimates based on separate approaches, Michigan State University re ... more 
Syria's climate-scorched wheat fields feed animals, not peopleUmm Ajrah, Syria (AFP) June 6, 2022 Moussa Fatimi's wheat field was once part of a thriving Syrian breadbasket. Now, he can't even grow enough to feed his family, and the land has been turned over to animals. ... more  
Relief in Beijing as city lifts Covid dine-in curbs; college entrance exam beginBeijing (AFP) June 7, 2022 After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of Covid restrictions in the Chinese capital. ... more |
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 Recife, Brazil (AFP) June 3, 2022 
Emergency workers in Brazil ended their search Friday for victims of deadly floods and landslides that hit the country's northeast, after finding the body of the last person reported missing, bringing the death toll to 128, officials said.
Days of torrential rain late last month in the region around Recife, the capital of Pernambuco state, triggered flash floods and violent landslides that w ... more |
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 Alexandria VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 
SCOUT Inc., a company developing next-generation space safety of flight and autonomous proximity operations services, and LEOcloud Inc., a company offering a scalable space-based, multi-cloud Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to work jointly to enhance space operations safety.
The collaboration is focused on integrating SCOUT's Space Do ... more |
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 Dili, East Timor (AFP) June 3, 2022 
China's foreign minister signed a series of agreements in East Timor on his final stop of a 10-day diplomatic blitz of the South Pacific on Friday, boosting ties between Beijing and Southeast Asia's youngest country.
Wang Yi met with East Timor's top diplomat Adaljiza Magno in the capital Dili for a signing ceremony where they penned agreements on agriculture, media partnerships and economic ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 
Despite its below-freezing temperatures, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. As Arctic sea ice melts, fewer bright surfaces are available to reflect sunlight back into space. When fractures open in the ice cover, the water underneath gets exposed. Dark, ice-free water absorbs the sun's energy, heating the ocean and driving further melting - a vicious cycle. This warmin ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) June 7, 2022 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began a two-day visit to Turkey on Tuesday for talks on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine, which have been stalled by Moscow's offensive.
The plane carrying Lavrov landed at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara, an AFP photographer saw.
This is Lavrov's second trip to Turkey after meeting his Turkish and Ukrainian counterparts Mevlut Cavus ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) June 5, 2022 
A volcano in the eastern Philippines spewed a huge, dark cloud on Sunday, prompting evacuations from ash-covered towns while authorities warned of possible further eruptions.
The blast from Bulusan volcano in the rural Sorsogon province lasted about 17 minutes, sending a grey plume shooting up at least one kilometre (0.6 miles), according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismo ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) June 8, 2022 
Two Malian soldiers were killed Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint by unidentified gunmen near the northern city of Timbuktu, the regional government and the army said.
"We lost two soldiers this morning on the road to Taoudeni," Timbuktu governor Bakoun Kante told AFP.
"There are five wounded who are at the regional hospital in Timbuktu."
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 Los Angeles (AFP) June 8, 2022 
The custodians of the primal forests that stretch across eight Latin American countries said national leaders gathering in Los Angeles this week had to listen to them if they wanted to save the Amazon.
Indigenous leaders from across South America are in the United States for the Summit of the Americas, a semi-regular gathering of heads of state from the Western Hemisphere.
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 Paris (AFP) June 8, 2022 
Climate-vulnerable countries said disasters and weather patterns driven by global warming have wiped out around a fifth of their economic growth, in a report published Wednesday amid growing calls for funding to help nations hammered by weather extremes.
The research, released by a consortium of 55 developing nations across Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, comes as UN climate nego ... more |
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 Grenoble, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared (IR) detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, today announces the launch of two multispectral linear array IR detectors for application in a range of Earth observation missions. Pega and Capyork are designed for integration into imaging satellites, tracking and measurement instruments used in water cycle observation a ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 
Plesiosaurs, which lived about 210 million years ago, adapted to life underwater in a unique way: their front and hind legs evolved in the course of evolution to form four uniform, wing-like flippers. In her thesis supervised at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and the University of Bonn, Dr. Anna Krahl investigated how they used these to move through the water.
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 Buenos Aires (AFP) June 6, 2022 
Argentina's president vowed Monday to pursue a special tax on company profits boosted by the war in Ukraine, a phenomenon he described as an "immorality" given the inflationary pressure on poor households.
While millions were feeling the pain of rising food prices, the war also "benefits the few... who are gaining a lot," Alberto Fernandez said in an address.
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 
A team of researchers led by chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has learned that an electrolyte additive allows stable high-voltage cycling of nickel-rich layered cathodes. Their work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
The findings, published on May 9 in Nature Energy, offer a rem ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) June 7, 2022 
A leading South African private rhino breeder has announced plans to annually release 100 farm-bred rhinos into the wild to help restock a population decimated by poaching.
The animals will come from a 2,004-strong herd bred by private rhino farmer John Hume, who runs the world's biggest rhino farm on an 8,400-hectare piece of land in South Africa's North West province.
The deal to "annu ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) June 8, 2022 
The Taiwan edition of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper has found a buyer which would retain most of its staff, the firm said Wednesday, pledging to continue to "speak out against any injustice".
Popular news outlet Apply Daily shut down in Hong Kong last year after its newsroom was raided and assets frozen under a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the Chinese city to clamp d ... more |
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 Bras�lia (AFP) June 8, 2022  Rights groups and families of a British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert who went missing deep in the Amazon after receiving threats pleaded Tuesday for authorities to accelerate the search operation.
Veteran freelance journalist Dom Phillips, 57, and respected Indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira, 41, went missing early Sunday while traveling by boat in Brazil's Javari Valley, near ... more |
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