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  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better understanding of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes. "We looked at the current knowledge of the configuration of plate boundary zones and the past construction of the continental crust," said Dr Derrick Hasterok, Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide who led the team that produced the new models. "The continents ... read more |
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Dying children reflect brutal toll of Somalia droughtMogadishu (AFP) June 9, 2022 Arbay Mahad Qasim has already lost two children to a vicious drought, and now the Somali villager fears she could lose a third as her malnourished toddler Ifrah awaits treatment in a Mogadishu hospital. ... 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  
Pink 'soul refresher' unites wilting Indians and PakistanisNew Delhi (AFP) June 9, 2022 Pakistan and India have fought three wars and countless skirmishes, but as summers get hotter with climate change, their peoples are united by love for a cooling 115-year-old pink libation with a secret recipe. ... more |
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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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Shanghai to lock down and test 2.7 million as Covid fears lingerShanghai (AFP) June 9, 2022 Shanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said, as the Chinese metropolis struggles to fully emerge from punishing curbs. ... more  
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  
Black Americans bear the brunt of fentanyl 'epidemic' in WashingtonWashington (AFP) June 9, 2022 Lorando Duncan wears long-sleeved shirts because his arms bear scars he doesn't like to show: those of the drugs he has been injecting into his veins for decades. ... 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 |
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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  
Heavy rains leave 10 dead, hundreds of thousands displaced in ChinaBeijing (AFP) June 9, 2022 Ten people have died in central China as torrential rains lashed Hunan province, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported. ... 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 |
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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  
Fears mount for UK journalist, Indigenous expert missing in AmazonBrasilia (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  
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 |
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 Beirut (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.
The environmental group said an urgent meeting was needed for the FSO Safer, after a UN pledging conference last month fell far short of its $80 million target.
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 Centennial CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
SEAKR Engineering, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced a successful demonstration of optical inter-satellite links between two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Mandrake 2 satellites. During the first test, more than 280 gigabits of data were transferred at a range of 114 kilometers during a period of more than 40 minutes.
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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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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered critical new details about fusion facilities that use lasers to compress the fuel that produces fusion energy. The new data could help lead to the improved design of future laser facilities that harness the fusion process that drives the sun and stars.
Fusion combines light element ... 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.
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 Hong 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.
The Chinese business hub is preparing for an upcoming leadership change as well as the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain, for which President Xi Jinping is ... more |
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 Brasilia (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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