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  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions have still to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are still unclear. An international research team led by ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS is now proposing a new answer to this question based on laboratory experiments and computer simulations. The researchers have published their study in the journal Nature Astronomy. b>A ... read more |
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Ozone depletion over North Pole produces weather anomaliesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Many people are familiar with the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, but what is less well known is that occasionally, the protective ozone in the stratosphere over the Arctic is destroyed as ... more  
Pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir resumes as many missing from floodsSrinagar, India (AFP) July 11, 2022 Thousands of Hindu pilgrims resumed their trek to a popular cave shrine in the mountains of Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, even as scores remained missing after flash floods hit one of their camps. ... more  
Heatwave grips Spain as UK readies for soaring temperaturesMadrid (AFP) July 11, 2022 Spain and Portugal were sweltering in their second heatwave in a month on Monday, with scorching temperatures also expected in France and Britain in the coming days. ... more  
China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid caseBeijing (AFP) July 12, 2022 Hundreds of thousands of people were under lockdown in a small Chinese city Tuesday after just one case of Covid-19 was detected, as Beijing's strict no-tolerance virus strategy showed no sign of abating. ... more |
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Argentina searches for baby, young sister swept away by floods 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 Six dead, hundreds evacuated in Argentina floods At least six dead, hospital evacuated in Argentina floods |
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NASA Ice Scientists Take Flight from Greenland to Study Melting Arctic IceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Over the next two weeks, a handful of NASA scientists will be living very different lives from the rest of us: they will board a research plane in Greenland alongside laser instruments to help calib ... more 
Great Air Quality for the Great Lakes RegionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 Air quality planning agencies in the U.S. Great Lakes region now include high-resolution NASA satellite data and near real-time Earth observations in their ozone pollution assessments. Creating mode ... more 
City heat extremesParis (ESA) Jul 07, 2022 With air temperatures in excess of 10C above the average for the time of year in parts of Europe, the United States and Asia, June 2022 has gone down as a record breaker. The fear is that these extr ... more  
Using the power of the sun to roast green chileAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Every August and September the unmistakable pungent aroma of roasting green chile permeates the air across New Mexico and neighboring states. This delectable staple of regional cuisine is gree ... more |
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Heavy rains flood villages in Russia's climate-hit Far EastMoscow (AFP) July 12, 2022 Heavy rainfall has flooded several villages in Yakutia, in Russia's Far East region, authorities said on Tuesday. ... more  
Biden says guns turning US neighborhoods into 'killing fields'Washington (AFP) July 11, 2022 US President Joe Biden said Monday that a flood of guns is turning US communities into "killing fields" and vowed to reinstate a ban on assault rifles. ... more 
A year on, German flood victims recall life changed in a nightDernau, Germany (AFP) July 11, 2022 Nearly a year ago, pounding rain turned the River Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine in western Germany, into a torrent of water and mud that swept everything before it. ... more 
UN says no plans to start naming heatwavesGeneva (AFP) July 12, 2022 The United Nations said Tuesday it has no plans to start naming heatwaves in the same way as Atlantic hurricanes, as Europe faces scorching temperatures this week. ... more |
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Baggage of despair: Iraqi Kurd plans new escape to EuropeSulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) July 12, 2022 Iraqi Kurd Haresh Talib says he struggles to get paid and his children's schooling is disrupted in his conflict-riddled country, so he wants to try to flee with his family to Europe - again. ... more  
Faroe Islands to limit dolphin hunt quota to 500Stockholm (AFP) July 10, 2022 The Faroe Islands said Sunday it would provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500, following public outcry over the practice. ... more  
US firefighters race to protect Yosemite's giant sequoiasYosemite National Park, United States (AFP) July 11, 2022 Hundreds of firefighters scrambled Monday to prevent a wildfire engulfing an area of rare giant sequoia trees in California's Yosemite National Park. ... more  
Ethiopia's PM Abiy denies negligence following massacresAddis Ababa (AFP) July 7, 2022 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday defended his government and the country's armed forces against accusations of negligence following a series of grisly massacres recently in a restive region. ... more  
Japan mourns as funeral for former PM Abe held in TokyoTokyo (AFP) July 12, 2022 Mourners lined the streets of central Tokyo on Tuesday to bid farewell to assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, as his hearse was driven past political landmarks after a private funeral. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 11, 2022 
US President Joe Biden said Monday that a flood of guns is turning US communities into "killing fields" and vowed to reinstate a ban on assault rifles.
In a White House ceremony to mark new gun control legislation that he signed on June 25, Biden said it was the first significant progress in 30 years, but did not go far enough to rein in US gun violence.
"This has taken too long, with to ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.
Junk like used satellites, parts of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up since the space age began, with the problem accelerating in recent decades.
"We're entering an era when many satellites w ... more |
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 Illmitz, Austria (AFP) July 11, 2022 
Kitesurfers and windsurfers dot picturesque Lake Neusiedl on the Austrian-Hungarian border - but the water is so low some get stuck in the mud.
The salt lake and its marshes - the largest of its kind in Europe and a UNESCO world heritage site - could soon run completely dry, and locals are worried.
The lake, only an hour from Vienna, last dried up in the 1860s yet was naturally replen ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Over the next two weeks, a handful of NASA scientists will be living very different lives from the rest of us: they will board a research plane in Greenland alongside laser instruments to help calibrate NASA's space-based measurements of Arctic ice.
The ice researchers and instrument scientists will board NASA's Gulfstream V jet and fly out of Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland to he ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 8, 2022 
Rampant exploitation of nature is a threat to the well-being of billions of people across the world who rely on wild species for food, energy and income, United Nations biodiversity experts said Friday.
From fishing and logging to the use of wild plants in medicines and perfumes, societies across the planet use species that have not been tamed or cultivated, with annual global legal and ill ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) July 12, 2022 
Heavy rainfall has flooded several villages in Yakutia, in Russia's Far East region, authorities said on Tuesday.
Yakutia has been badly affected in recent summers by extreme weather - including wildfires and floods - that scientists say is linked to climate change.
Such extreme weather events are expected to become even more frequent, more prolonged and more intense in the future.
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 Niamey (AFP) July 5, 2022 
The main French military base in Niger has become a hub of frantic activity for troops and equipment leaving neighbouring Mali.
After nine years fighting jihadists in Mali, France is pulling its troops out of the country after falling out with its military junta, and reducing its presence in the wider Sahel region.
"This disengagement from Mali is the biggest of our missions," says Colon ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
New research by a scientist at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that "selfish chromosomes" explain why most human embryos die very early on. The study, published in PLoS, Biology, explaining why fish embryos are fine but sadly humans' embryos often don't survive, has implications for the treatment of infertility.
About half of fertilised eggs die very earl ... more |
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 Cape Cod MA (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
Projected changes in wintertime precipitation make agriculture in the Iberian region some of the most vulnerable in Europe, according to a new study that links the changes to increased anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
These changes in precipitation are tied to a subtropical high-pressure system known as the Azores High that is more often significantly larger in the industrial era (since 185 ... more |
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 Arlington TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
A space physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington will play a key role in NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission.
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the region of space enveloping earth known as the ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T) region, according to a NASA press release.
Rick Wilder, assistant p ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions have still to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are still unclear. An international research team led by ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS is now proposing a new answer to this question based on laboratory experiments an ... more |
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 Frankfurt (AFP) July 8, 2022 
The European Central Bank on Friday called on banks to improve their preparations for future environmental risks as it published the results of its first "climate stress test".
Banks in the eurozone "must urgently step up efforts to measure and manage climate risk", the ECB's supervisory chief, Andrea Enria, said in a statement.
Launched in January, the stress test gauged the impact of ... more |
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 Salzgitter, Germany (AFP) July 7, 2022 
Volkswagen celebrated Thursday the beginning of work on its first in-house battery factory, as the German auto giant looks to head off competition from US and Chinese electric vehicle upstarts.
The firm plans to "steer the worldwide battery offensive" from the new plant in Salzgitter in central Germany, CEO Herbert Diess told a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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 Johannesburg (AFP) July 6, 2022 
Three poachers suspected of killing several rhinos in South Africa's Kruger National Park were arrested after they were tracked down by sniffer dogs, park officials said on Wednesday.
Rangers flying over the park grounds spotted a carcass and an injured rhino on Friday morning after being alerted by a tourist who reported hearing gunshots, South African National Parks said in a statement. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2022 
Members of a "criminal gang" accused of taking control of local banks have been arrested in central China after rare protests over alleged financial corruption sparked violent clashes between customers and authorities.
Hit hard by the country's economic slowdown, four banks in Henan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals, leaving thousands of small savers without funds and ... more |
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 Niamey (AFP) July 6, 2022 
Non-governmental groups in Niger Wednesday urged Nigeriens to use less wood to grill their mutton during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha this year to save precious trees.
They pleaded with them to replace wood with locally mined coal at barbecues to mark the festival due to start at the weekend, called Tabaski in West Africa.
The capital Niamey alone consumes "around 50,000 tonnes" of ... more |
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