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  Manoa HI (SPX) Jul 08, 2022 New research published in the peer-reviewed journal Science examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, which could affect the understudied species that live in the deep sea-the largest habitat on Earth. The study by scientists from Oceans Initiative, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, Curtin University in Australia, and the University of Hawaii-and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts-found that noise from ... read more |
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Uganda says several dead 'because of hunger' in northeastKampala (AFP) July 14, 2022 Uganda on Thursday said several people had died "because of hunger" in one of the country's poorest and most lawless regions, with local officials saying hundreds had perished. ... more  
California wildfire threat to Yosemite giant sequoias 'almost gone'Los Angeles (AFP) July 14, 2022 The wildfire threat to the world's largest trees in California has almost passed, with the blaze now spreading away from giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park, a forestry official said Thursday. ... more  
Scientists confirm millions-year-old dripping of Earth's lithosphere under AndesToronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Just like honey slowly dripping from a spoon, parts of the rocky outermost layer of Earth's shell are continuously sinking into the more fluid layer of the planet's mantle over the course of million ... more  
Ancient fossilized brains of stanleycaris prompts rethink on evolution of insectsToronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old marine predator from the Burgess Shale called Stanl ... more |
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Spain targets senior ex-officials in flood deaths probe
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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Ocean and wave models complement atmosphere-only storm predictionsBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 For a long time, researchers have used atmosphere-only models to study the intensity changes in tropical cyclones. But the atmosphere-only models leave some questions unanswered. A research team has ... more 
Race to find Brazil Amazon species before they disappearManicore, Brazil (AFP) July 13, 2022 In a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon, a scientific expedition is cataloguing species. Time is of the essence. ... more 
Physics professor selected for NASA missionArlington 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 provi ... more 
US VP Harris launches Pacific push with new embassies, envoySuva, Fiji (AFP) July 13, 2022 The United States launched a major push into the Pacific Wednesday as it seeks to hold off China's advances in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the opening of two new embassies at a key regional summit. ... more |
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Wildfires spread across Europe; Morocco battles infernos as villagers fleeMadrid (AFP) July 14, 2022 A heatwave sweeping across southwestern Europe peaked on Thursday in Spain, with scorching temperatures fuelling stubborn wildfires that ravaged several countries. ... more  
China asks UN Security Council for ban on small arms to HaitiUnited Nations, United States (AFP) July 15, 2022 China has asked the UN Security Council to vote on banning small arms deliveries to Haiti, setting up a potential stand-off Friday with the United States whose draft resolution does not reflect Beijing's proposal. ... more  
Germans demand change a year on from deadly floodsBad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany (AFP) July 14, 2022 Germany on Thursday paid tribute to more than 180 people killed in severe floods a year ago, as those left behind charged that help with the reconstruction effort has been too slow to arrive. ... more 
Eight children trapped after Colombia landslide buries school: officialsBogota (AFP) July 14, 2022 At least eight children are believed trapped in northwest Colombia after a landslide buried a school on Thursday, local authorities said. ... more |
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Fires at Beirut silos spark memory of deadly port blastBeirut (AFP) July 14, 2022 Fires burning for days at Beirut's port, severely damaged in 2020 by an enormous explosion, have reignited trauma among Lebanese gearing up to mark the deadly blast's anniversary. ... more  
Togo army behind blast that killed 7Lome (AFP) July 14, 2022 Togo's army said Thursday it was responsible for a blast that killed seven civilians and injured two more, after mistaking them for jihadists. ... more  
Proposed US law would say Tibet status unresolvedWashington (AFP) July 14, 2022 US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would call Tibet's legal status unresolved, distancing Washington from past statements that recognized the territory as part of China. ... more  
Navy reservist Mordaunt risen through ranks to vie for UK Tory leadershipLondon (AFP) July 13, 2022 Penny Mordaunt has held several senior posts in UK government and even appeared on a celebrity reality television show, but is still little known beyond Westminster and her ruling Conservatives. ... more 
Sri Lankan president's resignation acceptedColombo (AFP) July 15, 2022 The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after he fled the country earlier this week, prompting relief among protesters camped outside his former offices. ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) July 14, 2022 
Fires burning for days at Beirut's port, severely damaged in 2020 by an enormous explosion, have reignited trauma among Lebanese gearing up to mark the deadly blast's anniversary.
On August 4, Lebanon will mark two years since the explosion that killed more than 200 people. It was caused by a stockpile of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate fertiliser catching fire.
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
The re-entry of abandoned stages of rockets left in orbit from space launches have a six to 10 per cent chance of severely injuring or killing a human being in the next decade, according to a new UBC study.
Researchers say governments need to take collective action and mandate that rocket stages are guided safely back to Earth after their use, which could increase the cost of a launch, but ... more |
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 Suva, Fiji (AFP) July 13, 2022 
The United States launched a major push into the Pacific Wednesday as it seeks to hold off China's advances in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the opening of two new embassies at a key regional summit.
Washington will open missions in Tonga and Kiribati and also appoint its first-ever Pacific regional envoy, Harris said as she pledged $600 million in funding for the ... more |
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 Oldenburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Located between Australia and New Zealand, the Tasman Sea is an important but so far neglected component of the global ocean conveyor belt. Now a new study has discovered evidence that this marginal sea in the South Pacific also played an important role in the exchange of water masses between the large ocean basins during the last ice age.
These findings will help to refine climate models ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) July 13, 2022 
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday held their first direct negotiations since March in a bid to break an impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger.
The high-stakes meeting involving UN and Turkish officials in Istanbul came with Russia and Ukraine locked in a furious long-range shooting battle that is destroying towns and leaving people with nothing.
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 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany (AFP) July 14, 2022 
Germany on Thursday paid tribute to more than 180 people killed in severe floods a year ago, as those left behind charged that help with the reconstruction effort has been too slow to arrive.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier embarked on a tour of the Ahr valley, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz joined a human chain in the hard-hit town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and took part in a minute's silen ... more |
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 Brazzaville (AFP) July 15, 2022 
Libyan political delegates ended a two-day meeting in Congo's capital Brazzaville on Friday, in preparation for reconciliation talks eventually leading to elections in the North African country.
Presidential and parliamentary elections were planned for last December in Libya, but they were postponed indefinitely over controversial candidates and the rules for participating.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
White children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during elementary school. That is the key finding from our recent peer-reviewed study.
We analyzed data from 1,070 U.S. elementary school children who had displayed above-average behavioral, academic or executive functioning the year before their initial ADHD diagnoses. We ... more |
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 Zurich (AFP) July 12, 2022 
Residents of Pulau Pari, an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels, are suing cement giant Holcim over its carbon dioxide emissions, a Swiss charity said on Tuesday.
"Holcim... bears a significant share of the responsibility for the climate crisis as well as for the situation on... Pari," Yvan Maillard Ardenti, climate expert at Swiss Church Aid (HEKS), said on the charity's websi ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
Planet Labs has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Planet Labs Germany GmbH, has signed a new contract with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) to provide the agency with daily, high-resolution satellite data for crisis response, environmental and nature conservation, as well as forest and agricultural monitoring.
Access to Planet's satellite data will help ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
The so-called Triassic-Jurassic Extinction (~202 million years ago) killed off the big reptiles that up until then had ruled the planet, thus clearing the way for dinosaurs to take over. But why did dinosaurs thrive when other creatures died?
Now a new study led by researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) and Columbia U ... more |
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 London (AFP) July 13, 2022 
Candidates hoping to become new leader of Britain's ruling Conservative party must commit to the government's net zero target, UK business chiefs urged in an open letter published Wednesday.
The letter was signed by 15 business leaders, including the chief executives Renewable UK, Advertising Association and Food and Drink Federation.
"The UK's business community is committed to addressi ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
The paradox startled scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) more than a dozen years ago. The more heat they beamed into a spherical tokamak, a magnetic facility designed to reproduce the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars, the less the central temperature increased.
"Normally, the more beam power you put in the higher the temp ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 12, 2022 
American toy manufacturer Mattel has unveiled new specialty Barbie dolls modeled after the famous English primatologist Jane Goodall and her beloved research specimen, a chimpanzee named David Greybeard.
The Goodall doll, which Mattel says will be partly made with recycled plastic, sports the researcher's classic beige collared shirt and shorts, as well as a pair of binoculars and a blue not ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 14, 2022 
US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would call Tibet's legal status unresolved, distancing Washington from past statements that recognized the territory as part of China.
Amid mounting alarm in the United States over the treatment of minorities in the People's Republic of China, the proposed act would state that "the conflict between Tibet and the PRC is unresolved" and that "the l ... more |
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 Manicore, Brazil (AFP) July 13, 2022 
In a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon, a scientific expedition is cataloguing species. Time is of the essence.
"The rate of destruction is faster than the rate of discovery," says botanist Francisco Farronay, of the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), as he cuts into the bark of an enormous tree and smells its insides.
"It is a race against time."
The largest rainfore ... more |
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