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  Paris (AFP) July 18, 2022 Britain and France went on high alert on Monday, bracing for record temperatures from a punishing heatwave as deadly wildfires raging in parts of southwest Europe showed no sign of abating. Forecasters have put 15 French departments on the highest state of alert for extreme temperatures while in Britain the government was accused of failing to take seriously the impending heat emergency as forecasters warned that lives were at risk. The heatwave, spreading north, began as the second to engulf pa ... read more |
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Air samples from Arctic region show how fast Earth is warmingFort Collins CO (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 While climate change is taking effect everywhere on Earth, the Arctic Circle is feeling those effects most of all, in the form of glacial melt, permafrost thaw and sea ice decline. Key players ... more  
Forest fires rage in scorching southwest EuropeMadrid (AFP) July 17, 2022 Firefighters battled to contain wildfires sweeping across southwest Europe on Sunday as a heatwave showed no sign of abating, with Britain poised to set new temperature records this coming week. ... more  
Planet signs contract to provide German Federal Agencies with daily satellite imageryBerlin, 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 ... more  
Researchers use quantum-inspired approach to increase lidar resolutionGlasgow UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Researchers have shown that a quantum-inspired technique can be used to perform lidar imaging with a much higher depth resolution than is possible with conventional approaches. Lidar, which uses las ... more |
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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 Six dead, hundreds evacuated in Argentina floods At least six dead, hospital evacuated in Argentina floods |
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Feathery insulation helped dinosaurs survive and thrive: StudyNanjing, 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 ... more 
Predicting equatorial plasma bubbles with SWARMLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called 'plasma bubbles' to form over the Earth's equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the E ... more 
Stronger overturning circulation in the Pacific during the last glacial periodOldenburg, 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 ... more  
Artificial intelligence model finds potential drug molecules a thousand times fasterBoston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 The entirety of the known universe is teeming with an infinite number of molecules. But what fraction of these molecules have potential drug-like traits that can be used to develop life-saving drug ... more |
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Bees' 'waggle dance' may revolutionize how robots talk to each other in disaster zonesBangalore, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 Where are those flowers and how far away are they? This is the crux of the 'waggle dance' performed by honeybees to alert others to the location of nectar-rich flowers. A new study in Frontiers in R ... more  
'Fire of Love' charts romance and death of volcano-chasing scientistsLos Angeles (AFP) July 17, 2022 French scientists Maurice and Katia Krafft were brought together, and eventually killed, by their shared love of volcanoes. ... more  
Pacific Islands ask international court to rule on climateSuva, Fiji (AFP) July 18, 2022 Climate-threatened Pacific islands called on Monday for the International Court of Justice to rule on countries' legal duties to stop climate change, a move designed to ratchet up pressure on polluting nations. ... more 
'Water police' patrol drought-hit Los Angeles streetsLos Angeles (AFP) July 18, 2022 Damon Ayala patrols the streets of drought-stricken Los Angeles every day, inspecting the sidewalks. Each time he sees a puddle, he stops. ... more |
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Iraq's date palms: rescuing a national iconKarbala, Iraq (AFP) July 17, 2022 Thousands of young date palms, Iraq's national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the horizon. ... more  
UN Security Council calls on members to stop arming gangs in HaitiUnited Nations, United States (AFP) July 16, 2022 The United Nations Security Council agreed Friday to ask member states to ban the transfer of small arms to Haiti, rocked by deadly gang violence, but stopped short of a full embargo requested by China. ... more  
From catwalk to perp walk: Colombian designer awaits fate on smuggling chargesBogota (AFP) July 16, 2022 Colombian celebrity designer Nancy Gonzalez's fall from grace was sudden and spectacular: taken in handcuffs from her luxury home in Cali last week to a Bogota jail cell, accused of smuggling protected animal skin purses into the United States. ... more 
Iraq asks Turkey to release more water; Iran arrests protesters at drying lakeBaghdad (AFP) July 16, 2022 Iraq on Saturday asked Ankara to increase the flow of water downstream along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as both countries face droughts and tensions over resource management. ... more  
China Covid outbreak grows as Macau extends Covid shutdownBeijing (AFP) July 16, 2022 China on Saturday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases since May, with millions in lockdown this weekend as authorities persist with their zero-Covid policy. ... 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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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
has been awarded a contract from York Space Systems. The contract will see MDA design and build Ka-Band steerable antennas for satellites to be produced by York Space Systems.
"We're excited to establish this new relationship for satellite systems with York Space Systems to support important space security and communications constellations," said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA. "This contract r ... 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.
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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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 Kampala (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.
The Ugandan prime minister's office on Thursday did not provide exact figures for the number of deaths in Karamoja region.
More than half a million people are going hungry in Karamoja, some 40 percent of the popul ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 17, 2022 
China on Saturday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place two satellites in space.
The pair of satellites, Siwei 03 and 04, were lifted at 6:57 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and soon entered the preset orbit.
They will provide commercial remote sensing services for sectors such as land resources investigation, ... 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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 New Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
To spur decarbonization, public investments must go beyond government support of research and development and expand into the manufacturing and deployment of new technology. To do this, governments must move beyond the myths surrounding public investment in clean energy that discourage use of public funds, a newly published Yale School of the Environment-led commentary in "Nature Energy" explain ... 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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 Paris (AFP) July 16, 2022 
Orphaned elephants manage to overcome the loss of their mother by living in a herd, highlighting the importance of a social life for the species, according to a study.
Scientists investigated the consequences of a mother elephant's death on her child by examining the level of stress hormones in the excrement of 37 young elephants in Kenya between 2015 and 2016.
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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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