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  Brussels (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 The European Commission on Wednesday urged EU member states to re-use treated urban waste water as irrigation on the continent's parched farms. Much of Europe has been hit by a lengthy dry spell this year, and the EU executive warns that climate change could see half of the river basins in the bloc short of water by 2030. "Freshwater resources are scarce and increasingly under pressure," said Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU commissioner for the environment, fisheries and the oceans. "We need t ... read more |
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Climate, poverty collude to torment Central AmericaSan Salvador (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 Every time it rains, Blanca Arias in El Salvador and Sandra Ramos in Honduras fear that flooding will raze their precarious homes and leave their families destitute. Again. ... more  
France orders crisis task force over 'historic' droughtParis (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 The French government said Friday that it had activated a crisis task force to coordinate efforts to alleviate the impacts of a "historic" drought exacerbated by a third extreme heatwave of the summer. ... more  
Cloud study demystifies impact of aerosolsExeter UK (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Aerosol particles in the atmosphere have a bigger impact on cloud cover - but less effect on cloud brightness - than previously thought, new research shows. Aerosols are tiny particles suspend ... more  
Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearingQuito (AFP) Aug 1, 2022 A land iguana that disappeared more than a century ago from one of the Galapagos Islands is reproducing naturally following its reintroduction there, Ecuador's environment ministry announced Monday. ... more |
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Death toll from Uganda landslides rises to 20: Red Cross
Jihadists, allies enter Syria's second city in lightning assault Traumatised Spain marks one month since catastrophic floods Floods kill 8, tens of thousands evacuate in Malaysia, Thailand Spain urged to 'build differently' after deadly floods Malaysia floods kill 4, force over 80,000 to evacuate Saudi Arabia hosts UN talks on drought, desertification Tanzania's ruling party wins landslide victory in local vote At least 15 dead, 113 missing, in Uganda landslides Flood-hit Spain introduces 'climate leave' for workers |
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Election tech under spotlight as Kenya prepares to voteNairobi (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 Voting technology was introduced in Kenya to build trust and credibility around elections - but has sometimes had the opposite effect. ... more 
Dutch declare shortage in 'land of water'The Hague (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 The Netherlands declared an official water shortage on Wednesday as the low-lying "land of water" was hit by Europe's sweltering summer. ... more  
Driest July in memory imperils Europe's cropsParis (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 As much of Europe bakes in a third heatwave since June, fears are growing that extreme drought driven by climate change in the continent's breadbasket nations will dent stable crop yields and deepen the cost-of-living crisis. ... more  
'Indescribable': the heat and roar of Iceland's volcano as spectators flock to watchFagradalsfjall, Iceland (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 The ground rumbles underfoot, then roars as red-orange lava fountains shoot up from the ground, the intense heat cloaking the nearby crowd awestruck by Iceland's latest volcanic eruption. ... more |
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S.Sudan extends transitional govt by two yearsJuba (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 South Sudan's leaders announced Thursday that the country's post-war transitional government would remain in power two years beyond an agreed deadline, in a move foreign partners warned lacked legitimacy. ... more  
'Unprecedented' fire rips through munitions site in Berlin forestBerlin (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 An "unprecedented" fire broke out Thursday around a German police munitions storage site in a popular forest in western Berlin, sending plumes of smoke into the skies and setting off a series of explosions. ... more  
Danish AI-driven political party eyes parliamentCopenhagen (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 A new political party in Denmark whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence (AI) hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023. ... more 
China vlogger who ate great white shark under investigationBeijing (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 A Chinese influencer is under police investigation after a clip of her roasting and eating a great white shark went viral. ... more |
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Burkina army says civilians killed in air raidOuagadougou (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 Burkina Faso's army said on Wednesday that civilians had been killed in an air strike against jihadists, as local inhabitants reported around 30 people had died. ... more 
Myanmar junta charges Japanese journalist with encouraging dissentYangon (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 A Japanese journalist detained in Myanmar has been charged with breaching immigration law and encouraging dissent against the military, the ruling junta said Thursday. ... more  
Key Hong Kong court ruling to lift lid on national security casesHong Kong (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 A Hong Kong court delivered a landmark ruling on Tuesday that will help lift the lid on secrecy-shrouded pre-trial hearings held under a national security law. ... more  
Togo battles to save forests as poverty threatens reservesLome (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 Day and night, Komlatse Koto watches over the forest near his village in southern Togo, hoping to prevent the diminishing patch of woodland from being turned bit by bit into a treeless clearing. ... more  
China faces new demographic challengesBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2022 The world's population has grown at a fast space during the past two centuries. The global population was only 1 billion in the early 19th century but it increased to 6.14 billion at the turn of thi ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
SpaceWorks successfully demonstrated RED-Rescue, its new, low-cost solution in delivering life-saving food, supplies and equipment to downed or isolated Airmen. The flight test was conducted in March near Albuquerque, NM.
The U.S. Air Force had recently challenged industry to develop capabilities that provide on-demand and cost-efficient delivery of Personnel Recovery Kits (PRKs) to downed ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 
Rashmi Karanth has always been fascinated by space. As a child, she would look up to the skies and wonder what lay beyond.
The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has a keen interest in data and analytics. "How you make data consumable and present it as information is something I'm very passionate about," says Karanth.
Having forged a highly successful caree ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.
Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in coral cover in the last year, reaching levels not seen in 36 years of monitoring, the Australian Institute of Marin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a new paper published the week of Aug. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian scientists and colleagues looked at eelgrass communities-the foundation of many coastal marine food webs along the north Atlantic and Pacific coasts-and discovered their ancient genetic history can play a s ... more |
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 London (AFP) Aug 1, 2022 
British retailer Waitrose said on Monday it was removing "best before" dates from almost 500 fresh products in its supermarkets, in a bit to curb food waste.
"Best before" dates tells customers food is at its optimal before this date, but is still fine to eat for a time afterwards.
From September the upmarket chain will remove the label from a range of packaged fresh fruit, herbs and veg ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) July 29, 2022  The death toll from a major earthquake in the northern Philippines rose to 10 Friday after another four bodies were found in rubble, authorities said, as aftershocks continued to rock the mountainous region.
Rescuers in the town of Luba in the hardest hit province of Abra retrieved the remains of the men on a section of road that was buried by a landslide during Wednesday's 7.0-magnitude qua ... more |
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 Juba (AFP) Aug 4, 2022  South Sudan's leaders announced Thursday that the country's post-war transitional government would remain in power two years beyond an agreed deadline, in a move foreign partners warned lacked legitimacy.
Martin Elia Lomuro, the minister of cabinet affairs, said the decision was taken "to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement", following a 2018 deal to ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age.
The world's most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades.
And although officials relaxed the nation's strict "one-child policy" in 2016 and la ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 
The Netherlands declared an official water shortage on Wednesday as the low-lying "land of water" was hit by Europe's sweltering summer.
The Dutch government said it was eyeing further measures to conserve water amid a drought, and authorities have already imposed limits on farming and shipping.
The country is protected from the sea by a famed system of dams, dykes and canals but remains ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 04, 2022 
On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Since then spacecraft operators and engineers have been working tirelessly to rectify the issue. Unfortunately, despite all concerted efforts, ESA and the European Commission announce that it is the end ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Trilobites- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period - may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found.
In a paper published in the journal Paleobiology, researchers from the University of British ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) July 29, 2022 
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called on office workers to throw sartorial caution to the wind and ditch their ties amid scorching summer temperatures.
In a move some might be surprised was even necessary given Spain's famously hot climate, Sanchez urged office workers to follow his own tie-free lead.
"I would like you to see that I am not wearing a tie," said Sanchez, sm ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
Thirty seconds of sunlight could boost the battery life of future smartwatches and other wearables by tens of minutes, thanks to a renewable and rechargeable battery prototype developed by the University of Surrey.
Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) has demonstrated how its new photo-rechargeable system, which merges zinc-ion batteries with perovskite solar cells, could allow wea ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
More than half of species whose endangered status cannot be assessed due to a lack of data are predicted to face the risk of extinction, according to a machine-learning analysis published Thursday.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently has nearly 150,000 entries on its Red List for threatened species, including some 41,000 species threatened with extinction. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
A Hong Kong court delivered a landmark ruling on Tuesday that will help lift the lid on secrecy-shrouded pre-trial hearings held under a national security law.
The security law was imposed by Beijing after huge democracy protests and has largely snuffed out dissent in the city.
About 100 people have been charged under the law with the vast majority denied bail, held for months - some mo ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) Aug 3, 2022  Colombian President Ivan Duque's environmental policies "failed" according to experts who dispute the outgoing right-wing government's claims to have reduced deforestation.
With conservative Duque due to hand over to his left-wing successor Gustavo Petro on Sunday, the new government will have to find solutions to the problem.
The South American country is one of the most biodiverse in t ... more |
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