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  Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2022 A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could one day be applied on Venus, whose hot, dense and corrosive atmosphere limits our ability to sense Venus-quakes from the planet's surface. The balloons could also be used on Earth in hard-to-reach places. Monitoring seismic activity on other planets is critical for learning about their interior struct ... read more |
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M2 satellite delivers Australia's first high-res Earth observation imagesCanberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 A UNSW Canberra Space satellite mission, known as M2, is now delivering Australia's first high-resolution remote sensing image of the Earth. UNSW Canberra Space Director Professor Russell Boyce said ... more  
US not trying to 'outdo' world powers in Africa, says BlinkenPretoria (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 The United States is seeking a "true partnership" with Africa and not trying to "outdo" other world powers in vying for influence on the continent, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. ... more 
US says new Africa strategy will engage leaders, rethink military roleWashington (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 The White House on Monday unveiled broad new policy goals for sub-Saharan Africa, with administration officials seeking to tie the region's democratic, economic and security progress to US national security. ... more  
Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and waterBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can't simply evolve under nat ... more |
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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 Three dead, five missing in Indonesia floods and landslides One dead, seven missing in Indonesia floods and landslides Acquittal of Fukushima operator ex-bosses finalised |
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After 'historic' US climate bill, scientists urge global actionParis (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 Scientists on Monday welcomed the passing of US President Joe Biden's "historic" climate bill while calling for other major emitters - namely the European Union - to follow suit and implement ambitious plans to slash emissions. ... more  
Cambodian PM scraps development project threatening wildlife sanctuaryPhnom Penh (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday cancelled a controversial satellite-city development around a wildlife sanctuary and zoo near the capital following growing online appeals to halt the project. ... more  
Mexico wants to reduce beer production in drought-hit areasMexico City (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday called on brewers to reduce beer production in drought-hit areas in the north of the country, a major exporter of the beverage. ... more  
Suspended sediment reduced by rapid revegetation after Fukushima decontaminationTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that soil decontamination efforts in Fukushima result in constant, high levels of suspended sediments and a rapid decline in radiocesium particles, an ... more |
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Record rainfall, flooding in Seoul kill sevenSeoul (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 Subway stations and major roads were underwater in the South Korean capital Seoul after record-breaking rains caused severe flooding, with at least seven people dead and seven more missing, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Over 80,000 tourists trapped in 'China's Hawaii' after Covid outbreakBeijing (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 Over 80,000 tourists are stranded in a resort city popularly known as "China's Hawaii" after a Covid flare-up led authorities to impose strict travel restrictions. ... more  
China launches terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satelliteTaiyuan, China (XNA) Aug 05, 2022 China successfully launched a terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite and two other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province Thursday. The ... more  
Iraq Kurd protesters tear-gassed, MPs detained: AFP, officialSulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Aug 6, 2022 Security forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters and briefly detained seven opposition lawmakers, an AFP journalist and an official said. ... more |
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Beluga whale is now stationary in Seine: NGORennes, France (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 A malnourished beluga whale that has swum up France's River Seine is no longer progressing but is still alive, environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday. ... more  
Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist presidentBogota (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 Gustavo Petro on Sunday took the oath of office as Colombia's first-ever leftist president, before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at his inauguration in Bogota. ... more  
When particles moveSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed by a force - often in the form of water - sufficient to pull the rock and ... more 
Making hydropower plants more sustainableBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Growing up on a farm in Texas, there was always something for siblings Gia Schneider '99 and Abe Schneider '02, SM '03 to do. But every Saturday at 2 p.m., no matter what, the family would go down t ... more  
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the bodyBoston MA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body's workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient's internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manip ... 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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 Toowoomba, Australia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022  In the past week alone, we've seen two separate incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth in unexpected places.
On Saturday there was the uncontrolled re-entry of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket over Malaysia. Yesterday outlets reported on some spacecraft parts that turned up in regional New South Wales - now confirmed to be from a SpaceX Crew-1 mission.
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 Honiara (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 
A top US diplomat warned Pacific Islands of a new struggle against violent power-hungry regimes Sunday, as she visited the Solomon Islands to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Battle of Guadalcanal.
With China's military conducting drills around Taiwan and Russia bombarding Ukraine, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman hit out at a new crop of world leaders reviving "bankrupt" i ... 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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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 
Four more ships loaded with grain set off from Ukrainian ports on Sunday, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a new strike at a Russian-occupied nuclear plant.
Odessa regional authorities, meanwhile, announced that another two grain shipments were due to leave on Monday.
Kyiv's infrastructure ministry wrote on Telegram on Sunday that a convoy of Ukrainian supplies had left, with th ... more |
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 Fagradalsfjall, 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.
"It's indescribable", says 40-year-old French tourist Magalie Viannisset, one of the curious onlookers gazing in wonder on Thursday at the fissure that opened up a day earlier in an uninhabited valley just ... 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 (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 this century and is inching toward 8 billion today. According to World Population Prospects 2022, which the United Nations released on July 11, the global population is projected to reach 8 billion on No ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 
After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden's ambitious climate, tax and health care plan - a significant victory for the president ahead of crucial midterm elections.
Voting as a unified bloc and with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats approved the $430-billion spending plan, which will ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
China has received data from its newly launched terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite, scientists in charge of receiving the satellite data said.
The satellite was carried into space on Thursday by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province.
Since Thursday night, ground stations located in Beijing and Xinjiang Uygur au ... 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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 Lome (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.
For years, inhabitants of Ando-Kpomey village, around 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of Togo's capital Lome, have anarchically cut down trees for firewood and charcoal.
Koto and his fellow watchd ... more |
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