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  Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 Several people were feared dead after a mine dam burst and sparked flooding that swept away houses and cars in central South Africa, officials said on Sunday. Television footage showed a river of mud and water flowing away from the disused diamond mine and into a nearby residential area. It covered roads and swept houses away in Jagersfontein, a town about 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of the Free State province capital Bloemfontein. "A mine dam collapsed and swept away houses and cars ... read more |
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Indonesia, Norway ink deal to reward rainforest protectionJakarta (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 Indonesia and Norway signed a deal Monday to reward deforestation reduction months after the collapse of a similar $1-billion agreement that was part of a UN-backed global initiative criticised for its ineffectiveness. ... more  
Egypt environment groups in 'fear' ahead of COP27: HRWBeirut (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 The Egyptian government has severely restricted environmental groups' work, leaving activists fearful of publicly scrutinising authorities ahead of the country hosting a crucial global climate summit, Human Rights Watch said Monday. ... more  
Papua New Guinea quake toll rises to sevenPort Moresby (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 The death toll from a massive earthquake in Papua New Guinea rose to seven Monday and is expected to grow as rescuers begin to reach remote landslide-hit communities. ... more  
Iraq ancient ruins open up to tourism after IS atrocitiesHatra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 Strolling along the ancient ruins of Hatra in Iraq's north, dozens of visitors admired the site, where local initiatives seek to turn over a new leaf after a brief but brutal jihadist rule. ... more |
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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 'Nothing left': Flood-hit Spanish town struggles one month on At least 15 dead, 113 missing, after Uganda landslides Indonesia's North Sumatra landslide death toll rises to 27 One dead, thousands displaced as floods hit southern Thailand At least 30 feared dead after Uganda landslides: official Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslide |
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New wildfire spreading in central California mountainsLos Angeles (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 California's latest wildfire has spread rapidly in the US state's central mountains, just as firefighters were bringing a big blaze south of Los Angeles under control, authorities said Sunday. ... more 
'Nobody knows where their village is': New inland sea swamps PakistanMehar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 From a hastily erected embankment protecting Mehar city, mosque minarets and the price board of a gas station poke above a vast lake that has emerged, growing to tens of kilometres wide. ... more  
Why plants worldwide became woodyLeiden, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Why do some plants grow into large woody shrubs or colossal trees, while others remain small and never produce wood in their stems? It's an evolutionary puzzle that already baffled Charles Darwin mo ... more 
'Very strong' Typhoon Muifa approaches Japan southern islandsTokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 Typhoon Muifa approached Japan's southern islands on Sunday, prompting officials to issue a warning for locals to seek shelter from the "violent waves and winds" before it made landfall. ... more |
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Firefighters brace for mudslides as storm moves into CaliforniaHemet, United States (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 Firefighters battling a growing blaze outside Los Angeles were bracing Friday for mudslides and flooding as a storm barrels into burn areas. ... more 
Massive California fire eases with rainsHemet , United States (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 California firefighters were able to beat back a massive wildfire outside Los Angeles after a tropical storm brought rains and cooler temperatures, US authorities said on Saturday. ... more 
Is climate change disrupting maritime boundariesSydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Coral reef islands and their reefs - found across in the Indo-Pacific - naturally grow and shrink due to complex biological and physical processes that have yet to be fully understood. Now, climate ... more  
JAXA startup Tenchijin releases free land evaluation app using EO dataTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 09, 2022 Tenchijin COMPASS enables people who have never used satellite data before to analyze, visualize data, and experience the power of satellite data. The use of satellite data has been attracting ... more |
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Artificial ocean cooling to weaken hurricanes is futile, study findsMiami FL (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 A new study found that even if we did have the infinite power to artificially cool enough of the oceans to weaken a hurricane, the benefits would be minimal. The study led by scientists at the Unive ... more  
MIT chemists develop a wireless electronic lateral flow assay test for biosensingBoston MA (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 Lateral flow assays (LFA) tests have become ubiquitous within the general public; they are the format for standard home pregnancy and Covid-19 tests, indicating a positive result with a colored line ... more  
Slowing of continental plate movement controlled timing of Earth's largest volcanic eventsDublin, Ireland (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of th ... more 
Albedo raises $48M to capture the highest resolution satellite imageryAustin TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Albedo, a company developing low-flying satellites that will deliver ultra high resolution images, has announced a $48M Series A financing round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Cap ... more 
The green king: Charles the environmentalistLondon (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 Britain's new King Charles III is a committed environmentalist with a long history of campaigning for better conservation, organic farming and tackling climate change, which is likely to sit well with more eco-conscious younger Britons. ... more |
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 Zurich (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 
The energy and food security crises are redefining priorities for insurers, with growing focus on helping build economic resilience and facilitate the transition towards green energy, a report from Swiss Re found Friday.
Slammed first by the Covid-19 pandemic and now by the war raging in Ukraine, the once globalised and interconnected global economy is fragmenting in a multi-polar world, the ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weather, a steel structure supports a 20,000-pound, 20-foot diameter satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna. The antenna - called the Multi-Band Test Terminal (MBTT) - can rotate 15 degrees per second, ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
The rule of law in Kiribati risks being critically undermined, lawyers warned Thursday, after the government suspended all of the Pacific nation's remaining high court judges.
International legal bodies condemned the shock suspension of three remaining court of appeals judges - apparent retribution for rejecting the government's bid to deport an Australian-born judicial colleague.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Less than 500 miles from the North Pole, the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake is a unique freshwater lake that floats atop the Arctic Ocean, held in place only by a coating of ice. The lake is dominated by single-celled organisms, notably cyanobacteria, that are frequently infected by unusual "giant viruses." Investigators from Universite?Laval, Quebec, Canada have produced the first assessment of the ... more |
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 Kayunga, Uganda (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
As fertiliser prices shot up following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ugandan villager Peter Wakisi fretted for the future of his small farm and his young family.
Little did he know that the answer to his prayers would arrive in the form of bugs - specifically the black soldier fly, an insect introduced to the East African nation by scientists who see it as the solution to farmers' woes.
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 Miami FL (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
A new study found that even if we did have the infinite power to artificially cool enough of the oceans to weaken a hurricane, the benefits would be minimal. The study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science showed that the energy alone that is needed to use intervention technology to weaken a hurricane before landfall makes it ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
The European Union's top diplomat said on Thursday the bloc was committed to help Mozambique fight "against terrorism", as he unveiled new military aid for the country a day after a deadly jihadist attack.
Josep Borrell held security talks with Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and Foreign Minister Veronica Macamo in the capital Maputo after arriving in the southern African nation for a tw ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 
Researchers on Wednesday announced that they have found what appears to be the earliest known evidence of a surgical amputation, from a 31,000-year-old skeleton that was unearthed in Indonesia.
The skeleton was found in a remote cave in 2020 by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists.
The left leg of the skeleton shows what the scientists believe is the result of an am ... more |
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 Nicosia (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 
The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows.
Barring swift policy changes, its more than 400 million people face extreme heatwaves, prolonged droughts and sea level rises, said the report released ahead of the UN's COP27 climate summit in Egypt later this year.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed to the rapid dev ... more |
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
University of Cincinnati geologists reconstructed a massive landslide in Nevada that wiped out an area the size of a small city more than 5 million years ago.
UC College of Arts and Sciences graduate Nick Ferry and UC assistant professor of geology Daniel Sturmer pieced together details of the Blue Diamond landslide, a natural disaster that sent rocks and boulders tumbling more than 6 mile ... more |
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 London (AFP) Sept 8, 2022  New British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday said domestic fuel bills would be frozen for two years, marking her first week in office with a costly plan to tackle a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Two days after taking over, Truss unveiled emergency measures that include authorising more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea and lifting a ban on fracking, a controversial method to dig f ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), in collaboration with Malta Inc. has completed assembly and commissioning of the first-of-its-kind pumped heat (or thermal) energy storage (PTES) demonstration facility. Long-duration, large-scale storage capabilities, like PTES, can help balance energy volatility and reliability issues caused by high market penetration of variable renewable energy resources ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
Of all known planets, Earth is as friendly to life as any planet could possibly be - or is it? If Jupiter's orbit changes, a new study shows Earth could be more hospitable than it is today.
When a planet has a perfectly circular orbit around its star, the distance between the star and the planet never changes. Most planets, however, have "eccentric" orbits around their stars, meaning the o ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 
Faced with allegations of grave violations in China and Russia, the UN body created to address rights abuses seems paralysed by uncertainty on how to respond.
The UN Human Rights Council, which will host a month-long session in Geneva from Monday, frequently acts to investigate and rein in abuses inside countries.
But that task is trickier and more fraught when the countries involved are ... more |
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 Yangambi, Dr Congo (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 
A tower bristling with sensors juts above the canopy in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, measuring carbon dioxide emitted from the world's second-largest tropical rainforest.
Spanning several countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin rainforest covers an immense area and is home to a dizzying array of species.
But there are growing concerns for the future of the forest, deemed ... more |
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