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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 orbit is oval-shaped. When the planet gets closer to its star, it receives more heat, affecting the climate. ... read more |
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Scientists discover how air pollution triggers lung cancerParis (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 Scientists said Saturday they had identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a discovery one expert hailed as "an important step for science - and for society". ... more  
What killed dinosaurs and other life on earth?Hanover NH (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Determining what killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period has long been the topic of debate, as scientists set out to determine what caused the five mass extinct ... more  
MTG-I1 weather satellite shows offParis (ESA) Sep 12, 2022 Before Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager leaves the south of France at the end of the month aboard a ship bound for French Guiana, this remarkable new weather satellite has been taking ... more  
Lake ice melting 8 days earlier on average, study findsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 12, 2021 Ice that forms on the world's more than 117 million lakes is melting earlier in the year, affecting plant and animal life in those ecosystems, according to new research published in Nature Communications. ... more |
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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 '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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Homes 'swept away' in deadly S.Africa mine dam collapseJohannesburg (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. ... more 
More Australia floods 'very real possibility' as third straight La Nina declaredSydney (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 Flood-battered eastern Australia faces further extreme weather in the coming months after the country's forecasters confirmed Tuesday that a "triple-dip" La Nina was under way in the Pacific. ... more  
G7 corporate climate plans spell 2.7C heating: analysisParis (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 The decarbonisation plans of some of the biggest corporations from G7 nations put Earth on course to heat a potentially catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius - blowing Earth well past the Paris Agreement temperature goals, analysis showed Tuesday. ... more  
Circalunar clocks: Using the right lightVienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 How animals are able to interpret natural light sources to adjust their physiology and behaviour is poorly understood. The labs of Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Alfred Wegener Inst ... more |
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The hungry bugs fighting Uganda's fertiliser crisisKayunga, 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. ... more 
100 percent compostable coffee balls bid to take on NespressoZurich (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 Switzerland's biggest retailer launched a new coffee machine invention on Tuesday - fully compostable coffee balls which it hopes will shake up the global market and take on Nespresso's global dominance. ... more  
Syrian refugees in Turkey plan caravan to reach EUIstanbul (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 A group of Syrian refugees in Turkey is planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union, organisers said Saturday. ... more  
France sees record heat for September; Hong Kong breaks heat record twiceBordeaux (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 France saw record temperatures for September hit the country, notably the south west, amid a heatwave drifting up from Morocco, the Meteo-France weather service said Monday. ... more |
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Energy and food crises reshaping insurance: Swiss ReZurich (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. ... more  
Volunteers lead desperate bid to reach PNG quake victimsPort Moresby (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 Volunteer rescuers ran non-stop airlifts to remote areas of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, seeking to reach victims still stranded two days after a massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake. ... more 
11 Iranian pilgrims and their driver killed in Iraq crashBaghdad (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 Eleven Iranian Shiite Muslim pilgrims and their local driver died Sunday in central Iraq when their minibus collided with a truck and burst into flames, a health official said. ... more  
Oregon blaze latest major wildfire to engulf US WestLos Angeles (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 A massive wildfire burned out of control Monday in Oregon forcing residents to flee and threatening towns and thousands of homes, in the latest blaze to scorch the US West during a blistering summer. ... more  
Burkina junta chief sacks defence minister as jihadist violence ragesOuagadougou (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and assumed the role himself after a series of jihadist attacks, according to decrees published Monday. ... 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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 Sydney, 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 change is disrupting them further, leading to new uncertainties for legal maritime zones and small island states.
But it may not be time to panic yet. A number of technologies and new approaches ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 12, 2021 
Ice that forms on the world's more than 117 million lakes is melting earlier in the year, affecting plant and animal life in those ecosystems, according to new research published in Nature Communications.
Between 1979 and 2020, the average timing of lake ice break-up across the Northern Hemisphere has advanced by eight days, the research, conducted by Dr. Iestyn Woolway of Bangor Univer ... 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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 Port Moresby (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 
Volunteer rescuers ran non-stop airlifts to remote areas of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, seeking to reach victims still stranded two days after a massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
The quake rattled a broad area of the country's north, killing at least seven people, but the scale of the disaster is only slowly coming into focus.
At least 389 houses collapsed in the town of Madang alone, a ... more |
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 
Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and assumed the role himself after a series of jihadist attacks, according to decrees published Monday.
The first decree, read on national television, removed General Barthelemy Simpore as defence minister, while the second said the "president has taken ov ... 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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 Hanover NH (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 
Determining what killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period has long been the topic of debate, as scientists set out to determine what caused the five mass extinction events that reshaped life on planet Earth in a geological instant. Some scientists argue that comets or asteroids that crashed into Earth were the most likely agents of mass destruction, while oth ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 
The leaders of two dozen African countries Friday urged wealthier nations to uphold their aid pledges so the continent can tackle climate change impacts for which it shares little blame.
They made the call after African leaders on Monday lashed out at industrialised nations for failing to show up to a summit in the Netherlands on helping African nations adapt to these changes.
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 Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is largely involved in a new battery recycling project. LiBinfinity focuses on a holistic concept for recycling materials of lithium-ion batteries. A mechanico-hydrometallurgical process without energy-intensive process steps will be transferred from the lab to an industry-relevant scale.
KIT will then check whether the recycled materials are suited ... more |
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 Leiden, 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 more than 160 year ago. Now, scientists from the Netherlands and Germany present the first global overview of woodiness evolution on islands, which will finally help solve the puzzle.
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 Colombo (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 
A huge green and purple communications tower in Sri Lanka financed with Chinese debt that has become a symbol of the ousted Rajapaksa clan's closeness to Beijing will finally open this week, its operator said Monday.
The 350-metre (1,155-feet) Lotus Tower - visible from all over Colombo and built for an estimated $113 million - has been plagued by corruption claims since construction began ... more |
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 Jakarta (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.
Protecting trees is key to meeting climate goals but environmentalists blame Indonesia - home to the world's third-largest rainforest area - for a deforestation free-for-all ... more |
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