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  Miami FL (The Conversation) Sep 28, 2022 As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are in the sky doing something almost unimaginable: flying through the center of the storm. With each pass, the scientists aboard these planes take measurements that satellites can't and send them to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center. Jason Dunion, a University of Miami meteorologist, leads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2022 hurricane field program. He described the technology the ... read more |
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MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater cameraBoston MA (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of Earth's oceans have never been observed, which means we have seen less of our planet's ocean than we have the far side of the moon or the surface of ... more 
Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 4 as it barrels toward FloridaTampa (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it headed towards the US state of Florida on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of life-threatening storm surges and "devastating" winds after it reportedly killed two and left millions without power in Cuba. ... more 
Underwater heat 'inferno' ravages Mediterranean coralsMarseille (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 In the temperate shallows of the Mediterranean, once-vibrant red and purple coral forests that provide a crucial haven for biodiversity now stand bleached and brittle, transformed into skeletons by record summer temperatures, scientists say. ... more  
Heavy floods ravage West Africa farmlandsKano, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland across the north of the country. ... 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 Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid |
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Typhoon Noru tears across VietnamDanang, Vietnam (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Typhoon Noru tore roofs from homes and caused power outages across central Vietnam Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge, after the storm claimed at least 10 lives in the Philippines. ... more 
Hurricane Ian leaves Cuba without power, takes aim at FloridaConsolacion Del Sur, Cuba (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Powerful Hurricane Ian left a trail of destruction and caused a widespread blackout in Cuba on Tuesday, while Florida residents braced for a direct hit from the "extremely dangerous" storm that is already pummeling the US state with high winds. ... more 
US hosts Pacific island nations in 'unprecedented' summitWashington (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 President Joe Biden and his government roll out the red carpet for the leaders of tiny Pacific island countries Wednesday in what a US official called an "unprecedented" diplomatic effort, conducted under the shadow of rising Chinese influence in the region. ... more  
Swiss glaciers melting away at record rateGeneva (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday. ... more |
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Satellogic joins GREEN+ Jurisdictional Program to monitor subnational protected areasNew York NY (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 Satellogic has announced a contract to monitor all subnational protected areas on the planet through the new GREEN+ Jurisdictional Programme. The provision of reliable and consistent high-quality sa ... more  
DART hits asteroid in first-ever planetary defense testWashington DC (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration - successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, ... more 
Mission seeks to test technology to mitigate potential asteroid or comet impacts of EarthTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully hit its target Sept. 26, and now scientists are analyzing to what degree the kinetic impact changed the trajectory of Dimorphos ... more  
Taiwan's pangolins suffer surge in feral dog attacksHsinchu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 In most of its habitats, the heavily trafficked pangolin's biggest threat comes from humans. But in Taiwan, the scaly mammals brave a different danger: a surging feral dog population. ... more |
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Climate change at 'point of no return': primatologist GoodallLos Angeles (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has warned in an interview. ... more 
Scientists urge top publisher to withdraw faulty climate studyParis (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 A fundamentally flawed study claiming that scientific evidence of a climate crisis is lacking should be withdrawn from the peer-reviewed journal in which it was published, top climate scientists have told AFP. ... more  
Lightning strike kills three people in BulgariaSofia (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 A lightning strike killed three Syrian people sheltering under a tree in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Tuesday, emergency services told local media. ... more  
France vows 'full' support for I.Coast in spat with MaliAbidjan (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 France on Tuesday offered its "full" support to the Ivory Coast in its bitter spat with Mali over 46 Ivorian soldiers detained by Bamako since July. ... more  
Fire in northeast China restaurant leaves 17 deadBeijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 A fire at a restaurant in northeastern China on Wednesday killed 17 people and injured another three, according to local authorities. ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
Canada deployed soldiers on Monday to help clean up widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona, which left three people dead in the country's Atlantic provinces.
More than 260,000 people were still without electricity in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick on Monday morning.
Soldiers were clearing debris from roads and restoring transportation links, as television ... more |
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 Traverse City MIw (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
ATLAS Space Operations, the leading provider of Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS), has announced the award of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award to develop their Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities. This effort will use ATLAS software and hardware to increase ATLAS' ability to conduct passive RF observations of on-orbit assets.
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 
The transition zone (TZ) is the name given to the boundary layer that separates the Earth's upper mantle and the lower mantle. It is located at a depth of 410 to 660 kilometres. The immense pressure of up to 23,000 bar in the TZ causes the olive-green mineral olivine, which constitutes around 70 percent of the Earth's upper mantle and is also called peridot, to alter its crystalline structure. A ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday.
The study by the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences laid bare the drastic scale of glacial retreat - which is only set to get worse.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 
Hong Konger Kitty Chan pivoted to takeout to help her restaurant survive the pandemic, but she has since opened a second shop as demand for cheap mealboxes surges in a city enduring economic woes.
Small shops selling inexpensive two-dish mealboxes have mushroomed across one of the world's least affordable cities, cropping up in working-class and white-collar areas alike as people tighten the ... more |
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 San Ildefonso, Philippines (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year left at least six people dead, authorities said Monday, after heavy rain and fierce winds battered the country's most populous island.
Typhoon Noru toppled trees, knocked out power and flooded low-lying communities as it swept across Luzon on Sunday and Monday.
There have so far been no reports of widespread severe damage from the st ... more |
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 Abidjan (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 
France on Tuesday offered its "full" support to the Ivory Coast in its bitter spat with Mali over 46 Ivorian soldiers detained by Bamako since July.
The initial arrest of 49 soldiers after their arrival at Bamako airport on July 10 sparked a diplomatic row between Mali and its West African neighbour.
Three women in the group were later released.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
As an undergraduate, Mitch Murdock was a rare science-humanities double major, specializing in both English and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University. Today, as a doctoral student in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, he sees obvious ways that his English education expanded his horizons as a neuroscientist.
"One of my favorite parts of English w ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, along with the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, have partnered with science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation to enhance climate risk modeling, promote applied science research, and more effectively communicate the risks of a changing climate.
NASA will now receive bulk access to First S ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has announced two new signals available as part of its RFGeo signal mapping product: VHF and UHF Flex. RFGeo data and analytics provide a new geospatial data layer that enables RF awareness, utilizing the unique data generated by HawkEye 360's satellite constellation to detect and ge ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart - the oldest ever found - alongside a separate fossilised stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.
The new research, published in Science, found that the position of the organs in the body of arthrodires - an extinct class of armoured fishes that flourished through ... more |
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 Antibes, France (AFP) Sept 24, 2022  Activists blocked a quayside on the French Riviera on Saturday to protest against what they called ultra-rich "climate criminals".
Twenty protesters from the pressure group Attac closed off the gate leading to a quay at Antibes port where many superyachts are moored, an AFP correspondent saw.
Port Vauban Antibes on southern France's Mediterranean coast, has 1,500 berths, including 18 for ... more |
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 Brandenburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions while providing heating and cooling for industry - the German Aerospace Center is demonstrating how this is possible with a new pilot plant. The CoBra high-temperature heat pump is now going into operation.
The DLR Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes in Cottbus (Brandenburg) is working on technologies and solutions for an energy system of the futu ... more |
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 Hsinchu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
In most of its habitats, the heavily trafficked pangolin's biggest threat comes from humans. But in Taiwan, the scaly mammals brave a different danger: a surging feral dog population.
Veterinarian Tseng Shao-tung, 28, has seen firsthand what a dog can do to the gentle creatures during his shifts at a hospital in Hsinchu.
Last month he worked to save the life of a male juvenile pangolin w ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 19, 2022
The head of Hong Kong's journalist union was charged with obstructing police on Monday, 10 days before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.
Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested earlier this month over a dispute with two officers who asked to see his identification while he was covering a residents' meeting at a public h ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
Researchers have identified a new reason to protect mangrove forests: they've been quietly keeping carbon out of Earth's atmosphere for the past 5,000 years.
Mangroves thrive in conditions most plants cannot tolerate, like salty coastal waters. Some species have air-conducting, vertical roots that act like snorkels when tides are high, giving the appearance of trees floating on stilts.
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