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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The asteroid that struck Earth and led to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction 66 million years ago also triggered a worldwide tsunami that started as a wave more than a mile high, according to a new study. The tsunami was large enough to scour the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact site on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The study, published in AGU Advances, presents the first global simulation of the Chicxulub impact tsunami to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journa ... read more |
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Trimble's new agriculture displays provide next-generation performance and connectivity for in-field operationsSunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) has introduced its next-generation displays for precision agriculture applications-the Trimble GFX-1060 and GFX-1260 displays. Trimble's portfolio of innovative displays enabl ... more  
NASA, USGS map minerals to understand Earth makeup, climate changeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States for critical minerals using advanced airborne imaging. Hyperspectral data from hundreds of wavelengths of ... more  
Ottawa research demonstrates connection between climate and Earth's ability to renewCanada (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Some 250 million years ago - long before dinosaurs roamed the earth - global warming and acid ocean caused by the rapid volcanic emission of the Siberian Traps led to the Permian-Triassic mass extin ... more  
NASA study finds climate extremes affect landslides in surprising waysPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world - very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow in a short amount of time. While wet ... 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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Esri partners with Digital Earth Africa to support sustainable growthRedlands CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Climate change is compounding risks of food insecurity, displacement, and natural disasters across broad regions of the African continent, with vulnerable populations facing especially grave outcome ... more  
Earth from Space: Melt ponds in West GreenlandParis (ESA) Oct 06, 2022 During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun beats down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds pop up. Melt ponds are vast pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets a ... more 
Uploading the Cloud ImagerFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The development of Europe's second generation polar-orbiting weather satellites has reached another decisive milestone with the installation of the Ice Cloud Imager Instrument (ICI) onto the MetOp-S ... more  
Sydney smashes annual rainfall recordsSydney (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Australia's most populous city Sydney smashed a 70-year annual rainfall record Thursday after a year marked by devastating east coast floods. ... more |
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Spore the merrier: Boom in mushrooms grown on Belgian beerBrussels (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 In Belgium, a country reputed for its beer, mushrooms nourished on a byproduct from the brew are doing booming business. ... more  
Moving on up... or out? UK's PM seeks to soothe Tory faithfulBirmingham, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Britain's embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss marched to the lectern for the most important speech of her political career on Wednesday - accompanied by a song about a bitter break-up. ... more  
Traore officially named Burkina Faso president after coupOuagadougou (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement, after the West African country's second coup in less than nine months. ... more 
Month before COP27, host Egypt faces heat over rights, climate actionCairo (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 A month before Egypt hosts the UN climate change conference, Cairo is finalising the list of world leaders coming as it weathers criticism over its human rights and environmental records. ... more |
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Calls for more funding as pre-COP27 climate talks open in DR CongoKinshasa (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 Warning "no-one will escape" a worsening crisis, DR Congo led calls on Monday for a surge in funding to brake global heating and fight its impacts at the start of pre-COP27 climate talks in Kinshasa. ... more  
Iran quake injures more than 500 peopleTehran (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 A 5.4 magnitude earthquake in northwestern Iran injured more than 500 people early Wednesday, most of them lightly, state media reported. ... more 
Biden tours Florida hurricane clean-up zone -- and opponent's territoryFort Myers, United States (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 US President Joe Biden flew over the devastation left by Hurricane Ian in Florida on a politically charged trip Wednesday that marked a truce with bitter Republican critic and potential 2024 opponent, Governor Ron DeSantis. ... more 
Glass microspheres won't save Arctic sea iceFairbanks AK (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 A proposal to cover Arctic sea ice with layers of tiny hollow glass spheres about the thickness of one human hair would actually accelerate sea-ice loss and warm the climate rather than creating thi ... more 
Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising riskChurchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a dazzling sun, his white fur utterly useless as camouflage. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 
Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world - very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow in a short amount of time. While wetter and drier spells may have certain effects that are easy to predict, such as on water levels in lakes and rivers, a recent study focused on California reveals that they can affect slow-moving lands ... more |
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 Santa Fe NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Solstar Space (Solstar), the company making persistent in-orbit communications available, announced its currently in development, Deke Space Communicator will provide a cost-effective and easy communications solution to support end-of-life decommissioning of spacecraft. When installed on satellites prior to initial launch, the Solstar Deke Space Communicator will give satellite operators persist ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
The annual surface temperature of 160 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau has increased significantly in the period of 1978-2017, according to a study on large-scale dynamic monitoring and simulation of lake water temperature which is conducted by the remote sensing of water environment team from the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals and the Aerospace Infor ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
A proposal to cover Arctic sea ice with layers of tiny hollow glass spheres about the thickness of one human hair would actually accelerate sea-ice loss and warm the climate rather than creating thick ice and lowering the temperature as proponents claim.
Sea ice, by reflecting the majority of the sun's energy back to space, helps regulate ocean and air temperatures and influences ocean cir ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2021 
In the wake of another dry, hot summer, small farmers who grow wild blueberries in Maine are searching for survival strategies, and researchers at the University of Maine are trying to help.
Temperatures are rising across Maine, especially in the state's Down East region, but researchers say that warming, on its own, isn't yet a problem for blueberries.
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 Mexico City (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 
Hurricane Orlene brought strong winds and heavy rains to Mexico's northwestern Pacific coast on Monday but rapidly weakened as it moved inland, forecasters said.
Orlene came ashore as a Category One hurricane - the lowest on a scale of five - packing maximum sustained winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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 Ile-Ife, Nigeria (The Conversation) Oct 06, 2022 
Every year in October nearly 100 countries organise activities to mark World Space Week. The theme this year is space and sustainability. In this interview, Adejuwon Soyinka, West Africa regional editor at The Conversation Africa, asks Etim Offiong about how far Africa has come in the space age and what benefits the continent stands to gain from its investment in space technology.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2021 
A Swedish scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking research that proved modern humans once procreated with ancient Neanderthals.
Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, received the award for sequencing the ancient genome of the human-like species that went extinct about ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 
Human-caused climate change made this summer's drought across the Northern Hemisphere at least 20 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis released Wednesday that warns such extreme dry periods will become increasingly common with global heating.
The three months from June-August were the hottest in Europe since records began, and the exceptionally high temperatures led to the worst ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Earth Blox, the no-code Earth observation platform for data analysts, has announced a low-touch SaaS offering at Google's Geo for Good Summit in Mountain View, California and invited delegates to register for early access.
Launching early in the new year, the program will give data scientists and analysts access to the software for free for a limited time. Participants will be asked to par ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to "fill some of the key gaps" on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday.
Two fossil deposits of ancient fish in Guizhou, southern China, and Chongqing in the southwest were discovered by scientists during a field study in 2019.
The fossils "help to trace many human body structures back to ancient fishes, some 44 ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 06, 2022 
As part of its efforts to promote European leadership, autonomy and responsibility, ESA is partnering with power generators, energy transmission system operators and energy innovation clusters to explore how space can help in the race for secure, sustainable and affordable energy supplies.
The Task Force for Innovation in Energy Through Space was launched on 5 October in Rome at a conferen ... more |
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 Daejeon, South Korea (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) and Seoul National University (SNU) research team announced that they have discovered a new plasma operating mode that can improve plasma performance for fusion energy based on an analysis of plasma operations with ultra-high temperatures over 100 million degrees (Celsius) at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR).
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 Ottawa (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
Canada is failing to protect at-risk species of fish that are commercially valuable, its environment commissioner said in an audit published Tuesday, blasting bureaucrats for putting commercial interests ahead of conservation.
In a statement, commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Fisheries and Oceans Canada had shown "a bias against protecting species of commercial value under the Species At Risk ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2022  Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) which has grown into one of the world's most powerful political organisations:
- July 1921: Founded in secret -
In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai covertly establish the party and start to set up labour unions in China's cities.
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 Bucharest (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
Romanian authorities have carried out raids across the country in a crackdown on two criminal groups suspected of illegal logging, police said Wednesday.
Almost 150 raids were staged at business premises, private accommodation and forest management organisations, investigators said in a press release.
The raids are part of an investigation into suspected illegal logging, tax evasion, mon ... more |
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